Mesh MatriX6 Ti review

This stormed through our Call of Duty 4 test at 86.9fps and ran Crysis at 49.9fps. Turning the resolution up to the supplied display’s native resolution of 1,920×1080 barely affected performance and we managed 84.4fps in CoD4. In other words, you can play any game at the monitor’s native resolution with ease.

We’re pleased to say that the 23in Full HD Hanspree HF237 is a quality display, and it produced an evenly-lit, bright and vibrant picture. It’s an excellent choice. It has HDMI and VGA inputs, and a DVI-to-HDMI cable is included in the box.

Inside the case there’s space for a further two hard disks if you fill up the generous 1TB model, and five free 5.25in drive bays (you may want to use one to fit a memory card reader). The motherboard has plenty of expansion ports and it’s good to see USB3 ports, which you can use for lightning-fast external storage. Adding as many components as you like won’t be a problem as there’s a powerful 775W modular PSU.

As the processor’s overclocked, Mesh has used the ECO CoolIT A.L.C liquid cooler. This runs two heatpipes to a 120mm fan at the rear of the case. With the side off it’s quite loud, but with the side on there’s just the sound of the case fans to be heard; these are fairly loud but not too distracting when the case is placed on the floor.

The MatriX6 Ti is an incredibly fast and well-built computer that justifies its price with high-end components, but as our benchmarks show you’ll have to be running plenty of applications that make use all of six cores to see the benefits. If you don’t need this much power you can get a slightly slower Intel Core i5-750-based PC with a respectable ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card for under £800.