Desktop Reviews

• Affordable, powerful gaming desktop PC with clear side panel and neon light accents
• 2.4 GHz Intel Core two Quad Q6600 processor, 500 GB hard drive, three GB RAM 4 GB max, dual layer DVD drive
• Fast Ethernet, two x Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT with 512 MB of dedicated video memory
• Connectivity: six USB, two FireWire, one eSATA, four DVI, one headset, two microphone, one SPDIF, 6 channel audio ports, one COM
• Pre installed with Windows Vista Home Premium with Media Center capabilities, will include keyboard and optical mouse

Get exceptional gaming performance at an cheap price with the uniquely styled and intelligently intended iBuyPower Gamer 912AT desktop PC. The clear side panel with neon light accents helps you show off the system’s interior workings, and it comes with iBuyPower’s standard silent cooling solution. Crafted for gaming fans looking for a bump in graphics and processing power that will not break the bank, this desktop is powered by the 2.4 GHz Intel Core two Quad Q6600 processor, which delivers four complete execution cores inside a single processor for unprecedented performance and responsiveness in multi threaded and multi tasking gaming/multimedia environments.

You will enjoy improved video performance thanks to the 8800 GT with 512 MB of dedicated video RAM. Other features are a 500 GB hard drive, three GB of installed RAM 4 GB maximum, dual layer DVD±RW burner that also writes CDs, and included optical mouse and keyboard.

This PC also comes preinstalled with Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, which will include all of the Windows Media Center potential for turning your PC into an all in one home entertainment center. Also to easily playing your DVD movies and managing your audio library, you will be able to record and watch your beloved TV shows even HDTV. Vista also integrates new search tools during the operating system, will include new parental control features, and offers new tools that can warn you of imminent hardware failures.

The Basics

• Processor: With four execution cores, the 2.4 GHz Intel Core two Quad Processor Q6600 blows through processor intensive tasks in calling for multitasking environments and makes the most of greatly threaded applications. If you are creating multimedia, annihilating your gaming enemies, or running compute intensive applications at one time, new quad core processing will change the way you do everything. The Q6600 has a top of the class 1066 MHz front side bus FSB and dual four MB L2 caches for a whopping big eight MB shared L2 cache. An L2, or secondary, cache temporarily stores data, and a bigger L2 cache may help speed up your system’s performance. The FSB carries data between the CPU and RAM, and a faster front side bus will deliver better in general performance.

  With four complete execution cores in a single processor, you get four dedicated, physical threads help operating systems and applications deliver extra performance that improve multi tasking and multi threaded performance across many kinds of applications and work loads. The Smart Memory Access feature improves system performance by hiding memory latency, optimizing the use of available computer data bandwidth to offer data to the processor when and where it is obliged. The Advanced Digital Media increase feature effectively doubles the execution speed for information used widely in multimedia and graphics applications. And with the Intel 64 Architecture, the processor can access bigger amounts of memory. With proper 64 bit hardware and software, platforms depending on an Intel processor behind Intel 64 Architecture can let the use of expanded virtual and physical memory.

• Hard Drive: The ginormous 500 GB Serial ATA hard drive 7200 RPM gives more than enough capacity for storing a big audio and video library, also as extra space obliged for video editing. This SATA hard drive also quickens the rate with a higher speed move of data akin to Firewire and USB 2.0.
• Memory: The three GB of installed RAM PC5300, one x two GB, two x one GB helps increase the total of available video RAM that is shared with this notebook’s video card. It also offers a top of class 667 MHz speed. This desktop has a four GB maximum RAM capacity 2 x two GB. To get the faster data move benefits of the dual channel DDR2 RAM, any RAM additions require memory modules of same capacity and clockspeed.
• DVD/CD Drive: The dual layer DVD drive is matched with a large range of formats, as well as both DVD+RW and DVD RW discs, CD RW discs, and dual layer DL DVD+/ R discs, which can hold up to 8.5 GB of data great for backing up your MP3 collection or your most vital papers.

Screen, Video &amp, Audio
Video is powered by the integrated, SLI ready NVidia GeForce 8800 GT graphics/video card with 512 MB of dedicated GDDR3 graphics memory. GDDR3, short for Graphics Double Data Rate, variant 3, is a graphics card specific memory technology that is better able to deliver liquid frame rates for the most advanced games and applications. The 8800 GT has a 600 MHz core clock and 1500 MHz shader clock, also as a 57.6 GB/second memory bandwidth.

With support for Microsoft DirectX ten Shader Model 4.0 and High Dynamic Range Lighting HDR, it allows you to rip through all of today’s most advanced and cutting edge games and applications. Power through games at record speeds with vividly realistic, sun up to sun down HDR lighting effects, and turn on 16x full screen anti aliasing without missing a beat. The completely unified shader core dynamically allocates processing power to geometry, vertex, physics, or pixel shading functionings, delivering up to 2x the gaming performance of previous generation GPUs. And NVidia’s SLI technology delivers up to 2x the performance of a single graphics card configuration for unequaled gaming experiences by letting two graphics cards to run in parallel.

Networking, Connectivity &amp, Expansion
This desktop PC comes with the following external connectors:

• 6 USB 2.0 ports for connecting a large range of peripherals from digital cameras to MP3 players 2 front, four rear
• 2 FireWire also called IEEE 1394 or i.Link port for connecting digital video camcorders and other peripherals 1 front, one rear
• 1 eSATA for connecting an external hard drive
• Digital video output: four DVI
• Analog video output: none
• Audio: headset and microphone front, 8 channel audio ports rear, one SPDIF audio output rear
• 2 PS/2 for connecting mouse and keyboard
• 1 RJ45 for connecting to an Ethernet network
• 1 COM port
• 1 parallel printer port

Operating System
Windows Vista Home Premium is the operating system for users with advanced computer needs, and it will include all of the Windows Media Center potential for turning your PC into an all in one home entertainment center for watching DVD movies and accessing your audio library. You may also use Windows Media Center to record and watch your beloved TV shows even HDTV and to access new types of online entertainment content. Computers that include Windows Vista Home Premium and an secondary Windows SideShow display will also let you to access key data when your computer is off. It’s also easier than ever to share files between other PCs in your household and to manage your laptop computer settings to more securely connect via Wi Fi.

Every edition of Windows Vista gives the essential tools and technologies to help protect you if you’re browsing the Internet, connecting to a wireless network, or just reading e mail. All editions of Windows Vista include new tools that can warn you of imminent hardware failures long before you have lost any vital personal data. And, all Windows Vista editions include parental control features that let you to manage and monitor your family’s use of games, the Internet, instant messaging, and other actions.

Preloaded Software
Microsoft Office 2007 Trial Edition 60 days

What’s in the Box
This package holds the iBuypower 931AN desktop PC, power cord, mouse and keyboard, and operating information. It’s supported by a restricted warranty for parts and labor for one year from date of buy.

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