Novatech Reign Paladin MKII Gaming PC Review

3DMark Firestrike

Given that this is one of the most powerful systems we have ever tested throughout all of these benchmarks you shouldn’t be looking far outside for the top 3 at any point.

Firestrike gets us off to a great start by scoring 27,165. As you can clearly see, this is the highest score we have ever recorded in this test and by a huge margin.

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

We already knew that the Nvidia 2080 Ti was an absolute monster of a graphics card. Combined with the other components in this system, however, it is once again top of the list and by a margin of nearly 2000 points.

PCMark 10

The PCMark 10 benchmark puts more of an emphasis on multitasking performance and, as such, is primarily focused on the processor. While it is top of the list again, you can see it’s various other (less powerful) Intel i9 brothers and sisters in close pursuit. With the Intel i9 9900k (used in this system) being, arguably, the best gaming desktop processor currently available, however, it’s not at all surprising to see this here.

WPrime 32m and 1024m

The Novatech Reign Paladin MKII is, again, top of our charts (or in this case bottom as lower is better) with the highest recorded score we’ve seen in both the 32m and 1024m testing.

Are you starting to notice a pattern with these results yet?

Cinebench R15

In a somewhat moderate blip to the current run of form, the single-core performance in the Cinebench testing was slightly outdone. This is, however, clearly massively outweighed by the huge margin at which the multi-core test beat out its rivals.

Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K

Despite this being primarily a gaming system, Novatech is also keen to push the Reign Paladin MKII as a multipurpose multimedia type centre. In other words, a great place to work and play.

If you are a regular video editor, then you definitely want to pay attention to this. The Novatech Reign Paladin MKII achieved a conversion rate of 77.5 frames per second. That is, without any question, over double what we usually see from systems. This could easily turn a 2-hour video rendering process into less than an hour and, as we all know, time is money!