Velocity Micro Raptor Signature Edition Reviews

It is, perhaps, fitting that Velocity Micro's new rig is called a Raptor. That's because anyone who has ever seen the Air Force's F-22 Raptor in person and on afterburner knows just how overkill the F-22 is. The same can be said of Velocity Micro's ...

The same can be said of Velocity Micro's Raptor Signature Edition. With people overjoyed just to have a $99 Athlon II X4 620, Velocity Micro decided to go shock-and-awe on the spec lists-and the wallet

The Signature Edition Raptor has only a basic 3.0-GHz CPU, but it's overclocked and swaddled in an electric refrigeration watercooler to reach a gnarly 4.28 GHz. Combine that with the three top-shelf Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 videocards running like a ...

Balls-out speed from the three graphics cards running in tandem. Cheap, thanks to a midrange processor overclocked to atmospheric performance levels.

Front-mounted USB and audio ports are too low to be very useful. Hard-to-open case looks like it was pulled off a generic gaming PC and assaulted with a BeDazzler. Chip manufacturer Intel will not guarantee its processor's longevity when overclocked, ...

The unequivocal gaming champ.

Blazing, best-in-class benchmark test numbers. SSDs improve day-to-day performance. Great bang for the buck.

SSDs are small, necessitating occasional rebuilds.

Velocity Micro's Raptor Signature Edition is the best gaming system we'e seen. Its blazing, top-of-the-class performance coupled with its middle-of-the-pack pricing makes the Raptor a hands-down winner.