Introduction

BEAST, founded in 2005, was formed with the idea of creating a trusted identity that could be relied upon for gaming and also providing great support. Describing their computers as ‘beasts’ instead of just a rig, the company clearly has faith in their products using only the highest quality of components.

Today, we have one such beast here to take for a spin; the Breed Evo. It uses the new Intel i7/LGA1366 platform and incorporates a GTX 295, water-cooling, 1600MHZ DDR3 memory and a D0 stepping of the i7 920 processor. This along with all the other specifications make for impressive reading but can the Breed Evo produce a beast of a performance to warrant the high price tag and fend off the challenge of my own custom i7 rig? Let’s see what happens.

What the makers have to say...

The new Breed Evo is all about balance, the perfect balance of components tuned to perfection. The Evo is based on Nvidia’s SLI technology as opposed to ATI’s Crossfire, and is powered by the top of the range nVidia GeForce 295 GTX. This card is cooled by an EK water block to allow the Beast team to overclock the graphics card, but still keep the card cool.

An i7 920 quad core CPU is also included. The i7 920 has plenty of overclocking head room with the liquid cooling, that enables the highly skilled Beast team of overclockers to push the CPU speed to 4.0Ghz. A whopping 1.2Ghz faster than the standard clocks, and full 800MHz faster than the top of the range i7 965 Extreme.
And although the Evo isn’t armed with the Solid State Drives of its bigger brother the Reality. You still won’t need a book to endure arduous load times, as the fast Samsung Spinpoint drive with a 32MB cache means your games load up in a flash. With a full 1TB of storage, you won't have any issues with space either!

The Evo is also housed in the highly stylish Silverstone TJ07 that allows the Beast team to build an impressive liquid cooling system that includes a 360mm radiator, a Swiftech Apogee Extreme CPU Block and a highly reliable and powerful Swiftech Pump. Which will give you temps so low, you will soon realise that liquid cooling isn’t just for show?

The Evo also offers massive savings with minimal performance loss whilst retaining prestigious features like the Creative Soundblaster Titanium Professional soundcard. This is the Breed evolved.

Specifications