Like playing video games on your computer?
Like playing them on a console?
How about both?
In a flourish of computing excess, Miami, Fla.-based custom computer maker Origin PC on Tuesday unveiled its Big O hybrid gaming desktop, a monolithic cube that shoehorns a barn-burning PC and Microsoft XBox 360 Slim system into one piece of hardware.
Starting at $7,669 — yep, starting — the double-wide, liquid-cooled system comes with up to two six-core Intel Xeon X5680 processors, two 1,000 watt power supplies and up to four graphics cards. A maxed-out configuration will run you more than $17,000 — the equivalent of a 2011 Harley-Davidson V-Rod Muscle with a few thousand left over for leather and gear.
Here’s a rundown of the starting configuration:
- Case: Danger Den Tower 21 double-wide
- CPU: Intel Core i7 930 overclocked to 4.0GHz (liquid cooled)
- MB: Rampage III Extreme (liquid cooled)
- GPU: Dual Nvidia GTX480 (liquid cooled)
- Memory: 6GB Corsair Dominator 1600MHz
- Power: Silverstone 1500-watt strider PSU
- Storage: Dual 50GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD (RAID 0) - 2TB WD Caviar Black
- Optical: 12X Pioneer Blu-ray burner
- Sound: Creative Fatality
- Fan: Lamptron FC3 controller
- Lighting: LED strip lighting with remote control
- OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
- Extras: Personalized plaque, integrated 5-port network switch, media card reader
- Warranty: 1-year free part replacement; lifetime support
- Price: $7,669
And, to compare, a configuration tested by CPU magazine:
- Case: Custom DD tower 29
- CPU: Dual Intel Xeon X5680 overclocked to 4.3 GHz (liquid cooled)
- MB: EVGA SR2 (liquid cooled)
- GPU: Quad SLI EVGA GTX 480 FTW (liquid cooled)
- Memory: 12GB Corsair GT 2000MHz
- Power: Dual 1kW supplies
- Storage: Quad OCZ 50GB Vertex2 (RAID 0) - Dual 2TB WD Caviar Black
- Optical: 12X Pioneer Blu-ray burner
- Sound: On-board 8-channel HD audio
- Fan: Lamptron FC3 controller
- Lighting: LED strip lighting with remote control
- OS: Windows 7 Home Ultimate 64-bit
- Extras: Personalized plaque, integrated 5-port network switch, media card reader, LSI Megaraid SAS 9260-4i
- Warranty: 3-year free part replacement; lifetime support
- Price: $16,999
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