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We used to run group tests for “Ultimate PCs”, where we let PC manufacturers loose to build a sky’s-the-limit system with no restriction on budget. While those systems were often full of RGB fripperies to give them extra visual impact, Scan’s latest iteration of the 3XS Vengeance is all about cutting-edge power: it couples Intel’s new top-of-the-range Core i9-13900K (see p52) with Nvidia’s new top-of-the-range GeForce RTX 4090 (see p56).
The end result is so fast that the only reason we haven’t ripped up our graphs and started again is because I cheated and put the Time Spy Extreme score in rather than Time Spy. For those who are interested, it scored 33,219 in that DirectX 12 benchmark, while a GeForce RTX 3090 typically scores just under 20,000.
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