Detaching the side panels on Iris 200 we are met by a rather sleek and very well-organised computer system. CCL Computers has made a concerted effort to carefully route the cables in a tidy arrangement.


Taking a closer look at the components selection, at the very heart of Iris 200 is the Intel Core i7-6700K processor which is overclocked to 4.4GHz. The 6700K sits on an ASUS Z170-A motherboard which as its name suggests utilises the Intel Z170 chipset and cooling this chip is newly revised Corsair Hydro Series H100i v2 which is a closed loop all-in-one liquid cooler. The radiator and respective fans sit in the roof of the chassis.

Immediately next to the CPU and its cooling block we have 16GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666MHz DDR4.


For graphics delivery this system takes advantage of two NVIDIA GTX 970s. CCL Computers are using two ASUS STRIX cards and have married them up via SLI to maximise the 3D performance. Since this system is designed to handle VR, having dual-GPUs will be especially useful – later in the review we’ll test out the 3D performance and see how this configuration handles VR.



As is common nowadays, Iris 200 uses a solid state drive for its primary storage. Rather than use a SATA-based SSD, CCL Computers have utilised the M.2 PCI-E 3.0-based slot to achieve greater transfer rate results. Iris 200 uses a Samsung SM951 which are well-known for offering great performance but are also notorious for getting toasty – and in this configuration, being completely concealed by the graphics cards, the drive has little chance to take advantage of case airflow.

Located at the front of H440 we have a trio of 120mm cooling fans which bring cool air into the case and direct it across the system and there is also a 120mm rear exhaust to assist with a push/pull airflow configuration.

On the subsequent pages we'll be testing out Iris 200 to reveal the performance available.