OcUK Titan Goliath Desktop Review
Gaming Benchmarks
Published: 13th October 2009 | Source: Overclockers UK | Price: £1300.95 |
Gaming Benchmarks
Crysis Warhead
Crysis Warhead is without a doubt one hard nut to crack, especially at higher resolutions and a dash of Anti Aliasing and Anisotrophic Filtering. Given the game's "tough" characteristics, we thought it might be a novel idea to throw it at mighty Goliath and see what happens
Indeed it was a mighty battle but it sounds like a mild victory, although even Crysis has this particular machine working overtime. While suffering from occasionally choppy framerates, gameplay appeared to be sufficiently fluid even with the eyecandy.
Far Cry 2
Far Cry 2, a slightly older hit but based on a fairly demanding engine also has a fair level of GPU dependancy.
With framerates sitting at no less than 68fps, Far Cry 2 operates flawlessly.
Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Microsoft Flight Simulator X is part of a handful of games that are heavily CPU reliant and so our focus now returns to our sample's overclocked. Core i7 920.
The Radeon HD 5870 doesn't particularly help this game and the relatively low framerates really show how demanding this game is. Regardless, the quality of game play was superb.
Call of Duty 4
Here we observe the Titan Goliath swatting an ageing but popular hit like a pesky fly, even at 1920x1080.
Most Recent Comments
Nice review Mul,
Good to see that off the shelf pc's can be good. But near enough a £300 premium on having it built
Good to see that off the shelf pc's can be good. But near enough a £300 premium on having it built
Blimey. Are OCUK in danger of improving their quality? It's tough to fault the cable management and even their old "ramp the vcore to obtain the OC" problem seems to be missing.
Definitely though that's a serious wedge of cash for a mid-tower air-cooled machine. I'd definitely love to see a 750 or 850 Corsair in there (30 extra), a Blu-Ray reader instead of the DVD (another 30) and a 1TB minimum (another 20). I could always live without the Antec cases. They don't make one I find even remotely attractive. Ok they offer a HAF, but that's the only case if you don't want an Antec one.
And using the el-cheapo Gigabyte worries me a little. Especially for that kinda wedge. Self building I could easily slot a Asus P6TD in there, at retail pricing.
So basically it's fine as an off-the-peg product, but to this particular audience it doesn't contain many elements we'd actually choose to put in a system. Apart from the 5870 obviously. No actually only the 5870.
Definitely though that's a serious wedge of cash for a mid-tower air-cooled machine. I'd definitely love to see a 750 or 850 Corsair in there (30 extra), a Blu-Ray reader instead of the DVD (another 30) and a 1TB minimum (another 20). I could always live without the Antec cases. They don't make one I find even remotely attractive. Ok they offer a HAF, but that's the only case if you don't want an Antec one.
And using the el-cheapo Gigabyte worries me a little. Especially for that kinda wedge. Self building I could easily slot a Asus P6TD in there, at retail pricing.
So basically it's fine as an off-the-peg product, but to this particular audience it doesn't contain many elements we'd actually choose to put in a system. Apart from the 5870 obviously. No actually only the 5870.
No. No, no no - no.
Great review btw.
Still - NO.
Great review btw.
Still - NO.
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No. No, no no - no.
Great review btw. Still - NO. |
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Originally Posted by name='Rastalovich'
No. No, no no - no.
Great review btw. Still - NO. |
and i 2nd that
Cash sum versus items used for me.
Fair shout. 
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Please? Can't just be me.
Have abs-o-lutely no idea what u mean m8.
However I have heard of the Family Guy, just never liked it.
However I have heard of the Family Guy, just never liked it.
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Either I watch too much Family Guy, or someone else read that in Clevelands "falling out the bath during Peters shenanigans" voice too.
Please? Can't just be me. |
I thought he was doing an impersonation of the bloke off Vicar of Dibley!
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Originally Posted by name='VonBlade'
Either I watch too much Family Guy, or someone else read that in Clevelands "falling out the bath during Peters shenanigans" voice too.
Please? Can't just be me. |
Great review, but still would build my own for that wedge. At least that way I can specify my own components. Maybe for the £300 difference, I might stick an EVGA Classified in there, a TB drive, a 850HX and a bluray drive instead.
Nice review Mul...
Gotta say nicely written.
Pre-builts certainly aint for me but as one goes, it isn't too bad.
That said £1300 does seem like an awful lot for some reason.. Spose the 5870 takes up quite a chunk of that.
Gotta say nicely written.
Pre-builts certainly aint for me but as one goes, it isn't too bad.
That said £1300 does seem like an awful lot for some reason.. Spose the 5870 takes up quite a chunk of that.
Cheers Bungral.
If I remember right, it's on special offer for around £1175 at the moment?
If I remember right, it's on special offer for around £1175 at the moment?
If there's an expectation out there that £1000+ will be paid for a "play anything at high/extreme quality", it may be time to start a business.
To that end, I'd love to see their sold unit figures.
To that end, I'd love to see their sold unit figures.
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