Hi folks
I'm hoping for some advice as I've been wrestling with pulling the trigger on buying a new gaming pc. I'm not very technical I'm afraid and building my own is not an option.
1/ It's a powerful gaming machine, in many ways in excess of the specs I was told to look for. But the power supply included is only 600w. They've said this is fine and I don't like to question the experts but in the back of my mind is a niggle that "no it's not." I have an option to upgrade it to a 750w, am I being over cautious?
2/ It says windows 10 will only be a "recovery disk". How does this work if something happens and my HD has to be wiped?
3/ I noted with some surprise that it has an integral sound card, (Is that the right term?) I was always told that this was not a good thing. I have the option to upgrade to a proper Sound Blaster card. But out of interest I had a look at the recommended spec for the pc builds at "PC Gamer" magazine and wait.... no sound cards listed! Have things changed since I last looked at this sort of stuff?
4/ I wasn't able to find an independent review of the machine in question and so I asked to be linked to one. they sent me a link to reviews of the company, which in fact I'd already seen and which seem glowing, but not a link for what I actually asked. (BATTLEFIELD 1 SYBER GAMING PC from Cyberpower.) Does anyone here have hands on with this machine?
I hope that these are not stupid questions and many thanks in advance for any advice you can offer. I'm pasting the specs of the machine below, without the changes I was thinking about.
All the best
Badger
Operating System: Windows 10 Home (64-bit Edition) (Recovery Disk)
Case: Syber M ATX Mid-Tower Gaming Case w/ USB 3.0, & Side-Panel Window
CPU: INTEL® Core™ i7-7700K Quad Core 4.20 GHz 8MB Cache LGA1151 + HD Graphics *** Pro OC ***
Freebies: FREE Q2 2017 Intel Enthusiast Gaming Bundle
Overclocking Service: Pro OC (Performance Overclock 10% or more)
Cooling Fan: Cooler Master Seidon 240V High Performance Liquid Cooling system w/ 240mm Radiator (Cooler Master CPU Water Cooling *** Extreme OC ***)
Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO INTEL Z270 Chipset, ATX Mainboard w/ 4 RAM slots, 2 x PCIe 3.0 x16 , 4 x PCIe 3.0 x1, 6 SATA3, 1 x M.2
Memory: 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4/2400mhz Dual Channel Memory (HyperX Fury w/Heat Spreader)
Video Card: MSI GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Video Card VR READY (Single Card)
Power Supply Upgrade: 600 Watts Power Supplies (Cooler Master MasterWatt Lite 600watt Gaming Power Supply)
Hard Drive: 500 GB Samsung 850 EVO SATA III Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Single Drive)
Secondary Hard Drive: 2TB Seagate FireCuda SATA-III 6.0Gb/s Cache 7200RPM SSHD (Single Hard Drive)
Sound: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD AUDIO
I'm hoping for some advice as I've been wrestling with pulling the trigger on buying a new gaming pc. I'm not very technical I'm afraid and building my own is not an option.
1/ It's a powerful gaming machine, in many ways in excess of the specs I was told to look for. But the power supply included is only 600w. They've said this is fine and I don't like to question the experts but in the back of my mind is a niggle that "no it's not." I have an option to upgrade it to a 750w, am I being over cautious?
2/ It says windows 10 will only be a "recovery disk". How does this work if something happens and my HD has to be wiped?
3/ I noted with some surprise that it has an integral sound card, (Is that the right term?) I was always told that this was not a good thing. I have the option to upgrade to a proper Sound Blaster card. But out of interest I had a look at the recommended spec for the pc builds at "PC Gamer" magazine and wait.... no sound cards listed! Have things changed since I last looked at this sort of stuff?
4/ I wasn't able to find an independent review of the machine in question and so I asked to be linked to one. they sent me a link to reviews of the company, which in fact I'd already seen and which seem glowing, but not a link for what I actually asked. (BATTLEFIELD 1 SYBER GAMING PC from Cyberpower.) Does anyone here have hands on with this machine?
I hope that these are not stupid questions and many thanks in advance for any advice you can offer. I'm pasting the specs of the machine below, without the changes I was thinking about.
All the best
Badger
Operating System: Windows 10 Home (64-bit Edition) (Recovery Disk)
Case: Syber M ATX Mid-Tower Gaming Case w/ USB 3.0, & Side-Panel Window
CPU: INTEL® Core™ i7-7700K Quad Core 4.20 GHz 8MB Cache LGA1151 + HD Graphics *** Pro OC ***
Freebies: FREE Q2 2017 Intel Enthusiast Gaming Bundle
Overclocking Service: Pro OC (Performance Overclock 10% or more)
Cooling Fan: Cooler Master Seidon 240V High Performance Liquid Cooling system w/ 240mm Radiator (Cooler Master CPU Water Cooling *** Extreme OC ***)
Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO INTEL Z270 Chipset, ATX Mainboard w/ 4 RAM slots, 2 x PCIe 3.0 x16 , 4 x PCIe 3.0 x1, 6 SATA3, 1 x M.2
Memory: 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4/2400mhz Dual Channel Memory (HyperX Fury w/Heat Spreader)
Video Card: MSI GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Video Card VR READY (Single Card)
Power Supply Upgrade: 600 Watts Power Supplies (Cooler Master MasterWatt Lite 600watt Gaming Power Supply)
Hard Drive: 500 GB Samsung 850 EVO SATA III Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Single Drive)
Secondary Hard Drive: 2TB Seagate FireCuda SATA-III 6.0Gb/s Cache 7200RPM SSHD (Single Hard Drive)
Sound: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD AUDIO
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