Gaming:
Left 4 Dead:
Left 4 Dead is a co-operative, survival horror, first-person shooter video game. It was developed by Turtle Rock Studios, which was purchased by the Valve Corporation part-way into development. The game uses the Source engine, and is available for Windows and the Xbox 360.
The game pits four Survivors of an apocalyptic pandemic against hordes of aggressive infected. There are three game modes: a single player mode in which allied characters are controlled by AI; a four-player, co-op Campaign mode; and an eight-player Versus mode. In all modes, an AI, dubbed “The Director”, controls level pacing and item spawns, in an attempt to create a dynamic experience and increase replay value.
Left 4 Dead was tested with the highest render settings.
Crysis Warhead:
Crysis Warhead updates and refines the game play of the original game through a side story plot involving Psycho, one of previous protagonist Nomad’s allies. The game is a parallel story that follows Sergeant Michael “Psycho” Sykes,a character from the original Crysis, as he faces his own trials and challenges on the other side of the island during the time period of the first game. It features new fully customizable weapons, vehicles and enemies, along with new multi player content. It also showcases a new, enhanced and optimized version of CryEngine 2 and is the first game developed by Crytek’s Budapest studio. Crysis Warhead seems to be the most demanding game out on the market to date.
Crysis Warhead was tested with the highest render settings.
Far Cry 2:
Ubisoft has marketed Far Cry 2 as the true sequel to Far Cry, though the sequel has very few noticeable similarities to the original game. Instead, it features completely new characters and setting, as well as a new style of game play that allows the player greater freedom to explore different African landscapes such as deserts, jungles, and savannas. The game takes place in a fictional modern-day Central African nation in a state of anarchy and civil war. The player takes control of a mercenary on a lengthy journey to locate and assassinate “The Jackal,” a notorious arms dealer. The game play of Far Cry 2 more closely resembles that of Grand Theft Auto rather than that of the original Far Cry.
Far Cry 2 was tested with the highest render settings.
These are all excellent scores that cannot be laughed at. In Left 4 Dead, the absolute highest settings available for 1920×1200 still comes out to ~80FPS, which is rediculous in my book. A game is determined playable if it runs ~30FPS or greater, and we saw some great results out of this card. CyberPowerPC chose an excellent video card for this build.
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I literally priced out the parts IN the review….page 2. The parts came to $1944.93 from Newegg.com, without the cyberpower t-shirt and accessory bag. Add in the fact that cyberpower saved us the time of building the rig, installing an OS, AND overclocking…I think this is a pretty sweet deal.
As for combinations going, yes you can do whatever combinations you want, and I probably would have put an 850W power supply in the Gamer Xtreme Si myself. When you pick out parts to build a rig, you generally pick them out on the same performance and price brackets – you don’t want to put rims on a Jalopy. If I were to build a Core i7 rig, this is EXACTLY the parts I would have used, except I would have used a WD or Seagate HDD, and a bigger PSU.
Although quite a bit of hassle can be taken out of the equation by buying a rig pre-built, it is still far more cost effective as well as smart to buy one’s own parts and put them together. Many different combinations of not only Hardware capabilities, but also visual and Aesthetic looks can be put together in any shape imaginable, and learning the neccesary things isn’t all of that difficult. One with dedication and saying that they do work hard enough for the money for one of these high end rigs, would have no trouble looking up the neccesary knowhow in order to build one from scratch, plus the money saved can go to buying better parts for the same price as something of this sort prebuilt. Match up the parts on Bestbuy.com Newegg.com or even Ebay.com and then come back and see how much you’ve saved, I can almost gaurantee it will always be in the hundreds, and the higher end it is, the higher the savings. A google search will give you a very good fundamental guide to the process.
Bob,
Here’s the response you were looking for from CyberPowerPC:
“We’ve been swamped with the Windows 7
upgrade for the past 24 hours and have not had a chance to update the
configurator for the Gamer Xtreme SI.
We will be working on getting this updated as soon as possible. Thanks for
the heads up.”
Bob,
This is strange. I’ll contact CyberPowerPC and return with a statement on the matter.
That’s strange, I go to their website, and bring up the Gamer Xtreme-SI and it’s $1699
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/Gamer_Xtreme_SI
The Default PSU is 680 Watts Power Supplies (SLI/CrossFire Ready Power Supply). I don’t even see the Corsair 650W available so I’ll just add the 750W version which is +$71
Overclocking isn’t included in that price either. +$90
The default motherboard is the UD3R and not the UD4P +$69
Then the memory isn’t Corsair Dominator by default another +$36
Then finally the Blu-Ray player by default is Lite-On and not the LG another +$13
That brings the acutally price for the system you reviewed to $1978.00.
So that’s still a good price seeing how it’s already put together but that’s along way from the $1699 price from the system you reviewed.
I’m a little worried that they advertise the system here like that for $1699 but you go to their site and it’s about $250 more to get that system. I’m hoping they will fix the pricing soon?
haha midnight madness….no pun intended right?
Awesome Machine. .. Now I have to start saving for one of these myself. Gotta say the case and wiring job did it for me. Black on Black, I would name mine MIDNIGHT MADNESS!