Unit Specifications

Here’s a quick comparison of our units:

Feature Comparison
	CyberPower	iBuyPower	Maingear PC
Processor	AMD Phenom 9550	AMD Phenom 9850	Athlon X2 5000+ Black Edition
Motherboard	MSI K9A2 CF-F	ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe	Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H
Memory	2GB Corsair DDR2-800	2GB Corsair DDR2-800	2GB Corsair DDR2-800
Video Card	2x ATI Radeon HD 3870	1xATI Radeon HD 3870	1xATI Radeon HD 3870
Hard Drive	500GB SATAII	500GB SATAII	250GB SATAII
Optical Drive	1x DVD+/-RW	1x DVD+/-RW	1x DVD+/-RW
Power Supply	CoolerMaster 600W	Antec Trio 650W	Silverstone 500W
OS	Vista Home Premium 64-bit	Vista Home Premium 64-bit	Vista Home Premium 64-bit
Other Features	WLAN	WLAN, eSATA	eSATA

With only a quick glance, you can see that the CyberPower unit has two video cards, which should reflect very well in our benchmarks. The Silverstone, on the other hand, has only a dual core CPU and half the hard drive capacity of the other machines. Remember, these units cost about the same, which is just under $1000. We will look at them in detail next, to see what makes up each unit beyond the spec sheet.