Wired2Fire Diablo GTX Gaming System Review (4.8ghz @ £999)

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell October 20, 2011 Featured Announcement, Gaming PC

Rating: 8.0.

Not everyone will be happy building a new system from the ground up, due to inexperience or time limitations. Thankfully for these people, the UK has many enthusiast grade system builders vying for attention – some of whom you might not have heard of.

We admit we hadn't heard of Wired2Fire before but they specialise in creating cutting edge gaming systems, at competitive price points. With system names such as ‘the HellSpawn' and ‘Fury' range they certainly demand attention.

They offered us their brand new Diablo GTX gaming system which looks on paper to be a very capable component selection at under a grand.

Wired2Fire Diablo GTX Gaming System:

Power Supply: Corsair CX600
Processor: Intel Core i5 2500K @ 4.8ghz
Cooler: Thermaltake Frio
Motherboard: / Asus P8P67
Memory: 8GB 1866mhz
Graphics: nVidia GTX 570
Hard Drive 1: Intel 20GB 311 SSD (caching)
Hard Drive 2: Samsung 1TB
Optical Drive: BD-Rom/DVD-RW
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium
Warranty: 2 Year RTB

Total Price: £999.60 (Inc VAT).

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6 comments

Dan
October 20, 2011 at 11:16 am

Nice system, not so sure about the caching system mind you, but I have never been sold on Intels tech in this regard. Id much rather have a small SSD as a standalone drive for boot.
Francis
October 20, 2011 at 11:16 am

Nice case, and good performance. Seems the UK market is heating up lately. Nice to have alernatives from dell etc.
Gilbert
October 20, 2011 at 12:40 pm

I agree completely, great system, but let down by the frio. I bought a frio and even at the lowest fan settings, they were annoying me. they emit a ‘whir’ sound, like a high pitched whine. Very annoying and I had to replace the cooler completely because of it.
Paul
October 20, 2011 at 3:54 pm

I like this a lot. I havent heard the frio but ive read a lot of positive reviews about how good the cooling is. shame about thos efans.
Dorothy
October 20, 2011 at 3:55 pm

Seems ok, but I dont know about that SSD caching thing, seems a bit of a ‘patch’ to fix a slow hard drive.