Reviews - Scan 3XS Z87 Performance GTX

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Scan Computers lets loose a high-performance Haswell gaming rig.

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[Bagpuss]

£1200 for a PC with Corsairs budget range Case and water cooler, and only a 600W PSU....err,no thanks.

[Willzzz]

Yes I do find it funny how Hexus regard an H60 as unprecedented cooling. I know they want to make a big deal out of the Haswell heat output, but really an H60 is no more powerful than a decent air cooler.

[Shirty]

£1200 for a PC with Corsairs budget range Case and water cooler, and only a 600W PSU....err,no thanks.

Whilst I kind of agree, it's the only way they could possibly have hit the price point. The 600W PSU wouldn't bother me unless I planned to add another 770, they could probably have even gotten away with a 500W unit but I think they made the right call.

The H60 is mid-range rather than budget, but from what I can see closed loop coolers handle high heat density well, which is more of a problem on Ivy Bridge and Haswell than it was on Sandy Bridge.

[Whizzkid]

Not a bad price. My basket comes to 1178 inc vat and thats without their 2 year warranty...

[Philipp]

Not a bad price. My basket comes to 1178 inc vat and thats without their 2 year warranty...

3 year warranty... plus the CPU and GPU overclock.

[Whizzkid]

3 year warranty... plus the CPU and GPU overclock.

Ive just spent 10 mins pricing that up to defend you guys 10% discount code... sure its there somewhere... hahaha.

Philip, why dont you guys stock bitfenix cases?

[James @ Scan]

£1200 for a PC with Corsairs budget range Case and water cooler, and only a 600W PSU....err,no thanks.

I'm curious how you think £1,200 bad when as the review points out the parts cost £1,195?

i.e. for £5 you get a PC that is professionally built, overclocked and covered by a 3 year warranty, including the first year on-site.

[Whizzkid]

I'm curious how you think £1,200 bad when as the review points out the parts cost £1,195?

i.e. for £5 you get a PC that is professionally built, overclocked and covered by a 3 year warranty, including the first year on-site.

Dont take it to heart, guess hes having a bad day bless

[Willzzz]

People who build their own tend to be overly fussy, but then that's not the target market, so meh.

[Bagpuss]

I'm not having a bad day, they just blew the budget in areas that don't interest me..GPU,SSD.

I've just configured it on their page to how I'd like it, and it came to £1166.

Fractal R4
Asus Pro Mobo
Corsair Hi80
Corsair 850w
16GB Ram
1TB primary, 2TB secondary Hdrives
Nvidia Geforce 660
Windows 7 64bit

The changes I made will last far longer and give better long term value than a quickly out of date GPU and (still unreliable) SSD's.

..just a question of peoples priorities thats all.

[Philipp]

Hi Bagpuss,

Its great that you found our site flexible enough to get the system configured how you'd like it all solid component choices btw. I have a Fractal R3 myself great chassis.

Personally id never have another system without an SSD, and imo a 120GB is a little on the small side hence the 250GB.

Cheers

[cirons]

Well I must say the new prossesors and GPUs coming out lately really wanna build a new system had mine for 6 yes now never let me down amd3800x2 at 2.4 stock cooler lol a8n ski premium 2gb of blazing fast DDR 333 and 8800gts but I must say for a old system it never skips a beat lost interest in building systems last few yr with kids and stuff but I am interested the new Goody's that's coming put