Benchmarks: Noise
When the CyberPower system is idle - i.e. powered on but doing nothing - it's clearly audible and can be a bit of a distraction. We're fast becoming advocates of quiet computing, and if we weren't gaming at high volume - or better still wearing headphones - we wouldn't want to live with the Infinity Xtreme XT on a day-to-day basis.
Apply maximum load to the CPU and system noise levels don't rise dramatically, but it's still the loudest PC in the line up.
It matters not what you do with the Infinity Xtreme XT - whether it's idle, performing CPU-intensive tasks or running the latest games, the system is always clearly audible.
And there's a reason why. The default Gigabyte motherboard offers fan-speed control for only three fan headers - to which the CPU pump and two 120mm radiator fans are connected. CyberPower opts not to enable any fan-speed profile, so the two radiator fans and the three chassis fans are all running flat out. Switching the radiator fans to a silent profile does lower noise levels a touch, but the biggest change is heard when the front 200mm fan is turned off.
The out-the-box configuration favours performance over low-noise operation, but the chassis is flexible enough for excess fans to be easily disabled.
