SPECS: Price: $5,600 CPU : 3.0GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (overclocked to 3.69GHz) Motherboard chipset: Asus Striker Extreme (NForce 680i) Memory: 2GB 1,066MHz DDR2 SDRAM Graphics: (2) 1GB DDR4 ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT Hard drive : (2) 160GB, 10,000rpm hard drive, 750GB 7,200rpm hard drive Optical drives: (2) 16x HP SuperDrive dual-layer DVD burner w/LightScribe Operating system: Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit Links: http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9772156-1.html http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/hp-blackbird-002/4505-3118_7-32592299.html?tag=nefdprod.rev
^this is quad lol but still don't really know bout the pricing of the components gaming pc's cause i'm no hardcore game, but yeah if you gamers say it's overpriced then i guess it is...
the price seems about right... of course it will be cheaper to build yourself, but you are getting a warranty and quality manufacturing (hopefully) Alienware System price: $ 5,598.00 Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme QX6850 3.0GHz 8MB Cache 1333MHz FSB - Overclocked to 3.33GHz Dual 768MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8800 Ultra - SLI Enabled - Liquid Cooled! 2GB Low Latency DDR2 Performance SDRAM at 800MHz - 2 x 1024MB 320GB (2 x 160GB) Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s 10,000 RPM w/ 2 x 16MB Cach 20X Dual Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Burner Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer High Definition 7.1 Audio Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium Not quite as solid overclocking as the blackbird.. but i like the Nvidia GPU's more -inlove
vodoo is known for sweet systems. i was watching the presentation on this and they put it together with all off the shelf shit..obviously you can get this cheaper..but ur paying for the name and the vodoo quality as this was a partnership with hp and vodoo....but then they said this was an hp idea with vodoo dna..
@fearless, i think you can choose either the ati or nvidia gpu for the blackbird, but that alienware case looks slicker...
i actually think the blackbird case looks slicker.. the alienware design got old, and kinda plasticky and "childish"
