Cyberpower Gamer Infinity Ultimate :An excellent gaming machine at a remarkable price!

IF YOU’RE LOOKING to upgrade your computer to a machine that muscles through gaming with ease,Cyberpower’s Gamer Infinity Ultimate will serve you well—at an all-inclusive price that most high-end vendors would charge for the CPU tower alone.

IF YOU’RE LOOKING to upgrade your computer to a machine that muscles through gaming with ease, Cyberpower’s Gamer Infinity Ultimate will serve you well—at an all-inclusive price that most high-end vendors would charge for the CPU tower alone. Our $3,999 review unit came with a 20-inch ViewSonic LCD monitor, a Saitek Eclipse II illuminated keyboard, a Razer Diamondback Plasma Blue gaming mouse, and Creative Labs’ Inspire P7800 speakers. Its heart was Intel’s new Core 2 Extreme QX6800 quadcore processor, overclocked to 3.6GHz.
Is it fast? It’s almost as fast as other QX6700- based (2.66GHz) PCs we’ve tested. The only reason for the “almost”
is nVidia’s shaky Vista drivers for the dual Ge- Force 8800 GTX graphics cards in Scalable Link Interface (SLI) configuration.

On our Futuremark 3DMark06 test, the Infinity Ultimate scored 14,736—nearly 1,000 points below the nearidentical
Windows XP-equipped ABS Ultimate X-Striker Extreme we reviewed last month, a kink that should be worked out by the time you read this. Don’t write off the Infinity Ultimate as sluggish, however. Running the game Supreme Commander in benchmarking mode garnered the PC an above-par SupComMark score of16,303 at a resolution of 1,280×1,024. More important, it scored an average of 39.2 frames per second (fps)—exceptional, considering
the fast-paced, simultaneous action occurring in this real-time-strategy game.The Infinity Ultimate’s pièce de résistance might well be its Cooler Master Stacker 830 Evolution case. External connections (four USB ports, a FireWire port, plus mic and headphone jacks), along with the power and reset buttons, are at the top, rather than somewhere in the middle or bottom of the box. You also get six USB ports, a FireWire port, and eight-channel
audio at the back of the eVGA nForce 680i SLI motherboard. Because of everything Cyberpower has stuck in the box, the case has only two external 5.25-inch bays left available for expansion, plus one PCI slot on the motherboard. The case is equipped with six fans and a Monsoon II CPU cooler with a front-mounted control panel, but it’s surprisingly quiet—no noisier than most dualfan systems we’ve heard. This desktop has legs enough to last—and once nVidia
straightens out its Vista-driver issues, you’ll need a crowbar to pry the grin off your face.

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