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Systemax to Offer 'Hot-Rod' PC

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the if-you're-to-lazy-to-do-it-yourself dept.

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."

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  1. Uhhh by 0xA · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Overclock the CPU and setup a raid 0 so you basically halve the mtbf on the logical volume?

    What's the warranty, 12 minutes?

  2. $3000 PC vs $200 Console by rlp · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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