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Cyberpower Cobra review

£1999 inc VAT and delivery

Manufacturer: CyberPower

Our Rating: We rate this 4 out of 5

By | PC Advisor | 13 February 12

The Cyberpower Cobra has an advanced processor and a full watercooling setup. Throw in a keyboard and mouse worth around £125 alone, and the £1999 price tag starts to make sense.

Switch on Cyberpower’s Cobra and the first thing you’ll notice is a small blue LED-illuminated window – a big clue as to what lurks inside the Cooler Master 690II system case. Delving straight inside, we find an industrial-strength water-cooling system with thick transparent pipes. This  feeds a large radiator taking up around two-thirds of the roof of the case. See also Group test: What's the best £1,000 PC?

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The result is a rather spacious interior where we also find an AMD Radeon HD 7970 graphics card, although sadly there’s no water block for this component which relies on the air cooling provided by its own internal fan and the pair fitted to the front and rear of the case. Although not silent, the watercooling system keeps the PC pleasantly quiet and is aided by sound-damping material applied to the interior of the case. Visit Group test: What's the best desktop PC?

Installed in the Asus P8Z68-V motherboard is the only Core i7 processor to be found in this round-up. In this case it’s the 3.4GHz Core i7-2600K which offers superior multi-tasking to the Core i5 chip, thanks to its HyperThreading capability. CyberPower has pushed the chip up to 4.6GHz and in so doing achieved the joint highest overall score in WorldBench 6 of a blistering 217 points. This score is also helped by the capacious 16GB of installed RAM and a 128GB Crucial M4 SSD, the latter set as the boot drive for the Windows operating system.

If the excellent performance of the HD 7970 graphics card isn’t enough for you, the motherboard offers good support for a second graphics card to be added later.

A 24in full-HD LED -acklit display is included in the form of AOC’s E2436VWA. While we don’t rate it quite as highly as the Asus or BenQ models from Chillblast and Eclipse, although it’s still perfectly good for gaming and comes with a handy built-in USB port.

You also get a Blu-ray drive and a gaming headset to complement the Razer Lycosa and Razer Death Adder keyboard and mouse, both of which have been designed specifically for gaming with enhanced responsiveness and accuracy. The keyboard features backlit and programmable keys with a non-slip rubber finish.

Cyberpower Cobra Expert Verdict »
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Processor type: Intel Core i7 2600K
Processor speed: 3.4GHZ, Overclocked to 4.6GHz
CPU Cooler: Advanced water cooling
RAM: 16GB DDR3 RAM
Hard disk capacity: 128GB Sata III SSD, 1TB Sata II HDD
Motherboard Make and model: Asus P8Z68-V
External USB 2.0 ports (rear / front / other): 8 (6 / 0 / 2 top)
External USB 3.0 ports (rear / front / other): 2 (2 / 0 / 0)
Monitor (size and model): AOC 24" LED E2436VWA
Native resolution: 1920 x 1080
Graphics chip (x No. of cards): AMD HD7970, 3GB PCI -E
Sound card (or on-board chipset): Onboard Realtek A LC892-8
Optical Drive Type and model: 12x BD-R, x8 DVD±DL
Operating system, software and extras: Windows 7 Home premium 64 bits, MS office starter 2010
Network connectivity: Gigabyte x 1
I/O ports (audio): SPDIF Co-axial, optical, HDMI Audio, 7.1 HD
"W) 214.5 x (H) 511.8 x (D) 528.8 mm: Soundproofing
1x eSATA port
  • Build Quality: We give this item 8 of 10 for build quality
  • Features: We give this item 8 of 10 for features
  • Value for Money: We give this item 6 of 10 for value for money
  • Performance: We give this item 9 of 10 for performance
  • Overall: We give this item 8 of 10 overall

With a keyboard and mouse worth around £125 alone, the most advanced processor and a full watercooling setup, the £1999 price tag starts to make sense. The Cobra delivers uncompromising performance quality peripherals and quiet operation.

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CyberPowerUK said: The Gaming Headset is none other than the ASUS Vulcan Noise Cancelling Headphones httpwwwasuscomPeripheral surely these deserve a mentionASUS and BenQ displays are also available with this PC on their Accessories pageWater cooled 7970s should be available soon

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