Yoyotech Warbird RS1 review

If you want to add more storage, there’s plenty of scope to do so, with four of the Asus Z87-K motherboard’s six SATA3 ports still vacant. There are also two unused memory slots. You’ll want to fit fast RAM when you upgrade, though, as the two 4GB modules currently fitted run at 2,133MHz. As far as expansion slots go, the Z87-K has more PCI slots than you’d expect or need these days. All three are vacant and accessible. There are also two PCI-E x1 slots, although one of these is blocked by the graphics card. The other is squeezed between the CPU cooler above and the graphics card below, but you shouldn’t have too much difficulty fitting most expansion cards. Finally, there are two PCI-E x16 slots, one of which holds the graphics card, while the other is vacant. Note that the latter actually runs at x4.

As you’d expect from a high-end PC, there’s a USB3 port on the Warbird RS1’s front panel. This connected to a USB3 header on the motherboard. Also on the front panel is a standard USB port and 3.5mm analogue microphone and headphone connections. At the back of the system you’ll find another two USB3 ports, which is fewer than we’d like, four more USB ports, a Gigabit Ethernet port and three 3.5mm analogue audio inputs that provide up to 5.1 surround sound.

The Warbird RS1 compares well with recent high-powered Haswell-based systems such as the Chillblast Fusion Kestrel and Vibox Black Legion, but we’d prefer a separate SSD and mechanical hard drive. Even so, the Warbird RS1 PC is still an excellent gaming PC.