Manufacturer: Chillblast Price: £1999.99
We would forgive you for thinking that given the Tristar’s imposing and unique frame you might be paying mostly for the design of this prebuilt gaming PC from Chillblast, but after our tests with the hardware, that would be an incorrect assumption. This immensely powerful rig compares very favourably with the much more conservative models this team has to offer.
The design is rather exceptional, though, and if you like your PC setup to make a statement as well as run top of the line games then this is far and away the most intimidating piece of kit Chillblast has to offer. The Chillblast Fusion Wolf offers similar specs and internals for about £400 less, but compared to its sedate black casing, the Tristar feels exceptionally more impressive.
So, a good chunk of the price is going on the looks, sure, but what you have inside is a high-end PC running a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980Ti 6GB graphics card. While the whole machine appears quite bulky it runs quietly and surprisingly cool thanks in part to its Corsair Hydro H80i GT CPU Cooler and the unique design. With the CPU and motherboard in one pod, the video card in another and the PSU in the last, each of the heat-generating components are kept apart and allowed their own circulation of air.
When it comes to running games, we were deeply impressed. Adr1ft and Quantum Break were our titles of choice and both ran at exceptionally high frame-rates with hardly any fluctuation, just as you would expect. The Tristar asks a lot, but delivers plenty.
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