Wired2Fire Hellspawn Ultima review

In terms of performance, the overclocked processor is more than fast enough for everyday desktop tasks. It’s a quad-core model, so heavily multithreaded applications will run smoothly. This includes our multimedia benchmarks, and the Hellspawn Ultima managed to score 141 overall.

The AMD Radeon HD 7770 is an overclocked Asus model, so it should perform slightly quicker than other stock-clocked models. This could be seen in our gaming benchmarks, where Dirt3 produced an average frame rate of 41.7fps. Crysis 2 was significantly more demanding, only reaching 21.1fps. If you want to play the latest games, you’ll have to drop detail settings or disable anti-aliasing.

Wired2Fire sells the Hellspawn Ultima with a 24in, Full HD Asus VS247H monitor. It’s a matt display, so light reflections shouldn’t be a problem, with an even LED backlight and the option of DVI, VGA and HDMI inputs. The Keysonic keyboard is fairly generic, as is the Gigabyte mouse, but they are at least better than some bargain basement peripherals.

With an SSD and a heavily overclocked processor, the Hellspawn Ultima is definitely fast. If frame rates are your main concern, the similarly priced Palicomp Alpha Excite may be a better choice, but there’s little to fault with this system.