If you buy everything broadly the same, you could be looking at a price just over £1000 to build this system yourself. However, if you’re careful, and shop around for a better GPU deal, a better PSU, a similar motherboard, and slightly cheaper PC case. Oh, and you buy your Windows 10 key “somewhere other than from MS” then you can get that down to the £900 area. Regardless, it looks like CyberPower is packing quite a deal here. They’re effectively building, testing, configuring, shipping and giving you a warranty for free compared to the cost of building it yourself.
Self-build price – Approx £1022.44 / Cyberpower Price – £749 ex. VAT / £898.80 in. VAT.
Well, it’s not the most exciting system in the world if I’m honest, but then again, it was never designed to be. This is basically the entry-level model for this series, and I think that shows with the amount of empty space inside the chassis. They could easily use a much more compact PC case for a build of this specification. However, I love that you do have the option for throwing a few quid at changing things like the cooler, storage, GPU, etc.
If this were to be my PC, I’d add £11 for the Corsair 220T case, as I think that’s a great deal. However, the CyberPower Onyxia is a great looking case on its own too. Keep in mind, you’ll want to add some front panel fans in the options box, and I’m a little surprised they didn’t include them with my review build. That being said, we didn’t have any issues with cooling performance, so clearly, it’s not that big a deal. However, come summertime, you may be seeing thing a bit differently.
It’s pretty good, I mean, I was bound to be. The RTX 2060 is a really fantastic graphics card and it’ll play literally anything at good resolutions with good frame rates. Plus, you get all those DLSS, RTX, VRSS benefits for some games, which are always good fun. For 1080p and even 1440p, it’s more than enough power. For 4K, you’ll want to look for a high-spec system overall though.
This is a gaming PC, and a no-fuss one at that. However, it’s still got some decent hardware overall. You get 1TB of storage for bigger files, and a modest SSD for your boot drive and many one or two modern games. The 16GB of RAM is enough for most users too, and for work PC during the day and gaming at night, it’ll get the job done with no issues.
Expandability is promising here, as the Onyxia case offers room for bigger coolers, more fans, longer graphics cards, a bigger PSU, additional storage devices, and even the motherboard has unused M.2 slots. This might not be the most high-end system, but it’ll be a good performance system for a few years, easily, and easy to upgrade various aspect as you need to in the future too.
At this price, it’s hard to complain. You’re getting hardware that basically cheaper than buying it all separately and building it yourself. If you’re at work all day and haven’t got the time to build, it’s great. It turns up, you unbox it, plug it in and you’re ready to rock. Plus, with their support team, on-sight warranty, etc, it’s peace of mind as well as great value for money.
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