Falcon Computers Dead Silence Kaveri Gaming BattleRig Review

Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0 x64.

Performance of the mechanical hard drive is about as good as we could expect, scoring around 195 MB/s and 177 MB/s in the sequential read and write test, respectively.

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The impressive scores are mirrored in ATTO, hitting over 200 MB/s peak rates.

In real world terms however, we knew immediately that this system wasn't using a Solid State Drive. If you are lucky to already own a new Solid State Drive you will know what I mean – overall system performance can be sluggish without one, even with a cutting edge Core i7 processor. The Falcon Kaveri system takes around 35 seconds to boot up and become responsive and some programs can take a while to load.

We do appreciate that adding a Solid State Drive to this build would have increased the retail price for Falcon, but if I owned this system myself I really would feel the need to add one, improving boot times and overall system responsiveness.

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