ATI's
Radeon HD 5870 GPU has already taken its rightful place within a few of Alienware's
newest desktops, but as with most every major GPU launch, a few of the smaller guys are also taking the opportunity to offer gamers the option to pick one up inside of a new rig.
Maingear's Ephex, F131, Prelude, and Dash can all be ordered up right now with the staggeringly potent graphics card, and if none of those suit your fancy,
CyberPower would be more than happy to have your business. In fact, it has squeezed the DirectX 11-friendly GPU into the Gamer Xtreme 4200 (starts at $999), Gamer Xtreme 5200 (starts at $1,393) and the AMD-based Gamer Dragon 9500 (starting at $927). Still on the hunt? iBuyPower has an eerily similar trio, though their lineup starts at just $819. Hit the read links below if you feel like putting together a system for kicks, but don't blame us when the order button presses itself.
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posted Sep 23rd 2009 5:24PM
You might not get what you paid for in cyberpc, my friend used to work their repair devision, he told me many pc they sold are using used or refurbished part that is why price is low compare to other brand like alienware for similar specs. Cyberpowrepc pay their works like minimum wage almost like a slave. Their boss is some greedy hk. Yes my friend got fire there fore he told all soft of nasty stuff of not to buy stuff from them.
Meh, all these retailers are overpriced anyway. What hardcore gamers out there actually buy a manufactured gaming rig rather than building their own?
FWIW, maybe not all hardcore games = hardcore techies. That would be like insinuating that all professional race drivers should also be ASE certified master mechanics.
Bought one gaming Cyberpower PC, almost all the parts in it are cheap ass ones.
DVD drive failed less than one year, power supply was loud and crapped out in less than 6 months... bluuhhh...
Lesson learned - Don't be a lazy ass, build your own computer.
@slyd3z
While I agree that not all gamers are techies, I think the modern world of gaming machines is much different when I first set out to build my own.
All the bits and pieces fit together and work quite nicely with very little technical know-how. I think the things the build-your-own misses out on is on-going support and that edgy case design. That being said none of those cases look that much different than my Antec 900, so how much is support worth?!?
Honestly, I didn't know much when I put my computer together. But the parts fit together almost like Legos and it turned on on the first try.
Don’t buy from CyberPower, I bought from them a few years back because they were offering 3 years of in home service for really cheap. I was never able to get in home service apparently they canceled that division so no one could use it even if they paid for it. Also their computer shipped with a BSOD, I had to reinstall the OS the same day I received the computer. It has never worked properly and has had tons of problems. I wouldn’t doubt if they did use refurbished parts, they are a horrible company to purchase your computer from. Just build it yourself if you are looking for something cheap.
Engadget is misleading.
iBuyPower 5870 PC starts at $1449, NOT $819.
$819 only gets you 5850.
At least write ADs properly! Thank you!
Looks like a great gaming machine.
Im just not into having that much lighting on my computer. I dont know why thats become so universal for any gaming related computer. its a shame. I look for the business models instead of the gaming ones because I just dont identify with my computer looking like its from the future when its not.
It's just stupid geek porn. Your primary focus should be on the task at hand. Gaming, writing, editing, whatever. Not your case. If you have to look at your case for readouts all the time, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. I know people who spend more time tweaking their games than actually playing the things.
I ended up going with this case.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119068
It was inexpensive and the reviews where good enough. I'd kill for a case with the power buttons on the top now that I've had back surgery though.
The new awesom 5870! You can always rely on ATI to keep things a confusing mess of numbers. Nvidia, although by no means great in the naming regard, is at least giving a LITTLE bit of a try with the 200 series.
What's so hard to understand... 5870>4870>3870. NVidia is the one with the confusing naming, such as the 9800 and 250. Same GPU, different names. Then there's the mobile GPUs too.
Nvidia is moving towards easier naming. Right now it's a transition, but eventually, it will be cleaned up moreso than ATI's offerings.
More so than ATi? Sorry but what's not to get about ATis naming? Larger number=faster card
@SharpShooter
Why are they all 870 and why is this one "HD?"
They've all been "HD" since the 2XXX days. The higher end cards of the same line have higher hundreds digits. Within those groups there's some granularity which is where the 10's digit comes in. So it's still the higher number the better. Still not that confusing.
@ Grammar Police
They're all HD XXXX. That's ATI's "thing"
grammar police obviously didn't have any math lessons in grammar school. oh shit, 4 digits! my brain can't handle it!
here's a clue:
1st digit = generation. higher numbers on the last 3 digits = faster. 890 > 870 > 850 > 670 > 650 etc.
at least each product with a different name is a different product. not like a 9600GSO = 8800GS = G130. or 8800GT = 9800GT = GTS240. 8800GTS = 9800GTX. yeah, much easier to understand.
Yeah, I've always been pretty clueless on nvidia naming conventions. Now that I think about it, that's actually probably played a decent role in me not buying nvidia cards. It always seemed like a lot of extra work to figure out what GT, GTX, GTS, all meant. Willyolio just said "8800GTS = 9800GTX". I don't even know if that's true or not, and it sounds like it should be a joke. If that actually is true, then god damn... wtf are they thinking?
I'll just stick with bigger number = better. ATI is cost effective for me, and the games are maxed out settings with high frame rate, so what do I care about anything else.
@willy
Grammar doesn't include mathematics you jackass.
@GRAMMAR POLICE
Obviously
so excited i peed a little
This has no affect on me since I do not plan on building or purchasing a new gaming pc till 2011. Next system always has to be at least 10/25 times more powerful than the last one. I built a high end back in 2006.
This is how I roll.
you dont upgrade? I find it better to upgrade when the new parts become cheap enough. like im running 4 gigs of ddr3 that i got for 115 and ill get 4 more gigs when i can get the same ram for 60 or 70 bucks. I have a SLI board so i got a GTX 260 core 216 and ill get a second to put in SLI when they come down to 150 or so. This means i can have a high to mid range system without paying the extra 200 to 300 for the "best of the best". the other nice thing is i can use older cards like the 9800 gt as a phyx card.
"This is how I roll."
You're awesome.
I have a Mac Pro with 16GB of ram, two 1Gb Nvidia GT 285 vid cards, 4 terabytes of disk and two 30 inch monitors. Sure it cost eleventy million dollars but thats how "I" roll. Dude.
congratulations. i can build a lower mid range computer now and blow yours out of the water.
moral of this story, stay middle of the line and upgrade over the years.
Terry, congrats on your average computer. ATI new 5870 can be 70 percent faster than your one GTX 285. Two of these 5870 will be much, much faster than your overpriced GTX 285.
MMMM...giant thighs
I'll street fight her anyday.
The LCD on the HAF case looks pretty sick.
I ordered a Cyberpower Gamer Xplorer X7-8800 Notebook last week, please people don't say Cyberpower are bad :(
Damn why is it when I decide to buy a new laptop something better comes out the next few weeks ie I brought a laptop with the fastest Pentium M processor only for the coreduo to come out the next week and I spend 2 weeks looking for a powerful 15 inch laptop deciding that a 17inch laptop is a better option then the bloody Alienware M15x comes out a week later :(
Just open the case and make sure everything is connected right before turning it on just to be safe.
I wouldn't worry MrMagoo. Over the past four years I have bought for either myself or family; 1 desktop and 7 laptops from Cyberpower. All have worked flawlessly(almost). The desktop I have upgraded the two hard drives it originally had(no problems with them though). Out of the 7 laptops, only 1 hard drive failed(Toshiba piece of crap, my fault on not seeing that one). Otherwise their support is IMO un-matched.
CyberPower marketing line:
Gamer Dragon 8000: Its so baad, your loincloth will defy gravity.
No chrome, no flames, no buy.
when i first read this, i thought it is an ads.
Then i read it again, then i know it is an ads.
shame Engadget!
The entire issue is that most buyers do not buy the expensive Thermaltake or Coolermaster fans/power supplies - which are given as options in the Cyberpower/iBuypower configurations. They do not see the point of buying a 100$ power supply and would rather use it to upgrade their CPU/RAM.
This is what causes all these problems - go for a good power supply and extra fans in your configuration and I dont see why these guys would be a problem.
They charge extra for clean wiring though - which you should get.