The latest high-fashion gaming outfit (known as
Origin 'round these parts) has just started shipping its beastly Genesis out, and if you've ever wondered what five large could get you in the land of desktops, wonder no more. The crew over at
Hot Hardware managed to procure a darn-near-loaded machine, complete with a Core i7-920 CPU (overclocked from the factory to 3.8GHz), 6GB of Corsair DDR3 RAM, twin ATI Radeon HD 5970 GPUs, a liquid cooling system, 80GB SSD boot drive and pretty much every other top-of-the-line component you could imagine. How'd it stand up to testing? Well.
Really well. It crushed every benchmark that dared get in its way, and we're told that when pressed, the company's explanation of its warranty was truly best in class. What's interesting is that the MSRP of the test unit can be halved by simply opting for a few marginally weaker pieces, and we're guessing that the overall performance wouldn't suffer a
huge deal. Hit the source link for all the bars, charts and in-depth analysis you can handle.
posted January 21st 2010 7:10PM
My realm is still down.
Meh, got all that already, aside from the 5970's that is! Of course there the headline here, and I might of had myself a bit of that 5970 love'in as well if ATi hadn't gone and made the damn thing too big for my case, god damn it!!
With the rate at which technology is advancing, I think I could wait.
Before you purchase it, remember: in five years, it will be a boat anchor.
@Abe
So will any other piece of technology bought today. Name one thing that is still mainly popular that has gone unchanged for five years. Didn't think so. The whole point of technology is to have the latest and greatest at current time. Not later.
Plus, this would be a cheap boat anchor. Check out the 60lber at this site.
http://www.discountmarinesupplies.com/product.cgi?group=71312&product=86513
1000$!!! This is a smart investment.
@Abe
That's too much, more like 1.5 years
@Special Agent Steve
PS2 is still awesome and it's like 10 years old!!
@Peytral
AH-ha, but the slim version was released... I know that hardly counts. But not all 120 million consoles are still in use... :)
@Special Agent Steve With technology, you can pay in money and get a shiny high-end system now, or you can pay in time and get the same level of performance for cheap in a couple of years. Some people can buy a multi-thousand-dollar system every year and have it be an investment; I'm at the other end of the spectrum.
I pay in time, so my budget systems are just high-end workstations plus a few years. I upgrade and reuse components, so each system tends to be $200 or less.
Pretty unimpressive for $5K...
6GB of DDR3-1600 should be 12GB of DDR3-2000.
80GB SSD should be a 128.
1TB HDD should be at least 2TB, probably even four in two RAID arrays.
@Konrad
Just to clarify, I don't mean the benchmarks. They are pretty damn nice. I mean when I think $5K, I think it best have the best of what's available. "Spared no expense!"
@Konrad
Hell no, they got it right going Intel for the SSD, but it should be 160GB just because that's Intel's top capacity. Actually, we should probably be seeing a 512GB Colossus in there, or a 64GB X25-E with a Velociraptor or Colossus for a second tier between the smaller SSD and a 2TB drive.
Yeah, I'm with you, anyone with a clue could do so much better with $5000. Hell, you could build that machine plus a nice little file server. Or build a damned fine gaming laptop, get a nice ultraportable like an X200s, and build a file server.
@Konrad
Yes, pretty unimpressive, give me 2 months until Fermi is released and my PC will rock this one.
For the record, this PC can ROCK the shit out of Crysis.
Now if I only had $5000 lying around...
@WiiFTW
Time for a new "But can it play..." game
@yulebellow
But can it play Spore? Or, should I say, Will EA allow you to play Spore with all that shit DRM?
@yulebellow
but can it play StarCraft?
$5000 and it has on board audio :\ what piece of garbage, rather get a Dog House System, spend less, get more.
@(Unverified)
Checked out Dog House...Price was way higher on Dog House.......
*yawn. Tower PCs are boring, regardless of whatever paint/lights you put on it. I rather see a focus on designing a gaming rig with a slimmer/smaller form factor.
@pika2000
Like... this?
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/system-builder-marathon,2050.html
Uhhhhhh, smaller isn't always better. If you want small go with a laptop. Then it's portable.
@pika2000
-Gaming
-Smaller form factor
Pick one.
Flame means fast right? right??
If you like to build your own systems you can buy the same enclosure from Lian Li. I think it runs in the 300 dollar range with no power supply.
http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=338&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=61&g=d
How does it stack up (numbers wise) against Maingear's Shift?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/maingear-shift-reviewed-7-000-can-shatter-a-lot-of-records/
I doubt the 5970 will make that much of a difference.
Why are you bothering to review overpriced crap that uses nothing more than off-the-shelf readily available hardware, doubles or triples the price, adds a warranty, and only the rich can afford it? This kind of crap DOES NOT belong on Engadget.
Hahahahahhahahahahahah....
Dude, the 80's called, they want their Dungeons and Dragons / Thundercats lunchbox back
*give Darren Murph wedgie
Suddenly makes MacPros look reasonably priced.
What PC gamer doesn't build their own rig anyway? I call laziness. I've got that exact case along with innards that I can OC to almost the same speed as this thing, for half the price. And without the stupid ass logo and flames.
Still can't hold a candle to a Digital Storm system.
Hallowed are the Ori
wait I see the ugly flaming designs but where are the must needed unnecessary glowing neons and unnecessary silver honda civic bumpers and such
Building your own gaming rig would surely come cheaper with the same configuration right
Lightning bolts AND flames??!! that thing's gotta be fast!
the 5970s sound crazy.. but ill pass this will be garbage really soon with the rate things are moving
but hey it already looks ugly maybe its already garbage
er for that price wait yea theres that. any time i see specs/price of gaming desktops it just reminds me how much of a rip off my alienware area 51 was but hey... neon lights ehh? sigh
Sigh, this is doing computer gaming very wrong.
First to point out build, usually computer gamer enjoy making their own builds, and can create very great systems and keep prices down at that. $5000 is just so over the top, you could build 3 great gaming systems out of that budget.
But onto the rest of my rant about this build,
1. You NEVER start with dual GFX cards, dual GFXs should be used to improve your system later with upgrading, it's much more sensible and cost effective to buy a better SINGLE GPU (that also includes dual core GPUs)
2. Liquid cooling has never been that cost effective, or is recommended. Aside from risks of leakage, its actual performance increase is negligible compared to its price. It also makes your computer incredibly heavy and a pain to move if you ever have to. Air works quite fine (unless you have a university research computer with 9 GPUs)
3. Case looks fairly plain for a "luxury" computer. Not to say I like a bunch of lights and flare, but if you're paying this incredible price for a rip-me-off computer, you'd expect a little more work than regular box with decals painted on.
4. What's also laughable is that it comes with "Home Premium" with this price tag. At least you'd think they'd be kind enough to include ultimate with this, but sadly no. You're stuck with either sticking with some features turned off, or buying it from your local retailer or university, or pirating.
5. Due to the unnecessary dual GPUs, you're left with only 2 slots left, being one a PCI and the other PCIe. How nice to know you're so limited to expansion after mortgaging your house to buy a new computer.
6. Since we are talking about a premium price computer, I'd like to mention the audio is just simple on board. No special high def, or super high quality audio, but just basic average audio hardware. Surprising when they seemed to try and beef up the rest of the components.
So for a 5k gaming computer, this is really overdoing it. You're left with unnecessary components, and a very hefty bill. Yes this will play video games very nicely, but I think you'll soon be having empty pocket remorse. That's all I have to say about this for now.
@ThomasBags
1. Disagree with this, why wait.....What’s wrong with enjoying it now?
2. Disagree again. A CPU's life span will be increased running cooler (I like to OC) Also, I don’t move my PC around the house, if I want to sit on the couch and watch TV and post on engadget I'll use my note book instead of moving my Desk Top :)
3.Ummm did you read the review? The case above is not the case in the review.....
4.Not 100% on this one, what options will be turned off that i will need in a gaming system?
5.The EVGA MB comes with Four PCI E slots, One PCI E 1, and One PCI slot So after 2 graphic cards (that have Dual GPU's) You still have room to expand, but what more do you need? maybe a sound card, and there’s room for it.
6.Agreed, but there’s room for it :)
They say in the review "it's possible to build a system using the company's configurator for less than half that price."
The post that follow the “boutique” reviews always make me laugh…. Everyone can build a better system for cheaper. So I thought I’d try. The parts for this system (from New Egg) would cost $3943.38 Then the Koolance parts $371.73 So for a total of $4346.46 I can build it myself (I’m sure I can figure it out, but I have a job and a family so not much time) So for $653 I get a warranty and someone else to do the leg work….Not a bad deal in my book. The same system on Main Gear would cost $5706.99, on Digital Storm it would cost $5914.00 (ouch!) and never heard of Dog House but I looked them up, $5525.00 (no 5970’s could only get 5870’s from them, system offerings are slim and kinda confusing) Also the case shown above wasn’t the case in the review…..The case in the review is the Corsair case (No paint or neon lights) So I guess you can build it cheaper, $653, just depends if you know how and what’s your time worth. So as far as “boutiques” go, Origin seems to be the best priced.