Gaming: Upcoming Ibuypower Rdy Element 9 Pro R07 Review
The iBuyPower Element Pro is a superb all-AMD gaming PC. It doesn't totally skirt around inflated costs today, as its price has increased in recent months, but lots of memory and high capacity storage means anyone that purchases it can at least forget about needing to upgrade for a very long time.
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It's not the cheapest time to be getting into PC gaming. Prices are going up. The iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 in front of me for review isn't immune, either. The system, priced at $1,699 in September, is currently sat at $2,149. That's a tricky thing to navigate when determining value here, as nothing is as good value as it was five months ago, but I have generally little bad to say about the Element Pro. It's solid.
Starting with its choice of components, it comes with an Asus Prime RX 9070 XT 16 GB, which isn't far off the choice of graphics card I'd choose for a PC build of my own right now. It's capable at 4K and has 16 GB of VRAM. That alone is sure to make some gamers swoon. Though you don't get to switch on DLSS, FSR is a decent alternative. And the Prime card, including a triple-fan shroud, is pretty cool and quiet—reaching a mere 61 °C in my testing in Metro Exodus: Enhanced Edition.
The CPU is the tremendous Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which was once upon a time the best CPU for gaming. That title has swapped hands to the one-generation newer Ryzen 7 9800X3D now, though the 7800X3D isn't hugely far behind. Thanks in part to both chips using 3D V-Cache. It's an eight-core, 16-thread chip that has enough muster to make light work of most everyday productivity and video editing. What's important, however, is that it can tear through the latest games with ease. It's no slouch.
We're in a dire state with memory, in large part thanks to demand for AI. Thankfully, this PC does circumvent the need to think much more on that, including 32 GB of DDR5-6000. It's decent-looking stuff in here, two sticks of XPG Lancer Blade RGB (AX5U6000C48), but it's a fairly high latency kit. It's running at CL48. Before the great mempocalypse, that would've been seen as relatively sluggish. Now, I suppose, it's realistic—thanks, AI.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3DGPU: Asus Prime RX 9070 XT 16 GBRAM: 32 GB DDR5-6000 Z XPG Lancer Blade RGB (AX5U6000C48)PSU: High Power HP1-S2850GD-F12S 80 Plus
Source: PC Gamer
