14 DAY TRIAL // Those worried that a game is only available on the Xbox 360 game console or the PC need fear no longer, as Origin has just come out with a very unusual combination between the two, known as the Big O which, simply put, has both the PC and the Microsoft Xbox inside the same, custom chassis.
Though game makers usually try to make their biggest titles available in versions for both game consoles and personal computers, many games are only available on one media.
Seeking to finally get this problem out of the way, Origin took a custom chassis and solid water cooling and used them in order to combine the best of the PC and Xbox 360 worlds.
The PC side is centered around an Intel Core i7 or two Xeon processing units, backed up by 6GB or 12GB of RAM and two or four GeForce GTX 480 video cards in SLI multi-GPU configuration.
Already one can see that the performance level of this beast is situated in the uppermost part of the enthusiast segment.
The PC half also boasts one or more hard disk drives, multiple solid state drives (Vertex 2 SSDs that is) in RAID 0 and, of course, a Blu-ray writer (12x).
What's more, the creature is equipped with either one or two power supplies of 1kW or more, depending on how massive a performance one wants, though the video cards will make most of the difference in power requirements.
This high-end setup is possible thanks to the EVGA Classified SR2 motherboard, which has room for two Intel Xeon six-core processors, each with twelve threads.
All in all, the Xbox 360-PC hybrid will easily handle any game in high resolutions and maximum video settings.
Unfortunately, as one would expect from such a monster, the price is far from carrying any semblance of affordability.
In fact, the base build of the Big O demands $7,669, which is already a massive sum, albeit dwarfed by the $17,000 that the more 'complete' configurations sell for.