Cyberpower X6 9200 Gaming Notebook

Introduction - Cyberpower X6 9200 Gaming Notebook

Cyberpower PC has become one of the fastest growing custom PC designers and builders that have entered the scene to date. Cyberpower started in the late 90's and quickly grew in popularity in the performance enthusiasts community, with great performance for an excellent price. This tradition has made them obscenely popular and one of the fastest growing companies, as reported by the Los Angeles Business Journal in 2003. When looking at gaming notebook options, there are prevalent dispositions towards one notebook manufacturer or another. Either way, customers will many times pay end up paying a largely inflated price tag due to the brand name or logo.

Many things need to be considered when looking for a notebook, as upgrades are usually very difficult, since most of the components are proprietary and very difficult (or even impossible) to upgrade. Customers will need to keep their intended use in mind for this reason. For instance, most gaming notebooks usually will have performance close to their desktop counterparts. They cannot usually rival similar desktops due to the cooling limitations imposed on a notebook with the limited amounts of space. Notebook processors and graphics components usually have a much lower TDP to allow lower heat to match the previously mentioned restrictions. Users need to keep this kind of information in mind when selecting a notebook to ensure it fits the needs of their work and gaming needs. When selected wisely, a notebook can actually be a desktop replacement for those who need their systems to be portable as well as powerful.

The specific model the Cyberpower X6 9200 gaming notebook we're looking at today comes packing some impressive hardware for the $900.00 price tag that is presently listed on the company's web store. This notebook carries one of Intel's newest mobile Sandy Bridge processors. The Core i7-2670QM has a standard speed of 2.2GHz and a max turbo frequency of 3.1GHz, in addition to 4 cores with HyperThreading enabled. Additionally, the dual channel DDR3 memory controller opens up more than enough bandwidth for anything users will put on it. This system comes packed with dual 4GB 1333MHz sticks of DDR3 memory to ensure plenty of memory for as much work as we can throw at it. For the gaming and high performance rendering tasks, we have the discrete Nvidia GT540M graphics processor with 2GB memory to ensure plenty of graphics performance for some of the newest games at moderate settings. This notebook is also equipped with Nvidia Optimus technology which allows maximum power savings when heavy graphics loading is not needed, and maximum performance when our games demand it.

It is important to note that the $900.00 range is actually the lower mid-range for performance notebook options, and we need to keep that in mind when gauging performance. Cyberpower offers many models to suit multiple levels of user and gamer alike, but the price levels do match these increases in performance. On this model, we estimate that most games will run at mid level graphics settings with the standard 1366 x 768 resolution. This model also employs a Full HD display with capable resolutions of up to 1920 x 1080 Full HD which allows for more desktop real estate, and also provides support for playback of HD video including Blu Ray content. Games can be played at the 1920 x 1080 resolution, but depending upon the graphics level of the game, the framerate may fall below a smooth level.

So far, the notebook has some great specs, and shows great promise. Let's take a look at what this gaming notebook can do, and the special features that make it worth its $900.00 asking price.