NEC Valuestar X VX780/GD packs Blu-ray and liquid-cooling

by Cyrus Farivar, posted Oct 5th 2006 at 7:37AM

While there aren't too many PCs that come with standard Blu-ray drives as of yet, there is surely also only a small selection that come with standard liquid-cooling. Well, a prototype of the new NEC Valuestar X VX780/GD with both is currently on display at the Ceatec expo in Chiba, outside Tokyo. According to IDG News Service, the Valuestar runs super-quiet at 31 decibels, or slightly above a whisper. Beyond the slick cooling system and the swanky optical drive, the computer comes with a digital TV tuner, a 3.4GHz Pentium D processor, 1GB of RAM, dual 250GB hard drives, a remote control, and a 20-inch LCD. But all those bells and whistles will set you back a hefty ¥543,000 (over $4,600), so start fishing out those stray yen coins out of your couch now. Hundreds of thousands of them.

[Thanks, Dave]

Filed under: Desktops

Tags: 31 decibels, 31Decibels, blu-ray, liquid-cooling, nec, valuestar, vx780/gd

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Pete @ Oct 5th 2006 9:35AM

All that, and only 1GB of RAM?

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Covert @ Oct 5th 2006 9:54AM

As soon as I saw "Valuestar" I expected a price that wasn't in the stratosphere. Silly assumptions.

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NeoteriX @ Oct 5th 2006 10:52AM

Seriously. When they were conceivning the name "ValueStar" where did the "value" go?

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John @ Oct 5th 2006 10:23AM

All that, and only a Pentium?

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Autoblog1 @ Oct 5th 2006 11:07AM

All that, and only a 20" LCD?

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Danny @ Oct 5th 2006 10:56PM

What a ripoff! I have similar specs except 2 gigs RAM and 19" monitor and no blu-ray, and a Core 2 Duo E6400 a month and a half ago for $1500. Now, i can just go and wait two months and get a $1K Blu-ray drive and install it on my computer. I do not have liquid cooling, but it should not be too expensive and I dont need it anyways, my pc runs at about 75 degrees most the time, so no need at all for liquid cooling

$1500 + $1000

That equals $2500

Thats like $2K less than the NEC system, AND it has same/similar configuration in a lot of places. This thing should actually be priced at $2K if they want to sell some.

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Ebzy @ Oct 6th 2006 5:53AM

hehe

all that and only NEC?

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Dave @ Oct 10th 2006 2:25AM

NEC

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