MIFCOM is a German system integrator focussing on the German, Austrian and Swiss market. At this point we're going to show you there Battlebox, which is based on an Intel Core i7-6950X CPU and one or two GTX 1080 graphics cards.







With their Battlebox, MIFCOM has a powerful and very good looking basis for gaming systems in their portfolio. Here we're going to look at their flagship offer, the Battlebox Ultimate, which is based on an Intel Core i7-6950X CPU and two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 graphics cards in SLI.

	MIFCOM Battlebox Ultimate	MIFCOM Battlebox Basis
CPU	Intel Core i7-6950X	Intel Core i7-7700K
Motherboard	ASUS Rampage V Edition 10	ASUS ROG Strix Z270F Gaming
RAM	64GB DDR4-2666 Corsair	16GB DDR4-2666 Corsair Vengeance LPX
GPU	2 x GeForce GTX 1080	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
SSD	1TB Samsung PM961 SSD	Samsung 850 Evo 256GB
HDD	6TB WD Caviar Red HDD	1TB Seagate Barracuda
Case	Corsair Carbide Air 540 schwarz	Corsair Carbide Air 540 Window
PSU	Corsair AX860i	Corsair RMx 550W
€€€	€6'489.-	€2'149.-

MIFCOM Battlebox Ultimate

MIFCOM ships the Battlebox Ultimate with an Intel Core i7-6950X processor, which features 40 Lanes. In combination with the ASUS Rampge V Edition 10 motherboard this is a perfect basis for an SLI rig. Apart from that there are 64 Gigabyte of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-2666 memory and a 1 Terabyte Samsung PM961 SSD.
At this point enough has been said, lets now have a look at performance.

Performance - CPU
	Battlebox Ultimate - i7-6950X	Battlebox Basis - i7-7700K
PCMark 08 - Creative Suite	6'287 Points	5'834 Points
Handbreak h.264 Encoding	30.13 fps	18.31 fps
Handbreak h.265 Encoding	19.13 fps	12.47 fps
Fire Strike Physix	20'915 Points	14'279 Points
3DMark 11 Physix	16'098 Points	11'835 Points
SiSoft Sandra Arithmetik Dhrystone	295.16 GFLOPS	209.19 GFLOPS
SiSoft Sandra Arithmetik Whetstone	247.50 GFLOPS	123.14 GFLOPS
SiSoft Sandra Multimedia Integer	895.54 MPixel/sec	559.36 MPixel/sec
SiSoft Sandra Multimedia Floating Point	921.00 MPixel/sec	550.75 MPixel/sec
SiSoft Sandra Crypto AES	19.32 GB/sec	12.99 GB/sec
SiSoft Sandra Crypto SHA	11.58 GB/sec	6.48 GB/sec
Blackhole Single Thread	2'892 Points	4'332 Points
Blackhole 4 Thread	3'680 Points	6'152 Points
Blackhole Multithraed	11'700 Points	11'752 Points
Blackhole Total	21'988 Points	22'236 Points
7 Zip	49'807 MIPS	27'766 MIPS
WinRAR	30'073 KByte/sec	11'078 KByte/sec
Cinebench R15	1'856 Points	980 Points
Frybench	191 sec	221 sec
Photoshop	12.1 sec	11.5 sec
Excel	390 sec	343 sec

Performance - GPU
	Battlebox Ultimate - GTX 1080 SLI			Battlebox Basis - GTX 1080
3DMark Time Spy DX12 (GPU Score)	10'326			6'948
	Fire Strike	Extreme	Ultra
3DMark Fire Strike / Extreme / UItra (GPU Score)	34'683	18'163	9'050	21'837	10'314	4'959
3DMark VR Mark	187.73 fps			181.42 fps
SteamVR	11.00 Points			11.00 Points
	1080p (FHD)	1440p	2160p (UHD)	1080p (FHD)	1440p	2160p (UHD)
ArmA 3	46	44	40.00	44	39	39.00
Ashes of the Singularity DX11	61.00	60.40	51.50	60.90	59.60	50.20
Ashes of the Singularity DX12	71.00	65.00	51.60	70.20	65.10	50.50
Doom OpenGL 4.5	139.00	114.00	66.00	123.96	96.11	55.85
Far Cry Primal	110.00	79.00	74.00	105.00	77.00	41.00
GTA V	129.11	97.96	50.14	86.12	55.02	27.26
Rainbow Six Siege	170.90	108.40	52.40	121.50	78.30	38.40
Total War Warhammer DX11	131.20	123.40	86.60	129.40	91.60	52.30
Total War Warhammer DX12	110.00	86.00	48.60	109.60	85.70	47.20
XCOM 2	84.40	80.94	42.09	69.87	46.85	21.55

Apparently both MIFCOM Battlebox systems are very powerful and especially in the graphics department these systems are highly capable. If you're looking for a PC in cube case, that looks really nice and ships with an attractive service package, then the Battlebox from MIFCOM is definitely a good choice. Furthermore there is even the possibility to individualize those base systems thanks to an extensive online configurator. You can completely customize the Battlebox by changing everything from the CPU, to the memory, lighting or even the service level. Apart from this all the Battlebox systems are very nicely built with a lot of attention to details.

In the case of service MIFCOM system are backed up by a three year warranty plan, which can be extended to five years. The service package includes a clean installation without any bloatware, a complete backup on a separate partition, a simple Pick-up & Return shipment if necessary as well as remote support by the companies own technicians. There is also technical customers can call at any time and it's in no way linked to your warranty plan. That means MIFCOM will also take your call if your warranty plan has expired.

Should you be interested in one of MIFCOMs Blackbox Systems or do you want to toy around with their configurator, please find the links to the two different base configurations right below, which will also directly lead you to the configurator.

Battlebox Ultimate	Battlebox Basis
€6'459.- / ca. CHF 6'599.-	€2'149.- / ca. CHF 2'249.-