Tuesday 18th September 2007

Dream PCs 2007: Vadim

Posted at: 4:01am 18th September 2007 by Alex Watson

It's Dream PC week, beginning with a video of 2006 winner Vadim's £10,000 entry for this year's competition

At Custom PC we only run one PC labs test a year: the Dream PC competiton. Once every twelve months we challenge a select group of PC manufacturers to enter a very simple, but very demanding competition: build the best PC you can, money no object. This year, we imposed only two requirements on the four invited manufacturers: the systems had to be supplied with a monitor capable of displaying a 1,920 x 1,200 image; and they must have some form of Windows Vista installed (although Windows XP could be included too), so that we could try out the latest DirectX 10 games.

This year, our four entrants - Dell, Gladiator, Scan and Vadim - submitted PCs toting 57.16GHz worth of CPUs, 15GB of RAM, 6.14GB of graphics RAM, 6.57TB of hard disk space and 4kW of power.

Our analysis of these four incredible PCs will be in Issue 50 of the magazine, which is out for subscribers at the end of this week and on newstands on the 27th of September. To whet your appetites however, every day this week we'll be featuring a video of one of the entrants on www.custompc.co.uk.

Day One: Vadim

Day Two: Dell

Day Three: Gladiator

Day Four: Scan

To kick off Dream PC week 2007, where better to begin with the entry from Vadim, makers of the winner of the 2006 competition? Without further ado, here's the Xiphias - over £10,000 worth of PC, complete with four SSD drives in RAID:

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Maybe a nice system...

But the video doesn't seem to capture it very well. To the people that cut it, please use brighter lighting, focus it a bit tighter and don't cut such short shots. It's really hard to see the detail when there's so much motion and short shots. This thing isn't a model or an auto, so I really don't think it should get the same editing style.

Comment by JeffDM at 3:48pm 28th October 2007

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10/10

Easily my favorite system so far. Forward looking, solid specs, and SSD drives in RAID. I love it, but now I gotta wait for the price of those drives to come down...and if only they'd get rid of the rocketship taking off, like we're 10 year old gamers or something. Everything is flawless, excellent work. It doesn't need a decent price to be a Dream PC, or else everyone would drive a Lamborghini around North Dakota

Comment by wumberpeb at 2:24pm 25th September 2007

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So many fans, but the post takes too long

Seriously subscribing would be nice (lovely covers) but the delay in the mag arriving means I just buy it monthly in Easons on O'Connell St (Main distributer of magazines in Ireland) As it's there pretty much on the date each month. As for the Vandium, so many damn fans! Looks good as usual. They always make a nice box.

Comment by Rkiver at 10:15am 19th September 2007

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Worldwide subs

@akoli - Hey dude, we do indeed offer worldwide subs! Check out the forums for info: http://www.custompc.co.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=199972

Comment by Sifter3000 at 9:11am 19th September 2007

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Oh Well

Since leaving the Uk I'm now 2 months behind when it comes to getting your mag...dont know if they are passed from country to country by donkey but hey.....so I'll get to read the review by xmas !!! In the meantime I can drool over the website ....any chance of having worldwide subrscriptions like other mags do .....£10k if I had the money I would get a beast like this although my £2.5k machine is more than sufficient ....I look forward to the daily updates .....

Comment by akoli at 4:34am 19th September 2007

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oh how i wish...

that i could make a living from fiddling with and playing games on computers worth over £10,000. you guys don't know how lucky you have it :(

Comment by rickykemp at 9:00pm 18th September 2007

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Has no one noticed

£10,000... what the flying f***...i mean really...

Comment by reashlin at 8:16pm 18th September 2007

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Movement

Its nice to see the systems in CPC moving and working. Two photos in a mag never show all the angles you want. Maybe videos of PC's is the way to go....

Comment by Harry1985 at 6:37pm 18th September 2007

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I lol'd

When I saw Dell mentioned. I'm very curious as to what they might be offering up against the likes of Vadim and Scan.

Comment by D_Cypher at 6:38pm 18th September 2007

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Utterly amazing.

I look forward to this as this will be the first time I get to see the feature (sadly quite new to CPC) I would love to own any of the systems. Cant wait for the mag!

Comment by Scrit at 6:32pm 18th September 2007

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fans

I remeber being gob smacked last year with the number of fans vadim managed to squeeze into the case. Looks like this year they've managed to better themselves and fit more and more fans in.

Comment by Cerberus_xiii at 5:25pm 18th September 2007

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