CYBERPOWER INFINITY ACHILLES PRO GT

£999 inc VAT • cyberpowersystem.co.uk

The Infinity Achilles Pro GT is a complete gaming system, including a powerful PC, dedicated gaming peripherals and a 24in monitor. NZXT’s Source 340 system case lends the PC a bold, minimalist look with a transparent side panel, and a front panel that eschews optical drives entirely, leaving it completely blank.

Inside there’s 8GB of 1866MHz DDR3 memory, a 1TB hard drive and a 12GB SSD to increase responsiveness, speed up boot times and accelerate game loading.

Like most gaming PCs in this price range, it has a speedy Intel quad-core Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz processor. However, the Infinity Achilles Pro GT also comes with a very specific weak spot: the processor hasn’t been overclocked. Our benchmark results therefore show no benefit from the use of the overclockable ‘K’ version of the Core-i5, which costs slightly more than the standard version as seen in Scan’s 3XS Gamer PC. Consequently, the Cyberpower turned in the slowest overall benchmark results here.

Motherboards based on the Intel H81 Express chipset, such as the Gigabyte H81M-S2H model chosen by Cyberpower, don’t list overclocking among their features, but many of them do support the feature in a semi-official way. This means there’s a good chance you’ll be able to overclock this PC yourself if you wish, although we would always advise buying a pre-overclocked system instead, which would be covered by a manufacturer’s warranty.

While this PC lags behind in most benchmarks, it has a secret weapon in the form of a 4GB nVidia GeForce GTX 970 graphics card, which brings with it a major performance boost for gaming. It’s enough to enable the use of ‘Ultra’ quality settings where most of the

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competition would have to settle for ‘high’ quality. The 4GB of onboard memory also allows for the highest quality textures to be used, again making a noticeably improvement to graphics quality.

The PC is supplied with a 24in AOC monitor, with a fast 5ms response time and the illuminated gaming keyboard and mouse combo from Cooler Master completes the system. VERDICT: The Cyberpower Infinity Achilles Pro GT is simultaneously the slowest and fastest PC in our group test. The non-overclocked processor places it at a disadvantage for applications, but the nVidia GeForce GTX 970 graphics card helps it scream ahead for gaming.