Cooler Master's 5-CPU monstrosity has your craptop cowering in a corner

Yeah, your PC sucks. That video card you "borrowed" from your brother two years ago makes an exasperated sigh every time you fire up The Sims 2, and you're pretty sure your power supply is one Cheeto crumb away from giving up the ghost. Not this thing, however. Cooler Master has built an utterly ridiculous setup, with five separate quad-core computers running simultaneously under one roof, off of one power supply. The whole thing, which Cooler Master dubbs the 53GHz, is basically a showcase for various Cooler Master components, and will be displayed at CeBIT in Germany next week. Personal grid computing here we come? Video is after the break.

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[thescreensavers Posted Mar 1st 2009 7:09PM]

Any one else get Sad when they used RPM hard drives? WERES THE SSD!! There spending a fortune why not just get SSD's?

[KGB Posted Mar 1st 2009 7:57PM]

SSD use less Wattage, thus it wont show off their manly PSU.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 1st 2009 9:18PM]

Ok... I know it's not a serious system meant for any real world product... but...

How is this really any better than 5 SFF boxes stacked on each other - other than only requiring one power plug? Worse, if something goes wrong, it's a lot of stuff to take apart. Not to mention the cooling issues.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 2nd 2009 1:46PM]

if you like at the link on the cooler master website, you'll see "Today, we are proud to announce that with a single Real Power M1000W we are able to power up 5 full mini-itx systems in a closed ATCS 840 chassis." What they're bragging about is that their power supply is awesome enough to run 5 compies at one time, and that their case is cool enough to keep it all running at decent temps. They're saying there aren't any cooling issues becuase their case is so well designed. That being said, if I did a lot of rendering this would be awesome. I would rather have this than five computers stacked on top of each other. Looks cooler :)

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 10:33AM]

PERFECT for LAN parties... other than the fore mentioned Achilles heel issue