2013 Best Top 1 Gaming Pc
Cyberpower Black Pearl
Pros:
Dual GTX 580s, Core i7-980X and other high-end hardware will take your gaming experience to new levels.
Cons:
The only real downside to this system is the slow email response time.
The Verdict : 9.7/10
Video/Audio:10/10
Recently, NVIDIA unleashed the new and improved GTX 580, which is by
far their best graphics card. This card is one of the most powerful on
the market, giving the owner of one a nice smooth ride in any game they
play. CyberPower's Black Pearl gaming PC comes equipped with two of
these amazing cards, which is more than enough graphic processing power
to run any game at max graphic settings and maintain a high frame rate.
Not only will you be able to play the most graphically intense game, but
you’ll also be able to run other software at the same time.
Each card has 1.5GB of GDDR5 video memory, which is more than enough
for any game and is only dwarfed by AMD's flagship, the ATI Radeon HD
5970, which has 2GB. The 1.5GB of memory are clocked at 1848 MHz and
boast a core speed of 772 MHz, which is the fastest on the market.
Aside from excellent performance, the GTX 400 and 500 series graphics
cards both use DirectX 11, which is the newest multimedia and gaming
technology used to enhance the graphics and make games even more
realistic. For a while, ATI cards were the only contenders in that
market, but that is no longer the case. DX 11 focuses on adding more
computing support and as well as rendering tessellation, While
tessellation is not a new thing, its use has been hampered in high-end
gaming by the high processing power necessary to do it well. Since the
DX 11 release, though, that is about to change. DX 11 gives game
developers and players more fluid graphics that result in more
realistic-looking game characters and terrain -- a must when try to
compete in the world of processing gaming graphics.
NVIDIA’s FERMI technology, coupled with power of DX 11, make the GTX
580 card – and the Black Pearl – a top system for rendering complex
graphics. With this added technology and support, you will experience
some seriously intense graphics in every game you play on the CyberPower
PC Black Pearl.
Processor: 9.5/10
Quad-core processors dominate most of the high-end gaming computer
market. However, both Intel and AMD have taken the next step and
developed a six-core, 12-thread chip. The CyberPower PC Black Pearl
utilizes the Intel Core i7 980 Extreme, which is one of the most
powerful CPUs on the market. This processor is clocked at 3.3 GHz but
comes over clocked to 4 GHz. Normally you would have to worry about
heat, but the Asetek 510LC 120mm Liquid Cooling system keeps the
processor at a reasonable temperature.
Memory/Storage: 10/10
Another very important feature that every gaming PC needs is a good set
of RAM. The CyberPower PC Black Pearl has 16GB of Corsair's XMS DDR3,
which has a processing speed of 1600MHz. The motherboard allows for
adding another four sticks if you wish, and it can handle faster clock
speeds as well. That is plenty of RAM power, and this will by no means
be a bottleneck on this rig. If there is a potential bottleneck, it
would probably be the hard drive, which is a regular 7200 1TB HDD.
Thankfully, this is the secondary drive. The primary is an 80GB Intel
SSD. As long as you are using this drive and not the secondary, you
likely won’t run into any problems with slow speeds.Additional Features: 10/10
The motherboard housing all these jaw-dropping pieces of technology
is the MSI X58A-GD45 X58, which should handle just about anything you
can throw at it. The CyberPower PC Black Pearl has two PCI Express 2.0
x16 slots. There is another x16 slot and three plain PCI Express slots.
There is also a PCI slot for anyone still using equipment that requires
one. With about every SATA connection you can think of you should have
no problems with storage interface options. In addition, there is a
FireWire connection and up to 10 USB ports at your disposal.
This gaming computer runs Windows 8, as most other pre-built machines
do. There are two optical drives: a Blu-ray drive and a DVD +/- RW
drive. With high quality hardware like the i7 processor, 16GB of RAM,
NVIDIA graphics cards, optical drives, water cooling and everything
else, you can imagine how much power this gaming computer must need.
Thankfully, there is a 1,000-watt power supply to do the job, and it
does it well. A power supply with this much wattage will have no problem
keeping up to speed with advancing technology.
Support/Warranty: 8.8/10
CyberPower PC offers full information about what is in each of their
gaming computers, but like most other companies, it doesn't go into much
detail about the specs of each piece of hardware. This is common and
isn't really a problem since those details are available from the
respective hardware manufacturers for anyone who needs them.
The CyberPower PC, Black Pearl computer comes with a limited
three-year labor and one-year parts warranty. This is a sufficient
warranty because, although it's only a guideline and not an actual rule,
if any parts are defective, they will typically fail before the
one-year mark. Three years of labor is nice should your system need any
servicing. And after three years, most serious gamers are looking to
upgrade anyway. On the website for this gaming PC manufacturer, you can
find a contact phone number, an email address, FAQs, driver downloads
and just about anything else you could want for additional help and
support. During our review process, we sent an email to CyberPower
regarding information about the product and did not hear back for a few
days. If you need help it is ideal to contact the company through their
live chat or simply browse the user forums or FAQs section.
Summary:
As you can see, this gaming computer is by no means the "$300 super
savings special." Quality gaming computers need high-end hardware and
unmatched computing speeds and this system gives you all the computing
power you could ever want in a gaming machine. With this imaging
machine, you can confidently set sail on the vast ocean of great games,
then pillage and plunder to your heart's desire. With great new games
coming out and advanced DirectX 11 implementations creeping into the
works, all gamers can use a powerhouse like the CyberPower PC Black
Pearl to help them in their epic gaming adventures.
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