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Cyberpower Fangbook 4’s offer high performance in an understated package

There were a lot of new gaming laptops shown off at this year’s CES, but if you haven’t quite had your fill of them yet, Cyberpower has a few more for you to choose from. They’re known as the Fangbook 4 series, with three distinct sub-sections, each with their own varied hardware configurations.

It’s a lot to chose from, but no-consumer should ever gripe about having too many options when buying new hardware.

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The first of the three new ranges,the SX series, comes in six unique flavors. At the more affordable end of the spectrum is the SX6-100, which has a 15.6 inch 1080P LCD display, a Core i7-6700HQ CPU, 8GB of DDR4, a GTX 960M and 1TB of HDD storage for just shy of $1,190.

That’s nothing to scoff at, but if you are willing to pay just a little more, you can get yourself the SX7-4K. For $1,630 instead, you can have a 4K display, double the memory, a GTX 970M 3GB and an additional 250GB M.2 SSD. That’s a much more well rounded package – though there are several other variants in between to offer a “best of both worlds” scenario.

Moving up the range to the SK-X series, you have a little more oomf and as you might expect, higher price tags to go with it. There’s only two different variants here however, the SK-X17 Pro and the SK-X17 Xtreme. The former has a 17.3 inch, 1080p G-Sync display, a Core i7-6820HK CPU, 16GB of DDR4, a GTX 970M 3GB, 250GB M.2 SSD, and 1TB HDD, all for $1,885.

The Xtreme version has all of the same hardware, except the 970M is switched out for a 980M with 8GB of its own memory. The price tag is also bumped to $2,115.

The final new additions to the Fangbook 4 range are the Xtreme G-Sync notebooks, which feature similar hardware, but with added potential. The G-Sync 100 comes in at $1,839, but instead of a 17-inch 1080p panel, it has a 15.6-inch 4K screen. The CPU is an unlocked desktop variant, the 6600K, which allows for overclocking. That is combined with the same 16GB of DDR4, a GTX 970M GPU, 250GB M.2 SSD, and 1TB HDD of the X17 Pro.

The highest of high-end Fangbook 4, however, is the Xtreme G-Sync 200. It too has a 15.6 inch 4K display with G-Sync support, but upgrades the CPU to an i7-6700K. It also pushes the GPU up to a 980M, which when combined with the same storage and memory as its slightly cheaper variant, does mean the price jumps up to $2,205.

Essentially designed to pick up where the FangBook 3 left off, Cyberpower’s new range of Skylake laptops has a lot of potential at surprising low price points. An unlocked CPU, 4K display and a 980M is a mighty powerful combination, especially at a price that barely clears $2,200.

Regardless of which you want, they’re all available now from CyberPower.

Jon Martindale
Jon Martindale is a freelance evergreen writer and occasional section coordinator, covering how to guides, best-of lists, and…
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