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    Blackbird 002

    Has anyone else seen the Blackbird 002 gaming system from HP?

    Take a look at the official site: http://h20435.www2.hp.com/

    The price is the first thing to make me question how it can be really worth $4,999.

    But the site is worth looking at as it is very nicely designed and looks and functions very slickly with flash.

    And this will make you laugh. I thought it would be fun to have a play around with the system configuration to see what I could come up with. My final system comes to a grand total of... $10,024,96. They must be joking!

    For this price I set up a Quad Core Core 2 Extreme 3GHz QX6850, 4GB ram, CPU and GPU liquid cooling, Vista Ultimate, Dual nVidia 8800 Ultra 768MB, Ageia Physx 100 Accelerator, Creative Audio X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro, 1.1KW PSU, 2TB SATA, 2x Super Multi-Drives, Blu-Ray Writer, 30" LCD, Bose speaker system, Logitech mouse and Keyboard.

    And that price didn't include TAX!!! Complete madness! I could build something similar for £2000 I'm sure.
    Last edited by Harrison; 5th March 2008 at 23:58.

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    Looks like a p*nis envy job to me. "I've got $5,000. Look how big my knob is!!!". Give me a standard case and a drill and i can make a unique cooling system.
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    pfft, drills are too accurate. Give me a shotgun and some shells and I'll make you a cooling system that not only lets the air flow all over the CPU but it has speed holes so it will go faster

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    pfft, drills are too accurate. Give me a shotgun and some shells and I'll make you a cooling system that not only lets the air flow all over the CPU but it has speed holes so it will go faster
    Haha! Now we're talking!

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    You don't want to do that...

    Its the 'thing' nowadays to go organic... So give me a cloth casing and a handful of tame moths, now that'll be cooling that doesn't need a power source...
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    Mine would be ecologically sound powered and cooled by water with the heated up water being used for my washing up. Only thing is to create the water wheel i have to divert the local river, build a water wheel after clearing a woodland and burning all the little furry creatures out.


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