14 DAY TRIAL // Even though AMD is just about ready to punch through the gaming market with its Thuban six-core Phenom II X6 series of CPUs, Intel's processors (especially the still most powerful six-core Gulftown), with their HyperThreadign and Turbo Boost technologies, are getting adopted, again and again, by suppliers of gaming machines. In this case, CyberPower has taken in three of them and has tasked them with powering its three newest gaming desktops from the Gamer Xtreme Series.
The most competent of the trio is known as the Gamer Xtreme 1065LQ and, predictably, it is based on Intel's own hexacore, the Core i7-980X EE. For ultimate benchmarking scores and overclocking, this 3.33GHz chip is backed up by an impressive 12GB of RAM and a GeForce GTX 480 adapter, which is NVIDIA's newly introduced DirectX 11 adapter and the most powerful single-GPU card to date. In addition, the desktop comes with a 2TB HDD, a 24x DVD burner, a 4x Blu-ray writer, liquid cooling and a 950W PSU.
The second offering, known as the Gamer Xtreme 1069LQ, is powered by the 3.33GHz quad-core Core i7-975 EE, has the same amount of memory as its sibling (12GB) and a GTX 470 for graphics. Storage is provided by a 30GB SSD (for the OS) and a 1TB HDD, whereas optical storage and Full-HD playback is enabled by an 8x Blu-ray combo drive. This PC has a PSU of 800W.
The last in the series, known as the Gamer Xtreme 1064, is the least impressive of the three, but has specs that still smash through most mainstream and many high-end configurations. With a 2.80GHz Core i7-930 chip at its core, the gaming computer has 6GB of RAM, a 24x DVD burner, a GeForce GTS 250 1GB graphics card, a 500GB HDD and a 700W PSU.
The Gamer Xtreme 1064, Gamer Xtreme 1069LQ, and Gamer Xtreme 1065LQ have starting prices of $1,019.9, $2,099 and $3,099.99, respectively, and come pre-loaded with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. They are already available and are accompanied by a three-year warranty.