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Hmmmm, if the box is as slow as the flash-sodden website, I'd likely give it a miss ;)
 
SO take a Mac Pro, make it narrower, put it on a pedestal instead of handles, add one HD slot and put in a huge-ass power supply. "Tool-free" is not new (G5, Antec and other companies), nor is the cooling system "revolutionary", unless taking in air from the bottom is new (which I doubt).
 
LOL. The website was a little slow wasnt it :)

My opinion on it is that it looks pretty hot...different at least. While it may not offer much of anything new in terms of ideas, its probably one of the better built gaming boxes that are made by a large company.

With that said, there is no way its worth the $$ they are asking. I can add an 8800GTX to my box and hang toe to toe or outperform it for a tiny fraction of the cost...just not as flashy looking but then again I'm not much of a gamer so I like slightly more understated looks.

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LOL. The website was a little slow wasnt it :)

My opinion on it is that it looks pretty hot...different at least.

Couldn't tell you - I'm still waiting for it to load.... Safari and flash is not a good combo....
 
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It looks like a mini fridge.
 
It does actually. Thats the first thing that came to my mind as well. Maybe Antec was trying to imply something about the cooling ability of this chassis ;) Now if I had endless $$ and didnt care about wasting it, I'd get that HP box just because it looks different but unfortunatly I'm stuck with my fridge :)



It looks like a mini fridge.
 
For those who couldn't be stuffed with loading times... ;)

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Processor
AMD® X2 Dual Core Architecture
64 bit data paths and registers
Hypertransport™ I/O Bus
Up to SSE 3 support
Integrated DDR2 memory Controler

Configurations
Athlon™ AMD X2 6000+ 3.0GHz
1MB of L2 cache per processor

Intel® Core™ Micro architecture
Up to SSE 3 support
Energy efficiency optimization
Thermal cut-outs to mitigate damage from system overclocking

Configurations
Intel® Core2™ Duo 2.66GHz [E6750]; Dual Core; 4MB of L2 cache; 1333 MHz FSB
Intel® Core2™ Extreme 2.93GHz [X6800]; Dual Core; 4MB of L2 cache; 1066 MHz FSB
Intel® Core2™ Duo 3.0GHz [E6850]; Dual Core; 4MB of L2 cache; 1333 MHZ FSB
Intel® Core2™ Extreme Quad-Core 3.0GHz [QX6850]; Quad Core; 8MB of L2 cache; 1333MHz

Memory
2 or 4 GB 667 MHz PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM
2 or 4 GB 800 MHz CORSAIR PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM
2 or 4 GB 1066MHz CORSAIR PC2-8500 DDR2 SDRAM SLI Ready
Four DIMM slots supporting up to 4 GB of main memory

256-bit-wide memory architecture

Graphics and Displays
Two Doublewide, 16-lane PCI Express graphics slot with one or more of the following graphic cards installed:
NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600 GTS with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, supports Dual-Link DVI
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS with 640MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, supports Dual-Link DVI (available with liquid cooling)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX, with 756MB of GDDR3 SDRAM supports Dual-Link DVI (available with liquid cooling)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 ULTRA, with 756MB of GDDR3 SDRAM supports Dual-Link DVI (available with liquid cooling)
ATI RADEON™ X2900 XT 512MB, with 512MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, SDRAM supports Dual-Link DVI (available with liquid-cooling)
ATI RADEON X2900™ XT 1GB, with 1GB of GDDR4 SDRAM, SDRAM supports Dual-Link DVI (available with liquid-cooling)
ATI RADEON™ HD 2600 XT, with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, supports Dual-Link DVI (dual configuration only)

Supports both ATI Crossfire and NVDIA SLI multiple graphic card configurations

Ageia PhysX™ PCI-E GFX Accelerator Card

Four slots to support NVIDIA SLI or ATI Crossfire configurations with two PCIe graphics cards

Dual-link DVI ports support up to 2560 by 1600 pixels.

Support for analog resolutions up to 2048 by 1536 pixels at 85HZ

DVI to VGA adapter included

Dual-display support for extended desktops and video cloning modes

Communications
Two independent 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet (RJ-45) ports that can support jumbo frames with low latency on gigabit connections

Storage
Five independent Serial ATA hard drive bays
Up to 4TB of internal storage using drives with the following capacities:
Hard drive bays 1 – 5 can be configured with the following drives
160GB 10,000 rpm SATA (Western Digital Raptor)
320GB 7200 rpm SATA
500GB 7200 rpm SATA
750GB 7200 rpm SATA

Two Super multi-drive, slim slots with Lightscribe (DVD+/-R/RW+/-DL)
Writes DVD-R discs at up to 16x speed
Writes DVD+R DL discs at up to 4x speed
Reads DVDs at up to 8x speed
Writes CD-R discs at up to 40x speed
Writes CD-RW discs at up to 24x speed
Reads CDs at up to 24x speed

A single 5 1/4 bay for Blu-ray Rewriter and HD DVD-ROM Super multi-drive with LightScribe BD-R/RE SL/DL read and write compatible
CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW/RAM, +R/RW, +/- R DL
CD Family, DVD-ROM read compatible
HD DVD-ROM/R read compatible
Electrical and environmental requirements
Line voltage: 100-120V AC or 200-240V AC (wide-range power supply input voltage)
Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz single phase
Current: Maximum of 12A (low-voltage range) or 6A (high-voltage range)
Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)
Storage temperature: -40° to 116° F (-40° to 47° C)
Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
Maximum altitude: 10,000 feet

Peripherals and audio
Back panel:
One PS/2 mouse port
One PS/2 keyboard port
Two eSATA ports
One IEEE1394 port
LCD screen (for diagnostics and status)
LCD back light button (some boards only)
SPDIF out and optical out port
Two RJ-45 (Gigabit Ethernet) ports (number depends on MB)
Four USB 2.0 ports (number depends on MB)

Top panel:
15 in 1 multi-card reader
One IEEE1394 port
Two USB 2.0 ports
One 1/8" microphone jack
One 1/8" headphone jack

ADI onboard audio optional audio cards:
Creative Audio Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer
Creative Audio Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional

Features
Speaker and Headphone connections: Stereo to 7.1 (Line Out via three 3.5mm mini jacks)
Flexijack: Line In / Microphone In / Digital Out / Digital I/O via shared 3.5mm mini jack
Auxiliary Line level Input: 4-pin Molex connector
Expansion slots
3 PCIe x16 slots (The two blue PCIe x16 slots operate with a full compliment of 16 PCI Express lanes, while the third white slot operates with only 8)
1 PCIe x1 slot
2 PCI v2.2 slots

Operating System and Software
Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate
Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium

Security
Grisoft AVG Professional (1 year base for all models)
Grisoft AVG Professional (2 year upgrade available)

Productivity
Adobe® Reader®
Microsoft® Office Pro 2007
Microsoft® Office Small Business Edition 2007
Microsoft® Office Basic 2007

Burning
CyberLink PowerProducer
CyberLink Power2Go

Size and weight
Height: 598.64 mm (23.5 inches)
Width: 266.96 mm (9 inches)
Length: 557.23 mm (22 inches)
Weight (full configuration): 72 pounds (32.659 kg)
 

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