Fujitsu's new gaming rig gets a teaser site, and a name: CELSIUS ULTRA
By Donald Melanson 
posted August 3rd 2009 12:02PM
posted August 3rd 2009 12:02PM
Fujitsu managed to pique our interest in its forthcoming gaming desktop with the promises of some "German ultra clocking," and it now looks to have fully revved up the hype engine, with it launching a new teaser site for the rig, and revealing its name: the CELSIUS ULTRA -- because nothing says fast like all caps. Unfortunately, there's still no word about any little details like specs, a price or a release date, but the teaser trailer we saw before has now received a suitably dramatic soundtrack, and Fujitsu says the desktop should be showing itself at the now-happening KnastLAN LAN party in Landshut, Germany. As far as we can tell, however, no pictures of the rig have surfaced just yet.
[Thanks, Maik]
[Thanks, Maik]
it has chains! :)
Everything Fujitsu makes is pretty much over priced in my opinion.
I'm sure the innards are all good, but that case looks like a mini self-contained S&M torture chamber.
i am pretty sure thats supposed to be a cage and the machine is locked up inside, waiting to be released.
"As far as we can tell, however, no pictures of the rig have surfaced just yet."
Drat... witty comment turned fail.
BILLY MAYS HERE FOR THE CELSIUS ULTRA!
Too soon. Much too soon.
not cool Billy Hays was an hero
I agree. Uncool.
Too soon?....whatever....guess that's why they're still pushing his commercials all over the TV.
Guess I should have made a Steve Irwin joke instead.
And why is Fujitsu entering an already overcrowded market again?
an over crowded market 10 years too late I think is what you are meaning to say.
its 96' all over again...PC gaming is in a major slump...missing the year 2002 defiantly a peek of PC gaming...
however, that .001% chance that fujitsu can jumpstart the PC gaming industry, i say good for it.
Sure, it will be the fastest, or to put it in German "schnellste", pc in the world, but what does it really matter if no one can afford it...
Uh, not sure in the rarified world of overclocked game rigs, you want to use a unit of heat as your product name. Are you implying that you manage temperature well? Most people want a unit of speed (or an allusion to/metaphor of speed) for their gaming rig.
Exactly what I was thinking. I'm not convinced that the Marketing department thought this one through fully. Still, beats the heck out of "MAGMA ULTRA", which is perhaps what your computer turns into after it gets a bit warm...
does anyone actually buy these $4,000+ gaming boxes? i always just assumed they were halo products to get the company logo some cover space on printmags and blog-love from news-starved gadget eds.
although i did see a kid in fry's the other day trying to convince his mom that he absolutely needed a top-end qosmio for college. which incidentally made me nauseous.
Unless it comes with a Fujitsu LCD what's the draw?
Celsius Ultra? What kind of name is that?! Let me guess the lower end model is the farenheit failure?
I'm sure this rig will clock around 10,000$, I made a rig on dell & Falcon and they turned around 7,000$ & I didn't went over the top.
What's the equivalent cost in Fahrenheit?
So they're launching this at a jail. Probably to show how a nice video game machine can keep a criminal doing their crimes in the virtual world instead of the real world. It was too late coming for the poor guys in that jail right now.
The fastest machine. Until a faster one comes in about a month or two at most. The cutting edge of computing power is all about ripping off the rich early adopters and teenage speed addicts; wait six months and you'll get the same hardware for less than half the price (Apple being the exception in the rule).
so your saying, buy outdated hardware 6 months later? or wait forever because nothing is ever going to come out that isn't going to be outdated.
some people are willing to pay a premium to buy the best "at that time"
sounds like your talking out of jealousy more then anything.
It definitely looks like the picture is just a low-quality texture applied to a simple box. Doesn't look 3D to me...
"Excelsior!!! Peeeeeeewww!!!"
Not sure I want my temperature sensitive components in "CELSIUS Ultra"
CELSIUS ULTRA sounds like a very accurate and precise thermometer, not a gaming PC
Here's a link to a video supposedly showing it off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KjM3QWnvfI