HP's Firebird named for heat its power-gaming components will generate

The HP Firebird, a gaming box with "Voodoo DNA," will be released Jan. 9 at $1,800 and up. Replacing the Blackbird, it the sort of thing where they don't actually tell you the specifications in the press release. Instead, we are assured, it will "change paradigms."

Voodoo's own website actually reveals what we need to know: an Nvidia 760s motherboard studded with Core 2 Quad processors at 2.6 or 2.8 GHz, 4GB of DDR2 RAM (expandable to 8GB) and dual 512MB Nvidia GForce 9800S video cards.

There's HDMI out, Dual-link DVI, 6 USB ports, memory card reader, two SATA hard drives, optional Blu-Ray. It's made of aluminum and weighs nearly 25 pounds.

Big, beastly, expensive, and obsolete by Christmas. Enjoy!

Firebird [Voodoo]

[#1 posted by Andreas , January 6, 2009 12:39 PM]

Since think it would be possible to build something with Intel Core i7, 6GB DDR3 and dual 1GB GeForce 280's for that price I'd say it was obsolete this Christmas.

[#2 posted by Pjones , January 6, 2009 10:54 PM]

Honestly, is there a single computer that will be rolled out in January that WON'T be obsolete by Christmas?