14 DAY TRIAL // It became routine for the gamers to barge in hardware stores and sites every time a revolutionary PC game is announced, in order to buy a PC part (or two, or three) without which the maximum enjoyment of the Doom3 monsters details or of the futuristic landscapes in Half Life 2 (just to mention two of the latest PC humiliating titles) couldn't be achieved.
And this time, thanks to a special collaboration between ABIT, ATI, Kingston and Asetek (each of them offering a high-end component), occasioned by the 2005 edition of CeBIT, a new PC is born, a PC I don't know how many of us could afford.
ABIT came with an ABIT Fatal1ty AA8 XE motherboard, which holds a Pentium4@3,8 Ghz CPU, cooled through Asetek's solutions: VapoChill and WaterChill graphics.
The whole combination was completed by Kingston's memory solution HyperX PC6000 765MHz DDR2 RAM, and the final touch was brought by ATI, with its Radeon X850XT PE.
After completing all the installation, the processor frequency had to be decided. And that was no less than? 5000 MHz. Yes, no typo here. Can you imagine how such a system works?
Nobody said anything about the price, but a few web searches brought us these estimates: the Abit motherboard - around 700 USD, the Radeon video card - around 800 USD, the VapoChill cooling solution - around 600 UDS, the WaterChill solution - around 500 USD.
If you add to this the memory, CPU, HDD costs, plus a few other small details that make a system work, you'll reach approximately 5000 dollars, which is the estimated price for the world's most powerful computer.
I wonder? what frame rate for Doom3 would this money buy? Only those to see the CeBIT demos will be able to tell!
