Origin's PC/Xbox 360 Would Give You ''The Big O''

[scook9]

[citation][nom]babybackribs[/nom]Actually, a pair of the CPUs will set you back 3500+, the motherboard 600, the memory another 1500 depending on what they use, the hard drives another 1000* depending on what they use, the waterblocks another 500 or so, the grahpics cards another 2500+, plus the case and customizing. So I think cost-wise for just the parts will be around 10,000k+ if you were building yourself. They do that plus overclock it for you. Sure, for the person who knows how to do this they can save maybe 5k but all in all it is not what a lot of these comments make it out to be (for those that are saying it's about 3k in components!)[/citation]

My thoughts exactly, before spouting off about how cheap you home built system is, look at the parts that are going into that $17k machine.....I am glad you did the research because I was going to if no one else did. People also need to realize that well their $1500 pc can game decently, this machine will NEVER have an issue with ANY game on the market today. It will also run any production application very well.

No need to get mad at the company or the article guys, they are not saying you have to buy it.

 

[aethm]

It's nice but I don't see it selling well. It's too expensive. Yes, the parts are expensive and impressive, but you don't need that kind of power to run any game currently out on the market.

 

[g00fysmiley]

hmm... this or a compact car and a decent gaming rig with wenough left over to buy lots of games for both.... if i had the money i'd do the car >_< sad thing is they will sell some to people who don't know the value of a dollar

 

[teaser]

why would someone put old console tech in a top line rig is beyond me

 

[Ogdin]

Looks like a great buy for the more money than brains crowd,and a good laugh for the rest of us.

 

[d-block]

That is a terrible idea.

 

[repomanchitown]

This one goes WAAAY over the top. Love it!

 

[djab]

[citation][nom]babybackribs[/nom]... So I think cost-wise for just the parts will be around 10,000k+ if you were building yourself. They do that plus overclock it for you. Sure, for the person who knows how to do this they can save maybe 5k but all in all it is not what a lot of these comments make it out to be (for those that are saying it's about 3k in components!)[/citation]

So what you are saying is that it is ok for them to charge 5k just for assembling parts and overclocking ... wow !!!

 

[Dkz]

I'm sorry to tell this hideous and terrible true...
BUT my E7500+4870 still runs all the new titles, it's old, it's cheap and still can game.
Why on earth would you possibly buy something that expensive for future gaming? Buy a kickass CPU, vga, or 2, save some cash, and when new hardware comes buy it.
It's less expensive and you don't have to care about ageing hardware.

 

[renixis_infinity]

Wow, with this specs, it'll decimate everything
this definitely can run Crysis

4 GTX480s in 4-way SLI
Pair of Xeon X5680 at 4.3GHz
24GB of Corsair GT 2000MHz
and a XBOX360 Slim inside

but 7K or 17K is way too much for my budget

the 17K one seems justified but the 7K one is hard to tell whether its in the right price or not, oh well can't say until we know what's included in it

 

[captainnemojr]

XBOX 360 $300, PS3 $300, Wii $200, New Gaming Rig built myself $1200, Duct Tape $3.00 a roll....basically building the same thing but with all 3 consoles, although not as aesthetically pleasing, for ~1/4 the price? PRICELESS!

 

[Humans think]

"If you really mean business, though, you can opt for two of Intel’s hexacore Xeon X5680 processors overclocked 4.3GHz and 24GB of Corsair GT 2000MHz memory. Then add in four of EVGA’s GeForce GTX 480 FTW graphics cards for good measure."

Give me that and i could emulate 5 Xbox 360 and 2 PS3 playing simultaneously (if there were any emulators :S)... while...
emulating PSN and Xbox live for local play +
streaming feeds of virtual machines to 5 of my friends @720p 25fps so all of us can play together...

 

[mlopinto2k1]

[citation][nom]sirmorluk[/nom]17k and mismatched drive bay bezels? Meh.. It is a cool idea though.[/citation]I don't think they are mismatched. Just a bad angle for lighting, or they retouched the drive in. Look at it full size. You'll see what I mean.

 

[YardstickWHACK]

[citation][nom]Zingam[/nom]Come one it is just 8000 .99 cents easy payments![/citation]
I think you mean "8000 .99 dollar easy payment!" I once got some nearly free Taco Bell due to that same mistake.

 

[RaZZ3R]

Maybe they just want to be the next Apple, they just need to get a Steve Jobs clone and make him say its magical and everyone will sell there house, care, spouse to get the next oPC

 

[pacapaca]

[citation][nom]babybackribs[/nom]Actually, a pair of the CPUs will set you back 3500+, the motherboard 600, the memory another 1500 depending on what they use, the hard drives another 1000* depending on what they use, the waterblocks another 500 or so, the grahpics cards another 2500+, plus the case and customizing. So I think cost-wise for just the parts will be around 10,000k+ if you were building yourself. They do that plus overclock it for you. Sure, for the person who knows how to do this they can save maybe 5k but all in all it is not what a lot of these comments make it out to be (for those that are saying it's about 3k in components!)[/citation]

All prices taken from Newegg except for the case which was taken from the manufacturer.

DangerDen Tower 21 Double Wide Case - $380
Intel Core i7 930 - $285
ASUS Rampage III MB - $380
Corsair Dominator 6GB - $205
Gigabyte GTX 480 - $450 x 2 = $900
OCZ Vertex 2 50GB - $170 x 2 = $340
2TB WD Caviar Black - $180
Silverstone 1500W PSU - $380
Plextor (Pioneer unavail) 12x Bluray Burner - $220
Rosewill Card Reader - $22
Creative Fatal1ty Front Mount - $150
Windows 7 Home Premium - $180
New XBox 360 250GB - $300

Total: $3717... Apparently the custom liquid cooling, xbox jammed into the other side of the case, a few switches and lights, and changing a few BIOS settings is worth $4000 to you.

 

[utengineer]

The $17000 version of this includes 2 x Xeon 5680's, 4 x GTX480's, SR-2 motherboard, and 4 x Vertex 2's in RAID 0(on LSI host card). Everything is watercooled, including the XBOX 360. Just doing the math in my head, the build would cost 10-12K for parts alone.

The XBOX is not linked to the PC. There is a 5-port switch so you can switch between displaying the console or PC.

 

[Warsaw]

I got an O face for you....

 

[IWC Member 23495867]

Good grief...

 

[thechief73]

Wow, what a beast of a system. But I cant help to think if I was going to drop $7.5k to $17k I would take the time and effort to build it myself. Reasons being just the expeirence of doing so.

I just cant help thinking a regular Xbox 360 Slim not in my pc is just as good. But to each his own.

Nicly done Orgin's very clean build and very creative thinking.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

If I was going to play $17,000 for a PC, it'd better have the PS3 and Wii included, too, as well as everything that's legacy with the games pre-installed. Now that would be the Epic O.

 

[YardstickWHACK]

[citation][nom]thechief73[/nom]I just cant help thinking a regular Xbox 360 Slim not in my pc is just as good. But to each his own.[/citation]
You make a good point that I'd like to expand on. By putting the Xbox 360 slim in the case, you remove a very nice feature of it-- it's portability! I'd rather see just the Xbox modded so that it became a modular attachment to the top of the case, kind of like some water cooling reservoirs.

 

[Guest]

Yo dawg, we heard you like to game, so we put a game in your gaming PC so you can game while you game!

 

[Guest]

That case is a DangerDen DD Double Wide Tower 21 on dangerden.com starting at $380. If they had dd do any custom cuts, it could easily be a $500 case. I ordered a custom one of these during an internship I had and built a system in it. Simply Amazing! I absolutely loved that case.

 

[ray-ng]

Look, the computer is now diamonds!