14 DAY TRIAL // Quite a few new products were released over the past three months, and this has prompted many new desktop and laptop releases. What we're about to show you now is one of the best gaming desktops yet.
Xotic PC has been a maker of high-end computers since 1999. Naturally, it doesn't want its name to be just hot air, so it constantly looks for the best and most unusual PC components and component combos.
Granted, it doesn't bother constructing PCs in spider-shaped chassis or anything like that, but it definitely prefers unique design elements.
That's why it selected the In Win S-Frame case to play the role of home for the powerful hardware when it constructed the Reaper gaming desktop.
Although, to be fair, the PC was actually made by ASUS for the most part. Xotic just added a few touches and offered to sell it.
The Xotic PC Reaper gaming desktop
First off, the powerful hardware configuration is centered around an Intel Core i7-5820K Haswell-E central processing unit, with six cores, 3.3GHz base clock, 3.6GHz Turbo frequency, 28 PCI-E Lanes and 15MB cacheStudent, Military and 3% Cash Discounts Available memory, plus a DDR4 memory controller.
Speaking of memory, you get 16 GB of Crucial 2,100 MHz DDR4 RAM. Not quite the 2,133 MHz you might have been hoping for, but much better than any DDR3 regardless.
Storage-wise, the Reaper combines a 250 GB Samsung 840 EVO solid state drive with an HDD of 1 TB and 7,200 RPM transfer speed.
Moving on, graphics are well covered by not one but two ASUS STRIX GTX 980 (4GB) GDDR5 in SLI. These are NVIDIA Maxwell-based adapters if you remember, the best single-GPU boards on the market.
As for power, the Reaper can manage on the 1200W provided by the Corsair AX1200i. That includes the Red LED Lighting Kit (sold together with custom red sleeved braided cables).
Everything is handled by an ASUS X99 DELUXE motherboard and housed inside the In Win S-Frame case, which happens to possess a unique design based on a repeatedly folded sheet of metal acting as the primary support structure. The picture up on the right-hand side says it all.
Availability and pricing
The Xotic PC ASUS Reaper gaming computer has a starting price of $4,299 / €3,377 and runs Microsoft's Windows 8.1 operating system. There will only be a limited number of these things for sale, but that shouldn't hurt too much considering how few the customers on the ultra-high end are.