Eclipse Viper i5357R795 OC review

The graphics card is an AMD Radeon HD 7950 with 3GB of memory. It’s one of the top graphic cards around right now and has the performance to prove it, producing a smooth frame rate of 30fps in Crysis 2 and 55fps in Dirt 3, both at maximum quality. It has DVI and HDMI outputs as well as a couple of Mini DisplayPort connections and can run up to three monitors for Eyefinity multi-display gaming. The motherboard has a fairly limited selection of rear ports. There are just six USB ports, only two of which are USB3. There’s also a PS/2 port, an optical S/PDIF output, three 3.5mm audio outputs and a Gigabit Ethernet port.

The PC comes with Logitech’s basic but effective KM260 keyboard and mouse set. The keyboard is slightly spongy and the mouse might be rather small if you have big hands, but we had no major issues with either. The BenQ V2420 monitor is excellent. It’s a 23.6in matt widescreen with bright, accurate colour and untinted pale tones. It only has VGA and DVI inputs, but we can’t fault its image quality.

We’re really impressed by the accurately coloured monitor and silent running of this system, while the large SSD, 8GB of RAM and a high-end graphics card are always good to have. Even so, the Chillblast Fusion Vantage has a Blu-ray drive and a better graphics card.