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Polywell Poly 790FX

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Pros
Solid performance and design
Plenty of free bays
Cons
Expensive for the performance
Massive power supply blocks bays

Performance: Good: 78
Features: Superior: 90
Design: Fair: 68

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	513
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	388
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	447
Doom 3 with AA, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	125.57
Doom 3 with AA, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	121.57
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	128.17
Doom 3, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	127.37
Far Cry with AA, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	148.18
Far Cry with AA, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	127.85
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	143.11
Far Cry, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	142.4
Firefox 2	282
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	368
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	253
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	341
Overall Graphics Score	Fair
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	263
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	294
WorldBench 6 Score	95
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Very Good

WorldBench 6 Tests
Multitasking	308

What You Should Know about the Poly 790FX

Large Amount of RAM Produces Blazing Performance

Simply put, this computer is likely to offer blazing performance. The large amount of RAM it ships with is more than enough to handle most memory-hungry applications and large files, and as a result the PC won't constantly swap memory to its hard drive.

The more installed memory your PC has, the more applications you can run smoothly at once, and the better the system will perform. Upgrading memory in a desktop after you purchase the PC is simple, but usually it's worthwhile to buy the amount of memory you want preinstalled with the system.

To use more than 4GB of memory on your PC, you need either Windows XP 64-Bit Edition (limited to 128GB) or a 64-bit version of Windows Vista (which can handle 128GB and beyond).