![]() Within that $700 price is a PC that can handle any of today’s games at 1080p with great quality, 1440p with good quality (though that’s not possible in all games, as Deus Ex: Makind Divided taught us), as well as VR support. This is a $700 PC that includes everything you need, outside of a monitor and imperative SSD upgrade. The keyboard is smooth to type on, and the fact that it also boasts RGB lighting just like the chassis is another nice perk. The included mouse and keyboard are not the highest-quality I’ve ever used, but for being included within this price-point, I’m even left impressed with those. This build is $200 more than the $499 VR rig we talked about a couple of months ago, but as mentioned before, there’s a lot that this PC’s cost gets you. I expected a budget system, but what arrived didn’t feel budget at all. Processor succession aside, I’m left very impressed with this CyberPowerPC build. Ryzen will run cooler, draw less power, and of course, be a lot faster, hopefully giving Intel a run for its money. That said, based on what I’ve seen from this machine, I am really excited to see similar builds in the near-future that replace the aging processor with AMD’s latest hotness. This is not the fault of the PC, of course we just received our sample for testing at a bit of a strange time. ![]() With AMD’s super-ultra-mega-(fill in the blank with more exciting words)-hyped Ryzen processors set to launch in the very near future, it’s automatically tough to recommend this exact model PC as Ryzen is going to be worth the wait. On the general system performance front, PCMark proves that the AMD Piledriver processor found in this rig can’t compete with Intel Core i7s, which is yet another reason we’re all gasping at the bit for Ryzen to land. In Futuremark’s tests, this RX 480-powered CyberPowerPC performs admireably, mostly with regards to the gaming test. Whereas the included HDD has a seek time of ~20ms, an SSD has one of ~0.1ms or better, and while the HDD suffers with IOPS (in/out performance) of about 150, a modest SSD would be in excess of 10,000. I dealt with lag while trying to open Microsoft Paint, one of the simplest tools around, simply because the PC was doing something else in the background. To me, an SSD is a non-option nowadays, because the speed improvements are enormous. I mentioned earlier that for the sake of overall cost, this PC didn’t include an SSD, but rather a 1TB hard drive, from Toshiba. Those include Eurocom’s Sky M5 R2 (2016) and ASUS’ G751JY (2015). For comparison’s sake, I am comparing this PC to two modern gaming notebooks (that cost a lot more than this PC, it should be said). To take a quick look at overall system performance on this CyberPowerPC rig, I’m digging HD Tune, PCMark, and 3DMark out of my digital toolbox. You can max out the game’s settings for 1080p and hit the maximum here as minimum there ( per our review of the RX 480). ![]() Witcher 3 wraps up our game testing nice with 60+ FPS and nice detail settings to boot.
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