Vigor Force Recon QX4 gaming rig brings the Quad FX power

AMD's Quad FX chips haven't been on the market for all that long, but that hasn't stopped one company after another from pushing out the gaming machines. Today we bring you the third rig that we've spotted in as many weeks, the Vigor Force Recon QX4. This baby is pretty loaded, with two 3.0GHz Athlon 64 FX-74 dual-core chips, a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB DDR3 video card with DVI and TV out, 2GB of RAM, two 7200rpm, 250GB SATA II drives, an internal 16X dual-layer DVD burner, gigabit Ethernet, a whopping 10 USB ports, and for good measure, a floppy drive. The whole setup will start at $2900 and will be officially launched at CES 2007, coming up next month. We're pretty sure though that you'll have to BYO floppies -- that is, if you can even find a use for them anymore.

[Via 64-Bit-Computers]

[Andreas W @ Dec 23rd 2006 8:54AM]

Use for a floppy???? Well, since I still only run XP pro, i need the stupid little things to install XP on my sata disks, since M$ Can't update their old OS install procedure.

[optV @ Dec 23rd 2006 12:18PM]

For the person who said he needs a floppy to install XP on a SATA. Get a copy of XP pro SP2, they included all the sata and raid drivers on the SP2 disk. Or use a thumb drive.

That is one awesome looking case BTW. Anyone know who makes that?

[RR @ Dec 23rd 2006 11:23AM]

I wonder why they didn't use 10,000rpm drives.

[dextro @ Dec 23rd 2006 11:37AM]

Because they don't have as much space as the 7200rpm ones... so far :P

[Faisal @ Dec 23rd 2006 3:42PM]

Thermaltake makes that case and it IS a sweet case. I built a PC for my cousin cause he needed a new gaming rig...and man I'm DEFINITLEY getting that for my next rig too :)

here's a link:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811133154

[Pinhead @ Dec 23rd 2006 1:15PM]

Wow cool, you get to pay what an extra grand or so for all off the shelf products. Boggles my mind how someone who is willing to spend $3k+ on a computer system won't do the research on how to build it for themselves. But meh, to each his own. Who wants an AMD processor nowadays anyway? ;P

[kev @ Dec 23rd 2006 11:53PM]

Incredible waste of power. All so that you can sit at home on your silly butts doing nothing constructive. Gotta love it!

[spaceman @ Dec 25th 2006 1:44PM]

I use two floppy drives to pull my old amiga games in! (Yes that's correct, with two PC floppy drives you can access amiga disks!)