iBuyPower RDY Y60 005 PC Review

Prebuilt PCs used to get a bad rap, but today, ready-to-use gaming PCs are increasingly more powerful and more future-proof, with many using standardized components that make upgrading and replacement down the road that much easier. These towers also lower the threshold for players interested in desktop gaming, without the means to start a DIY build from the ground up. They often even ship with all the peripherals that a complete novice needs to get started with PC gaming, like a gaming keyboard and mouse.

iBuyPower is a trusted, quality system builder in the PC desktop space. The RDY Y60 005 is a prebuilt iBuyPower gaming PC that packs a ton of power, while still sticking to the midrange budget-friendly category.

Price, availability, and the specs

The iBuyPower Y60 Gaming PC is available from two places: iBuyPower, and Amazon. On iBuyPower’s own site, the computer is available for $2,049, which is a $300 discount from its regular listed price of $2,349. On Amazon it’s a bit cheaper, coming in at $1,950.

Components, ports, and design

What’s the first thing you notice about the iBuyPower RDY Y60 005 PC? Probably that it’s a massive PC tower, comparatively speaking. It clocks in at around 40 pounds, nearly a foot wide, over 18 inches tall and 18 inches long. The HYTE Y60 RGB Gaming Case that contains this system is not for any gamer tight on space.

The wrap-around glass panel is gorgeous, though, putting the system’s RGB components on full display. Everything is carefully assembled, and the glass panel can be easily removed without tools.

Speaking of removing the glass panel, you will have to do that very thing immediately upon the PC’s arrival, because it doesn’t come with the video card installed. The GPU in this build uniquely sits vertically inside the tower, so you may need to watch a video or two on how to install that component vertically. Don’t be intimidated, though — even if you’ve never installed a vertical video card before, the instructions make it easy enough to do in five minutes.

As outlined in the spec list above, some of the marquee components for this build include an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super, an Intel Core i9-14900KF processor, and iBuyPower’s 360mm RGB liquid cooling system. While you might prefer to see a customizable digital screen on PC liquid cooling systems, it’s understandable to see some iBuyPower branding instead. This tower also includes a 750W PSU, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and the ASUS Z790 Gaming Wi-Fi 7 motherboard.

The rear access ports give you just about everything you need. Connected to the video card, there are three DisplayPorts, plus one HDMI. One more HDMI port would probably be useful if you are using older monitors, though.

Hooked up to the motherboard, we have one more HDMI port, five USB-As, one USB-C, an Ethernet port, and a row of audio inputs.

There are a few front-facing ports for easier access, too, including two USB-As and one USB-C. This is also where the power button is located.

Performance

Benchmarks

Graphically speaking, the iBuyPower RDY Y60 005 PC’s benchmarks are pretty middle-of-the-road. In testing, it couldn’t get a Time Spy Score over 20,000, which puts it at about 4,000 points under the best recorded benchmark with the same components and about 1,300 points under iBuyPower’s own Time Spy score for this build.

That’s just one benchmarking program, though, and these numbers are just one piece to a much more complex puzzle.

Gaming

The RDY Y60 005 was put to the test across several games including Cyberpunk 2077, which, in ultra ray tracing mode, is a must for PC testing. At 1440p, the average FPS for that game on ultra RT landed at around 55 FPS — not a value you love to see for 2K gaming in general, but a good value to see for Cyberpunk’s most graphically intensive ray tracing settings.

Other titles ran smooth as glass on the RDY Y60 005 in 1440p mode. Baldurs Gate 3 capped out at 160 FPS. Grand Theft Auto V hovered around 125 to 130 FPS on average, which is pretty true to iBuyPower’s on-paper spec of 135 FPS.

Bumping the system up to 4K, all of these frame rate numbers dropped by around 30-50%.

Cooling

This liquid-cooled build stays, well, pretty cool. To reiterate, this build packs a 360mm liquid cooler, which, in theory, is more than powerful enough to keep the system from overheating even during high-load peaks.

The i9-14900KF gets warm in the Y60 005, but not alarm-ringingly so. During testing, the processor temperature peaked in the CPU test phase of the 3DMark Time Spy benchmark, where it saw one brief spike to 85 degrees Celsius. Even though that’s well under the throttling point, it can still be a bit too warm for comfort for gamers on a CPU, especially when the VRM is equipped with multiple heatsinks. But besides the one instance, the CPU coasted between 50 and 65 degrees Celsius, with a couple more spikes to the 75-80 degree threshold.

On the other hand, the 4070 Super didn’t cross the 75-degrees Celsius mark, even while benchmarking. Even when pushing the GPU load to 100+%, it didn’t record a temperature over 75 degrees.

However, it’s worth mentioning that the cooling system puts out quite a bit of noise, no less than a standard air-cooled tower, so if quieter fans are something you’re looking for, it’s best to tamp your expectations. Using a sound level meter to estimate how loud the system got while cooling; during the Time Spy benchmark, it recorded a peak sound of about 65 decibels, with the average volume fluctuating between 50 and 60 decibels. In comparison, the sound level meter was tested against an HP Omen 35L test unit, also liquid-cooled. That unit did not break 45 decibels.

Should You Buy It?

Liquid cooling, a 4070 Super, and the best Intel processor make the iBuyPower RDY Y60 005 PC an impressively dynamic workhorse for gaming and content creation alike.

For more serious gamers, the $400 leap from iBuyPower’s 4070 Super build to the 4080 Super Build is quite compelling. Especially with the processor already prone to a bit higher running temps, so caution might be best with this PC if you’re an eager enthusiast-grade overclocker. The RDY Y60 offers an unimposing entryway into desktop gaming for novice or casual-level gamers who may want to upgrade or swap parts someday, but aren’t building a new rig from scratch anytime soon.

Plus, the build is sturdy and gorgeous. The fish tank design is stunning to look at, and the connectivity suite offers just about everything that gamers and professionals need.