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Phenom X4

Name : Chris Belton

Company : Ninja Theory Ltd (Developers of the PS3 launch title - Heavenly Sword)

Website : http://www.ninjatheory.com/

Date : Present day

“When tackling the demands of developing on a next generation console, we need something Ninja - a system that delivers the best performance currently available.  The XWorks X8 system delivers that performance, without breaking the bank
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Name : Jamie Sefton

Company : PC Zone Magazine

Website : http://www.pczone.co.uk/


"Our games fly on this beast of a machine!"



Name : Phil Wand

Company : PC Zone Magazine - Hardware Editor

Website :
http://www.dearwandy.co.uk/


THE X FACTOR
Dribbling inevitable, bibs to be worn at all times.

GET A LOAD OF THIS:
Xworks X8a with an AMD Athlon FX-60 on an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, plus 2GB RAM, Radeon X1900XTX, a 150GB Raptor for Windows and a whole 500GB more for games and clobber. Want one? You can order a system just like it online – although you will need the thick end of £2,000 before it’s despatched to you.

As with the X8I-SLIDC (issue 160, 82%), the X8a is designed and built by Xworks Interactive, the people who supply games developers, animators and CAD designers throughout Europe. We can’t speak for anyone else, but we can say that we’re rather pleased with ours. – (Phil Wand – PC Zone [Hardware Editor])



Name : Phil Wand

Company : PC Zone Magazine - Hardware Editor

Website :
http://www.dearwandy.co.uk/ - http://www.pczone.co.uk


YOU MAY RECALL that this Xworks is our brand new and totally official PC Zone review machine, for the official reviewing of games. It was thus exceedingly hard to prise it from the grasp of my colleagues, who stepped between me and it each time I looked like I might take it away for testing. “Do you need it long?” asked Will, hugging it like a child with his teddy bear.

The X8A-SLIDC is built around ASUS’s A8N-SLI Premium nForce4 motherboard and AMD’s Athlon FX-60 chip – by far and away the world’s best platform for high-def, lurch-free gaming. The Mainboard is fed by a Zalman noiseless power supply and the processor is cooled by Zalman’s AeroFlower unit, meaning the machine is so quiet alongside less powerful rivals that you could believe it was wrapped in a special noise-cancelling duvet filled with feathers plucked from sound-deadening birds. Left at the Windows desktop, it’s no more noisy than a hole in the ground.

Our purebred is fitted with Gainward’s 7900GT Bliss Golden Sample “Goes Like Hell” Edition, which despite the idiotic name is actually faster than the 7900GTX thanks to tweaked clocks and 1.1ns premium memory. We have yet to find a game which makes it feel anything less than hydraulically smooth at any detail level. Even Oblivion is deliciously fluid.

All in all, the Xworks is the antithesis of your typical gaming rig: quiet, unobtrusive and almost anonymous, it lacks any circus-style gimcrackery and is all the better for it. It’s the PC equivalent of a Q-Car and we’re tickled pink with it.


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