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yes this is a prebuilt PC it's actually the first I've ever formally reviewed on this channel I know right away what you're thinking got Opry gold PC I could definitely build one for cheaper than their asking price well I priced everything out in PC part picker and I'm here to tell you that a DIY option would save you a whopping five US dollars and that's assuming you opt for a king one variant of Windows 10 which I know many of you feel a bit sketchy about the operating system is included in the price of the CyberPower branded one as well as the keyboard and gaming mouse which are also included here in this list so right off the bat not a bad start for the CyberPower VR ready AMD gaming PC the second thing you're probably wondering is what case this is this is the fantex P 400 tempered glass Edition it was my favorite mid tower case at one point even without the glass back in the day check out my review of it right here just be warned it's kind of old not only does the case come equipped with integrated RGB lighting above and below but cyber powers included a compatible fantex RGB LED strip that wires directly into the color-changing button up top I must say however this is an awkward place for an LED strip and zip-tied to the basement at that now let's move on to specifications and AMD FX 8350 I know right away you're thinking just bear with me an asus 970 motherboard okay and also subpar not a 990 FX although granted the included cooler wouldn't get you very far with it overclock anyway an AMD rx 484 gigabyte graphics card with a reference cooler a gigabytes of a data ddr3 at 1600 megahertz a 600 watt 80 plus thermal take power supply and a one terabyte Toshiba hard disk drive I will admit apart from the graphics card and the case everything else is kinda ancient or at least subpar in terms of optimal gaming hardware it's a budget oriented gaming PC without a doubt but of which is relying on six year old CPU architecture a motherboard that's older than my high school diploma and a slightly sketchy PSU also why the heck is there only a hard drive in here I'd much prefer an SSD for a boot drive along with a hard disk drive for general storage in my opinion the extra 30 or 40 bucks would be justified it is nice to see a CPU cooler that isn't in a prebuilt like this but after booting up the PC well it might as well be it's very loud even at idle and after tweaking the fan curve I wish something along the lines of a cooler master hyper t4 had been included instead they're also about the same price the graphics card choice is okay I would have preferred a non-reference cooler for this style case the card is also only a four gigabyte model which should be addressed accordingly but most games in 1080p and even 1440p you will stay under this threshold there are a few exceptions of course but for the most part you'll be ok it'd be difficult to max out games in 1440p anyway with these specs especially with the CPU taken into consideration so what does all this give you in terms of gaming performance well in GTA 5 and 1080p it will give you around 95 fps do you mind the in-game settings below the title 1440p about 87 not a large FPS decline between the two indicating a sharp CPU bottleneck this is because our GPU should be leveraged more as we increase resolution we're not saying the framerate drop and that's because our CPU is holding its back in the lower resolution which are three in its graphics intensive segments leverage the graphics card a great deal more hence the difference between the two resolutions here 54 FPS vs. 37 our first-person shooter in DirectX 12 battlefield 1 managed 76 fps and 1080p 69 FPS and 1440p so still a slight bottleneck with the newer API despite leveraging 8 threads 2 CPU by the way it was manually overclocked to 4.4 gigahertz who wouldn't go much further than that with the cooler included in the CyberPower pc the computer is indeed via already as well as advertised I had to tone most settings at or below high to keep the framerate up you want around 90 fps or so in a VR experience so what's my verdict well you could do better you could squeeze in an i-5 along with an SSD maybe even replace the graphics card with a non reference model perhaps compromise on a cheaper case I'm not sure that tempered glass belongs in a budget oriented gaming PC and managed to keep the total price in the $800 ballpark that being said this PC really isn't bad it's not future-proof although I hate the term but it does include a decent keyboard and mouse and a Windows 10 key everything except the monitor so if you're looking for a no-hassle prebuilt that doesn't break the bank sure you should consider this one it's honestly not that bad and if you're considering a prebuilt in the first place you probably shouldn't worry about component upgrades for the next few years maybe maybe an SSP upgrade I would probably advocate for something like that I'm sure some of you are just waiting to leave comments about how FX processors are outdated and how even stock i5s can outperform them and how you'll never ever ever ever buy an FX processor because they're so old and so overpriced okay I don't know about the overpriced port I do agree with you on everything else so this is old architecture I've heard this argument time and time again I would never pay 150 bucks for an FX 8350 period so that kind of rules me out of my interest in this PC I would never personally buy it to straight up but in FX 8320 e for around 60 to 80 bucks if they had thrown that CPU into this rig and then drop the price by 80 bucks I mean just whatever the difference would be $700 700 bucks for this for a comparable computer would be an even better bargain in my opinion so I think they should have gone with the 83 20 that's probably the only major component I would change other than including an SSD I think then you would have a very very competitive pre-built PC at 700 bucks that can definitely handle VR with that if 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