14 DAY TRIAL // CyberPower has just announced that the company's gaming desktop and workstations can now be configured with motherboards based on the Intel Z68 chipset which feature Intel’s Smart Response technology and Lucid’s Virtu GPU virtualization software.
The Z68 chipset comes as a hybrid between the P67 and the H67 platform controller hubs (PCHs) and was designed to allow overclocking Sandy Bridge CPUs while using the integrated graphics.
In addition, the chipset also brings two new features to the table, namely support for Intel's Smart Response technology, which enables users to speed up their systems by using a low capacity SSD as a cache memory for the HDD, and support for the Lucid Virtu driver.
This driver can automatically switch between the integrated Sandy Bridge graphics core and a dedicated GPU, which enables users to speed up the video transcoding process by using the Intel Quick Sync media engine.
Moving back to CyberPower, the company now offers Intel Z68 motherboards for all of its second-generation Intel Core gaming systems as well as through the online PC configurator available for users who want to build their own desktop.
In addition, this new chipset will also debut in CyberPower’s upcoming line of high-performance graphics workstations, the Power Mega series.
The starting price for a CyberPower Z68-based gaming system with a Sandy Bridge CPU is $699, and for this much money users will get a Core i3-2100 CPU paired together with 4GB of RAM and an Nvidia GTX 550 Ti graphics card.
The soon-to-be-released Power Mega workstation series will have a starting price of $1199.
All CyberPower systems based on the Z68 motherboard and chipset can be easily customized with a number of hard drive and/or SSD, optical drive, memory, and other peripheral component options at the company website.