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Systemax to Offer 'Hot-Rod' PC
Professor_Quail writes "C|Net News reports that PC maker Systemax is going to be offering a new line of PC's aimed at gamers and performance enthusiasts. The computers, priced at approximately 3-4 thousand dollars, are touted by the company specifically for their overclocking performance; the DoubleX line comes equipped with a water-cooling system and dual hard drives configured with RAID-0. The systems will be sold through the company's TigerDirect subsidiary."
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/computers/tiger_dir ect.htm .
doesn't look too good.. but then again, if you're a performance enthuasist would you pay 1000-2000 extra for something worth 100$-200$. watercooling can be had for 100$ and 400 will get you vapochill/mx3-eva type cooling(and the raid hd's and other stuff isn't worth it even unless you're unable to read, in which case buying a computer isn't very useful)..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Overclock the CPU and setup a raid 0 so you basically halve the mtbf on the logical volume?
What's the warranty, 12 minutes?
Why would anyone pay three thousand dollars for a PC to play games?? Earlier this week - Slashdot ran a thread about PCs Losing Out as a Gaming Platform?. Game companies are developing for consoles first. PC games typically involve an hour or more (if you're lucky) of patch / configuration hell vs. load and go with console games. Soon most consoles will support broadband and multiplayer games. They might be able to sell a $3000 box to a business for CAD applications, but as a gaming box; high end PC's are dead.
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