Chillblast Fusion Hex (Ryzen R5 1600) System Review

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

Sandra is a (girls’) name of Greek origin that means “defender”, “helper of mankind”. We think that’s quite fitting.

It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what’s really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCI-X, PCIe (PCI Express), database, USB, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

The Fusion Hex gets off to a good start with the Sandra Arithmetic test. The R5 1600 clearly offers strong computational performance, though the i7-6700K does just pip it to the post, likely because that chip was overclocked to 4.5GHz while this 1600 has been left at stock clocks.

The memory performance is also decent, though the Fusion HEX could have benefited from a faster kit of DDR4.

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