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Closer Look – Interior
Upon taking the Noctis 450 side panel off, we are greeting with the gubbins that Cyberpower have installed to make this system run everything you throw at it. Of course the interior is laid out rather nice and PSU shroud inclusive with the Noctis 450 hides the Cooler Master 600w power supply away. Aside from the core components such as the GPU, CPU and motherboard, we have the Corsair H100 with 2 x 120mm cooling fans keeping the tame, but powerful, pre overclocked 4.4GHz Intel processor well within recommended temperatures. Providing Wi-Fi via the top PCI slot, is the ASUS PCE-N15 PCI-E Wireless 802.11n 300Mbps adapter which does the job with gusto; the green PCB is a little off putting and does spoil the aesthetic a little in my opinion.
For all you gaming boffins, we have the MSI GTX 980 4GB GDDR5 graphics card which is one of the best all-round cards on the market, albeit pretty expensive. With 4K ultra-UD resolution support and enough grunt to make a dent into it, currently only the GTX 980 Ti and Titan X beat it from the NVIDIA armoury so for a £1499 system to feature a flagship card and flagship CPU in one system, it’s pretty extraordinary.
One aspect with pre-built systems from e-tailers is how much effort has actually gone into building it. One sure fire way of telling is of course via the cable management. As we can see here, the Cyberpower engineer/creator has put quite a lot of time into routing the cables efficiently which is all that matters in my opinion. The rear side panel slides off with ease which is what you want and cable ties have been used which gets kudos; I have seen many builds over the years which have had cables just flapping all over the place which is certainly NOT acceptable! Cyberpower leap over the bar easily though this time round!
Let’s now take a look at how it performs…
