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747ken · May 20, 2015

I want to buy my nephew a gaming rig. I saw this Cyberpower pc at Costco.
Seems like it's loaded with high end components. Price $2k.

I don't know anything about gaming. Any comments? How's the quality and reliability of
Cyberpower pcs? Does this rig offer a lot of bang for the buck?

http://www.costco.com/.product.100172430.html?cm_sp=RichRelevance-_-categorypageHorizontalTop-_-PersonalizedClickCPInCategory&cm_vc=categorypageHorizontalTop|PersonalizedClickCPInCategory

bootcher · May 20, 2015

It is a powerful workstation, but not really a gaming rig in my book.
- For gaming current i5 cpu's perform very well, the small difference with an i7 does not justify the price difference.
- For gaming 8gb of ram is more than enough.
- A GTX 960 is an entry/mid level GPU, nowhere near being a high-end GPU for gaming.
- A $1000 pc with the right components will outperform this pc in gaming with ease.

vagrantsoul · May 20, 2015

here's an overkill build for less than the 2k... can remove the dual video cards and go with a gtx 970 or something else if preferred...

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/7NYVXL

PC's are rather simple to build anymore, actually helps you appreciate them more and know how to fix them when you do it yourself... there are a ton of great resources to help where teh documentation fails.

I'm tossing together a simpler build that would be akin to what boothcer said above:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/K2j3XL (this is still overkill honestly)

cptdread · May 20, 2015

You are paying for 64GB of Ram and a high end CPU. For a gaming rig, this will not work very well with the graphics card Nvidia GTX 960. Here is a link for a better system for gaming by the same manufacturer and for $600 less.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883229614&cm_re=cyberpower_computer-_-83-229-614-_-Product

fcabanski · Jun 23, 2015

I nearly fell out of my chair laughing at that PC. It was like watching the old Home Shopping Network when some grandmother would buy a PC for her grandson.

Gramma "Oh I'm so glad you have this for sale. It's my grand son's birthday. He'll be so happy when he opens this present. He loves to play the video games."

Salesman "The on board discreet graphics will be perfect for video games. And at $2000, or 10 installments of $225, you can't beat the price to performance. It even has a CD drive, so he can play discs like an encyclopedia."

Gramma "I didn't even think of that. He can do his homework on this!!!"

That system is overpriced for what it is, and it's mis-configured for a gaming PC.

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