And now we know what the "
world's fastest" air-cooled gaming rig is made of -- a 3.33GHz
Intel Core i7-975 and a pair of souped-up
GeForce GTX 295s running in SLI. They're backed up by 12GB of DDR3 memory, a 150GB WD Raptor as an OS drive and two 1TB storage hangars, but you must be wondering where all that
German ultra clocking is. Well, the motherboard is of Fujitsu's own making and a custom tweaker-ready BIOS is promised, but the truth is we really can't see anything overclocked especially for this rig. Which is not to say it won't be the most powerful pixel pusher in the world (this week), with hardware like that we're sure you'll be able to run Vista Business without a hitch... oh yea, that's the listed OS, and since we're spilling bad news, recommended price tag is €4,000. If you're anywhere near Cologne this week, head on down to
gamescom, and if you ask really nicely, the Fujitsu people might even let you play on this fiery beast of a machine. See it undressed after the break.
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posted Aug 19th 2009 5:58AM
Mini-ATX, and a cramped case are a no-no in my book.
Compared to other manufactoring that cable management isnt' that great either...
actually, with that kind of airflow it would be pretty reasonable. the cables are arranged mediocre and those are some nice fans. just dont understand why they couldnt have made it better with that price tag. needs hdd cooling
Even Dell does a better job than that.... terrible
I think there is intake cooling looking at the first picture w/ the grill, just talking about the CPU, i7 can cook eggs on stock settings, they hit about 65C+ in some cases, I would hate to have his PC living near the equator during the summer....pheew!
A pretty sweet rig. although you can make this rig by yourself, fujitsu did a good job.Although for that price, im surprised its not liquid cooling or anything crazy like that, but they did a really good job of cable management as well as positive to negative airflow, so it should be a RELATIVELY quiet machine.
the case is kinda meh.
Hmmn..
That's not really a good cable management..
That's a poor choice of case for airflow and the cable management sucks. Who did they pay to put that together, Boxcar Willie?
Why bother about box size and wiring when you have the power?
I'd worry about the price tag instead!
Not much good if shit's getting too hot in that cramped little case with bad airflow, and doubtless too much thermal paste on, as always happens when you buy a prebuilt. I doubt this'll be as cheap or good as if buying
all the components and building yourself.
Hurr I'm a durr for hitting add comment.
Very nice specs, its just a shame the case doesnt look like a 4000 euro PC.
*yawn* is it me or does hardware just seem that dull anymore...things are already so fast that im just meh about everything. i guess im getting to old to worry about the pixel and mhz war, especially when the baseline seems to change from day to do. i cant see shelling out this kind of loot for something that only gives you a couple more fps at max, for triple the price tag of something that still performs solid.
I'd have to agree with you - it all becomes a bit immaterial once you get to the last 10-20%.
Building PCs - Its much like car modding - you don't really get there any faster and people think you're a bit strange.
I didn't even know Fujitsu made PCs. I thought they made air conditioning lol. And that case looks cheap.
They should have put one of the Intel SSDs as system drive into the rig.
I don't know. The way I see it, unless that custom built motherboard of theirs takes out your garbage and does your laundry, and those 295s being "souped-up" actually play your games for you, I see nothing special here. And definitely nothing deserving the title of "world's fastest" in any category.
I really don't think this is even news worthy. Even if I had all kinds of money to burn and bought it I would probably just take it apart and salvage the supposedly cherry-picked parts.
World's fastest computer to be designed, as well as fastest to be discontinued after release.
But seriously, for 4000 euros, stock components and no jaw dropping case?
For a €4000 machine I'd expect it to have a few SSD in raid0, not a freakin raptor...
Agreed.
completely off topic but how do you change your display picture and your name?
click your profile name , next screen right hand side you'll get some options , change it there....
Could they not have spent 10 minutes extra on cable management? You look at anything from a bottom range Dell through the XPSs, and there are very few visible cables, this thing is a mess.
i agree. i spent ages doing cable management on my PC so it would look good.
@josephlars:
Click on your name and then on the right side on "Edit Profile" or "Edit Picture"
Even if the board is supposed to be Fujitsu's own design, how could it be much different that any other X58 mobo currently on the market? Anyway, building one of these (with a nicer-looking case, no less) should cost about half the price tag they slapped on this one - but hey, that's always been the case with Alienware/Voodoo-like premium boxes, I just never figured out who the hell buy that ready-made stuff.
Pretty much everything is priced 1$=1€, then for something it isn't
discounted for US and a big cry....
i don't mind if the case design looks like that... all i care is the spec's!
I think people who are into GTX295 SLI don't buy prebuilds :O
... and I doubt people will buy it for the case
Actually i like the outside of the case. It has this cool workstation look.
however the inside is a mess! for this price i expect better cable management, and some kind of nice accesibility features for hardware. Just like in a sun workstation or a mac pro.
Looks like it's going to get hot in there!!!
wow...this thing is ugly as hell...they could have put some time into the case design...
Looks like a Lenovo...
ULTRA crap....
What a crappy system, they don't even overclock the i7, the SLI 295s will be bottlenecked by a non overclocked i7 by far.
Give me 2 months when I throw in a pair of SLI-GT300s and my current rig will surpass this rig in every possible way... (4ghz i7, Low latency DDR3-1600 RAM, etc)
FIX the cables FIX THEM or its a huge thumbs down =.=
Meehhhhh... The sneakily thrown in "this week" makes this kinda bland. I wanna see something mind blowing.
I built a machine just like this for $1,400 six months ago.. only one GTX295 though and 6 gig of ram. I'm sure I'm not missing much from the second GPU considering TF2 only gets 10% boost from the second onboard chip.
Really? The graphics cards with be obsolete because the next generation should be coming in the next 6 months.
I guess the real question is why aren't there 256 SSDs in RAID 0?