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[jjmusicnotes]

Anyone ever heard of / know anything about this computer site?  I've read both good and bad things and am a bit hesitant.

Any thoughts?

[Mangley]

Not heard of them. Their website is professionally designed, I can say that much.

How about Overclockers?

[mbsurfer]

Haven't heard much about Cyberpower before, but I have heard great things from iBuyPower. Friend of mine has bought a gaming desktop and laptop from them with nothing but good things about them.

[major]

There a old company, were in competition with like old original Alienware and such. There a pretty damn good company.

[killermonkey]

Fucking blackberry fucked my extensive reply so here is synopsis:

Fast, Affordable, No gay logos/colors

Bought Cyberpower in 2005 and it pwned hardcore

[major]

Get a iPhone, Monkey.


(waiting for rant back)

[CCsaint10]

Read a lot of reviews from people and they have a huge problem with customer service and faulty parts (recently anyways). That is my opinion (cyberpowerpc) My roommate just bout about 4 weeks ago an ibuypower computer and his was kick ass. Got a 3.2 quad core phenom II, 4gb of ram, 1gb graphics, and kick ass everything for around 750. Super deal and it worked perfectly. Go free water cooling upgrades with it too in that deal. His temps never go above 27 degrees on full load. My next computer will be from ibuypower, just so you know. He convinced me after seeing his and seeing how it fucking destroyed everything he threw at it for such a cheap price.

[jjmusicnotes]

Thank you all very much for taking the time to reply.


I've read hundreds of bad reviews about the site, as well as many good ones.  Of all of the sites I've looked at, they definitely offer the best price.

I'm also thinking about buying all the parts and having it locally built. 

Any advice?

[Mangley]

Well, if it's about saving money, the best thing you can do is order the parts and build it yourself. All you need is a basic understanding of electronics, some common sense and careful hands. There's plenty of info out there on how to build computers if you're interested.

[major]

The hardest part of building a pc is picking the parts. So if you do chose parts, post them here and we'll take a look.

[Wake[of]theBunT]

Yeah and he says that because if you dont buy technologically compatible parts, the parts become useless to each other. Just to be clear. This isnt saying "ATI or nvidia"/"intel or amd" This is saying WITHIN those categories still exists stock limitations.

Posting every single part would be advised I once bought incompatible ram and its still sitting in my comp drawer...And I am pretty knowledgable so its a mistake moderately awesome folks can make

[jjmusicnotes]

haha, well thank you all very much for the advice and the help.

I know it's a bit of a jump but...I already purchased my rig.  I've been researching components for the last several weeks, and I believe everything checks out.  I decided to take the plunge with Ibuypower....so I'll definitely post some updates about my experiences with them.

So, after lots and lots and lots of price / product / performance / compatibility comparison, here are the specs of my new rig:

Case          NZXT Lexa-S Mid Tower Gaming Case - Black w/ Blue Light

Processor  AMD Phenom™ II X6 1055T Black Edition Six-Core CPU

Processor  Cooling Asetek 550LC Liquid CPU Cooling System w/ 120mm 
               Radiator (AMD)

Memory     4 GB DDR3-1333 Memory Module - Corsair XMS3
               Dominator w/DHX technology

Video Card   XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770 - 1GB - Single Card

Motherboard   Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P -- AMD 770 Chipset w/8-ch HD   
                    Audio, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, 1 PCI-E MB

Power Supply  650 Watt -- Casegears ECO-Element 80 Plus Certificated 
                    High Efficiency Power Supply - SLI Ready

Primary Hard Drive   320 GB HARD DRIVE -- 16M Cache, 7200 RPM,
                                3.0Gb/s - Single Drive

Optical Drive   24X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW

Sound Card           3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard

Operating System    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit



The cpu was a $10 upgrade over the x4 965 so figured...why not.   My goal of this build was not only to catch me up to current technology, but also make it so that I would be secure with my system for another 5+ years (since it's been 5 years since I last got something.)

The prospect of a new computer is very exciting, but the part where you have to spend money really sucks, even though I got a good deal I think.

It's been amazing learning about all of this new computer technology...I had no idea this stuff was going on.  Major was definitely right, picking the parts was definitely the hardest thing to do until I understood how the technology worked.

[Kinky]

First off. Water cooling = waste of money

Unless you plan to overclock of course, in which case id be recommending you go with an Intel i5 or i7 chip. But from your reluctance to build your own PC im guessing (and hoping) youre not looking to overclock.

Youre going to want a beefier PSU than that. With a lot of use PSUs can lose 100W per year from wear. As soon as your W rating drops below your requirements your PC wont boot and youll need a new PSU... which are expensive. Better to shell out now. For example i run 800W ....my last one lasted me 3 months, and before that 6 months.

Other than that its a solid system. Although i hope you have ALOT more HDDs for data

*P.S. Buy a lightscribe DVD writer ...usually only a £2 upgrade that you might want one day

[killermonkey]

With a lot of use PSUs can lose 100W per year from wear

I have never heard of that, PSU's are solid state technology (no moving parts) and trust me that giant iron core in the transformer is not dwindling down in a year. Now if you buy a CHEAP 600W PSU the wiring may start to go on it, but no other parts should crap out. Don't spread fear!

Anyway, nice buy jjmusic, although that 320 GB hard drive is going to fill up FAST.

[Kinky]

Its the capacitors And theres some big ones in there...

Mine blow all the time. Maybe i just buy cheap PSUs. Whatever, thats what warranty is for xD