Designed from the ground up with gamers in mind, GameVision has produced a fine looking and practical system with plenty of potential. The system is built around Intel's now legendary 2.4GHz Pentium 4 'C' stepping processor, one of the most overclockable chips available on the market. With substantiated overclocks of up to 3.6GHz with stock air-cooling, these unassuming CPUs are powerhouses of frequency, if you know how to milk the most from them.
 
The well-presented case features a single removable aluminium side panel with Perspex window for displaying your system's guts as they whir at ungodly speeds. We were surprised that only the removable panel was aluminium, the rest of the case solid steel, and the exterior plastic faux-aluminium. The case is not too heavy for the movers and shakers of the LANing community to lug, and they're assisted care of the included tower carry strap. Build quality is good with the rounded IDE cables stowed for maximum show ability and easy access. The optical drives in this system are covered by a hinged front panel giving it a somewhat sleek look. Unfortunately, frequent bay users will get tired of having to open and close the door to access drives and front audio/USB connectivity even with two USB ports on the outer portion of the case below the door.

We benched this system at stock speeds and watched as it returned impressive scores of 254 overall SYSmarks and 15,507 3DMarks in 3DMark2001 SE, not bad at all. We then jumped into the BIOS and used the software CPU settings to overclock the system by raising the front-side bus (FSB) speed, slightly increasing CPU voltage and using aggressive RAM settings.

Unfortunately we soon discovered that the OCZ PC3200 RAM in the system was holding us back, so we dropped the CAS latency to more conservative levels and up went the FSB and CPU. After finding our CPU clock ceiling to be 2.88GHz at 1.70v we set to work on tweaking memory in the 9800 PRO, raising it in 5MHz increments until we found our ceiling. It was a little disappointing that this notorious overclocking chip couldn't make 3GHz, however it did still manage jumps in performance in SYSmark, returning an overall score of 291, a 14.5 percent increase for very little work. 3DMark2001 SE also proved to have benefited, rising a shade over 2,000 3DMarks as a result of the overclock, which equates to 13 percent increase. At the very reasonable price of $2,100 without monitor, this barebones system offers almost unlimited upgrade and performance enhancing potential, plenty of bang for buck and worth a look for any serious gamer.