Commodore XX - What do you think?

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I have just read an article on the release of this puppy.

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I remember the day i got bought a C64 at the age of 10 which cost £350 :eek: and was papping in my pants at the pure excitement I had when I opened it and had it out of the box in seconds flat.

After nearly 20 Years they have come back with the CXX.

Only 2 Specs are available with this apparently:

Q6700 or Q6800
Asus P5N32-E SLI
2GB of Corsair Dominator
2X 8800 Ultras SLI or 2X 8800GTX SLI
2X WD Raptor X Raid 0
500GB HDD
850W Ice Cube PSU
Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
TEC Cooling System
250mm Side Panel Fan
Vista Ultimate

This baby will be retailing for just a tad over £2,500 :eek:

Their motto is to redefine the 'line between gaming and reality'

What are your thoughts?

Ta :D
 
Wiggins said:
This baby will be retailing for just a tad over £2,500 :eek:

Their motto is to redefine the 'line between gaming and reality'

What are your thoughts?

Ta :D
£2500?? My thoughts are that they won't have to sell many to make a nice profit :D Actually I've seen a lot of photos of these before and the more toned-down looking ones seem quite nice.
 
Growlingfish said:
£2500?? My thoughts are that they won't have to sell many to make a nice profit :D Actually I've seen a lot of photos of these before and the more toned-down looking ones seem quite nice.

Well to purchase the parts seperately excluding the TEC Cooling and the case it comes to just under £2,500 so if you want the same spec you get the case and the setup built free of charge :D

Considering the artist 'Banksey' did it and if i'm not mistaken has done a number of other brands cases then it would look a treat for the ultimate old retro gamer :D
 
The case looks rather cheesy but as you say the price is pretty fair considering the parts used although if the specification is that changeable then I might have to reconsider just how good a deal it is (and 4gb Ram would be a better match than 2gb). :)
 
they not gonna sell many at that price, they going on the basis that thier legendary name from back in the days will hopefully get them some sales. :rolleyes:
 
I wonder if you will still get the squiggly lines on the screen as the game loads and then it crashes right at the end of loading :mad:
 
Wiggins said:
I wonder if you will still get the squiggly lines on the screen as the game loads and then it crashes right at the end of loading :mad:

Novaload :D

I actually thought that pic of the case was a pic of the box it comes in. far too garish :(
 
Hmm, I guess it's nice to have an alternative to Alienware at that sort of 'enthusiast' pre-built level, but as always they are pretty hugely overpriced, spending money on all the wrong things (IMO). I took the liberty of throwing together a spec from our very own OCUK:

Case - Akasa Eclipse 62
Power Supply - Enermax Galaxy 850w
Motherboard - Asus Striker Extreme
Processor - Intel Q6600
CPU Cooler - Thermalright Ultra-120 extreme + Scythe Kaze-white 120mm fan
RAM - 2gb Crucial Ballistix PC2-6400 X 2
Graphics Card - BFG 8800gtx OC X 2
Hard-drive - WD Caviar SE16 500gb X 2
Operating System - Vista Home Premium 64-bit
Optical Drive - Samsung 20x dvd burner
Sound Card - Creative Xtreme Gamer Fatality Professional 7.1
Keyboard - Microsoft Reclusa
Mouse - Razer Deathadder

That all comes to £1984.32 leaving ample extra to buy a Dell 3007wfp-hc for roughly the same price (£50 more) as that Q6800 rig mentioned in the first post (which was £2826.22 with the q6800+ultras+raptors but of course no monitor).
 
stickroad said:
Uber components but a crappy CPU Cooler, the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU.

nowt wrong with the freezer 7

had my e6300 at 3.2 gig for 8 hrs orthos small ffts priority 9 @ 58-60 c

spose its reasonable value but as mentioned raptors are poo and imo id throw 4 gb ram in for vista
 
stinka said:
nowt wrong with the freezer 7

had my e6300 at 3.2 gig for 8 hrs orthos small ffts priority 9 @ 58-60 c

spose its reasonable value but as mentioned raptors are poo and imo id throw 4 gb ram in for vista

Nope, their is nothing wrong with the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU, very good value for money.

Maybe i didnt write my post write.

In that system, what he has Raptors, SLI 8800s, Quad Core etc...

I would have thought they would have put a cooler in like the Thermalright Extreme as if your going all out on other componets why skimp on the CPU Cooler... :)
 
paradigm said:
Building it with Raptors and 8800's with vista, ha. That combination doesn't work too well :D

I didnt have probs with RAID0 Rapters an 8800GTX and Vista (except Vista is pants and thus im back to XP pro :P)


Nice rig, pitty about the case
 
stickroad said:
I would have thought they would have put a cooler in like the Thermalright Extreme as if your going all out on other componets why skimp on the CPU Cooler... :)

Heres a quote I took from a review not so long ago:

"The most interesting feature of this PC, however, is the internal cooling system, which has a TEC underneath the 850W ICE Cube power supply. The hot side of the TEC is fixed to the PSU, where the heat is removed by the PSU's fans, while the cold side connects to copper heatpipes that go to a small heatsink in front of the CPU cooler. This means that any air drawn into the CPU cooler is cooled by the other heatsink, which is positioned at an angle so that it helps to cool the 2GB of Corsair Dominator memory too"
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So I suppose the Arctic Freezer is a capable cooler as anything like a Tuniq or a Noctua maybe wouldnt have fit.
 
To me it sounds like they got a couple of young computer geeks in a room, gave them a healthy supply of monster munch and diet coke, and told them to design the coolest computer they could think of.

They've aimed at a very speciffic market, and it will probably do quite well.

PK!
 
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