iBuypower Revolt 2 Review: A Powerful, Portable Gaming Desktop

Name: IBuypower Revolt 2
Brand: IBuypower

by Joshua Gulick — Thursday, June 16, 2016, 12:50 PM EDT

Huge gaming systems tend to be power hogs, but smaller, LAN-friendly models like the Revolt 2 usually don’t have the same type of power-hungry hardware. We tested the Revolt 2 nonetheless and found it to be one of the tamer systems.

Power Consumption

Light and Heavy Loads

At idle the Revolt 2 pulled a mere 47.5 watts. Things headed upwards when we put the system under heavy load for 10 minutes, but even then, it pulled only 421 watts, making it even less power hungry than the Digital Storm Bolt 3.

As for noise, the Revolt 2 is fairly quiet when idle. The fan noise picks up a bit when the system is under load, but even then, it won’t turn any heads. The system’s fan noise never bothered us in the office and we’d be stunned if anyone noticed it at a noisy LAN party.

Tags: IBuyPower, LAN party, Revolt, Skylake, core-i7, gtx 980 ti

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.