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CyberPower Infinity i5 Silent Edition review

Our Rating :
Price when reviewed : £900
inc VAT

The very first Sandy Bridge PC we've seen has already set a new standard to meet in terms of both power and construction.

Specifications

4.5GHz Intel Core i5-2500K, 4GB RAM, 22in 1,920×1,080 display, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk

Following Intel’s announcement of a flaw in the SATA ports of its Sandy Bridge chipset, we’d recommend holding off buying any such PC until the issue is resolved

CyberPower’s heavily overclocked Infinity i5 Silent Edition is the first PC we’ve reviewed that uses one of Intel’s new Sandy Bridge Core i5 processors and the LGA1155 socket. Like the last couple of Intel core releases, this combination is expected to prompt a major shake-up among system builders.

The Infinity’s performance was everything we’d hoped for. It clocked up the highest Overall score we’ve ever seen, a whopping 219. Its video encoding test score of 246 was also staggeringly high. Essentially, in terms of performance the Infinity i5 Silent Edition jumps up and down on top of every other PC we’ve ever reviewed. Now we’ve established that we’re dealing with a stunning piece of hardware, let’s take a look at what the rest of the system has to offer. After all, even a powerful overclocked processor has only limited uses without other high-end hardware to support it.

CyberPower Infinity i5 Silent Edition

Fortunately, CyberPower hasn’t skimped here, either. The PC comes equipped with a 1GB Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 graphics card, which produced some very credible frame rates in our gaming tests. We got 64fps in the aging Call of Duty 4, while our more graphically intensive tests produced rates of 29.7fps in Crysis and 28.2fps in our new STALKER sun shafts tests. This is by no means the best gaming graphics card around, but it should certainly be able to handle all the latest titles with little or no reduction of quality.

CyberPower Infinity i5 Silent Edition inside case

There’s not much else in the PC – just a 1TB hard disk, DVD-RW drive and 4GB of DDR3 memory with a maximum speed of 1600MHz. You can install up to 32GB of memory, although anything above 8GB is overkill and the current 4GB should be more than adequate for most tasks.

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Basic Specifications

Rating *****
Processor Intel Core i5-2500K
Processor external bus 100MHz (20Gbit/s DMI)
Processor multiplier x45
Processor clock speed 4.5GHz
Processor socket LGA1155
Memory 4
Memory type PC3-12800
Maximum memory 32GB
Motherboard MSI P67A-C45
Motherboard chipset Intel P67

Ports

USB2 ports (front/rear) 2/10
Firewire ports (front/rear) 1/1
eSATA ports (front/rear) 0/0
Wired network ports 1x 10/100/1000
Wireless networking support none

Internal Expansion

Case midi tower
PCI-E x1 slots (free) 2 (1)
PCI-E x16 slots (free) 1 (0)
Free Serial ATA ports 4
Free memory slots 2
Free 3.5in drive bays 6

Hard Disk

Hard disk model(s) Samsung HD103SJ
Interface SATA II
Total storage capacity 1,000GB

Graphics

Graphics card(s) 1GB Nvidia GeForce GTS 450
Graphics/video ports 2x DVI

Sound

Sound Realtek HD Audio
Sound outputs 7.1 line out, coaxial S/PDIF, optical S/PDIF
Speakers none

Removable Drives

Supported memory cards none
Optical drive type(s) DVD+/-RW +/-DL

Display

Viewable size 22 in
Screen model LG Flatron E2240
Native resolution 1,920×1,080
Screen inputs VGA

Other Hardware

Keyboard Logitech Deluxe 250 Keyboard
Mouse Logitech B110

Software

Software included none
Operating system Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Operating system restore option Windows disc

Buying Information

Warranty three years RTB
Price £900
Supplier http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk
Details www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk

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