AVADirect Silverstone Raven Gaming PC Review

The AVADirect Silverstone Raven gaming PC offers an Intel hexa-core processor, two solid state hard drives, three NVIDIA GTX 580 video cards and more for $6,650. Kevin Pereira and Morgan Webb review the PC to make sure it fits every gamer's needs.

What You Need to Know

• The unit is only about 18” tall
• However, it's 2’ deep, so it will take a large amount of floor space
• All the connections are on the top, so you'll have to remove the top part of the case and run wires under a bracket; it makes it look clean, but it might be a pain in the ass if you change stuff
• It's also a bit loud with the fans turned up
• All the cables are managed nicely and everything is as you'd expect
• There isn't much room to work, though, because there's a ton of fans, and of course, they packed it with three huge video cards and a bad-ass heat sink
• They put an expansion bay on the front that will hold up to four hot-swappable Solid State Drives
• It scored the highest in both of the gaming and productivity benchmarks, making it the most powerful computer ever on Attack of the Show
• Obviously, there's nothing you can throw at it that will make it stutter, so don't try; just turn up the settings to full-blast and enjoy Call of Duty: Black Ops like you've never seen it before

Price

• The PCs start at $1,600, but our configuration costs $6,650

Overall Rating

• For the starting configuration, it’s a Buy
• We've got to hand it to AVADirect, they crammed as many top of the line parts into an air-cooled system as they could and got amazing performance
• Use the promo code AOTS-BR to get $100 off this bad-ass AVADirect configuration.