Gamer Paladin E870 i7 Gaming System Overview
iBUYPOWER has selected a really great case with this system, the Cooler Master HAF 922 Mid Tower. You can check out a review of it here. Now you may be thinking this case does not look like the normal HAF 922, which is because iBUYPOWER has given it a custom paint job. The paint job on our case is called the Killer Bee. While the paint job on the case was good, there were a few spots that were not filled in correctly, which makes me think the paint job is being mass produced, no custom for each system. They also offer 3 other custom paint jobs for this case.
On the front of the case you can see the LG Blu-Ray drive and 12-in-1 card reader installed. The yellow paint really goes well with the black mesh in front of the intake fan and the bezel covers.
Opening up the case inside we find all of the components nicely installed. As you can see iBUYPOWER did a great job of keeping the inside of the case clean. All of the wires are nicely routed, which makes for better airflow. The thing that immediately caught my eye when I opened the case was the 2 large video cards. They are ATI Radeon 4890 1GB cards in SLI! Definitely some good GPU power in here!
Above the video cards is the CPU, which is custom cooled by an Asetek Liquid CPU Cooling System w/ 240mm radiator. This should keep the CPU at a good temperature for gaming. Beside the CPU you have 4 sticks of memory; they are Corsair Dominator DDR3-1600 modules.
Moving down to the hard drives you have a single 128GB solid state drive from Kingston. We actually reviewed that exact drive not that long ago, it is a great solid state drive at a good price. Below that drive is another hard drive, but it is a regular Hitachi 7200RPM SATA drive. The reason for 2 drives is to have all of your programs and games installed on the 128GB solid state drive so they load quickly and have your media (music, movies, and pictures) on the 1TB drive.
The entire system is powered by a 1000W power supply, which is more than enough to power both of your video cards and other components. This system also has iBUYPOWER’s new Internal USB expansion system, and they have included the Bluetooth module as well.
Before we close the system up and get into testing let’s take the other side panel off and see how iBUYPOWER uses the backside of the case to hide wires and do some pretty good cable management.
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Thats quite the preconfigured system from iBUYPOWER.
Thats quite the preconfigured system form iBUYPOWER.
wow, you get a lot for what you pay for. I also, like the packaging they provided and the capabilites of this rig *drool*
wow, you get a lot for what you pay for. I also, like the packaging they provided and the capabilites of this rig *drool*
Just imagine how everything would be if they didn't use any foam inserts :O
doa, probably, lol
Just imagine how everything would be if they didn't use any foam inserts :O
doa, probably, lol
Just imagine how everything would be if they didn't use any foam inserts :O
doa, probably, lol
I hope people buy from these guys instead of Dell etc.
I hope people buy from these guys instead of Dell etc.
lol Love the bumble bee paint job, definately makes your comp stand out from the rest of them.
lol Love the bumble bee paint job, definately makes your comp stand out from the rest of them.
Not really a big fan of the large strip down the side panel.
agreed, those companies such as dell, acer, gateway, hp etc. all put in the crappy stuff, and trick the general user into thinking they're buying something nice. That was once me =(, bought one laptop and one desktop from hp, and they both failed w/in one year
Maybe it would have looked nicer if they made it added more stripes. instead of just one large one with a smaller one above and below.
Not really a big fan of the large strip down the side panel.
agreed, those companies such as dell, acer, gateway, hp etc. all put in the crappy stuff, and trick the general user into thinking they're buying something nice. That was once me =(, bought one laptop and one desktop from hp, and they both failed w/in one year
Maybe it would have looked nicer if they made it added more stripes. instead of just one large one with a smaller one above and below.
Not everyone knows how to build a custom setup or have the know how. OEM machines like Dell etc are fine for general users.
Or maybe none at all.
Not everyone knows how to build a custom setup or have the know how. OEM machines like Dell etc are fine for general users.
Or maybe none at all.
it has to be called, killer bee for a reason. clearly it's what their aiming at.
If i was them, i'd rather go to a local shop, they usually have pretty competitive prices, plus by going to them, you know what is going into your machine.
I'd rather build it myself. I never trust anyone to build a computer but myself.
If that was the case using a honeycomb pattern would have made more sense.
it has to be called, killer bee for a reason. clearly it's what their aiming at.
If i was them, i'd rather go to a local shop, they usually have pretty competitive prices, plus by going to them, you know what is going into your machine.
I'd rather build it myself. I never trust anyone to build a computer but myself.
If that was the case using a honeycomb pattern would have made more sense.
i'm sure that would be much uglier than the current stripe.
most local shops are honest, else they'd have no business
i'm sure that would be much uglier than the current stripe.
most local shops are honest, else they'd have no business
I would be nice if they put in the latest video card 5870 and Windows 7 64bit OS then I can understand the price.
I would be nice if they put in the latest video card 5870 and Windows 7 64bit OS then I can understand the price.