Evesham Decimator 78FX

Evesham's stylish and robust case always impresses us. With its front-panel display, which details temperatures, fan speeds and the date and time, it would be a travesty to hide it under your desk. Unlike the cases used by most PC vendors, you won't see this case used by anyone other than Evesham.

As with Mesh's 7800 GTX system last month, Evesham has elected to supply a 19in TFT. The Viewsonic VX924 has an impressive 4ms response time, but it's the native resolution of 1,280 x 1,024 (the same as most 19in monitors) that disappoints.

With such outstanding graphical performance, any serious gamer would demand a 20in TFT with a resolution 1,600 x 1,200. That said, we can understand how Evesham might want to keep the already sky-high price down.

Audio is handled by Creative. You'll find an Audigy 2 ZS sound card inside the PC and Creative's Inspire T7900 7.1 surround-sound speakers. Precisely the kind of audio setup required to take advantage of what the Decimator 78FX has to offer.

It's taking some time for the major PC manufacturers to start submitting the new 64bit version of Windows, and Evesham has decided to stick with XP Home Edition - keeping the price down was probably a consideration here.

You don't get any other software packages as standard, but Evesham provides a decent warranty. Two years' worth of onsite maintenance is followed up by a third year return to base.

If you like the sound of Evesham's Decimator 78FX, the price tag may be enough to put you off as £2,699 is a lot to spend on a PC. With Mesh's single-7800 GTX system last month, which housed very similar components and an extra 1GB of RAM, coming in at £1,000 cheaper, we feel this Evesham is a little overpriced.

The impressive case, greater storage and second 7800 GTX obviously push the price up, but we didn't expect this to be by more than around £600.