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The folks at CyberPowerPC just announced their new Gamer Scorpius line claiming it's the world's first 8-core gaming desktop line powered by AMD's brand spanking new Bulldozer architecture. And so it begins. We suspect this is just the first of many Bulldozer-based announcements to come out of the boutique system building scene, but can the rest compete on price?
CyberPowerPC's starting price for a Scorpius Gamer equipped with a Bulldozer chip is $535, which buys you an AMD FX-4100 (3.6GHz, quad-core) processor. Stepping up to a six-core FX-6100 (3.3GHz), eight-core FX-8120 (3.1GHz), or eight-core FX-8150 (3.6GHz) runs an additional $64, $100, or $160 respectively.
Other default options include a Xion Predator 970 mid-tower chassis, Asetek 510LC liquid-cooling solution, Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 motherboard, 8GB of DDR3-1600 memory, Nvidia GeForce GT 520 videocard, 1TB SATA 6Gbps hard drive, 24X DVD burner, 450W power supply, and keyboard/mouse. Add another $104 for Windows Home Premium 64-bit, bringing the tally to $639.
Not a bad little machine, and as always, upgrade options abound. On a related note, you can check out our review of Bulldozer here.
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Shalbatana
October 13, 2011 at 7:38am
Yes, but the scorpius machine will soon be defeated by the John Chrichton machine.
(we miss you Farscape)
ElvisClone777
October 14, 2011 at 2:06pm
*SO* true!! And without even an image of the frellin' fharbot dren himself?!
. . . even an outline of the ever-so adorable Harvey?
Travatron
October 12, 2011 at 9:13am
At least label your ads as such.
I don't care how inexpensive it is, putting a GT520 into a machine with "Gamer" in the name is deceptive at best. It's downright dishonest to market something as a gaming PC when it couldn't keep playable framerates in Halflife 2.
I understand that's the baseline, but the baseline should be capable of handling it's intended purpose. If I bought a Ford Fiesta, I'd be pretty upset if it couldn't go 55MPH, even if it's not Porche.
Paul_Lilly
October 12, 2011 at 7:52am
That certainly changes the meaning a tad, doesn't it? Nice catch.
