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 $3,900, and should handle just about anything -- at least for the
next few months -- without a hitch.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Brink668 @ Dec 1st 2006 2:33PM
MainGear all the way they make the best!
Alan @ Dec 1st 2006 2:43PM
NICE! that's my case in green!
master_of_fm @ Dec 1st 2006 3:04PM
XP home? i went to their site and checked out the configuration page and sure enought, default is xp home. i know the cpus are sold in pairs as a single item, but microsoft took the stance of two sockets would require xp pro. something doesnt make sense.
Jon Graft @ Dec 1st 2006 3:08PM
XP Home? Should have at LEAST Windows XP Pro 64x. Why not Vista...just wait like, a few months and get Vista. O_O
Patrick @ Dec 1st 2006 3:12PM
QX6700 vs Dual FX-70??
Anyone??
Matt B @ Dec 1st 2006 3:34PM
Dumb!! XP home does not support dual core much less quad.
Tech^Cellfish @ Dec 1st 2006 3:42PM
True
(And that part of M$ licensing doesn't make sense in a multi-cpu multi-gpu world)
master_of_fm @ Dec 1st 2006 3:55PM
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.
jpxdude @ Dec 1st 2006 4:50PM
Say hello electricity bill :-/
macleg @ Dec 1st 2006 5:16PM
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/
Dan @ Dec 1st 2006 8:59PM
I will sleep with anyone who buys me this.
Scorp121 @ Dec 2nd 2006 12:01PM
XP Home? I see XP Pro on their configuration page. Maybe it was just a typo by the editor or something??
Chris @ Dec 4th 2006 12:25PM
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
master_of_fm @ Dec 5th 2006 2:54PM
looks like they removed XP home from the configuration page