iBuyPower compromises on nothing with Lan Warrior II
By Vlad Savov 
posted May 14th 2010 10:26AM
posted May 14th 2010 10:26AM
iBUYPOWER Launches LAN Warrior II – Powerful Second Generation µATX Form Factor PC Comes Locked and Loaded for LAN Party Battles
Core-i7 powered LAN Warrior has room for 2 Full-length video cards and up to 24GB of DDR 3 Memory is housed in the highly acclaimed NZXT Vulcan Micro ATX Chassis
El Monte, CA – May 14, 2010 – iBUYPOWER, a leading innovator in gaming PCs, is excited to announce the new LAN Warrior II µATX form factor PC. The LAN Warrior II is 40% smaller than most full tower desktops, but don't let its modest footprint fool you, it packs quite a punch. The battle ready LAN Warrior II comes fully loaded with an Intel Core i7 processor, up to 2 ATI Radeon HD 5970 or 2 NVIDIA GTX 480 graphics cards in CrossfireX or SLI mode, and has room for up to 24 GB of DDR3 Memory.
Coming just over a year after the original PC Gamer Editor's Choice-winning LAN Warrior, the second-generation LAN Warrior is the most powerful µATX gaming system in existence, offering enough cooling, space, and power to stand toe-to-toe with any full-size desktop system, while maintaining a small footprint and boasting advanced portability features.
"LAN party gamers demand more power than a notebook can deliver but disconnecting and shipping a full tower desktop to an event is a difficult and clumsy endeavor," said Darren Su, Vice President of iBUYPOWER. "The LAN Warrior II provides gamers with a more portable solution and is ready to take on any full sized system."
The LAN Warrior II is housed in the portable new NZXT Vulcan case, which features a durable non-slip finished top handle. The spacious Vulcan offers gamers superior cooling options with room for up to 3x 120mm, 1x 200mm, 1x 92mm fans and dual external water cooling cutouts. The LAN Warrior II launches with a full set of available air-cooling options, with a customized Liquid cooling unit to be available soon. The enclosure's 2x USB, E SATA, Audio + Mic ports are all continently located and easily accessible on the enclosure's top panel. The Vulcan is also available with internal LED lighting for night ops.
The LAN Warrior II starts at $999 and is available now exclusively at www.iBUYPOWER.com. iBUYPOWER systems come standard with 3 year limited warranty and lifetime technical support.
For additional information about iBUYPOWER please visit www.ibuypower.com, or contact PR representative Mark Olson at 305.576.1171 x17 or markolson@maxborgesagency.com.
Beastly.
@DoctarPeppar
Does it cook me dinner and drive me to work for that price? Hell, it better put out too!
@DoctarPeppar
Why anyone still buys from Dell and HP i'll never know. I just got a new PC from CyberpowerPC, got EXACTLY what i wanted, great video card, lots of RAM and huge HDD................for under 1K. You'd never build an HP with these specs.
@Sea Urchin
Well, there's always Toshiba!
Reliable, build quality is superb, plus cheaper than $11k.
Speaking of which, I'm sure you could build that for cheaper too. $11k is just outrageous!
@DoctarPeppar
Sounds like it's time for another Engadget Giveaway!
@Sea Urchin
Very true for almost any OEM out there. If you really want to get a specific system with specific specs for a much cheaper price than any OEM can give you, you might as well build your own system. The problem with that is most people in the world don't know the difference between a CPU and a hard drive, and would rather get the really crappy $400 Dell or HP system from Fry's or Best Buy because they don't know any better. But hey, if they're happy with it (which they usually aren't after a year because of random failures, or they blame a virus for making their computer so slow), then good for them.
But back to the subject at hand, it's ridiculous how much money some people will spend on a computer. If you have the money to waste, go ahead, but it's really unnecessary if you're not someone who can just blow off 11 grand and live comfortably.
@Sea Urchin
I also forgot that there's no sales tax when buying from iBUYPOWER or CyberpowerPC, which for me is 8% and many times theres no shipping promotion. A total of $100.
@Sea Urchin I used to (notice I said "USED TO") work for Alienware as a product manager and we used to buy competitors' PCs and do "unboxings" and internal product reviews. I can tell you in 110% honesty that whenever we ordered from Voodoo, Falcon, and Apple, the product we unboxed was well-packaged, well-presented, and generally in very good working order.
MOST of the time, when we would order from Cyberpower (especially them) and iBuyPower, what we got pretty consistently were at least partially damaged (broken chassis parts/door latches, etc) systems, wrong parts (CD-RW instead of a DVD-RW, for example), parts that had been switched without notification to us, misconfigured OS (bangs in device manager), misconfigured BIOS, poor presentation, second- or third-tier brands, systems that rebooted spontaneously or locked up, and so on. And these were systems that were priced comparably to Alienware's!!!
I am CERTAIN that not everyone has this experience, but after having done the work I did with Alienware for a very long time, I can tell you with 100% certainty that buying some 'uber' PC from some of the "smaller" guys for under (even over!) a grand ain't gonna' a lot of people what they want/expect.
@DoctarPeppar
I do not find practical implementation of more than 6 lets say for some 12 GB of RAM today.
If you need to create ram discs then yes, but with SSD it wont be needed after all. Over kill for the ram - the rest it OK.
I'm sure it can be custom built for half that price.
@zeroinfinity2
Highly unlikely. Those components are extremely expensive. 1 TB of SSD could cost around 3k to 5k.
@arnavdesai everything is up to, I think they have option for regular HDD as well?
@arnavdesai
Yeah,did't see that ssd option. Still for what you get it's not bad.
@zeroinfinity2 what arnavdesai said.
Only 4 visible slots on back, with 2 rendered useless by large 2 slot GPUs
@One Love
It's a microATX board. It's meant to be transportable. If you want full size you should be looking at a different model.
@One Love The 5970 can only be run in 2 way crossfire.
@KingFaisal94 : :)
if you took this thing to a lan party it would hump the other desktops
@Grape Drink
date rape ;)
@Grape Drink
Talk about LIVE LONG AND PROSPER
Are we still pretending this is a legitimate company?
@starkruzr I agree, if I am not mistake they want $11,000 for this P.O.S? My desktop could probably keep up if not run circles around this and it only cost me about $1,300, I'm hoping Engadget made a typo, if not ibuypower is even crazier than I thought, might as well slap a Sony logo on it for the pricing...
@Micro1331 So you have dual 5970 or GTX480s, 2gb in SSD space, and 24gb of ram? For $1300?!?!?!?! WHERE CAN I BUY THIS!
@Micro1331 I call bullshit on that. Post a shopping cart from newegg that matches the specs of that computer.
@Wallyum
Agreed. The Core i7-980X alone at NewEgg runs $1,049.99.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115223
Some people just have no clue.
@Kyzgar
I priced out the rest of it at NewEgg just for fun (using 4x 512GB SSD and 2x 480 cards) and it came out to $9,500. That's without an OS, a different NZXT case and no peripherals. The killer is the SSDs, which total $5,750 for 2TB. Take those out of the equation (perhaps 2x 256GB in RAID0 with a 1-2TB HDD for storage/backup) and you can knock at least $4,000 off the price, taking it closer to $5,000, without compromising performance.
@Micro1331
Still think your $1,300 rig is comparable? ;)
24GB RAM just makes me smile. Totally overkill, totally awesome, totally expensive haha.
@Mekkakat 6GB is overkill for most consumers including gamers.
@Zavrion
2 gigs per core is generally what you want to maximize the effectiveness of multicore processors. So your right that 6gigs may be overkill for micro office, but so is a quad core processor. I'd get to 12gb before I consider it overkill
Yeah, I've got your eight inch blower RIGHT HERE.
@Cameron That is not what she said. Sorry. That is what he said.
GTX 480 in that small form factor?
Somebody call 911'. Get the fire department on stand-by.
@guideXD
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how about sharing some of this power and have 2-4 separate users instead of a single douche huh? how about innovating 2-4 monitors, 2-4 keyboards, 2-4mouses, 2-4 separate OS'es running independently and have some classic co-op games together huh? then everyone can chip in and buy this motherload...
too bad it's by ONE OF THE WORST COMPANIES ON THE INTERNET. Do your research before buying from ibuycraptogetrippedoff.
If you're lumping aesthetics into "nothing", then yes, they've compromised nothing.
God that is FUCKING ugly. And it will break within a month, because iBUYPOWER is one of the worst companies around. They choose cheap components, terribly unreliable PSUs, and they can't properly package a product to save their lives. Just go online and look for horror stories of people who order from either iBUYPOWER or CyberPowerPC and get graphics cards that are snapped in half, because they weren't properly supported in shipping.
@Prevacator Its ugly in the same way that a Reventon is ugly, raw and brutish. But that makes it insanely sexy at the same time.
Eleven thousand bucks?! Jeez, it's like a recession never happened.
No floppy drive? pffft
@Oli D
You've earned an real 'lol'.
It's still much cheaper than a maxed out Mac Pro.
With about ten times the performance!
PEACE THROUGH POWER!
Absurd
I'm not sure if I want to barf on it or hump it.
@Blurb
thats what she said!
@Blurb
Man, I really hope she chooses 'hump'.
No one on earth should buy this. Build your own.
So they grabbed a bunch of current bits and stuck em in a box with a couple of fans.
Such revolutionary genius! Anyone who has used Lego and a screwdriver could build it in 20 minutes x x