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.
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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.
Manah! Manah!
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When I was using our old Dell laptop during that incredibly hot summer about 3/4 years ago I propped it up with CD cases to provide a bit more clearance from the wooden desk and pointed a desk fan at it (running full speed, natch). Worked like a charm. Meanwhile, my friend with a big tower just took all the panels aff and pointed desk fans inwards.
Ghetto cooling > all.
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