Cyberpower Gaming Battalion 502 Windows 8 PC Review (FX 4170 / Radeon 7770)

By refraining from installing irritating blot-ware such as security suites and software trials, Cyberpower gives users an unprecedented amount of freedom to install exactly what they want.

A decent 5.9 Windows score is achieved by the Gaming Battalion 502 system with just the 2TB mechanical hard drive bringing the overall rating down to a respectable 5.9.

Combining a 4.2 GHz, quad core AMD FX 4170 CPU with 8 gigabytes of Kingston DDR3 1333MHz memory and a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 motherboard, the Cyberpower Gaming Battalion 502 system looks to offer competitive performance from a well-priced component ‘backbone'.

The GA-78LMT-USB3 motherboard's SB710 South Bridge lacks any type of SATA 6GB/s connectivity which could be a major problem for users wanting to upgrade the Gaming Battalion 502 system with a modern SSD.

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When idling or rendering basic 2D images, the Radeon HD 7770's stock clock speeds of 1000MHz for the core and 1125MHz for the memory are slashed to 300MHz and 150MHz, respectively, to reduce power consumption and GPU temperature.

1.79TB of the 1.81TB total capacity remains free on the 2TB Seagate 7200.14 hard drive. Cyberpower opts for the single partition approach which can help to avoid user issues caused by multi-partition configurations.

System specifications:

• Processor: AMD FX 4170 4.2GHz
• Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3
• Memory: 8GB Kingston DDR3 1333MHz
• Graphics Card: MSI Radeon HD 7770 1GB ((R7770-PMD1GD5)
• Hard Disk Drive: 2TB Seagate 7200.14 ST2000DM001
• CPU Cooler: Reference AMD FX 4170 heatsink
• Case: Cooler Master Elite 310 w/ Side Panel Window
• Power Supply: Artic MPS550 550W
• Optical Drive: 24x Optiarc AD-7280S
• Operating System: Windows 8 64-bit

Software Suite:

• 3DMark Vantage
• 3DMark 11
• PCMark 7
• SiSoft Sandra
• Super Pi
• Cinebench 11.5 64 bit
• Unigine Heaven Benchmark
• ATTO
• CrystalDiskMark
• VLC Media Player
• HandBrake 0.9.8
• Battlefield 3
• Metro 2033
• Crysis 2

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