Looking for a desktop replacement gaming system? Don't want to compromise on CPU power? This new system from Evesham sports an AMD FX-60 CPU with a 7800 graphics chip. It's heatpipe central under there.

AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 dual core processor (2.6GHz, 2 x 1MB L2 cache);
2 x 512MB DDR Memory running at 333MHz, 2.5-3-3-7-1T;
VIA K8T890 and VT8237 based motherboard;
17" WXGA X-Bright widescreen display (1680x1050);
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX 256MB;
2 x 100GB Hitachi TravelStar 7200RPM SATA hard drives in RAID 0;
Sony 8x Dual Layer DVD-RW drive;
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, Microsoft Works 8, Roxio Easy Media Creator 7;
3 year warranty - 1st & 2nd year in-home (parts & labour), 3rd year return-to-base (parts & labour);
Price: £2522.98 including VAT

The performance of the machine is nothing to sniff about and we were really impressed with it in the range of tasks that we threw at it when the machine was plugged in. The downside of the fantastic mains performance is the battery performance, or lack thereof. With such a powerful CPU and graphics subsystem, you're never going to get much out of this system on the move.

It's also questionable whether the FX-60 is actually worth the additional £339.57 including VAT over the Athlon 64 X2 4800+, which comes clocked at 2.4GHz - 200MHz slower than the FX-60. However, if you want a portable desktop with the fastest-available consumer processor, you'll take the increased cost on the chin.

There's no doubting that this machine is damn fast, but we have to question its market as a high end gamers machine. Now that NVIDIA's partners, including Evesham, are shipping SLI-enabled notebooks, this machine is no longer the fastest-available gaming system. The SLI-enabled notebooks also appear to cost about the same as this machine, too.

At this moment, the ideal single card notebook solution would be based on one of Intel's Core Duo processors with either a GeForce Go 7800 GTX or an ATI Mobility Radeon X1800XT. Unfortunately, Evesham currently doesn't offer that configuration and you're limited to either a Pentium M, Turion 64 or Athlon 64 X2 processor.