iBuyPower RDY Y40 Valorant VCTA R003 review
I'm thoroughly impressed with this iBuyPower gaming PC. It showed up at my house from half the world away and I was only one menial GPU installation away from a well-performing gaming PC. That's the simplicity and ease I want out of a pre-built machine, especially one that's as competitively priced as this.
There's always a certain degree of concern when importing a gaming PC from the US into the UK. That's a long way to go and gaming PCs are not good travellers. There's a risk that the gaming PC boxed up on one side of the pond is an expensive bag of bits jingling around in a metal box when opened on the other—as our Dave recently found out with an HP gaming PC. Thankfully, the iBuyPower arrived in one piece—or rather two, to be exact.
It showed up at my door in a fairly large cardboard box, which contained the chassis box including the PC and a separate box for the graphics card. That's an important step for any gaming PC in transit: even the lightest modern graphics cards are pretty heavy by historical standards and PCIe slots will happily crunch a PCB left in there.
This means it's up to the customer to install the GPU themselves, which might seem a little daunting if you've bought a pre-built gaming PC to avoid building one yourself—but honestly, it's a pretty simple process. Made even easier by the unavoidable sheet of instructions stuffed inside the PC's tempered glass side panel.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X
GPU: PNY GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB Verto
RAM: XPG Lancer Blade 32 GB DDR5-5600 (dual channel)
Motherboard: MSI Pro B650-VC WiFi
SSD: WD Blue SN580 1 TB
PSU: High Power 750 W 80 Plus Gold (HP1-J750GD-F12S)
Chassis: Hyte Y40 w/ vertical GPU mounting bracket + riser cable
Cooling: 3x iBuyPower 120 mm, iBuyPower 240 mm Addressable RGB Liquid Cooler
Rear connectivity: Wi-Fi 6E, 4x USB Type-A (5 Gbps), 3x USB Type-A (10 Gbps), 1x USB Type-C (20 Gbps), 2.5G LAN, audio, HDMI/DisplayPort
Front connectivity (chassis): 2x USB Type-A (5 Gbps), 1x USB Type-C (10Gbps)
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