Vigor Force Recon QXN gaming system review - We must be serious

Vigor Force Recon QXN gaming system review - We must be serious

Vigor, known as an elite system builder, has given us a clean box, built to do what it does best, game. This is no mini mac. The Silverstone case it calls home is very "full size", but its black matte finish and side window give away the reason. The four hard drives that serve you data and hold your files alone don't mind letting you know that there is 2.6 Tb there. (why the RAID configuration for the data drives is unknown and questioned) And then there are the GPUs, 1, 2, and 3. Three GeForce GTX 280 graphics cards running SLI cut horizontally through the side window.

It takes a lot of CPU power to keep all of this up and running, and they thought of that. The QX9770 Quad Core CPU behind it all is pushing an overclocked 3.4 MHz processor to make sure all goes smoothly, (at least between drive rebuilds). There is no Yahoo toolbar or AOL messenger adware to be found in any install we encountered. Compared to almost all big brand PC companies, it was almost refreshing to see the deal they made on their rather pleasant to play video game with BMW backing them. On a gaming computer, I think a guy would rather have a BMW logo in a benign game (it even comes non installed) over 2000 AOL, virus scan, and spyware finder products pre-installed any day. It might not even be all that untargeted if you consider that the person installing the cool little game to test out the graphics on his new gaming system just spent a little under $7500 for one of the best gaming systems. But I did say one of the best.

What does $7499 Get you? The Vigor Force Recon QXN is a serious gaming system for serious gamers. It is a strong gaming system that eats video editing and transcoding tasks like cookies, but was not made for such nonsense. 3d benchmarks were of some of the strongest out of all of the gaming systems that we had ever reviewed. There was only one problem. When you can afford the best, you get the best, and the Vigor Recon QXN did not riegn supreme across the board, while a few others did, such as the Velocity Raptor Signature Edition. It cost about the same and beat out the Vigor in benchmark scoring consistently. When you need #1, #2 or 3 will not do, and the Vigor Force Recon QXN was vying for numero uno position. It failed.

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