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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

[killermonkey]

HAHA yah you must be buying something cheap I've had my PSU for 3 years now and its still running at peak performance. (my previous one was for 4 years and only upgraded due to need maor power!)

[jjmusicnotes]

For the base system I chose, the water cooling was a free upgrade, and after reading many reviews about people receiving DOA computers sporting stock air / ibuypower liquid cooling, I thought I'd cough up a few more dollars to help ensure that my pc stayed alive.

The case also comes with 4 fans in addition to the liquid cooling, so even if it is junk, I think the case will be properly ventilated.

For the wattage / PSU thing, I went to a couple websites where you fill in all of the parts for a computer and it gives you an estimate on wattage usage.  I also did some reading that said that load efficiency was more important than the amount of watts you had (for saving $$ and energy consumption.) 

The dell that I own now has a 350w PSU, and over the 5 years I've owned it, I've never had a problem.

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

Well, 98% of what I do is saved externally, so space was definitely not an issue.  320gb might be small by most standards, but it's plenty of space for games and applications.  

I don't even know what I would do with 1TB of space...does anyone?  Really?

Anyway, thank you very much kinky and KM, positive feedback about parts is always nice to hear!

[Kinky]

I don't even know what I would do with 1TB of space...does anyone?  Really?

ROFL

I have 2.5TB in my PC and 2TB in my file server (the file server is somewhat redundant atm due to my hatred/incompetence with linux) ...and i have like 200GB of space left across all my disks (most of which being on my system disk)

Pointless figures aside if you dont horde whole series of TV shows (50GB of Top Gear, 40GB of Pokemon), movies (260GB of Horror) or games (God knows how many GB) then you just arent going to need it xD

[jjmusicnotes]

man, you crazy! 

[Mangley]

Within a year I used up 350 gigs of my 500 gig HDD.

Really it depends what you do with your computer. Just remember that everything is increasing in size. In a couple of years there'll be nothing unusual about games weighing upwards of 20 gigs each.

[RogerMooreSucks]

I know this is an old thread but i dont give a damn, you all must know about this company "CyberPower." They are one of the biggest pc scammers on the market. They sell shitty parts in their computers, then they automaticlly blame you when the computer breaks 3 days after you recieve it. their customer service is one of the biggest jokes. They will scam you like no one's business. All they care about is money. They have a terrible reputation. Just becuase they have a professional looking site doesnt make them a professional company. That is like judging a book by its cover. Do not ever buy from these criminals. I am saving you from a bad experience. I cant tell you how many bad reviews i have come across from these degenerates. They do not care if you spend 5,000 dollars on a computer from them, they will treat you like dirt. DO NOT BUY FROM THEM!

[killermonkey]

For once I agree with Roger. They are a scam. They were good back in 2005, but now they just sell crap.

[Enzo.Matrix]

a.k.a.   Dell

[soupcan]

Dell is pretty decent as far as prebuilts go, though their Alienware brand sells systems with hardware combinations that simply don't make sense for most people.