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V3 Gaming Move 3DS Water Cooled SFF PC System Review
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| Product: | V3 Gaming Move 3DS |
| Date: | Fri, Sep 10, 2010 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Dan Stoltz - |
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V3 Gaming Move 3DS PC
Today we have the opportunity to look at another complete system. This particular system comes from V3 Gaming. The system that we are going to look at is the V3 Gaming Move 3DS, which just happens to be a small form factor 3D Vision ready system. When the V3 Gaming Move 3DS was designed, it wasn't designed for ultimate power. It was designed to be compact and give a gaming experience that is enjoyable. When it comes to being compact it most certainly achieved that goal. The question of today, though, is how well does it game? Take a peek at the specifications of the V3 Gaming Move 3DS below and we will continue below that.
V3 Gaming Move 3DS Specifications
| Chassis | SilverStone SG05 |
| Cooling | Custom Asetek LC 120mm Liquid Cooling |
| CPU | Intel Core I3 540 Dual core Processor w/HT @3.82 |
| Motherboard | Zotac H55-ITX WiFi Mini-ITX |
| Memory | 4GB(2x2GB) Patriot Viper II Sector 5 DDR3-1600MHZ @ 1333MHz |
| Video Card | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB |
| Hard Drive | Seagate 500GB 2.5" ST9500420AS |
| Optical Drive | Sony Optiarc DVD/CD Rewritable Drive AS-7700S |
| Operating System | Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit |
| Price | $1129 |
It has been proven time and time again that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 is a beast of a card and has tons of head room for overclocking. The only part of the V3 Gaming Move 3DS that concerns me is the Intel Core I3 540. Personally, I would have liked to have seen a bit more power in the CPU department; fortunately for us V3 Gaming offers a free overclocking service which has been used for this system. The Intel Core I3 540 has an out-of-the-box speed of 3.06GHz. After V3 Gaming has played with if for a bit, the Intel Core I3 540 is now chugging along at a speedy 3.82GHz. That is nearly a 25% increase in speeds. Although, as I said above, the V3 Gaming Move 3DS isn't designed to be a super computer, but more speed never hurt anyone!
The overall Windows 7 Experience Rating is 5.9. It is being held back by the hard drive and the memory, both of which have a rating of 5.9. The Intel Core I3 540 at 3.82GHz has a calculations per second rating of 7.2, while both of the graphics scores are sitting pretty at 7.4. The Windows 7 Experience Rating bases the overall score on the lowest subset score. Not a lot of people put much stock in the Window Experience Rating, though it can give you a general idea of what the V3 Gaming Move 3DS is capable of. Once upon a time a rating of 5.9 was the cat's meow. Now it's not as great as it could be, but it's still a solid rating for what it's worth.
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Page 2 - V3 Gaming Move 3DS Retail Packaging and Accessories Page 3 - V3 Gaming Move 3DS External Impressions Page 4 - Inside the V3 Gaming Move 3DS Page 5 - PCMark Vantage Page 6 - 3DMark Vantage Page 7 - SiSoft Sandra 2010 Memory Bandwidth Page 8 - Cinebench R11.5 Page 9 - Colin McRae: DiRT2 Page 10 - Aliens Vs. Predator Page 11 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Page 12 - x264 HD Video Encoding Page 13 - wPrime Page 14 - V3 Move 3DS Final Thoughts and Conclusion |
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