An Extreme Gaming Machine! Systemax IntelÂ® Coreâ„¢2 Extreme QX6700

By Mr. Miller on November 17th, 2006

Talk about an extreme machine? The heart of this system is Intelâ€™s new Quad-Core QX6700 Extreme processor. By far, one of the best processors on the market today. Intel prides itself on the quad-core technology mainly due to significant improvements in system responsiveness that made certain tasks to be off-loaded to specific cores. In laypersons terms, the processor selects jobs to be handled by specific cores. Thus it breaks up the workload and makes the PC run more efficiently and faster.

This is definitely a killer system. In addition to the 2.66EGHz Quad-Core processor, you have 2GB of DDR2 RAM. And donâ€™t worry about maxing your RAM out anytime soon. You can upgrade up to 8GB of RAM. And load all the games you want, this beast come with 2 â€“ 150GB SATA 10K RPM hard drives and a third 400GB SATA 7,200 RPM hard drive. Dual Layer DVDÂ±RW and DVD-Rom/CD-RW also come installed. And talk about audio, how about Creativeâ€™s Soundblaster X-Fi. The X-Fi has over 51 million transistors that output more than 10,000 MIPS of power. The Sound Blaster X-Fi audio processor features an SRC engine that is so precise that any audio resolution is converted to any other resolution at near transparency with 136db SNR (THD+N) - a conversion that’s over 300 times higher quality than the previous best (Sound BlasterÂ® AudigyÂ®).

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With a great sound card, try adding some great speakers. How about Logitech’s Z-5500s. THX Certified 5.1 Dolby Digital & DTS surround sound speakers with more than 1,000-watts of power. Now this surround sound audio system will make any game sound great!

And if you want to put the candles on the cake, add the Buttkicker. Feel your chair rock with every explosion or when youâ€™ve been fragged.

What really sets this extreme system apart is the dual ATI Radeon X1950 XTX crossfire video cards. Packing over 1,000MB of Video processing RAM. ATIâ€™s crossfire technology won â€œBest Innovationâ€ from Hexus.net and by far, the crossfire is one of the best GPUs on the market. What really sets this extreme system apart is the dual ATI Radeon X1950 XTX crossfire video cards. Packing over 1,000MB of Video processing RAM. ATIâ€™s crossfire technology won â€œBest Innovationâ€ from Hexus.net by far, is one of the best GPUs on the market. ATI CrossFire also offers gamers a choice of physics configurations rather than being locked into symmetrical setups.

This flexible architecture allows asymmetrical configurations as unlike cards can be used for physics processing in both 1+1 and 2+1 setups where one or two graphics cards are used for game rendering, while another card is used for physics. This open architecture accommodates all gamers, whether they want to use a high-end graphics card for physics, or a mainstream card.

Don’t forget that half the gaming experience is the video. Using a CRT from 10 years ago just won’t do it. With the price of of a great LCD so reasonable, you can purchase a fantastic LCD display for a great price.

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Monitor manufacturers such as Samsung, Viewsonic, Hanns-G and Niko manufacture 17″ and larger monitors with 2ms response times at 1280 x 1024 resolution and very little to no ghosting effect.

The Systemax Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 also comes with 10/100/1000Mbps RJ-45 Ethernet connection, 9-in1 media card reader and plenty of power with its 600-watt power supply. This system comes equipped with Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 and is Windows Vista Capable.

And if you didnâ€™t know, this PC is assembled in the USA and tech support calls and emails and answered right here in the USA. I donâ€™t know of any other major computer manufacture that can say that.

If you’ve been waiting for the total killer system, then the Systemax Intel Quad-Core QX6700 Extreme PC is the one for you.

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