Product Review
Specs:
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 (2.66 GHz), 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM, 150 GB Standard, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Personal computer
The Good:
One of the fastest PCs we've tested; a PCI Express RAID card helps media encoding performance; typically immaculate Velocity Micro assembly; strong, three-year warranty.
The Bad:
Feels inordinately expensive (but less than the competition); loud cooling hardware; software could use some more attention.
The Bottom Line:
We have one major issue with the Velocity Micro Raptor Signature Edition (the price), and two minor ones (it's loud, for one), but those aside, this is one of the most feature-complete high-end desktops we've reviewed. Its performance is media-creation- and game-minded, and anyone buying it for those or almost any other purposes won't be disappointed.
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