Cyberpower Infinity X125 Pro Review – 12600KF + RTX 3070
Buying a gaming PC is a tough sell right now, what with the insane prices and distinct lack of stock of, well everything – but the light at the end of the tunnel is a pre-built system like this generally offers (if nothing else) stock of components including graphics cards. This specific one is the Infinity X125 Pro from Cyberpower PC.
Spec wise, mine is kitted out with the following:
- Intel i5-12600KF CPU
- MSI Pro Z690-A DDR4 Motherboard
- Kingston Fury Beast 32GB DDR4-3600
- MSI RTX 3070 Ventus 2X
- MSI Spatium M470 1TB NVME SSD
- Corsair H100i RGB Pro XT 240mm AIO Liquid Cooler
- MSI A850GF PSU
- Lian Li O11 Der Bauer Edition Case
And all of this magic – as I have it configured – will set you back £1960.80 as of writing. The “base model” with 16GB of DDR4-3600 Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB is a little cheaper at £1899.60, although if you are going to spend this kind of cash, 32GB is a worthy upgrade.
So, is it spec’d well? In general, yes. The i5 and 3070 offer a healthy amount of performance both in games and in productivity apps – more on both of those below. The use of DDR4 makes a lot of sense, while it’s not what Intel technically “recommends”, it’s the much, much more economical choice for what can in some cases actually be more performance (although plenty of cases it’s a bit less). The inclusion of all MSI parts is clearly a deal Cyberpower have going on with MSI – in fact all of the customisation options for the motherboards, GPUs (unless they are “non-named brand”/manufacturer brand), and even the use of their Spatium M470 indicate that. That’s not to say the parts themselves are bad, nor that the spec is either, but it’s worth noting.
Interestingly, the pricing listed for the considerably faster WD SN850 1TB suggests the MSI drive is £42 cheaper than the SN850, and an astonishing £73 less than the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB. Either Cyberpower are selling the M470 at a much, much lower price than the drive retails for, or the price of the other drives isn’t quite “market price” as the M470 seems to sell publicly for anywhere between £10 and £30 more than the SN850, not less. In fact, the M470 is being sold so cheap that no other 1TB M.2 drive – save for the DRAM-less WD SN570 – is a cheaper option. Well, at that price I can’t complain!
Build Quality
Cyberpower have done a good job here – since the system isn’t optioned with any custom cables or anything fancy it’s nothing over-the-top special, but it’s not meant to be. The cable management is done well, with a very clean and clear ‘user facing’ side, and thanks to the case’s SSD mount bracket all the cable mess has been neatly zip-tied and concealed.
For those GN viewers, yes, the AIO is mounted correctly up at the top of the case above the pump so as to keep any air bubbles inside the radiator and not in the pump burning it out. The thermal paste application appeared to be non-standard for this cooler, what I’d call “heavy”. Still, it kept the i5 plenty cool enough and didn’t end up being that much of a mess when I went to swap the chips out for my retail vs review sample testing.
Performance
| Cinebench R23 | Points |
| Single Thread | 1851.27 |
| Multi Thread | 17075.74 |
| Blender | Seconds |
| BMW | 149 |
| Gooseberry | 807 |
| 1080p Gaming | Average FPS | 1% Low FPS |
| CS:GO Low | 411.23 | 158.73 |
| Watchdogs Legion Medium | 126 | 94 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider High | FPS |
| Average FPS | 170 |
| CPU Render Average | 313 |
| CPU Render 95% | 220 |
You can expect strong performance in games, an RTX 3070 is no slouch, with a healthy average framerate in most games at both 1080p and 1440p. You should be able to run almost anything at high or ultra settings at 1080p and as long as it’s not Cyberpunk 2077 you should still be seeing 100FPS or higher, and at a more reasonable medium as you can see most games are well into the 100FPS range.
CPU performance can be a little hit or miss with these new Alder Lake CPUs thanks to their new hybrid design – literally two different types of CPU cores on one chip – but on the whole it’s a solid performer. It offers near chart topping performance in single threaded work, and even in multi-threaded work like rendering in Blender it’s still plenty fast thanks to it’s 6 Performance cores and the extra 4 Efficiency cores. You can also expect it to stay pretty chilly, a remarkable feat for these new Intel chips, I saw a practically arctic range of 60-70°c on the CPU, and the more typical (and designed for) 70-80°c range on the GPU.
You’ve got options
Being a pre-built PC, you’ve got a myriad of options to tweak the build to your taste. A plentiful supply of cases, storage and in-stock GPUs. If you want to do a little more serious work, stepping up to the i7-12700KF or even the i9-12900KF may make sense, although they’ve priced the 12600KF seemingly at a loss as they are asking for £105 more to buy the standard 12600K instead (the only difference is the KF doesn’t have the integrated graphics), but retail pricing would suggest more like a £30 gap between those models, so again much like the SSDs either they’ve priced the ‘default’ option through the floor, or the floor is a fair bit higher. Both seem somewhat possible, as the current retail price for the 12700KF is more like £70 more than the 12600K but Cyberpower are asking for £100 more in that options list.
They also sell overclock packages – very much the “Good Better Best” setup as their “Pro OC” (up to 10%) lists for £29, but their “Extreme OC” (up to 20%) is just £10 more at £39, and their “Ultimate OC” (up to 30%) is a leap up to £99. I didn’t have that option so can’t comment on the realities but I’m confident they would live up to their claims – they even require you to option an “OC Compatible” CPU Cooler before checking out which is a great sign.
To buy, or not to buy, that is the question…
So, should you buy this system? Well, as far as Cyberpower’s work on spec’ing, building and setting it up, yes! They did a great job getting it to be a “plug and play” device with everything ready to use out the box including things like XMP being enabled. They shipped the system in the case’s box which while not quite as fancy as some other SI’s (system integrators), they used enough packing material inside the system to keep everything intact.
As far as the system itself – personally I’m not sure I’d be ready to splash my own cash on an Alder Lake (12th gen Intel) system just yet. It still feels like you are a beta tester especially when it comes to the new Hybrid Architecture, and the inclusion of the lower power, low performance E cores seems like more of a pain than if they’d have just left them out. Personally I’d probably head to a Ryzen 5000 series chip until either the 6000 series Ryzen chips launch, or the rumoured i5 12400 drops with 6 of the new performance cores and 0 of the new efficiency cores.
GPU wise, with the pricing Cyberpower have listed anyway, I’d be tempted to splash out the extra £85 on the RTX 3070 Ti instead, although this 3070 is still plenty fast enough and already costs one kidney, so maybe it’s best to keep it there.
On the whole Cyberpower did a good job on this one, and I think is deserving of the Gold Award overall. In the current market, it’s a good option especially for their GPU stock and while it isn’t the cheapest it offers great performance and a well build and easy out-of-the-box experience.
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