14 DAY TRIAL // With Sandy Bridge on the loose, more and more computer manufacturers are updating their machines to feature Intel's second generation Core architecture, boutique builder CyberPower being the latest to announce that Sandy Bridge made its way into the company's desktops and gaming laptops.
Launched on at the beginning of the year, Sandy Bridge is Intel's latest mainstream CPU architecture and improves the performances of the company's previous Lynnfield and Clarklfield chips while also offering competitive prices.
A key feature of the new CPUs is their integrated graphics that manages to deliver results on part with that of entry-level graphics cards.
This, together with the new Quick Sync video transcoding technology and the Turbo Boost 2.0 technology, makes Sandy Bridge ideal for a vast amount of computing tasks, especially in the notebook sector.
Moving back to CyberPower, the company will offer Intel's Sandy Bridge processor in its Gamer Xtreme and Infinity models and through its custom online configurator.
Among the many models to feature the new processors will be the Gamer Xtreme 1000, 2000, and 5000.
The first of these, the Gamer Xtreme 1000 features Intel's Core i5-2300 processor, an Asus H67 motherboard, Asetek water cooling, 4GB of DDR3 memory, a 1TB hard drive as well as a DVD burner, and starts at $599.
Next in line is the Gamer Xtreme 2000 that includes the same Sandy Bridge i5-2300 with double the memory as well as an AMD Radeon 5770 discrete graphics card and starts at $799.
Finally, the Gamer Xtreme 5000 is built around the unlocked Sandy Bridge i7-2600K processor, features an Asus P67 motherboard and Asetek water cooling, a GTX 570 video card, 4GB of performance memory, 1TB HDD, and a Blu-ray player.
The system starts at $1449 and comes factory overclocked.
In addition to its desktop line, CyberPower's notebooks also received Sandy Bridge CPUs, the CyberPower Xplorer laptop packing a Core i7-2620QM processor, 4GB of DDR3 memory, a 500GB 7200RPM hard disk, and a 1920x1080 Full HD display
Starting at $799, the machine includes support for Intel's Wireless Display (WiDi) technology.
All models can be customized with a number of hard drive and SSDs, optical drives, memory, and other peripheral component options at the company's website.