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[SavesNFGDay]

Man, The first day this was to get delivered, I slept through the UPS Guy:( You can be Darn sure I was up the next day and To my Joy, Here Was My new computer...Pre-assembled(hell of a lot cheaper than what I could've bought the parts that come in it for by myself. I was so jittery with excitement I could barely sign the Little thing the UPS guy had.
Ok, I open the Box and right there up top is my motherboard box, I thought to my self, Oh crap, don't tell me I have to hook it up myself, I payed to have them do it for me!! but to my glee, inside was all the little knick-knacks that come with the various parts, like the driver disks, and XP Recovery CD(This would come in handy later as I found out).
So, I Plug everything in, and it works just fine, my first stop is hitting up windows update, to download 50 MBs worth of stuff. Then, It's on to search for updated drivers to everything. Now, once I get all my drivers loaded...I go to restart my computer and get the BSOD!?!?!?!? I though, what the hell is the matter with the monkey's who installed XP
on this computer but they sure goofed(Later I thought to myself, maybe I didn't download the right Creative drivers(I downloaded the regular SBLive ones, and I guess maybe they're different than the "Value" ones)) so after I got the BSOD, I loaded in my recovery disc. and just reformatted and re-installed Windows XP. Haven't had a problem to date.
Now it was great that I finally got it working for the LAN Party I was going to that Saturday(Got the computer last friday). But since I did that fresh install, and installed all the drivers(Newest Creative Live Value drivers this time) I haven't had one hiccup. The only real complaints I can have with this computer is the First experience, and the
fact that I believe that they really skimped when putting the thermal paste on my processor, I'm running 59degrees c Load, 52 Idle, not very good, although It could be that I don't have enough intake, It has one ducted fan, blowing out, right over the processor, one in the side window, blowing out, and then just one in the front, pulling air in.

All in all I will definetly call this a "Kickass" Product, and the speakers that you see came with it as well, along with the Keyboard, and MS optical wheel mouse. The speakers sound great for $19, and they look mighty snazzy as well. I would definetly Recommend Cyberpowerinc.com to anyone, although do not expect them to meet their "Expected ship date"
My friend and I both ordered PCs from them, and they definetly did not meet either ship date. But A great deal at that, 1074(With shipping for everything you see in the picture, minus the Joystick, and monitor (Samsung 753DF)



Here's the results from all of my tests ran on basically a clean install of XP Home and only Notebook and Powerstrip running
SiSoft Sandra CPU Arithmetic:
Dhrystone ALU 4749 MIPS
Whetstone FPU 2327 MFLOPS

Memory Bandwidth Benchmark (hmm...it appears to run closer to KT266A with PC2100 DDR Ram...I wonder if they screwed me on the "DDR333 Ram and sent me...2100(Although Sandra Does report it as running at 168MHz no name brand on the ram, anybody know how to tell?)
RAM Int 1948 MB/s
RAM Float 1818 MB/s

3dMark 2001SE
Default is like 7567
9500 Marks when I first got my computer and overclocked it..can't remember what the settings were...Now, I'm pressed to get 8200 marks with my 4200 Overclocked to 305 537...the test was before I reformatted and re-installed XP and ran it again...any Ideas on that everyone?
(Update, With the new Dets my score went to 10614, Quite a decent score.

C4DemoBench
1024x768 at defaults, 34.2 FPS

( I don't have quake 3 so I can't really Benchmark it, Although I can Say, I can run Unreal Tournament(GOTY edition) With Everything turned up to max, and 4X Aniso, and 4X AA at 60 FPS Definetly Kick ass. )

And now for the pictures:(Please forgive the quality that isn't spectacular, these were taken on a 4 year old Olympus 1.4 Mpixel camera that was top of the line back then. (Also, I didn't have a tripod, so the ones in the dark look a bit blurred, sorry about that too. )

[Scottman]

Thanks for taking the time to write. As for the memory speed, you may need to tweak your bios settings to get max performance out of your ram.

[thephenom]

Memory Bandwidth Benchmark (hmm...it appears to run closer to KT266A with PC2100 DDR Ram...I wonder if they screwed me on the "DDR333 Ram and sent me...2100(Although Sandra Does report it as running at 168MHz no name brand on the ram, anybody know how to tell?)
No, that's rite, For AXPs, it only has 266FSB, so obviously it can't take FULL advantage of DDR333 memory module.

I Don't THINK you should be THAT proud for paying $1074 for your machine.

Gigabyte Mobo - $80
AXP 2000+ - $95
HSF - $Don't know what you have, but I doubt it'll be anything OVER $20.
512MB DDR333 - $160
IBM 80GB - $100
16X DVD - $38
32X Burner - $60
Ti4200 $154 (128MB)
SB Live! - $25 (why not get the Live! 5.1?)
MS Optical Mouse - $16
Keyboard - $20
Speakers - $20
Case - $69
Generic PSU - $20
Rounded Cables - $30
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Total - $907

So you pretty much paid them $167 for their labour and shipping.:Holy Crap And I've already OVER estimated on the memory, and the case probably cost less also.

I don't know about you, but I rather spend a few hrs putting my own machine together and save $167+.

The best part I like about the computer is probably that cool looking subwoofer. What kind of speakers are those? What brand? And I would of got a differenent colour case since it cost the same anyway.

[getit29]

Originally posted by thephenom


The best part I like about the computer is probably that cool looking subwoofer. What kind of speakers are those? What brand? And I would of got a differenent colour case since it cost the same anyway.

To answer your question the speakers are made by Juster
model number
JUSTER SP-3D108 2.1 Minitype Cinema Speakers ;)

[SavesNFGDay]

They heatsink is a Tt Volcano 6 cu. and you forgot to add in the CC....and I think 69 is alittle bit of an underestimate on the case, granted it's not a Lian-Li, but it's aluminum and damn light too. and well, yes, well, my father payed them for their labor, so it's not like I did, it's a damn fine 18th Birthday present. But I admit, it's not an Alienware either, although at this price I can certainly see them competing with them.

[thephenom]

Originally posted by SavesNFGDay
They heatsink is a Tt Volcano 6 cu. and you forgot to add in the CC....and I think 69 is alittle bit of an underestimate on the case, granted it's not a Lian-Li, but it's aluminum and damn light too. and well, yes, well, my father payed them for their labor, so it's not like I did, it's a damn fine 18th Birthday present. But I admit, it's not an Alienware either, although at this price I can certainly see them competing with them.

You'll need to get RID of that Volcano 6cu if you are planning to OC. Perhaps an AX7.
The case, $69 is about rite.
http://www.colorcases.com/cases/1605.html
Color Cases sells for $74, and they tend to be a few dollars more expensive than others. If you got the other coloured case, it'll probably be more than $69.

But ya, I would say tat's a pretty good 18th B-day present. But then I prefer to play with my own toys, put them together myself. OC it myself. Kill the whole computer myself(hopefully that would never happen)