CyberPowerPC - Unleash The Power

I based this on the Zeus Thunder range:



£2570 inc VAT

Best balance of performance and value includes:
Ivy-Bridge 3570K XXX OC (up to 4.8GHz)
GTX570 1.2GB SLi
256GB Crucial M4 SSD + 2TB HDD
ASUS 27" 3D Screen
Roccat Valo & Kone Keyboard and Mouse.

For BF3 in some ways you'd be better with a single 680 as you won't have SLI issues like stuttering and potentially higher minimum frame rates.

With £2K for a base unit getting an SSD is advisable and I've included one of the best.

To avoid hiking the price too much I've gone with the Non Hyper-Threaded 3570K as some people have improved BF3 performance by disabling Hyper Threading so why pay for a feature you wont need and may cause performance issues.



Edited by Cyber_Tech - 03/May/2012 at 10:25

awesome pc :)

stick some fast ram in it while its cheap

Thats a big monitor lol, if you wanted to scale down the price a little i would start there. (but of course you don't lol )

Single big cards are always better than smaller SLI cards in my experience, be aware 3d lowers FPS performance but i have no experience in 3d gaming

Ordered - went for this in the end. Single card but to be honest next month I'll prob stick another one in.

BLUETOOTH: None
CAS: NZXT Switch 810 Hybird Full Tower Gaming Case w/ Dual 140MM Pivot Fan Slots and Front USB 3.0
CASUPGRADE: NONE
CD: LG BH10LS38 10X Blu-Ray Rewriter & 16X DVD+/-R/+/-RW Drive (please select the Blue Ray software in the Software section) [+16]
CD2: NONE
COOL: High-Performance Non Conductive Coolant powered by Thermochill [+9] (Red Colour [+0])
CPNR1: Cyberpower Sound Absorbing Foam -- reducing audible noise transmitted through solid case panels by up to 75% [+19]
CPU: Intel(R) Core™ i5-3570K Quad Core 3.40 GHz 6MB Cache LGA1155 + HD Graphics ***Overclockable XXX*** [-80]
CS_FAN: Max. 3 x 120mm Silent Case Cooling Fans in selected case key areas for ultra silent operation [+23] (500-1,200 RPM SHARKOON Silent Eagle SE 120mm Modular Fans with Dimple Surface Blade and Twister Bearing 8-14 dBA (Custom PC Award Winning !!) [+18])
DONGLES: NONE
EXPAN: NONE
FA_HDD: None
FAN: Cyberpower Advanced WaterCooling Medium Kit (Including 240m Radiator, 750res Pump/Reservoir, Rosa CPU Block, High CFM Fans, Tubing, and Coolant) ***Overclockable XXX*** [+66] (Standard Color Tubing)
FLASHMEDIA: None
GLASS3D: NONE
HDD: 256 GB Crucial M4 Series SATA III Gaming MLC Solid State Disk [+87] (Single Hard Drive)
HDD2: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 7200RPM Hard Drive (Single Hard Drive) [+76] (Single Hard Drive)
HOMEINSTALL: NONE
IEEE_CARD: NONE
INSURANCE: NONE
KEYBOARD: NONE
MB_SRT: None
MEMORY: 16GB (2x8GB) PC12800 DDR3/1600mhz Dual Channel Memory [+94] (Corsair Vengeance w/Heat Spreader)
MONITOR: Asus 27" VG278H, 3D-Ready LED Monitor with Glasses, Full HD, 120Hz, HDMI DVI [+454]
MONITOR2: NONE
MONITOR3: NONE
MOTHERBOARD: Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 Intel Z68 Chipset CrossFire / SLI DDR3 ATX Mainboard w/ 4 RAM slots, BT GO! Lucid Virtu, Intel SRT, UEFI BIOS, Intel SRT, 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, USB3.0, 4x SATA-III RAID, 2 Gen3 PCIe X16, 1 Gen2 PCIe X16, 2 PCIe X1 & 2 PCI [+50]
MOUSE: NONE
NETWORK: ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT -- As standard on all PCs
OS: Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 7 Home Premium (64-bit Edition)
OVERCLOCK: XXX Overclocking (CPU Extreme overclock: guaranteed min. 20%, max. 30%.)
POWERSUPPLY: 1000 Watts Power Supplies [+37] (CoolerMaster 1000watt Silent Pro Gold Modular Gaming Power Supply, SLI/Crossfire ready [+24])
PRO_WIRING1: Professional Wiring for All WIRING Inside The System Chasis - Minimize Cable Exposure, Maximize Airflow in Your System [+19]
RUSH: NONE
SOFT1: McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2012 OEM [+7]
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
SPEAKERS: NONE
TEMP: NONE
UPS: None
USB1: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
VC_PHYSX: None
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card [+175] (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)
VIDEO2: None, or On-Board Integrated Graphics
VIDEO3: None, or On-Board Integrated Graphics
WARRANTY: STANDARD WARRANTY: 3 Year Labour, 1 Year Parts, 1 Month Collect and Return plus Life-Time Technical Support
WNC: PCI-E Wireless 802.11n 300Mbps Network Interface Card [+17]
XWNA: NONE

Thanks again for advice. Almost bought from Beast, glad I found you guys! Great community.

waiting for him to change his mind and ask for a GTX 690 lol

Originally posted by insanebe waiting for him to change his mind and ask for a GTX 690 lol

Hmm can I? :)

Also should I be going for full case fans and not the Sharkoon's?

In practice there is nothing that touches this card, not even crysis on full settings......


those monsters are almost like 2 gtx 680's in sli ..... almost....but you would save space and have £800 gfx card most gamers would kill for.

also you would need case fans i think, the gtx 690 exhausts heat in both directions , out the back and into the case.

With that LX motherboard you have only 1 pcie 16x speed slot so no sli in the future, (but with a card like this would you need it? )

in the end its all about choice and how much you are willing to spend.


Edited by insanebe - 07/May/2012 at 11:07

Here we go:


BLUETOOTH:None

CAS:NZXT Switch 810 Hybird Full Tower Gaming Case w/ Dual 140MM Pivot Fan Slots and Front USB 3.0

CASUPGRADE:NONE

CD:LG BH10LS38 10X Blu-Ray Rewriter & 16X DVD±R/±RW Drive (please select the Blue Ray software in the Software section) [+16]

CD2:NONE

COOL:NONE

CPNR1:Cyberpower Sound Absorbing Foam -- reducing audible noise transmitted through solid case panels by up to 75% [+19]

CPU:Intel® Core™ i5-3570K Quad Core 3.40 GHz 6MB Cache LGA1155 + HD Graphics ***Overclockable XXX*** [-84]

CS_FAN:Maximum Case Cooling Fans for your selected case, and match the colour of the fans already in the case [+15]

DONGLES:NONE

EXPAN:NONE

FA_HDD:None

FAN:Cyberpower Advanced WaterCooling Large Kit (Including 360m Radiator, 750res Pump/Reservoir, Rosa CPU Block, High CFM Fans, Tubing, and Coolant) ***Overclockable XXX*** [+86] (Standard Color Tubing)

FLASHMEDIA:None

FREEBIE_CU:None

GLASS3D:NONE

HDD:256 GB Crucial M4 Series SATA III Gaming MLC Solid State Disk [+87] (Single Hard Drive)

HDD2:2TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64M Cache 7200RPM Hard Drive [+86] (Single Hard Drive)

HOMEINSTALL:NONE

IEEE_CARD:NONE

INSURANCE:NONE

KEYBOARD:NONE

MB_SRT:None

MEMORY:16GB (2x8GB) PC12800 DDR3/1600mhz Dual Channel Memory [+94] (Corsair Vengeance w/Heat Spreader)

MONITOR:NONE

MONITOR2:NONE

MONITOR3:NONE

MOTHERBOARD:Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 Intel Z68 Chipset CrossFire / SLI DDR3 ATX Mainboard w/ 4 RAM slots, BT GO! Lucid Virtu, Intel SRT, UEFI BIOS, Intel SRT, 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, USB3.0, 4x SATA-III RAID, 2 Gen3 PCIe X16, 1 Gen2 PCIe X16, 2 PCIe X1 & 2 PCI [+20]

MOUSE:NONE

NETWORK:ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT -- As standard on all PCs

OS:Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional [+28] (64-bit Edition)

OVERCLOCK:XXX Overclocking (CPU Extreme overclock: guaranteed min. 20%, max. 30%.)

POWERSUPPLY:1000 Watts Power Supplies [+37] (CoolerMaster 1000watt Silent Pro Gold Modular Gaming Power Supply, SLI/Crossfire ready [+24])

PRO_WIRING1:CoolerMaster Thermal Fusion 400 Extreme Performance CPU - Thermal Compound Optimized for Thermal Dissipation [+9]

PRO_WIRING2:Professional Wiring for All WIRING Inside The System Chasis - Minimize Cable Exposure, Maximize Airflow in Your System [+19]

PRO_WIRING3:Ultra Enhanced Packaging Solution Mid Tower - Protect Your Dream System During Transit [+14]

RUSH:NONE

SOFT1:McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2012 OEM [+7]

SOUND:HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO

SPEAKERS:NONE

TEMP:NONE

UPS:None

USB1:Built-in USB 2.0 Ports

VC_PHYSX:None

VIDEO:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 4GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Dual GPU Video Card [+594] (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)

VIDEO2:None, or On-Board Integrated Graphics

VIDEO3:None, or On-Board Integrated Graphics

WARRANTY:STANDARD WARRANTY: 3 Year Labour, 1 Year Parts, 1 Month Collect and Return plus Life-Time Technical Support

WNC:PCI-E Wireless 802.11n 300Mbps Network Interface Card [+17]

Will call through and modify order - hope it's not too late!

(I got a call offering me a free upgrade to the ASUS Maximus MB the other day - not sure if it's worth sticking with this or changing to a cheaper Z77 board?)

Edited by taek9th - 07/May/2012 at 12:46

Good point! But you'd still look good on those school runs ;)

Another good point, shoosh you!

Looks like fun!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M_pJyZ3kjQ

Back on topic, Max V Gene Z77 chipset



Edited by Cyber_Tech - 08/May/2012 at 22:48

To be honest I can only take your word - what I will say is that this has gone from a 'get a gaming PC for around 2 grand' to 'how much can I spend on a gaming PC'.

So if you reckon that board is better than that's what I want in it. Had a little look and does appear to be well rated.

Sales team will probably start to get a little tired of me calling them all the time though!

Anything other recommendations? I reckon after tomorrow I'll just let them build it :)

No worries - I'm spending a lot of money and want it to be perfect! Plus that board does look gucci :) So thanks!

Went for the Sabertooth Z77. Hope you can work your overclocking magic on that and an i5 3570K!

Time to play the waiting game :(

Yay 680's are in so hopefully my new toy will be built soon :) Can't wait to see it!