Aria Gladiator Inferno review

Unfortunately, given that Gladiator Inferno is blatantly a gaming PC, not many games can take advantage of eight CPU cores. The Gladiator Inferno’s graphics card is certainly made to make the most of games, and is an overclocked version of the 3GB AMD Radeon R9 280X. The Gladiator Inferno produced a frame rate of 104.6fps in Dirt Showdown with graphics quality set to Ultra. Even in our more challenging Crysis 3 benchmark test, the graphics card managed 52.7fps at High quality and 43.8fps at Very High quality, which is a great performance.

This system is a gaming monster with lots of upgrade potential and connection ports. The 250GB SSD is large enough to store games that you’re currently playing so that they benefit from the SSD’s fast performance. The graphics card is well chosen and the processor is one of the most powerful multicore AMD chips available. The Gladiator Inferno’s highly attractive case is easily accessible and there’s plenty of room to work within it. The Gladiator Inferno is power hungry, though, demanding over 316W from the mains when running processor or graphics card intensive tasks, 100W when idle and 15W even in sleep mode.

Bear in mind, though, that the Gladiator Inferno is a top-of-the-range build with excellent components that’s priced accordingly. The Yoyotech Warbird RS1, priced at £1,000, put in a better performance in our application benchmarks, scoring 125 overall, and produced an average 34fps in Crysis 3 at maximum quality. However, if you want a highly attractive gaming PC then the Gladiator Inferno is well worth your time and money.