Maingear offers up Quad FX-powered BEAST, throws in 1,000 watt PSU
By Darren Murph 
posted Dec 1st 2006 2:16PM
posted Dec 1st 2006 2:16PM
Aw yeah, just hours (nay, moments) after AMD's Quad FX chip went official, we've already seen one machine ready and willing to satisfy your gaming desires, and now we've found another. Maingear is busting out an Athlon 64 FX-powered BEAST aimed at hardcore (and sufficiently funded) gamers looking for the latest and greatest. The machine is fully customizable (right down to the paintjob), but comes stock with twin FX-70 processors, a 1,000 watt power supply (!), liquid cooling system, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, 250GB SATA hard drive, a paltry 16x DVD-ROM drive, NVIDIA's GeForce 8800GTS 640MB graphics card, 8-channel HD audio, dual gigabit Ethernet, Windows XP Home, and a one-year warranty. While it won't take long to price this bad boy right into the stratosphere, it starts out a hair under $3,900, and should handle just about anything -- at least for the next few months -- without a hitch.
Say hello electricity bill :-/
MainGear all the way they make the best!
NICE! that's my case in green!
XP home? i went to their site and checked out the configuration page and sure enought, default is xp home. i know the cpus are sold in pairs as a single item, but microsoft took the stance of two sockets would require xp pro. something doesnt make sense.
XP Home? Should have at LEAST Windows XP Pro 64x. Why not Vista...just wait like, a few months and get Vista. O_O
QX6700 vs Dual FX-70??
Anyone??
Dumb!! XP home does not support dual core much less quad.
True
(And that part of M$ licensing doesn't make sense in a multi-cpu multi-gpu world)
XP Home supports a single socket cpu whether it has 2,4, or even 8 cores. if you want 2 sockets you need XP Pro, XP MCE, or XP 64, microsoft said from the beginning that XP was going to be licensed per socket and not per core some software vendors.
Toms hardware has a write up on them that is pretty good if you want to check it out comparing the core2 to this. Something that I thought was funny, on the website you can customize both this system and a c2 system, you have the option of having them overclock the c2 system, but not the fx system. Just goes to show the how much room you will have. I think Toms only managed to get it to 3.1 ghz before it became unstable, where as the c2 you can get at least I've heard 500-800 mhz on average for improvement.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/11/30/brute_force_quad_cores/
I will sleep with anyone who buys me this.
XP Home? I see XP Pro on their configuration page. Maybe it was just a typo by the editor or something??
looks like they removed XP home from the configuration page
From the press release it looks like it has a cooling system capable of dissipating 1000Watts which is a little different from having a 1000watt PSU, unless I mis-read