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Review: Cyberpower Infinity Achilles GT

by Parm Mann on 23 July 2013, 15:00

Tags: CyberpowerPC

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Test Methodology

Comparison Systems

System Name Chillblast Fusion Stealth Cyberpower Infinity Achilles GT PC Specialist Vanquish R4 Scan 3XS Z77 Node Titan Scan 3XS Z87 Performance GTX
Processor Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.3GHz Intel Core i7-4770K @ 4.6GHz Intel Core i5-4670K @ 4.2GHz Intel Core i7-3770K @ 4.6GHz Intel Core i5-4670K @ 4.4GHz
Cooler Gelid Tranquillo Cyberpower Advanced Water Cooling Kit Corsair Hydro Series H60 Corsair Hydro Series H80i Corsair Hydro Series H60
Motherboard Asus P8Z77-V Gigabyte Z87X-D3H Asus Z87-K Asus P8Z77-I Deluxe Gigabyte Z87-HD3
Memory Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 Kingston Hyper-X Genesis 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3
Memory Speed 10-10-10-27-2T @ 1,600MHz 11-11-11-27-2T @ 2,133MHz 9-9-9-27-1T @ 1,600MHz 9-9-9-24-2T @ 1,600MHz 9-9-9-24-2T @ 1,600MHz
Graphics Card Asus GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU II 2GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB PowerColor Radeon HD 7950 Boost 3GB Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan 6GB MSI GeForce GTX 770 Gaming OC 2GB
Sound Card Onboard audio Onboard audio Onboard audio Onboard audio Asus Xonar DGX
Primary Storage 120GB Intel 330 SSD 250GB Samsung 840 Series SSD 120GB Kingston Hyper-X 3K SSD 250GB Samsung 840 Series SSD 250GB Samsung 840 Series SSD
Secondary Storage 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD
Optical Drive LG Blu-ray Drive Pioneer Blu-ray Writer Lite-On DVD Writer - Samsung SH-2244BB DVD Writer
PSU be quiet! Straight Power E9 CM (680W) Corsair CX750 (750W) FSP Raider RA-650 (650W) Corsair GS600 (600W) Corsair GS600 (600W)
Chassis Fractal Design Define R4 Corsair Vengeance C70 Fractal Design Define R4 Fractal Design Node 304 Corsair Carbide Series 300R Windowed
Operating System Windows 8 (64-bit) Windows 8 (64-bit) Windows 8 (64-bit) Windows 8 (64-bit) Windows 8 (64-bit)
Standard Warranty Two years (collect-and-return) Three years (one-month collect-and-return, two-year parts, three-year labour) Three years (one-year collect-and-return, one-year parts, three-year labour) Three years (first year onsite, second year return-to-base with parts and labour, third year return-to-base with labour only) Three years (first year onsite, second year return-to-base with parts and labour, third year return-to-base with labour only)
Approx. Price £1,200 £1,900 £1,000 £2,000 £1,200

Benchmarks

HEXUS PiFast Our number-crunching PiFast test is used to benchmark the computational power of each system's CPU.
Cinebench Using Cinebench's multi-CPU render, this cross-platform benchmark stresses as many cores as possible.
PCMark 7 PCMark 7 combines various single- and multi-threaded CPU, Graphics and HDD tests to score overall system performance.
Aliens vs. Predator 1,920x1,080 resolution, 2xAA, 16xAF, very high quality.
Just Cause 2 1,920x1,080 resolution, 4xAA, 16x AF, very high quality.
3DMark 11 Run using the 'extreme' preset.
Temperature Noted for CPU idling, under Prime95 all-core load, and for GPU playing Aliens vs. Predator.
Power Consumption Noted for system idling, under Prime95 all-core load, and for GPU playing Aliens vs. Predator.
Noise A PCE-318 noise level meter is placed at the front of the chassis. Noted for system idling, under Prime95 all-core load, and for GPU playing Aliens vs. Predator.