14 DAY TRIAL // CyberPower is getting ready for next week, when Advanced Micro Devices will finally formally launch the Radeon R9 290X graphics card. It has, in fact, begun to accept orders for the video board already.
Or rather, it has begun to accept pre-orders for top-of-the-line gaming systems powered by the best CPUs and GPUs on the market.
True, whether or not the Radeon R9 290X really is as good as or better than NVIDIA's GeForce Titan is still a toss-up, but that's not really relevant right now.
After all, the AMD board is only now debuting, marking the first market availability of the Hawaii GPU.
So, naturally, CyberPower is doing what its rivals, like Maingear, are doing: updating their product lineup.
Just as important, though, is that the new gaming systems will sell in a bundle with the Battlefield 4 shooter.
Battlefield 4 is the first game that can use AMD's Mantle instead of DirectX, leading to much better performance.
The Battlefield 4 bundle systems combine the assets of a “blazing fast R9 290X video card” with those of the AMD 8-core FX-8350, 9370, or 9590 CPUs.
The computers should easily manage games at a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels (4K UHD), since the required 4X processing power is more than available. The R9 290X alone has 4GB GDDR5 VRAM, and the CyberPower PCs can be customized to lots of DDR3 RAM and overclocked CPUs, kept cool by Advance Hydro liquid cooling. SSDs will help speed too.
The CyberPower Battlefield 4 bundle page is where you have to go if you want to check out the offers and make an order. You'll need at least $2,169 / €1,602 though, and depending on whether or not you want more than one AMD Radeon R9 290X, you might end up at twice that price or higher.