Product on Review: OcUK Ultima Scarab Crysis
Manufacturer and Sponsor: Overclockers UK
Street price: £1300 inc. VAT (At time of review)
To many consumers, building or selecting components for a computer can be a daunting task. If not for the expertise required in having to pair up compatible hardware but also the construction of it. Overclockers UK are well-known for their wide selection of computer components, many system builders are confident in choosing their own hardware to play with but OcUK also supply pre-built systems to help those who are less tech savvy or who prefer to leave it to the experts to select hardware and build it. This removes the responsibility of having to pair up compatible hardware and assists those who simply want a system delivered that is ready to go as soon as you unpack it.
Today we will be taking a look at OcUK's Ultima Scarab Crysis. A rather capable gaming system based around AMD's Piledriver platform and boasting more AMD delight from ASUS and Sapphire, in the Crosshair V Forumla-Z and HD 7970 OC Boost. The ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z is regarded as one of the best 990FX motherboards currently on the market and the HD 7970 is again, a top-pick for gamers demanding high-end performance.
Almost every component in this system sticks to a red and black theme as those are the colours of AMD. This carries throughout the system as you will soon see. Firstly, lets see what OcUK have to say about this AMD focussed system and then we will head into the review and discover how it performs in our test suite.
Overview
Experience Crysis 3 like it was meant to be, with the "Ultima SCARAB Crysis" system. Built and designed from the ground up to play Crysis 3 at maximum settings. Based around the versatile AMD 990FX Chipset, the "Ultima SCARAB Crysis" uses an AMD FX-8 8350 CPU, with eight core technology you can exploit the extra available power to your advantage. Overclocked and guarenteed to a solid 4.60GHz, you can extract every ounce of performance out of this monsterous CPU. With high clock speeds come great scalability with the graphics cards for maximum FPS. Outfitted with 16GB of DDR3 Patriot Viper 3 "Venom Red" memory running at a swift 1866MHz, plenty quick enough to allow you to multitask faster than ever before. The Patriot Red Venom along with the Prolimatech Megahalem RED CPU Cooler and red fans throughout this system looks absolutely mind blowing.
