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My computer, albeit is functional, needs more oomf. I get these emails from this place called microcenter every so often that make me tear up a little bit as they show how cheap hardware is now. Well this morning I forwarded that email off to Engima who also started chompin at the bit and sent me these two links. Needless to say they gave me technowood and managed to make me depressed all at once.

Link One is a showcase of a machine that looks like it may have stepped out of a Terminator Film, and the name goes with it. The Infinity GTX. If I recall correctly there is also a military grade gatlin gun called a GTX, oh no its GATX, but hey close. The specs on it are very nice and it costs only $1735 bucks American. Every time I look at it I touch myself. When I read the specs on this thing I started to weep. Check out the basics: 

• CASE: ($40 off Mail-in Rebate) Thermaltake Spedo Full Tower 420W Case w/ Side-panel Window
• Neon Light Upgrade: NONE
• Extra Case Fan Upgrade: Default case fans
• POWER SUPPLY Upgrade: 800 Watts Power Supplies (CyberPowerPC XF800S Performance ATX 2.0 Power – Quad SLI Ready)
• CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-940 2.93 GHz 8M L3 Cache LGA1366
• COOLING FAN : Asetek Liquid CPU Cooling System (Extreme Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA)
• MOTHERBOARD: (3-Way SLI Support) Asus P6T Intel X58 Chipset SLI/CrossFireX Mainboard Triple-Channel DDR3/1600 SATA RAID w/ eSATA, GbLAN, USB2.0, IEEE1394a, &7.1Audio
• MEMORY: 6GB (2GBx3) PC1333 DDR3 PC3 10666 Triple Channel Memory (Corsair or Major Brand)
• FREEBIES: None
• VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce GTX260 CORE 192 896MB 16X PCI Express (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)
• VIDEO CARD 2: NONE
• VIDEO CARD 3: NONE
• MULTIPLE VIDEO CARD SETTINGS: Non-SLI/CrossFireX Mode Supports Multiple Monitors
• LCD Monitor: NONE
• 2nd Monitor: NONE
• HARD DRIVE: Single Hard Drive (1TB (1TBx1) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
• Data Hard Drive: NONE
• HARD DRIVE COOLING FAN : None
• USB PORTABLE DRIVE: NONE
• Optical Drive: Lite-On DH-401S 4X Blu-Ray Player
• Optical Drive 2: (Special Price) LG 22X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (Black Color)
• SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
• SPEAKERS: NONE
• NETWORK: Onboard Gigabit LAN Network
• MODEM: NONE
• KEYBOARD: Logitech Deluxe 250 USB Keyboard (Black Color)
• MOUSE: XtremeGear Optical USB 3 Buttons Gaming Mouse
• Extra Thermal Display : NONE
• Wireless 802.11B/G Network Card: NONE
• Flash Media Reader/Writer: None
• VIDEO CAMERA: NONE
• PRINTER: None
• PRINTER CABLE: None
• IEEE CARD: NONE
• USB PORT: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
• FLOPPY: NONE
• OS: Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium w/ Service Pack 1 (64-bit Edition)

Link two is a walk into the future as seen through the eyes of the crew over at Alienware. There computers are so amazing that they actually defy gravity. Enigma has an older one and I swear the thing has never touched the ground, it just sort of floats around his office. The ALX X58 should not be considered a computer, but more of a mate. If it came with extra fun parts I bet that there would be loads of gamers driving to Vegas to marry their Alienware computers.

Here is a post about it. Allow me to quote them:

“Alienware, following its parent company, Dell, introduces the new Intel Core i7 based Area-51 X-58 and Area-51 ALX X-58 gaming PC. Both Area-51 X-58 and Area-51 ALX X-58 are powered by Core i7-920 2.66GHz, Core i7-940 2.93GHz or Core i7 Extreme Edition 3.2GHz processor.

The Area-51 X-58 and Area-51 ALX X-58 feature up to 12GB of 1066MHz or 1600MHz DDR3 tri-channel RAM, repectively. They have dual nVIDIA or ATI graphic cards, up to 4TB of storage capacity, AlienIce or H2C high-performance cooling.

The prices start at $1649 for Area-51 X-58 and $3,699 for the more powerful Area-51 ALX X-58.”

And Enigma’s Comments on it – I swear his keyboard is probably covered in drool.

“Enigma: top of the line
Enigma: thats funny that you can not order everything
Enigma: that proc in the top of the line
Enigma: is 8 cores
Enigma: each at 3.2
Enigma: fuck man
Enigma: sorry 4 cores each hyper threaded
Enigma: so it works like 8 cores
Enigma: and it can access 3 channels of ram at the same time
Enigma: so it can use 3 banks of ram man
Enigma: that is fucking slick as hell”.

Indeed sir, slick as hell.