HP BlackBird

The gamers and all the other computer enthusiasts would be very interested into this PC setup by HP: BlackBird 002 - a very powerful water-cooled PC. Obviously, you will get to have a very good gaming experience without any system noise. The system case is the HP Custom "Blackbird" ATX model - a very sleek overall design which also looks similar to a server computer unit. As motherboard there's the ASUS Striker Supreme, and the CPU is Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 Overclocked (Quad-core 11x333MHz 3.67 GHz 2x4MB shared L2 cache).

The heat-prevention system is made up of Asetek LLC Liquid Cooling for CPU/GPUs - Factory Sealed, 1 x 120mm front case fan and 2 x 120mm top case fans (for radiator). In terms of system memory, this system hits the 2GB barrier: 2x1024MB Corsair Dominator PC2-8500(CM2X1024-8500C5D) - to be noted - more RAM can be added - up to 4 GB (4x 1GB RAM modules) but those 4GB of RAM will be fully used only under Windows Vista 64 (nobody likes Windows XP 64 bit for a lot of objective reasons!). As video cards, HP selected AMD Radeon HD X2900 XT 1GB x 2 (CrossFire Capability) because of the increased compatibility of the CrossFire system with more games than the "usual" "SLI" setup from Nvidia. The hard drives are 1x160GB Raptor 16MB 10000 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s (WD1600ADFS), 1x750GB Seagate 16MB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s (ST3750640AS), while the optical drives is slot-loaded with a special unit: DVDR with LightScribe (TS-T632L), Blu-ray Rewriter/HD-DVD Reader (HL-DT-ST BD-RE GGW-H10N). The PSU is 1.1 kWcapable and has a modular cable design. The rest of the set-up is pretty standard for the PCs of today, with lots of USB ports and card reader. The operating system that comes with it is Windows Vista 32 bit - which goes to prove what I said above about RAM - 2GB will be enough (maybe 3GB as top full) for the 32bit version of any Windows version. More details can be found here.

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