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We've never considered hard drive cables to be that jostle-prone, and even if they do come loose, they're easy enough to reconnect.

You could yank them out with enough force, but we don't understand why they're glued in to begin with. Complicating matters, the current drive cables are hot-glued in place. What that means is that it's challenging to add or replace a hard drive without disconnecting the drive cables. In order to get at the drives, you need to remove a screw and pull back a drive cage that faces the drives inward. The hard drive configuration is irritating, however.

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Higher-end models of the Deluge would likely benefit more.įor the rest of the system, it's easy enough to move the tubes to get at the free expansion and memory ports. The liquid cooling apparatus as a whole is not particularly quiet, nor did Puget overclock its 3D cards, so we can't help feeling that this configuration is a bit of overkill for this case. The tubing connects to the CPU, as well as to both graphics cards, which means it's a good thing that Puget routed the cables smartly, or else upgrading would be very difficult. Puget incorporates a Koolance PC-4 1000 liquid cooling system directly into the Deluge-i L2's Antec case, with a built-in reservoir/pump unit that slides into a 5.25-inch front panel drive bay. We expect either an overclocked XPS 630 or a reconfigured Maingear Ephex would post similar Crysis scores to the Deluge-i L2's, and at significant cost savings. And while the Maingear we tested suffered due to its pair of Radeon HD 3870 graphics cards, which don't work well on Crysis, you can also configure a Maingear Ephex system that's nearly identical to the Deluge-i L2 for $3,800, and that includes a beefier power supply, a more up-to-date motherboard, and more aggressive overclocking of the E8400 CPU. Consider, though, that the $1,600 Dell XPS 630 has a pair of GeForce 8800 GT cards, as well as some wiggle room in its very overclockable-although still factory-pure-2.4GHz Core 2 Quad Q6600 chip. We suspect this is due to its overclocked CPU and its pair of GeForce 8800 GTS graphics cards, which are the slightly faster version of the already speedy GeForce 8800 GT.

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True, its 1,280x1,024 Crysis test is the highest we've seen this year, and it's the only PC with a frame rate higher than our 60-frames-per-second standard for consistently smooth play. If it looks like the Puget has an out due to its Crysis scores, don't get too excited. But paired with the 32-bit version of Vista, 4GB is more RAM that you need and a waste of money.

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We suppose purchasing more RAM ahead of time would make sense if you plan to upgrade to 64-bit Windows later, and Puget requires you to e-mail its sales department to make that upgrade to this system. As it stands, the Deluge-i L2 recognizes only 2.5GB of memory.

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In order for this system to use the full 4GB of RAM, Puget would need to have included the 64-bit version of Vista. We should point out that we're also a bit confused by Puget's 4GB memory configuration, given that it uses a 32-bit Windows Vista Ultimate operating system. We don't imagine you'd want either of these full-size desktops sitting in your living room, but we'd still rather have the option to watch HD movies. Maingear also includes a Blu-ray/HD DVD combo drive. Unlike the Deluge-i L2, the Maingear Ephex includes a high-end, quad-core CPU (also overclocked), faster DDR3 RAM, two 10,000rpm hard drives to the Puget's one, as well as a larger 750GB storage drive. You'll notice that the Maingear Ephex we reviewed came in at about $300 more than the Puget system, but considering what you get, the Maingear is a much better deal. 3.5GHz (overclocked) Intel Core 2 Duo E8400Ĥ.0GHz (overclocked) Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650ġ50GB 10,000rpm hard drive, 500GB 7,200rpm hard drive