CyberPowerPC Factory Tour: What it takes to build a Gaming PC

There is clearly no shortage of systems ready to be assembled and one person handles the job start to finish.  This ensures that no steps are skipped and works as an internal quality control if problems should arise.

The same would be true if you were building several computers for yourself and attempted to pick up where someone left off.  You many never catch that the CPU power line wasn’t attached or that the hard drive was never hooked up.

When a system has been completely assembled it is moved to another conveyor belt and goes to be tested and burned in.  A "burn-in" isn't so much to stress test the machine but rather the process of powering the system on and testing the basic functionally.  After that a network based Windows image is flashed to the drive.

Each station can handle up to four systems allowing the operator to monitor them all during the process.

As I walked around I stumbled across two systems that seemed out of place.  The first is this strange looking tower case which happens to be made by XFX.  I’m sure this is a clone of another popular case but either way the internals are quite nice with plenty of storage options. 

The second system was this mini tower complete with an OEM intel heatsink and Gigabyte GTX 980.  Seems this was an OEM build and the customer wanted the most powerful GPU they could buy but didn’t need much in the way of CPU horsepower.  The case is also a very simple design indicating it is likely never going to be seen by the public.