iBuyPower RDY Slate 9MP R01 Review

If you privation a ready-to-go gaming PC that’s affordable, strong, and pretty, the iBuyPower RDY Slate 9MP R01 whitethorn beryllium for you. Despite it being incredibly creaseless to entree the internals with the clip-on platings, the PSU successful this gaming PC is wholly inaccessible, with each the wires trapped successful a mysterious achromatic container that you’d request to void the warranty to open. The Nvidia RTX 5070, an AMD Ryzen 7 7700X and 32GB of RAM do perform good capable to marque gaming successful 1440p with max settings much than possible. But portion it’ll beryllium casual to upgrade this PC if all the connectors stay the same, this PC comes with a non-modular powerfulness supply, which means you’ll person to outright regenerate it to adhd immoderate caller cables – not a large look from a ‘premium’ PC builder.

Design and Features

Ever wonderment what a prism being eaten by a situation looks like? Well, maine neither, but the iBuyPower RDY Slate 9MP R01 benignant of looks similar that. The afloat solid sheet takes a crisp chunk retired of the beforehand of the case, which contrasts against the grilles and vents astir the chassis. I emotion this look, particularly with the RGB turned on, due to the fact that it makes the interior look similar it’s floating.

There’s RGB lighting connected the 3 beforehand fans, CPU fan, backmost fan, and adjacent the RAM. What ties everything together, though, is the L-shaped airy barroom connected the interior that starts astatine the apical of the beforehand fans and ends toward the backmost ports. It gives the full lawsuit a much three-dimensional feel. Both the solid and backmost panels conscionable drawback into place, too, truthful you tin popular them disconnected and connected easily, which is large due to the fact that the GPU that ships with the PC does not travel installed.

Installing the graphics paper took small effort. There’s a sheet connected the backmost ports that covers a spread adjacent to the enlargement slots. It’s attached via a thumb screw, truthful it’s casual to popular disconnected and descent the borderline of the graphics paper into place, and past reattach the panel. However, erstwhile I went to link the GPU to the PSU, I realized that the PSU is non-modular, which means you’re stuck with a messiness of pre-installed cables that you tin neither region oregon adhd to. The cablegram for the GPU was disposable but it wasn’t pre-routed done the case, truthful I inactive needed to provender the ligament done the chassis to plug it into the graphics card.

As acold arsenic the ports go, you’ll find 2 USB Type-A, 2 audio ports, and a USB Type-C connected the apical close of the chassis. It mightiness beryllium lone somewhat inconvenient for folks that presumption their PC connected the close broadside of their desk.

The backmost features 4 USB 2.0 Type-A, 2 USB 5Gbps Type-A, and 1 USB 10Gbps Type-A. I privation we got astatine slightest 1 much 10GBps Type-A port, but determination is 1 USB Type-C backmost there. There’s besides 1 DisplayPort and HDMI slot, an RJ45 Ethernet port, and 3 audio ports. There’s a Wi-Fi module, too, with 2 prongs jutting retired of the I/O.

Connecting the Wi-Fi extender was captious for me, arsenic my bureau is supra wherever my router is. The motherboard comes packaged with a ASUS Wi-Fi moving antenna, which was benignant of a symptom to connect. The prongs are surrounded by a portion of integrative that’s designed to warp astir the ports upon connection. However, it took large spot and grace to link these without snapping it successful half. Why couldn’t it person conscionable been screwed on?

Configurations

Do you privation a prebuilt gaming PC from a customized PC-building institution without having to customize anything? Well, lad howdy, bash I person a PC for you: the iBuyPower RDY Slate 9MP R01. For $1,799, it's outfitted with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070, an AMD Ryzen 7 7700X, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. Beyond that, there’s a 750-watt PSU and a five-fan cooling system, each packed into a ASUS Prime B650M-A AX6 II motherboard. That’s a beauteous decent terms for an RTX 5070 gaming PC, but you’re inactive going to privation to prime this happening up connected a sale.

There’s lone 1 different exemplary that features the Slate 9MP case, and that’s the RDY Slate 9MP Valorant R02, which costs $1,499. It comes with each the aforesaid specs arsenic our reappraisal portion but downgrades the GPU to an RTX 5060 Ti. There’s perfectly thing tying it to the game, Valorant, different than signaling that this PC tin tally it well. But that’s beauteous coagulated for the price.

The iBuyPower RDY Slate 9MP R01 ships with the iBuyPower MK9 RGB mechanical keyboard and mouse. The keyboard sports tactile brownish switches that felt dull to benignant connected – it wasn’t precise snappy and produced a mushy thonk with each press. It’s good for a “free” mechanical keyboard, adjacent the RGB looked nice. Although, if you’re thing similar me, you’re going to hate that the close Shift cardinal is truthful small. The rodent elicited a akin middling experience, and the RGB was not arsenic good-looking owed to the mouse’s inexpensive transparent plastic. The existent issue, though, is that it felt flimsy, and the clickers produced a dull bassy dependable arsenic opposed to a pleasant crisp click.

Performance

Jumping successful the mid-range of GPUs is the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070, which is packed into the iBuyPower RDY Slate 9MP R01 alongside the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X and 32GB of RAM. Despite being successful the much affordable scope of gaming PCs, the RTX 5070 manages to instrumentality connected a decent load, achieving adjacent 60 fps astatine 4K Ultra settings and adjacent triple digits astatine 1440p successful prime titles, each without DLSS 4. Unfortunately, the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X is simply a spot aged astatine this constituent — it launched 2022. It could’ve had the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X astatine the precise least, though it would’ve been pricier.

Whether you’re jumping crossed the rooftops of Night City oregon hacking your section market store, you should beryllium averaging 56 fps astatine 4K acceptable to Ray Tracing Ultra and DLSS Performance successful Cyberpunk 2077. You’ll get the astir retired of the RTX 5070 successful 1440p, however, arsenic it scored 95 fps. And of course, framework procreation takes that up to a full caller level. At 1440p, we got 146 fps astatine x2 and 236 fps astatine x4, whereas astatine 4K it deed 92 fps and 159 fps, respectively.

You’ll beryllium capable to saturate a high-refresh complaint show erstwhile playing multiplayer games similar Black Ops 6 and Forza Horizon 5, which scored 147 fps and 154 fps astatine 1440p, respectively, and past 99 fps and 118 fps astatine 4K. Those clutch around-the-corner encounters and crisp turns connected the way mightiness beryllium a small easier to manage. However, the RTX 5070’s biggest weakness is revealed erstwhile there’s nary upscaling tech available. I ran Metro Exodus astatine Extreme, 4K settings with nary upscaling, and it averaged lone 39 fps. At 1440p, it did transverse the 60-fps threshold, astatine 69 fps.

I queued Cloak & Dagger successful Marvel Rivals, and arsenic I was racing down our vessel who made the mistake of pushing excessively hard, the RTX 5070 deed 113 fps with a 67ms hold erstwhile acceptable to 4K, Ultra, Native DLSS, 4x Multi-Frame Generation. (Our vessel was a menace, but the RTX 5070 pulled through).

At the highest settings, you’re apt to get adjacent to 60 fps successful astir games, adjacent astatine 4K. But if you privation to marque usage of a high-refresh complaint monitor, past you should settee for 1440p. One of the biggest issues I noticed, however, is that the PC blasted its fans nether the slightest pressure, adjacent erstwhile a crippled wasn’t running. When running each the benchmarks, the fans went wee and woo similar a pitchy engine, truthful support that successful caput if you don’t similar blaring fans – oregon astatine slightest get acceptable to tweak the instrumentality curve.

Rami Tabari is simply a contributing writer astatine IGN with implicit 9 years of acquisition successful the tech and gaming industry. You tin find his bylines astatine Laptop Mag and Tom's Guide (and connected a random Predator reappraisal astatine Space.com). When Rami isn't wading done a oversea of the latest gaming tech, he's agonizing implicit the worldbuilding successful his upcoming novella.