I couldn't get a 3080 at launch. When trying to get a 3090 at launch I saw this and pulled the trigger in 10 seconds or so that I had to purchase it.
The Good
Price: You can't buy the components in this machine and build it yourself for this price. Matching the components almost exactly it would cost me $300 more to build myself!
Quality: Almost all of the components are either off the shelf retail, or lightly customized parts from known retail brands.
Performance: With a RTX 3090, I9-10850k, 32GB RAM, and M.2 NVMe there's really nothing more powerful to upgrade to.
Smart Cost Cutting: 90% of the cost cutting on this build is spot on.
1) Cheap, but name brand motherboard. If you're only doing light tweaking even the most basic of Motherboards will do. The ASUS Prime Z490 is basic but quality.
2) 3000MHz RAM, fast RAM is one of the least effective ways to boost system performance. Sure, I could put some 4200MHz in here but it would gain me a 1% to 2% performance boost at best.
3) Mid-range name brand NVMe. Again, just like the motherboard, this was a smart pick. The 1TB WD Blue drive is a perfect cost, to performance, to capacity pick.
4) Cheap off-brand DRGB fans. Digital AKA addressable RGB is the way to go to help your build feel different. Fan manufactures know this and are more than willing to charge you for it! Going with a off-brand Chinese, or Korean brand removes that unnecessary markup. The result is quality ARGB fans at a fair price.
5) Great case! I like the design and quality wise it feels like it may be made by NZXT.
User Experience: 4K, HDR, MAX settings, 60+ FPS PC gaming is unbeatable! No bloat software, just Windows 10 and drivers.
Unfortunately, there is enough wrong with it to question the $3000+ price tag.
The Bad
Stupid cost cutting!
1) The one place they really should NOT have gone off-brand was the power supply, and they did. This system draws 600W at the outlet when under load! With as power hungry this RTX 3090 is you can NOT skip on the power supply! Not to mention BLUE yes BLUE PCIe power connectors on sleeved ketchup & mustard cables!
2) 120mm Radiator! Literally would've been better off with an air cooler. This CPU can heat soak this radiator in minutes leaving no thermal head room for overclocking.
3) Miss-matched fans in a push-pull configuration on the radiator!
Shipping damage: There was a slight bend in the bottom of the front panel on my case which lined up with a crease in the shipping box. I was able to work it out but this needs to shipped as a box in a box to ensure safety.
Laughable assembly: Along with the power supply this is where is all goes to CR*P! It was so bad I had to disassemble the entire machine and rebuilt it.
1) Motherboard standoffs were loose! The rear IO Shield was covering up the top rear USB ports because of the loose standoffs, because you know the motherboard was bending!!!
2) Un-managed Fans. All of the case fans were just daisy chained on a molex lead from the power supply! The AIO pump was plugged into a random fan header, when the board has an AIO header! What’s worse is the BIOS has a smart profile for managing the AIO pump, and radiator fan together that wasn't even used!
3) Unused motherboard ARGB/DRGB. All of the fans and AIO pump where connected to a generic RGB controller in the case. While this controller was decent and has a physical switch on the case, you can do so much more with software.
4) lack luster cable management. Granted you'll never see them the cable management was not great by any means.
5) CPU power connections. The motherboard has a total of 3 (4 pin) CPU power connections. The power supply has 4 (4 pin) CPU power connections, but only 2 were connected. While this _works_. It’s lazy at best, ignorant at worst.
BIOS settings. This ties into handling of the CPU cooling. The AIO used is adequate at best! With that said you need to do everything right to help keep the temps managed and the noise down. CyberPowerPC didn’t even try. I feel sorry for those that bought this PC with the knowledge to resolve this issue. They will have thermal issues with their CPU over time.
I had to fix it myself! GM cuts corners on cars, my Camaro ZL1 1LE is both expensive, and an amazing bargain at the same time! But I don’t feel any of that cost cutting, I don’t see it when I open my hood, or when I’m on the track, but I know it’s there. The difference is I didn’t need to do anything to address the cost cutting day 1 of owning my car. With this $3000+ CyberPowerPC I couldn’t even use it until I addressed the issues, and that’s not acceptable at this price point.
Picture is the machine running after I rebuilt it. I replaced the power supply, RAM (for RGB), rewired the fans, pumps, and RGB.