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Palicomp supply the Alpha Pulse with no bloatware installed at all. In fact, the only program installed on the system aside from the system drives was MSI Afterburner for overclocking the graphics card. They have included install files for AVG antivirus and OpenOffice should you want them, though.
The Intel Core i7 3770K CPU is pre-overclocked to 4.6 GHz by Palicomp's engineers. This is reasonably impressive for a pre-overclocked system and is similar to what we've seen other manufacturers offering.
We would have liked to see Palicomp pushing it to 4.7 or 4.8 GHz for this particular model, though, considering the high performance CPU cooler which could handle increased voltage without a problem.
See validation here.
Unlike a lot of manufacturers, Palicomp have also pre-overclocked the graphics card – this is very unusual. The GPU clock speed has been boosted by 100 MHz to 1015 MHz and the Memory clock has been boosted by 100 MHz to 1600 MHz. The Corsair Vengeance memory is running at stock settings of 1866 MHz with timings of 9-10-9-27.
Testing Methodology
For testing today we will be using a combination of synthetic and real world tests.
Software:
PCMark 7
3DMark 11
SiSoft Sandra 2012 SP3
Cinebench R11.5
CrystalDiskMark
Cyberlink MediaEspresso 6.5
VLC Media Player
Performance Monitor
Unigine Heaven Benchmark
Super Pi 1.5 Mod
CPUID Hardware Monitor
CPU-Z
DiRT Showdown
Max Payne 3
Battlefield 3
PowerDVD 12
looks like a good selection of components but im not impressed with the case either. Thermaltake make shoddy cases generally. low cost materials etc.
looks like a nice system, but id rather build my own, as Henry said, dont like this case at all.
Just like me if you are a great fan of gaming computers then you should check out the online shop.
£1399.99 now…
Price increases in this case are reasonable and understandable.
The world’s components are traded in dollars.
At the time it was reviewed, the US dollar was relatively weak – with a value of around $1.65 to £1
The pound now only buys just over $1.50 – which is a drop of almost 10%
That 10% movement will translate into a cost increase of around the same value
If a company submits a machine for review and changes it within 28 days, then we will launch a FULL investigation… But a change after many months where the source of the change is (a) clear and (b) outside the supplier’s control is fine
We hope you agree 🙂