Awarded: 9/10

Awarded:

Eager to take a look at our popular mini power house we gave PC Advisor the all new Core i5 and ATI HD5850 combination with the special carbon finish of course.  Here are a few extracts form the review:

• "The Cryo PC Nano is quite a feat in PC construction - a very fast, relatively compact and even rather quiet performance PC."
• "British performance PC specialist Cryo PC seems to have got around all these issues, though. Its created a very fast, relatively compact and even rather quiet PC, dubbed the Cryo PC Nano. It's quite a feat in PC construction."
• "Our first graphics test is something of a walkover for any recent graphics card, but for the record the Cryo PC Nano hit an average of 321 frames per second in the FEAR game at Maximum quality settings. We reset screen resolution from 1024x768 to the game's highest of 1600x1200, where it still sprung along at an all-too sprightly 174fps."
• "Crysis gives modern PCs a steeper challenge. Configured with our basic test of 1024x768, DirectX 9 at High quality, the Nano sailed through at 94fps."
• "So with the Cryo PC Nano's gaming credentials not just checked but applauded, we gave the Nano a workout with our Worldbench 6 performance benchmark. And were astonished to find a final score of 162 points, a full 10 points clear of the fastest system we've tested in the past."
• "Extremely high performance, reasonable pricing, excellent build quality and quiet operation are most uncommon bedfellows. But in the Cryo PC Nano we see all these worthy attributes combined into a PC that’s impossible not to recommend. A splendid package deserving of very close attention"

You can see the full review here:

CryoPC Nano review - PC Advisor

Tetrad DAW
Audio Workstation

• "Seventh Heaven"
• "The real world performance gains of this [Cryo Boost] can be seen by monitoring the CPU during use - and it is impressive."
• "Very Fast"
• "Cryo Boost seems to genuinely make a difference to performance"
• "An undeniably quick PC that's future-proofed and has plenty of grunt"

Read the full MusicTech Tetrad DAW review here

Cryo HTPC Awarded

Here's some of what they had to say about it:

• "...the Cryo Quad system which landed on our doorstep proved to be a fast, very well specified and excellently configured system which lived up to all of its expectations as a blazingly fast Core i5-based PC which uses every ounce of the overclocking headroom of said processor and architecture."
• "With a two year return to base warranty, and plenty of attention to detail on show in the system's setup, there's plenty to like about what Cryo are offering here..."
• "...we can really confirm is that our Cryo Quad build was absolutely, 100% stable at all times throughout our testing, even when stress testing both CPU and GPU for a considerable period of time simultaneously."
• "CineBench gives us a look at the raw power of the overclocked Core i5 CPU, with a fantastic multi-threaded result in particular matching up with what we'd expect from our system's 4GHz clock speed."
• "[H264 encoding] The first pass of this encoding application is the simplest of the two, and the Cryo Quad simply breezes through it"
• "[Paint.Net]Cryo's offering breezes through this benchmark in no time, posting some excellent numbers once again."
• "[Left 4 Dead] The Cryo Quad could probably handle this title in standby mode in all honesty (okay, maybe not, but still...) given the numbers it serves up here, dishing out performance of over two hundred and fifty frames per second on average and making light work of this game."
• "[Crysis Warhead] Close to a sixty frames per second average is simply fantastic for this title, giving you probably the single most playable in-game experience I've seen served up using this particular title."
• "What this leaves us with is a vast amount of performance on tap for any intensive job you'd wish to task this system with, from gaming to video encoding, while thankfully the system's configuration also allows the Quad to run in a far more power and noise-friendly mode when it isn't being pushed hard in terms of number crunching "

November 2009 - Cryo Nano (Core i7)

Cryo Tetrad  Awarded

• "The Cryo Tetrad has a modest chassis that hides a lot of power – and it won’t break the bank, either."
• "The Tetrad’s score of over 20,000 was very impressive indeed."
• "In our Cinebench rendering test though, which is based entirely on processor power, the Tetrad was over 10 per cent faster than the F3."
• "Good performance. Great components; low cost."

October 2009 - Cryo Graphite (Dream PC 2009)

Extracts from the review:

• "Brutally fast..."
• "Cryo PC has been able to massively overclock the CPU...270MHz higher than any other Dream PC"
• "the highest overclock of any Dream PC"
• "the Graphite came top in our Media Benchmarks", faster than any other PC ever tested

PC Format asked to take a look at what we could do in the small form factor market.  After a good review of the Core 2 version by TPCG we were confident the i7 version would equally impress and handed one over.

PC Format awarded the Nano i7 a score of 84/100.

PC World reviewed our water cooled Cryo Velox in their July 2009 issue and awarded it the maximum five stars for performance and features and gave it two prestigious awards.

Extracts from the review;

In their Upgrade & Repair PC's sister magazine PC Explorer looked at the Cryo Tetrad.

• "If you're after the very best performance PC then the Tetra from Cryo is well worth a look"
• "What sets the machine out from the pack is the Cryo optimisations and tweaks that come with the system"
• "the overclocking applied can help you get close to 4GHz clock speeds even on an entry level CPU"
• "thanks to Cryo Boost Overclocking & Optimisation you'll find the system provides even more power and functionality than the specifications suggest"

May 2009 - Cryo Tetrad

• "We began our tests with the Media Benchmarks.  The Tetrad excelled here, recording an overall score of 2,038 - this is the first sub £2000 PC to exceed 2,000 points at default speeds."
• "Clearly, Cryo PC's meticulous tweaking throughout the Tetrad's BIOS worked."
• "The Tetrad was even able to run Crysis at 1920x1200 with 4x AA, producing a playable minimum frame rate of 25fps.  Again, this is the sort of performance we would expect from a £10,000 Dream PC rather than a sub £2000 air cooled system"
• "Cryo PC's extensive tweaks have produced more than we'd thought possible"
• "The level of performance marks this out as a high-end PC"