ODE Level 3 is one of four pre-gaming desktops from Digital Storm, and the second most powerful of the new assembly line, you can purchase ODE. Although consumers who want the same game, but do not want to purchase and install individual components, only those with deep pockets can afford the $ 2,399 (direct) price tag. Yet, this machine should keep you playing in the next few years, and Digital Storm to give all the updates may require or desire.
The design and development
Built in a white housing Corsair Graphite Series 600T, the level of 20 3-inch high-ODE is a simple and clean appearance. Plastic windows on the right side you can see the beautifully decorated interior: Cables are run under the motherboard tray and red interior lighting displays all your components, even in the dark. The chassis is air friendly, with a top grille perforated to let out hot air naturally, and a liquid cooling system for CPU (also by Corsair) and many fans also in attendance. Ports on the top of the PC has four USB 2.0 ports, ports and one USB 3.0 port, microphone and audio connectors, Firewire and 400th On the back you will find even more ports, including four DVI-I, two HDMI and two DisplayPort, eight USB 2.0 ports, FireWire 400, eSATA, Power eSATA and audio ports. There are also two USB 3.0 ports on the back, but it is occupied by a plug connected to the front door with a pass-through cable.
The design and development
Built in a white housing Corsair Graphite Series 600T, the level of 20 3-inch high-ODE is a simple and clean appearance. Plastic windows on the right side you can see the beautifully decorated interior: Cables are run under the motherboard tray and red interior lighting displays all your components, even in the dark. The chassis is air friendly, with a top grille perforated to let out hot air naturally, and a liquid cooling system for CPU (also by Corsair) and many fans also in attendance. Ports on the top of the PC has four USB 2.0 ports, ports and one USB 3.0 port, microphone and audio connectors, Firewire and 400th On the back you will find even more ports, including four DVI-I, two HDMI and two DisplayPort, eight USB 2.0 ports, FireWire 400, eSATA, Power eSATA and audio ports. There are also two USB 3.0 ports on the back, but it is occupied by a plug connected to the front door with a pass-through cable.
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Cracking open the system is easy and requires no tools: At the end of the two levers ODE side panel. Six drive bays contain a sliding Caddies, two of which have been met. One includes a solid state drive 120 GB (SSD) for the operating system and applications, and other 1TB 7200-rpm hard drive storage. One of the four optical drive bays are available on Blu-ray combo drive. Sabertooth Asus P67 motherboard has eight SATA ports, three of which are used (two 6Gbps and one of 3Gbps), 3Gbps SATA 6Gbps two three are free. Two PCI Express (PCIe) x16 uses the Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 graphics cards, which prevent the other expansion slots empty except for one PCIe x1 slot, two of the four RAM slots are filled with a total of 8 GB of memory . All these components are powered by 800 watts of power, which is more than enough for the existing equipment, and supports a number of add-ons as well.
Digital Storm is a custom builder, it is not surprising that the company offers premium support services with their systems. There is a three-year limited warranty that covers labor costs for replacement, developed, and diagnosis. It also allowed a year to replace defective parts, and lifetime access to both work with no improvements and storm Digital customer.
Performance
Game performance is the name of the game with this PC, and its 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7-2600K and two GTX 570 graphics card to help compete with it, even own Digital Storm Black Ops Enix Edition ($ 3,627, 4 stars) . In our Crysis DirectX 10 (DX10) level test 3 ODE scored a solid playable 71 frames per second (fps) at the highest settings to 1920 by 1, 080 resolution, a little less than two dozen executives '73fps Enix. Similarly, in our Lost Planet 2 DX11 test ODE 121.7fps served at the highest settings, even after 2fps behind Enix. The F131 Super Stock main gear is even closer in price ODE 3 costs $ 99 less, and scores on high quality settings were far behind the level ODE 3: Crysis, and he served 47fps Lost Planet 2 it reached 72FPS.
In our multimedia tests, however, could hardly tell the difference between the ODE and F131 Super Stock. On both occasions was similar in both our Photoshop test CS5 (2:21 for Level 3 ODE, 2:18 F131 Super Action) and our Cinebench R11.5 (9.14 for Level 3 ODE, 9, 35 for the Super Stock F131).
Digital Storm ODE Level 3 is an ideal desktop for those who want to choose every detail of your gaming system. Digital Storm takes the pain out of this process and provides a well-balanced pre-configured system will last. It comes with an extended warranty and a strong focus on improving customer service program, which has even more to him. Reference components and scores of rivals more expensive option of our platforms from the editors of high-end games, the Black Ops Enix, and beat our other EC, the Maingear F131 Super Stock, taking into account the price for performance . For these reasons, the Digital Storm level 3 is the choice of our public ODE new set of desktop publishers.
It is clear that the cases are not usually connect these ports to the motherboard headers, but it's always an awkward and unattractive option.
Digital Storm is a custom builder, it is not surprising that the company offers premium support services with their systems. There is a three-year limited warranty that covers labor costs for replacement, developed, and diagnosis. It also allowed a year to replace defective parts, and lifetime access to both work with no improvements and storm Digital customer.
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Performance
Game performance is the name of the game with this PC, and its 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7-2600K and two GTX 570 graphics card to help compete with it, even own Digital Storm Black Ops Enix Edition ($ 3,627, 4 stars) . In our Crysis DirectX 10 (DX10) level test 3 ODE scored a solid playable 71 frames per second (fps) at the highest settings to 1920 by 1, 080 resolution, a little less than two dozen executives '73fps Enix. Similarly, in our Lost Planet 2 DX11 test ODE 121.7fps served at the highest settings, even after 2fps behind Enix. The F131 Super Stock main gear is even closer in price ODE 3 costs $ 99 less, and scores on high quality settings were far behind the level ODE 3: Crysis, and he served 47fps Lost Planet 2 it reached 72FPS.
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In our multimedia tests, however, could hardly tell the difference between the ODE and F131 Super Stock. On both occasions was similar in both our Photoshop test CS5 (2:21 for Level 3 ODE, 2:18 F131 Super Action) and our Cinebench R11.5 (9.14 for Level 3 ODE, 9, 35 for the Super Stock F131).
Digital Storm ODE Level 3 is an ideal desktop for those who want to choose every detail of your gaming system. Digital Storm takes the pain out of this process and provides a well-balanced pre-configured system will last. It comes with an extended warranty and a strong focus on improving customer service program, which has even more to him. Reference components and scores of rivals more expensive option of our platforms from the editors of high-end games, the Black Ops Enix, and beat our other EC, the Maingear F131 Super Stock, taking into account the price for performance . For these reasons, the Digital Storm level 3 is the choice of our public ODE new set of desktop publishers.
It is clear that the cases are not usually connect these ports to the motherboard headers, but it's always an awkward and unattractive option.