Need a new gaming machine?

[Glenn]

Then this could be the machine for you, if you have big pockets http://www.techspot.com/news/40194-origin-launches-hybrid-xbox-360-luxury-gaming-pc.html

[vitriol]

Impressive.........but a bit on the pricey side. 

[Rik]

Anything more than 2/6d is.

[Niall]

I saw this last night. While liquid cooling is nice, especially for overclocking, they seem to have crippled it with needlessly small hard drives. I'm hoping the xbox has been liquid cooled too or that thing will just die in there. Why you'd want a console that dies in there I don't know.

I'm waiting until Xmas to get a new one. I miss playing sports games and I need to play fable 3

[Technical Ben]

Yep, the Xbox is liquid cooled. You can choose 2tb HDDs if you customise it, oh and dual 3d screens too.

Looked at them yesterday. Totally ridiculous, but I would if I had the cash. An example, is that they were setting one up with a Hex core CPU. If you get a dual motherboard too, that 16 cores! If it has HT enabled, that's 32 processes it can run simultaneously!

[Niall]

Isn't hex core 6 cores?

[Technical Ben]

Yes. Yes it is. 
Octo Core would be eight. Hex is six. Completely lost my footing there. 

[Rik]

Isn't hex core 6 cores?

Or voodo magic... 

[gizmo71]

I was expecting it to be overclocked to something insane like 4.5-5GHz.

Only 4GHz?! There are plenty of folks getting that on air. Even the 4.3GHz isn't anything like gobsmacking enough to justify the price tag, given that people have successfully done extreme overclocks of similar CPUs to over 6GHz.

[Fox]

I run my Intel Q9550 at 4.0 GHz on air and the core temps never exceed 60C running prime95. Looks like a PC for people with more money than sense.

[Technical Ben]

I was expecting it to be overclocked to something insane like 4.5-5GHz.

Only 4GHz?! There are plenty of folks getting that on air. Even the 4.3GHz isn't anything like gobsmacking enough to justify the price tag, given that people have successfully done extreme overclocks of similar CPUs to over 6GHz.

AFAIK no one can garuntee it though. So you could overclock it once you get it. Most people either don't want an overclock (normal home user) or are happy to do it themselves (tinkering geek ).
A good example is the new ATI/AMD 5950 card. It's sold underclocked. This gives it a lower power use for most systems. But if you have a big PSU you can just overclock it from the box for 10-20% more umph.