It's time to draw this review to a close and give you our final verdict on Ballista.

Aesthetically, the system is a stunner. The finish on the case is great but it does attract finger prints very easily, which is not too much of an issue as they come off easily enough. Inside the case, the layout is very neat as mentioned during the review. The cables are all very neatly tied up and that makes minimal clutter within the system and also helps with airflow.

The system is preoverclocked to 4.4GHz from the standard speed of 3.8GHz. This is a nice increase in clock speeds but we can't help but feel that a little more time should have gone into the overclocking of this system. All voltages were left on auto instead of manually adjusting them for the lowest stable voltages. We understand that there are time constraints but this would have been nice to see. Initial CPU voltages are under 100% load peak at 1.6v which settle down to around 1.48v after a short period of time.

In the review of the AMD 5600K APU, we demonstrated that there are obvious gains from using higher clocked memory. Whilst 1600MHz RAM is usually the sweet spot between price and performance for anyone looking to build or buy a system today, Trinity really does benefit from faster RAM. Up to 40% extra performance can be obtained just by using faster RAM. We don't know how the 5800K will fare with RAM at 2400MHz (or faster) but we think it is safe to say that the performance gains will be fairly similar, if not greater.

The Ballista does generate some noise during idle and load usage but not enough to cause any concern or disturbance.

Ballista has been priced at £750 which is fairly steep considering the performance return of the system. The SilverStone FT03 is great choice but it bumps the price up considerably and perhaps an adjustment with the case would have helped with the value of this system. The cost of FT03 comes in at just under a seventh of the total cost of the system. Against our other test systems the Ballista did struggle during graphic orientated benchmarks but these systems are higher in spec and feature a stronger GPU - NVIDIA GTX 570 and therefore its unfair to mark the system down in this regard.

Ballista is uses top-class components and cable management has been carefully arranged by Utopia Computers; those who are keen to own a system based around AMD's new FM2 would be well advised to take a look at this system.