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Scan Value G31 review

Our Rating :
Price when reviewed : £1000
inc VAT

A classy and fast PC full of high-quality components

Specifications

4.5GHz Intel Core i5-3570K, 8GB RAM, 23in 1,920×1,080 display

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If you’d like to upgrade the storage, there’s plenty of room inside the PC. You get two free 5 1/4in drive bays and six free 3 1/2in bays, and there are three free SATA2 ports for your storage. SATA2’s quick enough for normal hard disks but not SSDs. There are two spare USB headers to add another four USB ports using backplates, and a couple of free memory slots. The dedicated sound card consumes one of the two spare PCI slots, but there are also a couple of free PCI Express x1 slots and a spare PCI Express x16 slot, which can also take PCI Express x1 and x4 cards.

Scan Value G31

Scan hasn’t skimped on the PC’s peripherals, either. The Logitech MK120 bundle is a perfectly acceptable wired keyboard and mouse set, and we’re fans of the AOC i2352Vh monitor. This is a 23in IPS panel with a 1,920×1,080 resolution, and has both impressive colour accuracy and wide viewing angles. Out of the box, our Dispcalgui calibration software reported slightly too much green in the picture, but this was easily fixed and once calibrated the monitor came within 97.2% of the sRGB colour gamut.

Scan’s Value G31 is a classy PC with a great-looking case and high-quality components. It’s also quick in desktop tasks and has reasonable gaming performance and a useful dedicated sound card. It’s just pipped to the post among the Windows 8 PCs we’ve seen by the Palicomp Alpha Blade thanks to that PC’s faster graphics and 2TB of storage. However, the Palicomp PC doesn’t have such a classy case and has a slightly inferior monitor, so if games aren’t so important to you the Value G31’s a great buy.

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Basic Specifications

Rating *****
Processor Intel Core i5-3570K
Processor external bus 100MHz
Processor multiplier x45
Processor clock speed 4.5GHz
Processor socket LGA1155
Memory 8
Memory type DDR3
Maximum memory 32GB
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H
Motherboard chipset Intel Z77 Express

Ports

USB2 ports (front/rear) 2/8
Firewire ports (front/rear) 0/0
eSATA ports (front/rear) 0/0
Wired network ports 1x 10/100/1000
Wireless networking support none

Internal Expansion

Case midi tower
PCI-E x1 slots (free) 3 (2)
PCI-E x16 slots (free) 2 (1)
Free Serial ATA ports 3
Free memory slots 2
Free 3.5in drive bays 6

Hard Disk

Hard disk model(s) OCZ Vertex Plus SSD + Seagate ST1000DM003-9YN162
Interface SATA3 + SATA2
Total storage capacity 1,120GB

Graphics

Graphics card(s) Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
Graphics/video ports 2x DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort

Sound

Sound Asus Xonar DG
Sound outputs 5.1 line out, optical S/PDIF out
Speakers none

Removable Drives

Supported memory cards none
Optical drive type(s) DVD+/-RW +/-DL

Display

Viewable size 23 in
Screen model AOC i2352Vh
Native resolution 1,920×1,080
Screen inputs DVI, VGA, HDMI

Other Hardware

Keyboard Logitech MK120
Mouse Logitech MK120

Software

Software included none
Operating system restore option Windows 8 disc

Buying Information

Warranty two years RTB
Price £1,000
Supplier http://www.scan.co.uk
Details www.scan.co.uk

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