Event Coverage

IDF Fall 2006 Update (Part 1)

By Dr. Jimmy Tang - 28 Sep 2006

Upcoming Quad-Core Desktops

Upcoming Quad-Core Desktops

We saw a couple of very beautiful and interesting gaming systems based on Intel's upcoming Core 2 QX6700 processor. The following are some that caught our attention.

The Alienware Area-51 7500 system. It's equipped with an NVIDIA quad SLI GPU system and 4GB of DDR2 memory.

The Dell XPS Special Edition Formula Red Gaming desktop. It comes with dual NVIDIA SLI graphics, AGEIA PhysX Physics Accelerator and Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi sound card. It uses 2.5mm thick aircraft grade aluminium.

The Sonic Boom OCX is Hypersonic's flagship gaming system based on quad-core.

Inside the Hypersonic PC. You can see that it uses a similar CPU water cooling solution first revealed by Intel.

The Voodoo Omen Extreme Gamer i:121. It uses an advanced liquid cooling system for both its processor and graphics card. It supports water cooling for CrossFire setups too.

Inside the Voodoo Omen.

The Falcon Northwest Mach V is probably the fastest PC on earth today with an overclocked quad-core QX6700 running at 3.73GHz.

Overclocking seems easy on the quad-core using water cooling methods.

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