Specifications
CyberPower
LAN Party
Evo
If you stopped a nerd in an electronics store
and asked her to describe a small form fac-
tor PC, she’d just pull up a picture of Cyber-
Power’s LAN Party Evo on her smartphone.
In many ways, this is the ultimate evo-
lution of the original SFF design. The LAN
Party Evo isn’t much bigger than the orig-
inal SFFs of yesteryear, but peep these
specs: a 3.4GHz Core i7-2600K, a GeForce
GTX 580 card, a 120GB Intel 510 SSD, and
1TB hard drive.
Cooling is handled by a deftly installed
Asetek 550LC. And thanks to the Mini-ITX
P8H67-I Deluxe, the sucker boots from dead
cold to desktop in 24 seconds.
In performance, there were no surprises.
There was no chance the LAN Party Evo
could outbox any of the other rigs here
considering how the others are loaded to
the gunnels with hardware. We won’t even
bother to get into performance compari-
sons because there’s no need. Certainly
overclocking the 2600K could have helped,
but you have to remember that you can’t
really overclock on the H-series chipset,
and CyberPower told us there are no P-
series chipsets in Mini ITX available today.
Turbo Boost 2.0 is still functioning, though,
so you do get some clock bumps.
Lest you think the LAN Party Evo is some
drag-ass slow system, it’s not. With its
2600K part and GTX 580, it’s probably faster
than 90 percent of standard desktop sys-
tems today, and will comfortably play today’s
games at 1080p resolutions. In app per-
formance, it really isn’t that far behind
the other rigs.
But against the hardware in this
roundup, it’s got no chance of win-
ning any gaming tests. Despite all this,
we’re really tickled pink by the LAN
Party Evo. It’s quiet, lightweight, and is
even relatively easy on the electricity.
Its idle power consumption is a third of
some of the machines here. And at half the
price of the other rigs (as it should be), it’s
really a damn spiffy rig.
Overall, the LAN Party Evo is an impres-
sive box. Unfortunately, it’s just not as im-
pressive as the others in this roundup.
CyberPower LAN Party Evo
$2,100. www.cyberpowerpc.com
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VERDICT
The Evo can’t beat the others here, but a GTX 580 and
2600K in this chassis are impressive nonetheless.
BENCHMARKS
VEGAS PRO 9 (SEC)
LIGHTROOM 2.6 (SEC)
PROSHOW 4 (SEC)
REFERENCE 1.6 (SEC)
STALKER: CoP (FPS)
FAR CRY 2 (FPS)
Our current desktop test bed consists of a quad-core 2.66GHz Core i7-920 overclocked to 3.5GHz, 6GB of Corsair DDR3/1333 overclocked
to 1,750MHz, on a Gigabyte X58 motherboard. We are running an ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics card, a 160GB Intel X25-M SSD, and 64-bit
Windows 7 Ultimate.
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
3,049
356
1,112
2,113
42.0
114.4
3,030
310
1,054
2,064
44.8
109.5 (-4%)
ZERO
POINT
If you look up “small form factor”
in the dictionary, you will see
a picture of CyberPower’s LAN
Party Evo.
SPECIFICATIONS
PROCESSOR
Intel 3.4GHz Core i7-2600K
MOBO
Asus P8H67-I (Intel H67 chipset)
RAM
4GB DDR3/1333
VIDEOCARD
GeForce GTX 580
SOUNDCARD
Onboard
STORAGE
120GB Intel 510 SSD, 1TB
Western Digital 7,200rpm HDD
OPTICAL
LG Blu-ray combo drive
CASE/PSU
Silverstone SG07 / Silverstone
600 watt
8.75”
14”
7.5”
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