Puget Systems Serenity Pro Review: The stealth ninja of performance desktops

February 06, 2013

Puget Systems’ Serenity Pro is so named because it’s “extremely quiet,” according to the company. The Serenity line is optimized for extra-quiet operation, employing such solutions as Gelid’s Tranquillo Rev2 silent cooling system, a case coated with sound-dampening foam, and a special “quiet case fans upgrade,” which replaces stock fans with extra-quiet ones. In other words, this system is like the stealth ninja of performance desktops. Our review model, which costs $2660 as configured, sports a third-generation Intel Core i7-3770K processor, 16GB of DDR3 RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 graphics card. The Serenity Pro also has two hard drives—a 240GB Intel 335 Series SSD, and a 2TB Western Digital HDD. The system comes with Blu-ray burner, a wireless networking card, and CyberLink PowerDVD 12 Ultra, and runs a 64-bit version of Windows 8 Pro. Performance The Serenity Pro is the fastest PC we’ve tested on WorldBench 8 to date. In our WB8 benchmark tests, the system scores 121 out of 100, which means it’s 21 percent faster than our testing model (which sports a third-generation Intel i5 processor). It’s also about four percent faster than our second-fastest WB8 PC, the Digital Storm Aventum (which scored 116 out of 100 on WB8). To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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