iBUYPOWER RDY Y70 R17 overview

Primarily based on the Y70 case made by iBUYPOWER’s sub-brand, Hyte, the iBUYPOWER RDY Y70 R17 is a big however great-looking and {powerful} gaming PC that goals to ship blazing-fast body charges for a good worth. Accessible as a pre-built, quick-to-ship configuration, you’ll be able to’t modify the spec provided right here, however iBUYPOWER does supply many different customized methods, for if you would like the same general PC however with exactly your alternative of components.

I have been placing the RDY Y70 R17 via its paces for the previous couple of days to see whether or not it is worthy of a spot on our greatest gaming PC information, testing its gaming efficiency, non-gaming efficiency, cooling functionality, and noise, all whereas seeing simply how well-built this method is, and what potential it has for future upgrades. Learn on to see if iBUYPOWER’s newest is the precise gaming PC for you.

Specs

The massive ticket merchandise of this PC is, in fact, its Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080. This makes up the majority of its gaming prowess and accounts for practically half the PC’s worth. The mannequin in our check system is an Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5080, although iBUYPOWER would not single out precisely which card you will get when ordering this PC – it simply says “GeForce RTX 5080 – 16GB.”

This specific mannequin is a protracted, two-and-a-half-slot vast, triple-fan design that makes use of a single 12VHPWR connector. Its dimension and fan configuration guarantee this card stays cool and quiet underneath load, and its followers cease fully when the cardboard’s not being pushed exhausting.

Backing up the second quickest graphics card on the earth is, coincidentally, the second quickest CPU on the earth, too. Whereas iBUYPOWER does supply comparable methods with the brand new 9850X3D, the R17 sticks with the 9800X3D. This can be a good selection, because it brings the price of the system down a short time solely compromising the tiniest quantity in gaming efficiency.

This CPU’s eight cores are additionally ample for normal desktop work, so that you’re getting a system right here that, whereas undoubtedly gaming-focused, is a good all-rounder, too. The 32GB of 6,000MT/s DDR5 can be an ample quantity of RAM for many duties.

The CPU is cooled by iBUYPOWER’s personal 240mm all-in-one liquid cooler, which pulls warmth from the chip as much as a 240mm radiator mounted within the roof of the case, the place two 120mm followers cool the radiator, blowing their scorching air straight out the highest of the case.

Different cooling is offered by 4 RGB followers, with one mounted above the rear IO, and three mounted on the motherboard tray, in entrance of the precise aspect panel, the place they blow cool recent air inside to feed the graphics card and the CPU cooler followers.

As is so widespread with trendy PCs, storage consists of only a single M.2 NVMe Gen4 SSD. This one is a Lexar NQ7A1 with an ample capability of 2TB. It is not the quickest drive on the earth, with learn and write speeds of 6,000MB/s and 5,000MB/s respectively, but it surely’s high quality for a gaming PC. The MSI Professional X870-P Wifi motherboard additionally has two extra M.2 mounts for simply increasing your storage.

Talking of the motherboard, it is a full-size ATX mannequin, so that you get three spare PCI-E growth slots, alongside the one occupied by the graphics card. It additionally has loads of headers for increasing storage with SATA drives, including additional followers, extra RGB strips, and USB ports. Its rear IO can be properly balanced. The HDMI port is redundant – as you will use that of the graphics card – however in any other case you get loads of USB-A and USB-C ports, though 4 of the USB-A’s are simply USB 2.0 speeds.

2.5Gb Ethernet, primary however practical onboard audio, and Wi-Fi 7 spherical out its IO options, whereas the addition of buttons for flashing the BIOS and clearing the CMOS are good little extras.

Powering all this lot is an iBUYPOWER 850W energy provide. The corporate would not specify the effectivity of the PSU.

Design, construct, and setup

Whereas it is the RTX 5080 that takes the plaudits for the efficiency of this PC, in relation to type and sheer presence, it is all in regards to the Hyte Y70 case that homes this method. As we explored in our Hyte Y70 Contact overview, this case is a hanging and sizeable unit, with it measuring 320mm vast, which compares to round 200mm for a typical tower case.

All that additional width permits for a bunch of nice options, although. For a begin, it permits for the ability provide to be mounted behind the motherboard, the place it is fully out of sight. This additionally offers a great deal of room for you to have the ability to mount the graphics card vertically, as has been accomplished right here. Attempt to mount a graphics card vertically in a standard tower case (which most do not even assist), and loads of them do not present ample air flow because of their slim width. Right here, although, there’s a great deal of area for air to flow into.

This vast, dual-chamber configuration additionally permits for the triple glass panel view of the within of your case, which not solely reveals off your graphics card but in addition makes a spectacle of the RGB followers mounted on the precise aspect. The selection of an AIO liquid cooler for the CPU additionally means the middle of this construct is not dominated by a cumbersome heatsink, however as an alternative has only a compact RGB-topped water pump.

This case usually is available in all kinds of colours, together with this blue milk possibility. Nonetheless, solely the black model is offered with this prebuilt configuration.

Nonetheless, it is a great-looking system, and the case is properly constructed, too. All of the panels are thick and durable feeling, and the left and proper important aspect panels simply pull straight off, offering easy accessibility to a lot of the case. There are no outright luxurious touches right here, like brushed aluminum or hardwood accents, however as black metal, plastic, and glass instances go, this one’s improbable.

Given the dimensions of this PC, it ships in an unsurprisingly massive and heavy field, so you may want a second individual available that can assist you safely unbox it. Inside, you will discover the PC and a wired keyboard and mouse, together with just a few of the equipment included with the varied parts of the PC, such because the motherboard’s Wi-Fi aerial, some cables, an influence cable, and the unique CPU cooler mount for the motherboard.

Take away the PC, and you will find that it consists of printed directions mounted clearly onto its aspect panel, instructing you on how you can safely arrange the PC’s graphics card. The explanation that is wanted is that iBUYPOWER sensibly ships the PC with out its graphics card put in within the PC, as the load of this element makes it extremely vulnerable to transferring round throughout transport and getting broken. As an alternative, the graphics card is mounted in its field and wedged into the case together with a few increasing foam inserts.

Sadly, regardless of these precautions, there was a bit of injury in transit. The graphics card retaining clip in the back of the vertical GPU PCI-E extension had snapped off, as seen beneath. Fortunately, this did not have an effect on the construct in any respect, due to the cardboard being vertically mounted, however this does spotlight the hazards of high-end PCs ever being shipped – there is a motive the instances for PCs from the likes of Dell – such because the Alienware Aurora R16 – have a tendency to not have glass panels and to have much more reinforcing buildings contained in the case.

One other minor difficulty was that the case followers weren’t working initially. After a bit of rummaging round behind the neatly-cabled case, I finally labored out that the Molex energy connector powering the fan controller board had come free. With this linked, all was good.

With the transport foam eliminated and graphics card mounted – and its energy cable fitted – the PC was able to have its energy and different exterior cables linked, and the PC fired up.

Booting went with out a hitch, with the PC greeting me with a typical Home windows 11 setup. I will go away my rants about how terrible Microsoft has made the steps that comply with for elsewhere.

As soon as on the desktop, MSI Middle mechanically pops up asking if you would like to put in the varied drivers required for the MSI motherboard, which is beneficial sufficient. Nonetheless, there is a good bit of bloatware included on this, so you should definitely test or uncheck the tickboxes for the options you do and don’t desire. In any other case, iBUYPOWER hasn’t added any bloatware of its personal. You simply get the pure dystopia that’s the present state of Home windows 11.

The opposite instantly apparent factor upon booting the PC was that the CPU cooler’s followers had been surprisingly loud. Even at idle, they had been ripping alongside at fairly excessive velocity and making for round 38dB of noise from round 75cm away (regular distance of your head from a PC sat in your desk), or round 45dB of noise from 20cm away.

I needed to bounce into the BIOS and discover the fan management part to allow the good fan management for these, tweaking the response curves to have the followers kick in far much less aggressively.

As to the included keyboard and mouse, they’re truly completely respectable. The keyboard has the responsiveness and really feel of a mechanical unit, and its format is compact however practical, whereas its RGB lighting appears to be like fairly respectable. The mouse, likewise, feels comfy, and will get the job accomplished.

I believe these spending $3,200 on a gaming PC are more likely to wish to spec up some premium peripherals of their very own, however you’ll be able to at the very least get began with what’s included. A monitor and audio system or a headset will must be purchased individually, although. You’ll be able to take a look at our greatest gaming monitor, greatest pc audio system, and greatest gaming headset guides for extra steering on these.

Benchmarks

Due to its RTX 5080, this PC is, unsurprisingly, an absolute monster in relation to video games. Beginning the place we all the time do lately when testing PCs, CPUs, GPUs, and extra, our first recreation check was Cyberpunk 2077. I ran it at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K, utilizing the Extremely ray tracing preset and with no upscaling or body gen, and this mighty system coped impressively.

At 1080p, you are simply over 105fps common with a very regular 1% low of 79fps. In the meantime, at 1440p this does drop vital, however to a nonetheless very playable 67fps common with 55fps 1% lows. At 4K, you are simply 34fps common with 28fps 1% lows, however a shot of DLSS upscaling at High quality, and this may rise to a playable degree once more. Equally, if you wish to experiment with the super-demanding path tracing mode, this setup will get there, simply with a good quantity of upscaling required.

Transferring on to Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle, and this PC cruised via this check, hitting 143fps at 1080p, regardless of the sport operating at Extremely element settings with no upscaling. At 1440p this drops to 120fps, however even at 4K you will nonetheless get 96fps common. Once more, enabling this recreation’s very demanding path tracing mode would require a big quantity of upscaling, and perhaps even body gen, however this card will get you a great-looking and playable outcome.

F1 24 is up subsequent, and this can be a barely older and fewer graphically wealthy title than Indiana Jones, so we noticed body charges bounce once more. With figures of 170fps, 139fps, and 86fps common whereas operating at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K, this recreation is a breeze for this setup.

Our ultimate recreation check is Complete Warfare: Warhammer 3, which is an excellent older recreation with extra primary graphics. Nonetheless, its Mirrors of Insanity check is sort of demanding on CPUs, so is an efficient technique to doubtlessly present up PCs with entry-level CPUs. Nonetheless, the Y70 R17 had no such points, delivering strong body charges throughout all our exams.

As for non-gaming duties, in Cinebench R24, this PC powered its technique to a single-core rating of 132 and a multi-core rating of 1,332, which is bang in step with the scores we achieved in our 9800X3D overview. This story was mirrored in Geekbench 6, the place this PC scored spectacular figures of three,303 in its single-core check and 17,409 in its multi-core check. In the meantime, it hit a large 273,409 within the OpenCL GPU check. It won’t be a multi-core powerhouse best for mega, number-crunching, workstation workloads, however it may well maintain its personal, and it is wonderful for all the pieces else.

Value

The iBUYPOWER Y70 R17 worth is $3,199.99, making it clearly an costly gaming PC. Nonetheless, with RTX 5080s going for usually round $1,400, and the 9800X3D costing round $420 (actually simply as I typed this it dropped from $470 on Amazon to $420), you are practically $2,000 only for these parts, earlier than accounting for the $200 case, the price of 32GB of DDR5 in the meanwhile, and all the opposite bits you continue to want.

As such, whereas that is removed from a price range system, and clearly iBUYPOWER remains to be including a small markup in comparison with you simply shopping for the parts your self, it is improbable worth for a system that may be delivered, able to go (becoming the graphics card and tweaking the fan speeds apart) in as little as 4 days, and comes with a 3 yr guarantee.

Verdict

The iBUYPOWER RDY Y70 R17 shouldn’t be far off the perfect embodiment of a high-end gaming PC proper now. Housing ultra-powerful however not needlessly top-tier {hardware} (reminiscent of an RTX 5080 moderately than an RTX 5090 and a 9800X3D moderately than a 9850X3D) inside a classy and really well-ventilated case, it appears to be like and performs the half.

Crucially, it additionally is available in at a aggressive worth and in a prebuilt package deal meaning you do not have to fiddle round selecting out each element your self and wait weeks for it to be delivered. Nearly each half on this PC is one we would advocate for anybody constructing a system like this, so you’ll be able to simply click on to purchase with confidence that it is a actually well-balanced gaming PC.

Crucially, whereas different pre-builts exist – and a few may even be discovered for discount costs when being bought off later of their life – most are typically far more locked down in how simple they’re to improve sooner or later. The likes of the Alienware Aurora R16 and MSI MEG Trident X2 are far more compact than this PC, however have limitations in what commonplace PC components will slot in them.

The R17 additionally is not in any other case excellent. The case may be very massive, and the truth that the CPU cooler followers arrived needing some BIOS adjustment, in order to not be simply heard from the opposite aspect of the room, is a minor irritation. Plus, the truth that, regardless of iBUYPOWER’s greatest efforts and use of very wise packaging, there was a tiny bit of injury, does expose the marginally greater threat of shopping for a system like this, moderately than a extra shipping-friendly however boring and fewer upgradable pre-built gaming PC possibility.