Boston Venom 2500-0P Gaming PC Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

PC Mark 8

At first glance, it might seem a bit strange for the Venom’s 5960X to be mid-table in a system benchmark. However, PC Mark 8 gauges the performance of typical desktop tasks such as web browsing, casual gaming or light photo editing. Therefore, it’s more attuned to single threaded, low-demand workloads and prefers higher clocked, lower threaded CPUs such as the i7 6700K.

3DMark

NVIDIA’s GTX Titan X remains the fastest single graphics card on the market and slightly outperforms the GTX 980Ti in 3DMark. It’s unclear if the Fire Strike benchmark contained a significant boost due to the Venom’s Titan X, or 5960X. The reason behind this is, the 980Ti scored higher during the Fire Strike Extreme test. Of course, both of these cards are very similar for gaming purposes barring the 6GB GDDR5 memory amount.

Unigine Heaven

In Heaven 4.0, the Venom 2500-oP outclasses other systems but falls behind the PC Specialist Azure on a Basic preset. Although, it just manages to edge ahead in the Extreme benchmark due to GPU boost 2.0 increasing the stock clocks to a higher frequency. It’s advisable to fixate on the Extreme results because the Basic preset is set at a much lower resolution. Honestly, I would hypothesize that the Azure and Venom scores are within a margin of error and behave very similarly. Whatever the case, the Venom comes out on top and provides a stellar graphical experience.