Dream PCs 2007: Scan

Posted at: 12:53pm 21st September 2007 by Alex Watson

It's the end of Dream PC week and to finish, we've got video of Scan's awesome White Cobra PC

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 finish off Dream PC week 2007, we've got footage of our foruth and final entrant, the White Cobra from Scan. Under its reptilian skin there's a Core 2 Extreme QX6850 clocked at 3.75GHz, along with two GeForce 8800 Ultras in SLI. They were hand-picked from the factory lines in Taiwan so are insanely overclocked, with GPUs running at 650MHz, paired with 1.15GHz (2.3GHz effective) memory: