Speaking for myself, I’d never buy a gaming system out right. I would be much more inclined to build my own. And as you read the review below, I feel that you will begin to share my opinion.

We invite you to take a moment to read our editorial on how the [H] Consumer Systems Evaluation program works.

In our opinion, the best way to evaluate what a PC consumer will go through is to go through it ourselves. We evaluate not just the hardware, but the entire purchasing process from start to finish. We also evaluate the technical knowledge and the support of the vendor. And the only way to do this is to purchase a system, just like any other customer would.

We don’t get hand picked, extensively tweaked systems that are not for consumer consumption. Instead, we take a sample from a company’s everyday production queue and look at everything from a consumer’s perspective. [Read the rest]