Falcon Computers Predator Gaming PC Review

System:

Our sample of the Falcon Predator was supplied with Windows 7 pre-installed, however you can select from a variety of different Windows operating systems.

Falcon overclocks the i7-4770K to 4.2 GHz, which should yield a noticeable performance boost.  There are a number of pre-built systems on the market which ship with higher overclocks although Haswell is known to run hot so playing it a little safe might not be such a bad thing.

Looking at CPU-Z we can see that the motherboard is feeding the Intel Core i7-4770K with around 1.21V (under load) to sustain the 4.2 GHz overclock. The memory is configured to run at 1866MHz with timings of 10-11-10-30.

The inbuilt Windows benchmarks rates the system at 7.7, which is actually limited by the CPU performance of the system! This is hardly a definitive measure of performance but it gives us a vague idea of the system’s capabilities.

GPU-Z confirms that the Predator boasts a nVidia GTX 770 with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory.

We are using a Viewsonic VX2260WM 1080P monitor for testing.

Software:

PCMark 8
PCMark 7
3DMark
3DMark 11
3DMark Vantage
SiSoft Sandra 2013
Cinebench R11.5
CrystalDiskMark
Cyberlink MediaEspresso 6.7
VLC Media Player
Performance Monitor
Unigine Heaven Benchmark
Super Pi 1.5 Mod
CPUID Hardware Monitor
CPU-Z
DiRT Showdown
Battlefield 3
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

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