The Vigor Gaming Stealth NE Desktop
Lots of gaming desktops come tricked out with LED lighting, but Vigor’s Gaming Stealth NE is one of the few machines that makes those lights an integral part of the design. The Gaming Stealth NE’s case and fan lights, which play beautifully off the clear-plastic case, show that Vigor understands how gamers frequently play: in the dark.
Key Specs
2GB DDR2
Two 250GB hard drives (RAID 0)
Double-layer DVD±RW with LightScribe
None
Two Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 2600XT cards (256MB, CrossFire)
Windows Vista Home Premium
But this desktop is more than just good looks. It’s also a surprisingly powerful machine—and at a price of $1,299, you don’t need to be a Plexiglas heir to afford it. With a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor overclocked to 2.82GHz, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, two 250GB hard drives in a RAID Level 0 configuration, and two 256MB Sapphire Radeon HD2600XT cards set up in a CrossFire dual-card arrangement, there’s a lot of gaming potential to be found here.
Right out of the box, the Gaming Stealth NE cuts an impressive figure. The components are completely visible through the clear-plastic case, letting you see what’s going on inside without opening the side panel. Turn on the power, and watch how the blue LEDs strewn about the case intermingle with the green, red, and orange lights on the many fans—imagine the Northern Lights in a box.
The Gaming Stealth NE fared quite well in our performance tests, delivering a score of 8,845 at a resolution of 1,280×1,024 in Futuremark 3DMark06 and a score of 7,201 at 1,600×1,200. In Company of Heroes, it delivered an average of 87.2 frames per second (fps) at 1,280×1,024 and 57.5fps at 1,600×1,200. Frame rates dropped considerably at 2,560×1,600, so we don’t recommend playing most games at that resolution, at least with all the 3D detail settings cranked up. Our 1,280×1,024 Supreme Commander test netted frame rates of just under 30fps—playable, but not tremendously exciting.
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