As a budget gaming system the CCL Eclipse Cobra has plenty going for it. The majority of games remained perfectly playable,even with medium to high amounts of eye candy turned on, and for this the system really shines. A strong combination of components means that this computer is a fast performer for not only gaming but everyday tasks as well. The room to upgrade is there so buying a prebuilt system doesn’t stop you dead in your tracks later on or at the time of purchase with CCL’s configurator.

There were times in the benchmarks where performance took a hit but these are understandable. As mentioned earlier, with an ATI card present Physx will run off of the CPU where it is not optimised like it is for NVIDIA’s GPUs. It is also well known that the ATI 5xxx series of graphics cards are weak when it comes to tessellation so it’s no surprise that this caused such a performance hit in the Heaven benchmark. Noise may be an issue for some but as mentioned on the previous page the cooler can be swapped for a quieter one, albeit for a price.



Performance in games is inspiring and just goes to show the myth of being required to spend thousands on a computer for decent performance is not true.



And it is for this I give the CCL Eclipse Cobra Vortez’s Gold Award.