Omen bodes well for Voodoo's gaming future
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jun 10th 2008 4:39AM
posted Jun 10th 2008 4:39AM
Besides the new Envy 133, Voodoo is also launching its 22-inch tall, all-aluminum (glass, wood, and leather too) Omen tower. This time, for gamers. It features a 7-inch, 800 x 480 display for secondary information on the outside and a Voodoo designed water cooling loop on the inside to keep the fire down on up to 2x CPUs (up to 16 cores) and 4x GPUs. The system tops out with a pair of 3.2GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9770 processors, 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM, and support for "next generation" NVIDIA and ATI graphics... at a price. Starting at around $7,000 and available exclusively to existing Voodoo customers at launch sometime later this year.
A gamer case, that is not ugly?
How can this be?
Also, are those slot loading drives there? Because I love slot loading drives.
This will fit right into the highest-end home theatre systems without looking like an eyesore out of some 8-year-old's imagination, so sleek and cool and unpretentious
Wow, I want one
I guess this is proof looks are very very subjective. I absolutely hate this design. Not a fan of flat squarish edges, but neither am I a fan of unnecessary embellishments and 12-year-old appeal.
Hmmm. Ugly is an understatement (again, IMO).
Seconded. This is the first PC I have seen that looks really great and is not a Mac. I am amazed. I never thought I'd see the day.
Well done Voodoo. Even if it's $7k.
For $7000 I'm CERTAIN it can run Crysis.
My only question is, if it can repair the hole in my wallet.
hot damn, that costs more than my car!
I love it. The simplicity of the design is what makes it great. Whenever I decide to finally upgrade my computer, I think I'll make a case with the same shape. Probably black though, silver doesn't fit in all that well with my current stuff.
Looks like it took some inspiration points from Apple's Mac Pro.... =X
At 7k though, I rather just make my own computer that can probably beat the bananas out of the base line of that system.
agreed. (with both points)
Nice...
Looks like we have the Candidate and potential winner for Custom PC 2008 Dream PC. They are always ridiculously priced but pipped with the monster hardware, last years winner was the Scan White Cobra I believe.
http://3xs.scan.co.uk/Images/sys_cobraDream.jpg
"Where's my box of tissues!!..."
Next to your hand lotion...
Is it too cool to have usb ports in a place where you can see and reach them?
um, yes. style over substance, always.
USB? Bluetooth baby!
Ye Gods!
I must have it...
Very nice design, but a bit pricy.
that is a thing of beauty!
I'm all for luxuries, but uber expensive computer systems are just stupid. If you need or even just want that kind of performance you could do it for almost half that. But most of all It doesn't matter if you spend $100,000 on a computer, it will be outdated in as little as 12-18 months leaving you with your pants down when it loses all bragging rights except for costing a lot. If you can afford spending $7,000 on a computer every 2 years then go for it, otherwise stick to spending time with it in the image galleries.
How do they manage to have two CPU's? I thought Skulltrail didn't support normal DDR 3 ram, only slower FD-DIMM 's?
And by four GPU's, do they mean two 9800 GX2's? Wouldn't buy now though, would rather have two GTX 280's :D or two 4870 X2's (when both of them come out).
That is an intensely sexy case though. Too bad Voodoo don't sell their cases sepearately, with only the case and the watercooling equipment :( since I still prefer to shop for my own parts.
It says for sale later this year... maybe they are putting an X58 or some other upcoming chipset in it.
fap fap fap
you made me lol
2x CPUs (16 cores) ?
Are they counting hyperthreading as "core" in order to increase the hype?
Yeah I thought that. Two quad core CPUs: 2 x 4 = 16 apparently. Could just be a typo?
They are probably planning ahead for the 8 core processors that Intel had announced a while back. Thus, 8+8=16.
the return of Hyper Threading (nehalem)
when does nehalem come out anyways?
I wish my Hp computer looked like that! lol
I don't get the appeal. I mean, what game/application can even take advantage of one quad core processor, let alone two!
Crysis...
Supreme Commander.
looks like something to worship
Make a model without a monitor in the front, solid state drives, liquid cooling, skull trail, and any other over the top garbage then ill buy it. I just want that delicious case, the monitor in the front would be cool but im sure they are charging like 700$ just for that.
That's the CPU's with a xeon base.
So there is definitely a Skulltrail in that beguiling case.
Why doesn't anyone sell cases like these :(
Some Lian Li cases come close to the awesomeness but that case is just amazing! Looks like my refrigerator :o
Brought to you the letter "B" and the words "ugly Box".
That case looks awesome!
This case reminds me of Halo 3, i dont know why it just does.
7,000??? No thank you i can use that money for some thing more useful like a house.
A house? The market is bad right now.. but not that bad.
I've actually seen a house for 14 grand before. Of course it was about the size of one room, was falling apart, and was on a piece of property not much bigger than the house itself and surrounded by streets (also nowhere to park a car). Surprised it hadn't been bulldozed by the city, was such an eye sore.
UT3. When Alienware showed off their ALX desktop with dual quads at CES it was tearing through the game at insane framerates. They had an app running so you could see how the cpu's and gpu's were being utilized.
Should have been a response to Duoae. Comments don't like me...
Yeah, i think i remember that being shown... but one game? Seriously? I don't think that the scalability of cores vs programming for multicore (past 2 or 3) is going to improve that much in the next 3-4 years.... by which point we may have a single dual core that is much faster than these two beasts.
In order to justify the production of this machine they must be making an incredible profit on each of these because I doubt this will sell a great amount at 7k a piece.
STARTING at $7000?!?!
These new voodoo computers look great now if only HP would uses some of voodoo's design elements in their mainstream machines then we would have a true analog to the mac for PC users
The design is really nice, but it looks like it could be tipped over by touching it. Does the 7k include a bolt down kit?
how do you get a 22 inch tower into a box???????
but how bout you throw in maybe a Woodcrest Xeon (2x of course) as an option and maybe some toshiba MRAM
was the only reason they put carbon fiber plating on the envy 133 because they used all the aluminum in the world for this
and if it water cooled, wouldnt this thing need to sit in a swimming pool if it was operating at full capacity?
and if you build your own powerplant, you could put 1.93 volts in this thing like those bastards from who knows where and try to overclock this thing at 1 THz
that is worth 7k
damn has HP turned it around
also, just watch NVIDIA
they are gonna come out with an entirely new line for this, one that gobbles up soooooo much power that it could rule the world
but a 2000 GTX with 2 GB onboard ram and (with a partenership with Intel of course) Intel C2E 3.00 GHz onboard processing power times 4
that would be absolutely amazing
12 GHz and 8 GB of video
that could use enough power to light and heat and cool a city for one year in 5 minutes
and it will be able to run Crysis on full res and FR for ever
finally
It looks great. I mean, if I was rich I'd buy one, but come on. Just build your own computer.
I personally would rather a cheaper computer with less decorations on the box; better performance is definitely better than decorations, though the decorations DO look kinda nice...
In the words of the Unreal Tournament 2004 announcer: Holy shit! :-D
Now if voodoo would sell this case without the other components then I would certainly buy from them