Cyberpower Gaming PC 99617 - first impressions

Stephen Harris · March 26

I ordered this on Mar 21st; it arrived today (2 business days).

Ryzen 7 7800X3D

32Gb DDR5-6000

Gigabyte B650M-C

RTX4070 Super 12Gb

Kingston 1TB PCIe4 SSD (SNV2S)

850W Apevia PSU (Gold 80 Plus)

https://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/Prebuilt-Gaming-PC-GLX-99617

It cost me $1500 (some special offers) plus tax. I'm sure I could have built this myself cheaper, but there's something to be said for laziness and lack of worrying about whether I put it together properly. I've not built a machine since 2010!

Shipped UPS Air 2 Day. Only the standard box but the foam padding was pretty thick; no damaged to packaging at all. Inside had instapak, but only filling half the case (from GPU down the floor). Probably sufficient. The GPU power cable had got caught in the instapak so I had to be careful about removing it. The mouse box was also loose inside the case. I'm surprised that didn't bang around. All the components seem solidly on the board, so this survived UPS handling pretty well.

The RAM was Team Group T-Force 2x16Gb in slots 1 and 3. The machine came out of the box with XMP profile 1 turned on (38-38-38-78). ReBAR (16GB) was also on by default.

The BIOS was dated 2/6/2024. The RAM manufacturing date was 2024 week 7. Windows 11 Home was fully patched. So this is pretty up to date.

The provided keyboard is the squishiest thing I've felt in a long time. Yuck.

The SSD isn't the fastest in the world (Sequential 1Mb was 3673 read, 2616 write) but good enough.

I have two 1080p monitors connected to it, so testing was done at 1080p rather than 1440.

With HWinfo64 running, Cinebench 2024 says

GPU: 18986 (HWinfo says max GPU temp 58.5C)

CPU multi: 1095 (max CPU temp 85C)

CPU single: 113 (max CPU temp 70.3C)

When running CPU Multi it said thermals had reached 92.8% and didn't throttle. That's with my machine sitting on carpet, so it's possible it'll be cooler when I put it on a solid base.

(I reran the GPU test without hwhinfo running and the number climbed to 19517)

Heaven 4.0 returned FPS 500.3, Score 12602, min FPS 78.1, max FPS 932.4 on "high" benchmark setting. I wasn't running hwinfo at the time, but the air pushed out the top and back was a lot warmer than I felt with cinebench 2024!

This is a BIG case (and a bit ugly, to be honest). There's 2 fans on the front (side venting since it's a solid front), 1 fan on the rear. The AIO radiator is at the top and has 2 fans (there's space for a larger radiator if necessary). Top and bottom filters are magnetic.

Odd note: Gigabyte Control Center refused to download, and when I did it manually it thought there wasn't a compatible board. Hmm. I might need to play with that more, 'cos otherwise the RGB is just the standard rainbow pattern.

Anyway, that's my first impression. Let's hope the PSU holds out; I've heard lots of commentary on Apevia!

kitnoman · March 26

You're probably right around the same specs if you DIY. But you would probably have a better ram with 6000mhz and cl30, better nvme, better psu and a much better motherboard. If there's one thing I would do, is to try to tighten the ram latency as much as possible. It might take the whole day, but personally, I think it would be worth it. As well as undervolting your gpu and cpu, would be a great choice. I mean I've heard and read about Apevia in passing, but did not pay much attention to the reviews. So with using a psu that has less trust or untested, it's better to not pull so much power on it.

DoctorNick · March 26

4 hours ago, Stephen Harris said:

I ordered this on Mar 21st; it arrived today (2 business days).

Ryzen 7 7800X3D

32Gb DDR5-6000

Gigabyte B650M-C

RTX4070 Super 12Gb

Kingston 1TB PCIe4 SSD (SNV2S)

850W Apevia PSU (Gold 80 Plus)

https://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/Prebuilt-Gaming-PC-GLX-99617

It cost me $1500 (some special offers) plus tax. I'm sure I could have built this myself cheaper, but there's something to be said for laziness and lack of worrying about whether I put it together properly. I've not built a machine since 2010!

Shipped UPS Air 2 Day. Only the standard box but the foam padding was pretty thick; no damaged to packaging at all. Inside had instapak, but only filling half the case (from GPU down the floor). Probably sufficient. The GPU power cable had got caught in the instapak so I had to be careful about removing it. The mouse box was also loose inside the case. I'm surprised that didn't bang around. All the components seem solidly on the board, so this survived UPS handling pretty well.

The RAM was Team Group T-Force 2x16Gb in slots 1 and 3. The machine came out of the box with XMP profile 1 turned on (38-38-38-78). ReBAR (16GB) was also on by default.

The BIOS was dated 2/6/2024. The RAM manufacturing date was 2024 week 7. Windows 11 Home was fully patched. So this is pretty up to date.

The provided keyboard is the squishiest thing I've felt in a long time. Yuck.

The SSD isn't the fastest in the world (Sequential 1Mb was 3673 read, 2616 write) but good enough.

I have two 1080p monitors connected to it, so testing was done at 1080p rather than 1440.

With HWinfo64 running, Cinebench 2024 says

GPU: 18986 (HWinfo says max GPU temp 58.5C)

CPU multi: 1095 (max CPU temp 85C)

CPU single: 113 (max CPU temp 70.3C)

When running CPU Multi it said thermals had reached 92.8% and didn't throttle. That's with my machine sitting on carpet, so it's possible it'll be cooler when I put it on a solid base.

(I reran the GPU test without hwhinfo running and the number climbed to 19517)

Heaven 4.0 returned FPS 500.3, Score 12602, min FPS 78.1, max FPS 932.4 on "high" benchmark setting. I wasn't running hwinfo at the time, but the air pushed out the top and back was a lot warmer than I felt with cinebench 2024!

This is a BIG case (and a bit ugly, to be honest). There's 2 fans on the front (side venting since it's a solid front), 1 fan on the rear. The AIO radiator is at the top and has 2 fans (there's space for a larger radiator if necessary). Top and bottom filters are magnetic.

Odd note: Gigabyte Control Center refused to download, and when I did it manually it thought there wasn't a compatible board. Hmm. I might need to play with that more, 'cos otherwise the RGB is just the standard rainbow pattern.

Anyway, that's my first impression. Let's hope the PSU holds out; I've heard lots of commentary on Apevia!

If we pick about the same parts on pcpartpicker, couldn't find motherboard so took one at the same price, then it - this is without a case even, so its a good deal actually:

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/vLK6VW

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor ($368.95 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 72.8 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($86.23 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Gigabyte B650M DS3H Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard ($149.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: TEAMGROUP T-Create Classic 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL48 Memory ($87.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Kingston NV2 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive ($60.80 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Gigabyte GAMING OC GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 12 GB Video Card ($649.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Apevia Galaxy 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply ($69.98 @ Amazon)
Total: $1473.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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