SCAN 3XS GAMER

£899 inc VAT • scan.co.uk

The 3XS Gamer from Scan looks, externally, almost identical to several other gaming PCs in this group test. Inside, it’s teamed up an nVidia GeForce GTX 960 graphics card with an Intel Core i5-4690 CPU. The difference here is the inclusion of the standard version of this CPU rather than the overclockable ‘K’ version.

This has resulted in rather less impressive overall system speeds than similar PCs with overclocked chips. However, the graphics card ensures that in a large proportion of games, the 3XS Gamer will be able to keep up the pace, but if you play games that benefit from a lot of CPU power, this probably isn’t the system for you. In our tests, the 3XS Gamer proved capable of gaming at 1080p with mid- to highlevel quality settings, which is great for a PC at this price.

The 3XS Gamer has been designed specifically with gaming in mind and includes Asus’s SupremeFX audio components, which have been electromagnetically shielded to help ensure better sound quality, as well as beefed-up audio capacitors and a powerful headphone amplifier.

The system comes with 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3 memory and storage is provided by a speedy 240GB Kingston SSDNow V300 SSD.

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Unfortunately, that’s all the storage you get. We’d definitely urge you to add a hard drive to the specification before purchasing this PC. VERDICT: Scan’s 3XS Gamer appears at first glance to be a good deal, but the lack of overclocking puts it at a significant performance disadvantage against the competition.