Our review unit also gets 16GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 along with a 60GB Intel 520 series SSD that SSD is no longer available on the CyberPowerPC, having unfortunately been replaced by a 64GB SanDisk SSD based on a slower Marvell controller. We want to look at what's changed in the interim.įirst, the bottom rung Intel Core i7-3610QM has seen a mild refresh in the form of the i7-3630QM the 3630QM is essentially identical, but with a 100MHz bump on the nominal and turbo clocks to 2.4GHz standard and 3.4GHz turbo on one or two cores. Both enjoy the same perks (backlit keyboard, healthy port configuration, reasonably low heat and noise), and even the same integrated Killer Networks wired ethernet. Mic, headphone, line-in, and line-out jacksġ-year limited and lifetime phone supportįundamentally, the Valkyrie CZ-17 and FangBook are hanging out in the same neighborhood. Killer Networks e2200 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Western Digital Scorpio Black 750GB 7200-RPM SATA 3Gbps HDD (960 CUDA cores, 666MHz/3.6GHz core/memory clocks, 256-bit memory bus) While we've heavily modified our benchmarking suite for 2013, I do have figures for the GTX 580M/GTX 675M to compare against the shinier, newer GTX 675MX. The iBuyPower Valkyrie enjoyed a GeForce GTX 675M, which was essentially a rebranded GeForce GTX 580M (itself a cut-down desktop GF114). Internally, though, we get to check out the last respin of the entry-level Ivy Bridge quad core, the Core i7-3630QM, but perhaps more importantly we get to play with a Kepler-based GeForce GTX 675MX. We keep the great-feeling-but-poorly-laid-out keyboard from the original MSI design, along with the weight and slightly goofy touch controls. On the other hand, though, we do get a chance to check out some new hardware, and that's the really interesting part. The key distinctions in terms of the shell are CyberPowerPC's lid and interior coloring, but beyond those there isn't a whole lot of different action to check out there. So if a lot of this review looks familiar, that's going to be a large part of it, and in fact I'm going to eschew going over the design again in detail. But that was last year, August, and CyberPowerPC has put their own spin on this chassis. If it looks familiar, we've tested a nigh identical chassis before from iBuyPower, in the form of their Valkyrie. The resurgence of popularity in PC gaming only adds fuel to that divergence, as branding becomes ever more important, and that's what brings us to the customized MSI GT70 we have on hand today in the form of what CyberPowerPC calls their FangBook. They've been doing perfectly fine, but remember that the past two years have seen a lot of divergence by boutiques as they all begin to carve out more distinct niches. It's been a little while since we've had any blood in from CyberPowerPC and I'm pretty happy to have them back around town.
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