iBUYPOWER RDY Y70 R17 assessment

Primarily based on the Y70 case made by iBUYPOWER’s sub-brand, Hyte, the iBUYPOWER RDY Y70 R17 is a big however great-looking and {powerful} gaming PC that goals to ship blazing-fast body charges for a good worth. Obtainable as a pre-built, quick-to-ship configuration, you possibly can’t modify the spec provided right here, however iBUYPOWER does supply many different customized techniques, for if you’d like the same general PC however with exactly your alternative of elements.

I have been placing the RDY Y70 R17 via its paces for the previous few days to see whether or not it is worthy of a spot on our greatest gaming PC information, testing its gaming efficiency, non-gaming efficiency, cooling functionality, and noise, all whereas seeing simply how well-built this technique is, and what potential it has for future upgrades. Learn on to see if iBUYPOWER’s newest is the precise gaming PC for you.

Specs

The large ticket merchandise of this PC is, after all, its Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080. This makes up the majority of its gaming prowess and accounts for almost half the PC’s worth. The mannequin in our take a look at system is an Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5080, although iBUYPOWER does not single out precisely which card you will get when ordering this PC – it simply says “GeForce RTX 5080 – 16GB.”

This explicit mannequin is a protracted, two-and-a-half-slot large, triple-fan design that makes use of a single 12VHPWR connector. Its measurement and fan configuration guarantee this card stays cool and quiet underneath load, and its followers cease fully when the cardboard’s not being pushed exhausting.

Backing up the second quickest graphics card on the planet is, coincidentally, the second quickest CPU on the planet, too. Whereas iBUYPOWER does supply related techniques with the brand new 9850X3D, the R17 sticks with the 9800X3D. This can be a good choice, because it brings the price of the system down a short time solely compromising the tiniest quantity in gaming efficiency.

This CPU’s eight cores are additionally ample for basic desktop work, so that you’re getting a system right here that, whereas undoubtedly gaming-focused, is a good all-rounder, too. The 32GB of 6,000MT/s DDR5 can be an ample quantity of RAM for many duties.

The CPU is cooled by iBUYPOWER’s personal 240mm all-in-one liquid cooler, which attracts warmth from the chip as much as a 240mm radiator mounted within the roof of the case, the place two 120mm followers cool the radiator, blowing their sizzling air straight out the highest of the case.

Different cooling is supplied by 4 RGB followers, with one mounted above the rear IO, and three mounted on the motherboard tray, in entrance of the precise facet panel, the place they blow cool contemporary air inside to feed the graphics card and the CPU cooler followers.

As is so frequent with trendy PCs, storage consists of only a single M.2 NVMe Gen4 SSD. This one is a Lexar NQ7A1 with an ample capability of 2TB. It is not the quickest drive on the planet, with learn and write speeds of 6,000MB/s and 5,000MB/s respectively, however it’s superb for a gaming PC. The MSI Professional X870-P Wifi motherboard additionally has two extra M.2 mounts for simply increasing your storage.

Talking of the motherboard, it is a full-size ATX mannequin, so that you get three spare PCI-E enlargement slots, alongside the one occupied by the graphics card. It additionally has loads of headers for increasing storage with SATA drives, including additional followers, extra RGB strips, and USB ports. Its rear IO can be properly balanced. The HDMI port is redundant – as you will use that of the graphics card – however in any other case you get loads of USB-A and USB-C ports, though 4 of the USB-A’s are simply USB 2.0 speeds.

2.5Gb Ethernet, primary however purposeful onboard audio, and Wi-Fi 7 spherical out its IO options, whereas the addition of buttons for flashing the BIOS and clearing the CMOS are good little extras.

Powering all this lot is an iBUYPOWER 850W energy provide. The corporate does not specify the effectivity of the PSU.

Design, construct, and setup

Whereas it is the RTX 5080 that takes the plaudits for the efficiency of this PC, on the subject of model and sheer presence, it is all concerning the Hyte Y70 case that homes this technique. As we explored in our Hyte Y70 Contact assessment, this case is a putting and sizeable unit, with it measuring 320mm large, which compares to round 200mm for a typical tower case.

All that additional width permits for a bunch of nice options, although. For a begin, it permits for the facility provide to be mounted behind the motherboard, the place it is fully out of sight. This additionally gives a great deal of room for you to have the ability to mount the graphics card vertically, as has been carried out right here. Attempt to mount a graphics card vertically in a traditional tower case (which most do not even help), and a number of them do not present ample air flow attributable to their slim width. Right here, although, there’s a great deal of house for air to flow into.

This large, dual-chamber configuration additionally permits for the triple glass panel view of the within of your case, which not solely reveals off your graphics card but additionally makes a spectacle of the RGB followers mounted on the precise facet. The selection of an AIO liquid cooler for the CPU additionally means the middle of this construct is not dominated by a cumbersome heatsink, however as a substitute has only a compact RGB-topped water pump.

This case usually is available in all kinds of colours, together with this blue milk possibility. Nonetheless, solely the black model is out there with this prebuilt configuration.

Nonetheless, it is a great-looking system, and the case is properly constructed, too. All of the panels are thick and durable feeling, and the left and proper principal facet panels simply pull straight off, offering easy accessibility to a lot of the case. There are not any outright luxurious touches right here, like brushed aluminum or hardwood accents, however as black metal, plastic, and glass instances go, this one’s unbelievable.

Given the scale of this PC, it ships in an unsurprisingly giant and heavy field, so you may want a second individual available that can assist you safely unbox it. Inside, you will discover the PC and a wired keyboard and mouse, together with a couple of of the equipment included with the varied parts of the PC, such because the motherboard’s Wi-Fi aerial, some cables, an influence cable, and the unique CPU cooler mount for the motherboard.

Take away the PC, and you will find that it contains printed directions mounted clearly onto its facet panel, instructing you on the right way to safely arrange the PC’s graphics card. The rationale that is wanted is that iBUYPOWER sensibly ships the PC with out its graphics card put in within the PC, as the burden of this part makes it extremely vulnerable to transferring round throughout transport and getting broken. As a substitute, the graphics card is mounted in its field and wedged into the case together with a few increasing foam inserts.

Sadly, regardless of these precautions, there was a bit of harm in transit. The graphics card retaining clip in the back of the vertical GPU PCI-E extension had snapped off, as seen under. Fortunately, this did not have an effect on the construct in any respect, due to the cardboard being vertically mounted, however this does spotlight the risks of high-end PCs ever being shipped – there is a motive the instances for PCs from the likes of Dell – such because the Alienware Aurora R16 – have a tendency to not have glass panels and to have much more reinforcing buildings contained in the case.

One other minor difficulty was that the case followers weren’t working initially. After slightly rummaging round behind the neatly-cabled case, I ultimately labored out that the Molex energy connector powering the fan controller board had come free. With this linked, all was good.

With the transport foam eliminated and graphics card mounted – and its energy cable fitted – the PC was able to have its energy and different exterior cables linked, and the PC fired up.

Booting went with out a hitch, with the PC greeting me with a typical Home windows 11 setup. I am going to depart my rants about how terrible Microsoft has made the steps that comply with for elsewhere.

As soon as on the desktop, MSI Middle robotically pops up asking if you would like to put in the varied drivers required for the MSI motherboard, which is beneficial sufficient. Nonetheless, there is a good bit of bloatware included on this, so you’ll want to verify or uncheck the tickboxes for the options you do and don’t desire. In any other case, iBUYPOWER hasn’t added any bloatware of its personal. You simply get the pure dystopia that’s the present state of Home windows 11.

The opposite instantly apparent factor upon booting the PC was that the CPU cooler’s followers had been surprisingly loud. Even at idle, they had been ripping alongside at fairly excessive pace and making for round 38dB of noise from round 75cm away (regular distance of your head from a PC sat in your desk), or round 45dB of noise from 20cm away.

I needed to bounce into the BIOS and discover the fan management part to allow the good fan management for these, tweaking the response curves to have the followers kick in far much less aggressively.

As to the included keyboard and mouse, they’re really completely respectable. The keyboard has the responsiveness and really feel of a mechanical unit, and its format is compact however purposeful, whereas its RGB lighting appears to be like fairly respectable. The mouse, likewise, feels snug, and will get the job carried out.

I think these spending $3,200 on a gaming PC are prone to need to spec up some premium peripherals of their very own, however you possibly can at the very least get began with what’s included. A monitor and audio system or a headset will should be purchased individually, although. You’ll be able to try our greatest gaming monitor, finest pc audio system, and finest gaming headset guides for extra steering on these.

Benchmarks

Because of its RTX 5080, this PC is, unsurprisingly, an absolute monster on the subject of video games. Beginning the place we at all times do today when testing PCs, CPUs, GPUs, and extra, our first recreation take a look at was Cyberpunk 2077. I ran it at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K, utilizing the Extremely ray tracing preset and with no upscaling or body gen, and this mighty system coped impressively.

At 1080p, you are simply over 105fps common with a extremely regular 1% low of 79fps. In the meantime, at 1440p this does drop vital, however to a nonetheless very playable 67fps common with 55fps 1% lows. At 4K, you are simply 34fps common with 28fps 1% lows, however a shot of DLSS upscaling at High quality, and this may rise to a playable stage once more. Equally, if you wish to experiment with the super-demanding path tracing mode, this setup will get there, simply with a good quantity of upscaling required.

Transferring on to Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle, and this PC cruised via this take a look at, hitting 143fps at 1080p, regardless of the sport operating at Extremely element settings with no upscaling. At 1440p this drops to 120fps, however even at 4K you will nonetheless get 96fps common. Once more, enabling this recreation’s very demanding path tracing mode would require a big quantity of upscaling, and perhaps even body gen, however this card will get you a great-looking and playable outcome.

F1 24 is up subsequent, and this can be a barely older and fewer graphically wealthy title than Indiana Jones, so we noticed body charges bounce once more. With figures of 170fps, 139fps, and 86fps common whereas operating at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K, this recreation is a breeze for this setup.

Our ultimate recreation take a look at is Whole Conflict: Warhammer 3, which is a fair older recreation with extra primary graphics. Nonetheless, its Mirrors of Insanity take a look at is kind of demanding on CPUs, so is an effective method to doubtlessly present up PCs with entry-level CPUs. Nonetheless, the Y70 R17 had no such points, delivering stable body charges throughout all our exams.

As for non-gaming duties, in Cinebench R24, this PC powered its method to a single-core rating of 132 and a multi-core rating of 1,332, which is bang in keeping with the scores we achieved in our 9800X3D assessment. This story was mirrored in Geekbench 6, the place this PC scored spectacular figures of three,303 in its single-core take a look at and 17,409 in its multi-core take a look at. In the meantime, it hit a large 273,409 within the OpenCL GPU take a look at. It won’t be a multi-core powerhouse excellent for mega, number-crunching, workstation workloads, however it will probably maintain its personal, and it is glorious for the whole lot else.

Value

The iBUYPOWER Y70 R17 worth is $3,199.99, making it clearly an costly gaming PC. Nonetheless, with RTX 5080s going for sometimes round $1,400, and the 9800X3D costing round $420 (actually simply as I typed this it dropped from $470 on Amazon to $420), you are almost $2,000 only for these parts, earlier than accounting for the $200 case, the price of 32GB of DDR5 for the time being, and all the opposite bits you continue to want.

As such, whereas that is removed from a price range system, and clearly iBUYPOWER remains to be including a small markup in comparison with you simply shopping for the parts your self, it is unbelievable worth for a system that may be delivered, able to go (becoming the graphics card and tweaking the fan speeds apart) in as little as 4 days, and comes with a 3 yr guarantee.

Verdict

The iBUYPOWER RDY Y70 R17 will not be far off the best embodiment of a high-end gaming PC proper now. Housing ultra-powerful however not needlessly top-tier {hardware} (similar to an RTX 5080 quite than an RTX 5090 and a 9800X3D quite than a 9850X3D) inside a classy and really well-ventilated case, it appears to be like and performs the half.

Crucially, it additionally is available in at a aggressive worth and in a prebuilt package deal which means you do not have to fiddle round choosing out each part your self and wait weeks for it to be delivered. Nearly each half on this PC is one we would suggest for anybody constructing a system like this, so you possibly can simply click on to purchase with confidence that it is a actually well-balanced gaming PC.

Crucially, whereas different pre-builts exist – and a few may even be discovered for discount costs when being bought off later of their life – most are usually far more locked down in how straightforward they’re to improve sooner or later. The likes of the Alienware Aurora R16 and MSI MEG Trident X2 are far more compact than this PC, however have limitations in what normal PC elements will slot in them.

The R17 additionally is not in any other case good. The case could be very giant, and the truth that the CPU cooler followers arrived needing some BIOS adjustment, in order to not be simply heard from the opposite facet of the room, is a minor irritation. Plus, the truth that, regardless of iBUYPOWER’s finest efforts and use of very wise packaging, there was a tiny bit of harm, does expose the marginally increased threat of shopping for a system like this, quite than a extra shipping-friendly however boring and fewer upgradable pre-built gaming PC possibility.