YOYOTech Warbird SB2500-460 System Review

YOYOTech have decided to use the Silverstone PS03 chassis for the Warbird which is a great value case at around £40 inc. VAT.  It isn't the most attractive looking chassis design in the world, but it is well-featured for the price and is quite compact considering it supports full-size ATX motherboards.  The front is made entirely from perforated steel, broken only by the DVD writer and a YOYOTech badge.  Due to the design of the case, the DVD writer isn't flush with the rest of the front panel.

Although there are only two USB2.0 ports visible next to the power and reset buttons on top of the case, there are actually four front panel USB2.0 ports altogether and two 3.5mm jacks.  The other two USB2.0 ports and the 3.5mm jacks are located under a cover on the top of the system which is perfect for storing all your USB drives and other accessories.  There is also a roof vent further back on the top of the case but YOYOTech haven't felt the need to populate this with an exhaust fan.

Around the back of the case we find the exhaust fan alongside a generous selection of I/O connections.  These consist of eight USB2.0 ports, two USB3.0 ports, an RJ-45 Ethernet jack, optical and analogue S/PDIF connections and six 3.5mm audio jacks.  There is also a YOYOTech sticker which displays a support telephone number.

Our real excitement begins when we remove the side panel of the case using the provided thumbscrews.  YOYOTech have decided to use Gigabyte's latest P67A-UD3P motherboard as the backbone of the system which features their new black colour scheme.  Depending on available stock, this may be switched out for an Asus P8P67 board (pictured above). The Intel Core-i5 2500K CPU is cooled using a Thermaltake Contac29 CPU cooler which provides ample cooling for the overclocked chip.  This is accompanied by 4GB of 1600MHz Kingston HyperX DDR3 RAM. Much has been made of Intel's Sandy Bridge chipset recently, here is KitGuru's most recent opinion.

The Asus GeForce GTX 460 DirectCU graphics card should provide enough power to play all the latest games – something we'll test later on in the review.  It is great to see that YOYOTech are using a high quality Thermaltake Toughpower 550W power supply for the system rather than the questionable unbranded ones used by some system builders.

To keep the cost of the Warbird down to a minimum, YOYOTech have opted for a Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB 7200rpm hard drive rather than a solid state drive.  This should provide enough room for all your media but you obviously pay a speed penalty.  YOYOTech have spent some time with the routing, positioning all the cables behind the motherboard tray.

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