Theodore Kurita
26th September 2003, 07:01 PM
I was browsing around on www.theinquirer.net when I stumbled upon this article.
L-Technologies stops PCs being boring
PCS have become rather boring. Every year, someone comes out with a case design, form factor, or widget that looks impressive, and sometimes, they even perform better than the average beige box. Small Form Factor PCs are all the corporate rage, Apple Powerbooks set a high bar, and NEC makes some awful pretty monitors. Imagine my surprise when someone pointed me to a new PC maker, one that is coming out of the gate aiming for the highest end of the spectrum. I was a bit skeptical, then I visited the L Technologies website (link: www.go-l.com).
It took me a while to pick my jaw off the floor and move on to the other things they offered, and then I paused again to pick my jaw up a second time. After three, I just let it hang there. If you browse the site, start at the monitors. The Grand Canyon line is a gamers dream, 4 23 inch LCDs in a single package. Not only that, it looks astounding, clean and modern. The only down side is the shatteringly high price tag of a hair under $20K. Now, high end 23 inch panels are not cheap, and 4 of them will set you back well into the 5 digits, so the price is not out of line, but I don’t expect many gamers who fret over the cost of a Radeon 9800 to spring for many of these. Still, they are pretty, aren’t they?
Moving over to the desktops, the high end Mach L machines hit every check box on the gamer fanboy list, and a few that you haven’t even thought of yet. The main statistics are a 3.8GHz P4 with 4GB of DDR533, a Radeon 9800 with 256MB, a Terabyte of individually cooled drives, DVD-R, and a 6 channel professional audio system. I will skip the boring stuff. Oh yeah, you read that right, I said 3.8GHz P4, it is vapor cooled (refrigerated), and has temperature sensing speed controlled fans, and all the other thermal goodies you can imagine. Everything else is overclocked also.
Click Here To Read The Rest of The Article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11693)
And for anyone wanting to know what PuRam is... Here is PuRam summed up for the average techie
Puram is a Ram drive think of it as a hardrive thats has a seektime of 20ns rather than 12ms everything is fast instant loading windows loadins in seconds defrags of any kind seconds but dont think this will be incredible gaming performance. it isnt everything will just load quicker problem is everything on the ram drive is usually temp bu Puram and Rocketdrive have battery taps which store files onto the ram.
Oh, and click here for the companies website:
http://www.go-l.com/
Refrigerated Servers and PC's :D
I wish I could just afford all of this stuff though! :(
L-Technologies stops PCs being boring
PCS have become rather boring. Every year, someone comes out with a case design, form factor, or widget that looks impressive, and sometimes, they even perform better than the average beige box. Small Form Factor PCs are all the corporate rage, Apple Powerbooks set a high bar, and NEC makes some awful pretty monitors. Imagine my surprise when someone pointed me to a new PC maker, one that is coming out of the gate aiming for the highest end of the spectrum. I was a bit skeptical, then I visited the L Technologies website (link: www.go-l.com).
It took me a while to pick my jaw off the floor and move on to the other things they offered, and then I paused again to pick my jaw up a second time. After three, I just let it hang there. If you browse the site, start at the monitors. The Grand Canyon line is a gamers dream, 4 23 inch LCDs in a single package. Not only that, it looks astounding, clean and modern. The only down side is the shatteringly high price tag of a hair under $20K. Now, high end 23 inch panels are not cheap, and 4 of them will set you back well into the 5 digits, so the price is not out of line, but I don’t expect many gamers who fret over the cost of a Radeon 9800 to spring for many of these. Still, they are pretty, aren’t they?
Moving over to the desktops, the high end Mach L machines hit every check box on the gamer fanboy list, and a few that you haven’t even thought of yet. The main statistics are a 3.8GHz P4 with 4GB of DDR533, a Radeon 9800 with 256MB, a Terabyte of individually cooled drives, DVD-R, and a 6 channel professional audio system. I will skip the boring stuff. Oh yeah, you read that right, I said 3.8GHz P4, it is vapor cooled (refrigerated), and has temperature sensing speed controlled fans, and all the other thermal goodies you can imagine. Everything else is overclocked also.
Click Here To Read The Rest of The Article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11693)
And for anyone wanting to know what PuRam is... Here is PuRam summed up for the average techie
Puram is a Ram drive think of it as a hardrive thats has a seektime of 20ns rather than 12ms everything is fast instant loading windows loadins in seconds defrags of any kind seconds but dont think this will be incredible gaming performance. it isnt everything will just load quicker problem is everything on the ram drive is usually temp bu Puram and Rocketdrive have battery taps which store files onto the ram.
Oh, and click here for the companies website:
http://www.go-l.com/
Refrigerated Servers and PC's :D
I wish I could just afford all of this stuff though! :(