Voodoo Omen gets examined from the inside
By Donald Melanson 
posted Jun 11th 2008 3:14PM
posted Jun 11th 2008 3:14PM
We've already seen plenty of official pics and videos of Voodoo's pricey new Omen desktop, but if you've been hankering to know what's going on under its shiny hood you can now get your fix courtesy of Pocket-lint, which has cracked one open and snapped a couple of pics. Not surprisingly, the Omen's insides are decided more cluttered than its minimalist exterior, not to mention considerably more brightly colored. Hit up the link below for a closer look.
That's hot.
Mr Sood's own words.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa61gLeutrE
That's "cluttered"?
Looks pretty neat and tidy to me, especially considering it's water cooled.
You forget most of the engadget crew use Macs.
The MacPros once opened are wireless inside, at least that the illusion Apple creates.
The black model looks a little more appealing that the silver. While I would love to have the money to buy one of these... if I did have the money, I'd probably just build it myself.
second that.
voodoo claims this is the best system they could possibly build (within reason of course), for around 10 grand give or take. I've been a member of xtremesystem forums for 2 years now, and that's not close to the best practical machine you could build for 10 grand.
a professional modder could fit a dual loop system using 1/2" tubes (whereas the voodoo looks like it uses 3/8" tubing) within a stock full tower case without a problem, even using 2-120.3 radiators . . and a custom case would have made it easier. giving it a lot more cooling . . . stick in a skulltrail mobo and a couple of 9800gx2's, along with a 7" LCD (a useless accessory), and it would pwn a voodoo, and cost less.
I was hoping for a real hands-on... you know, with crysis benchmarks and all that.
Shouldn't be too long before one of the uber-rich 12-year-olds who gets one of these decides to grace us with a review.
uber-rich 12-year-old,
sounds like a good handle
I like the direction high-end case design is going with these tool-less entry/modification ideas. Other case designers could take some inspiration from this case (as well as others: 002 Blackbird, Mac Pro). Hopefully in the future it will not take many thousands of dollars to afford a case this well-engineered and intuitive. I really like the system used here for hard drives. :) if only it didn't cost $6500 base.
I can't wait until SATA cabling is able to be daisy-chained. I think once the SATA spec reaches 1 GB/sec throughput, this will be a possibility. I also like the idea of having power and data on the same cable. Both of these ideas will definitely reduce cable-mess inside your case. To this end, (and while I'm dreaming) I'd also like to see EXTERNAL and modular videocards being offered for high-end users, a la eSATA devices. That way, you won't cause a cooling problem and power problem with your computer. It will have its own internal PSU and cooling solution.
that is one gorgeous hunk of computer i must admit
(howl) .. that's a nice piece of circuitry in there !!! keep the robot p@rn coming ...
Dude, its $7000!!!! seriously!
its good to know that the inside is more sophisticated than the outside
cause if it wasnt, you would be forkin over 7 grand for a lot of aluminum
instead you forkin over 7 grand for a lot of aluminum and silicon and gold and copper
which is a little bit better
That loop is a bit discontinuous, does it exit the case and then re-enter? Looks pretty neat to me, not cluttered at all for a liquid cooling job.
Looks like its got 2 separate cooling loops, one got the CPU and chipset going to a radiator next to the hard drives, and a second loop for the GPU's going to a radiator in the top. That sort of setup would have some serious cooling potential and give a lot of overclocking headroom.
Whats puzzling me the most is how how the motherboard is pointing up, rather than to the back, how on earth are you meant to get to all the ports?!?
@Phil
Its like standing your tower on it's face with the connections on top. Then it's a cover that conceals the wires/connections which leads the wires out the back. Pretty cool.
Video to explain (No Rick Rolling):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa61gLeutrE
and IT accountant----
im 12 and im sure that i am the only 12 year old kid that has even posted anything on this website
and im not uber rich so i cant review it more than i just did
and im not a gamer so i would never buy it anyways
im posting this on an HP A6000N piece of shit computer that cost 1/10th of this computer
You can get a pretty decent computer for 700 bucks.
Twelve year olds shouldn't say shit.
Not exactly cluttered... but I expected better from Voodoo. Like the clean wires that never were they used to have.
HMMM... I LIKE THE OUTSIDE BETTER. ...NOT CONVINCED ABOUT THE INSIDE.
THAT WAS A SAD INTERVIEW.. HE'S NO STEVE JOBS BUT B+ FOR EFFORT
GOOO AYCH PEEEEEE!!!
IM ANNOYING BECAUSE I USE CAPS ALL THE TIME.
COOL DUDE!!!!
GREAT COMMENT, LOVE THE ENTHUSIASM...
Very nice.
I would rather purchase a Mac Pro though...
Cluttered? What the hell are you smoking engadget.
... and can we please have some?
(on second thoughts, no... don't wanna turn into a mac fanboy...)
Apple peel :)
Thats a damn good lookin' machine!
More pics taken by Voodoo staff on the official forums:
http://www.thenextbench.com/hpg/board/message?board.id=Desktops&message.id=56