OcUK Titan 8350a King Cobra MK2 (3.6GHz FX-8120 / 2GB Radeon 7850)

A short list of installed programs indicates that OcUK is happy to let the customer install software by their own accord. A few additional monitoring utilities such as CPU-Z and Argus Monitor are welcomed additions that allow users to verify their system's configuration and stability out-of-the-box.

OcUK doesn't ship the system with Google Chrome installed – that was added by us.

A very respectable Windows score of 7.2 is achieved by the OcUK Titan 8350a King Cobra MK2 Gaming System. The graphics, CPU and memory configurations all score highly with only the OCZ Vertex 2 SSD's 7.2 rating trailing behind.

CPU core voltage loiters around the 1.215-1.235V mark in a low-load environment. As soon as a heavy load such as Prime95 is applied, the level drops to 1.160V.

Samsung's enthusiast-grade Green DDR3 1600MHz modules are set to operate at their default – 1.6GHz – frequency. We know that some of these modules are capable of reaching high – 2400MHz+ – frequencies, as shown in the kit's review that can be accessed here.

The system's ASRock 990FX Extreme 3 motherboard features the 990FX Northbridge that offers 42 PCI-E 2.0 lanes and the SB950 Southbridge that is equipped with 6x SATA 6GB/s connections. If, further into the system's life, a gaming-related upgrade is planned, users are given equal amounts of freedom when opting for nVidia or AMD graphics cards, thanks to support for both SLI and CrossFireX.

Our validation can be found here.

Sapphire's Radeon HD 7850 2GB Dual-X graphics card is set to operate at reference 7850 frequencies of 860MHz core and 1200MHz memory. Users are free to overclock this card with a tool such as Sapphire TriXX or MSI Afterburner.

Keep an eye out for the 1GB version's admittance into an upcoming graphics card round-up that we are currently working on.

OverclockersUK installs Windows 7 Home Premium with Service Pack 1 software, leaving users to configure the OS for themselves and download the relevant updates. The Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200.14 hard drive has to be manually formatted via Disk Management.

After installing the appropriate Windows 7 updates, we were left with 29.3GB of free space on the Vertex 2 SSD. Once further applications and programs are installed, there should be enough free space on the SSD for 1-2 ‘average-sized' games. Avid gamers would be wise to opt for a larger SSD such as the 120GB Samsung 840 Basic that can be selected in the build's editor.

As the system's hard drive wasn't even formatted on arrival, the default directories for Documents, Videos, Pictures, Music, etc. are located on the small – 60GB – SSD, not the larger HDD. We would recommend changing the directories to the less storage-confined HDD as a main priority when initially configuring the system.

Specifications:

• Processor: AMD Bulldozer FX-8120 3.10GHz overclocked to 3.60GHz
• Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme 3
• Memory: 8GB Samsung Green DDR3 1600MHz 30nm
• Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 2GB Dual-X
• Solid State Drive: 60GB OCZ Vertex 2
• Hard Disk Drive: 1TB Seagate ST1000DM003 Barracuda 7200.14
• CPU Cooler: Zalman CNPS 14X
• Case: BitFenix Shinobi USB 3.0 Gaming Case
• Power Supply: OCZ ZS Series 750W
• Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224BB 24x DVDRW
• Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Software Suite:

• 3DMark Vantage
• 3DMark 11
• PCMark 7
• SiSoft Sandra 2013
• Super Pi
• Cinebench 11.5 64 bit
• Unigine Heaven Benchmark 3.0
• ATTO
• CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2
• VLC Media Player 2.0.5
• HandBrake 0.9.8
• CyberLink Media Espresso 6.5
• Battlefield 3
• Metro 2033
• Crysis 2

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