BFG Technologies Unveils Phobos - The Ultimate Gaming System

[Savuti]

Um for 8 grand where are those raid SSDs? Let me guess the raptors are better bang for the buck.

[kemo]

Very stupid IMO , isn't a 285GTX an overkill for dedicated physic + will that WC will handle 5 GPU cores and 4 CPU cores , Integrated iPhone/iPod syncing dock WTF ?

[naokaji]

Ultimate Gaming System?

where?

I see highend cpu and gpu's and a case that looks somewhat ok...

rest:

No SSD's? sorry, but in a pc at such a high price there have to be atleast two.

Watercooled? why bother? get a decent aircooler, it will be cheaper and perform better than a coolit wc kit.

A graphicscard dedicated to Physx?

[safm]

A bit expensive to play tetris or hearts...

[Leeghoofd]

Don't think it's a simplistic coolit kit as we know it, as it also cools the GPU's...

[m0da]

i don't understand why everyone is hating on this thing.

someone posted that this is priced only ~15-20% higher than retail prices for these parts. i'm sure it comes with some warranty/extra goodies, so it's not over-the-top on cost.
it has top-of-the-line graphics card and a top-of-the-line processor to go with it.
if the water cooling on this thing actually delivers, then you have yourself a nice machine. the motherboard won't absolutely KILL your overclock here...

the only drawback to this machine is its exclusion of an ssd drive... well, i bet that's why they included the GTX 285 for physics. you're REALLY supposed to sell it and buy an SSD for your O/S! that's the real game guys

[tiro_uspsss]

I like the space heater card. I mean the GTX285 for PhysX.

no sh1t hey - what a complete overkill a 96GT would be just fine

[tajoh111]

no sh1t hey - what a complete overkill a 96GT would be just fine

I think the point of this system is its top of the line everything.

They have cheaper models, if you don't want something so excessive.

SSD or atleast SLC SSDs atleast are still too expensive to be practical and would drive this price over ten grand easily. IT could get even worse, if you want an entirely ssd based storage solution.

MLC are a let down for performance in practical terms. I would take velociraptors over anything mlc beside perhaps the intel ssds, which are still crazily overpriced.

This is pretty close to the ultimate gaming system in terms of commercially sellable systems. It even doesn't have a xfi fatality soundcard for once. Rather, it has an auzen prelude card, which pretty much everyone around here can stomach.

What do people expect from the ultimate gaming system?
4*150gb SLC ssd harddrives, Phase Change cooled everything, including the southbridge. A silver case? A 30 grand price tag?

In terms of gaming performance this has pretty much everything a person could want. And for 8 grand it is competitive with the competition.

http://www.falcon-nw.com/config/build.asp

It cost 8,270 to build a similar computer at falcon, minus, the water graphic cooling, the case touch screen lcd, and the excessive physics card/gtx 285, the media center stuff, the Tv tuner, the ipod stuff. Ram clocked at 1066, instead of 1600. The inhouse setup, 6 month followup visit.

If the water system is poorly designed, it is BFG that will suffer the most because they will have to deal with all the warranty crap that comes with a poorly designed water system.

So much hate for this system and people just being unreasonable. Adding in a couple slc ssd drives kills any profit left.

[dan7777]

i dont get it a gtx285 is realy a slightly overclcoked 280 i will wait for price drops sillly money!!!

[tiro_uspsss]

i dont get it a gtx285 is realy a slightly overclcoked 280 i will wait for price drops sillly money!!!

mm.. I thought 285gtx is a 2xgpu+2xpcb card?

[naokaji]

mm.. I thought 285gtx is a 2xgpu+2xpcb card?

The Dual card is the 295, the 285 is the 55nm single gpu card.

[tiro_uspsss]

The Dual card is the 295, the 285 is the 55nm single gpu card.

oo I see, my bad

[Vinas]

I hate to be a pessimist but here's why I think this is a pretty big failure:
- Dedicated GTX285 not needed
- CoolIt cooling solution (say goodbye to any real OC)
- MSI MB
- No SSD
- BFG PSU = notoriously underpowered IMO
- X-Fi sound card
- No Raid? No Data drive?
- $8,000 price tag

Although expensive I think it is competitive with other extreme high end gaming systems like the XPS for instance. My guess is this rig will be CPU limited though even with a big OC which they won't get with the CoolIT.

[Vinas]

I just priced similar components on NewEgg as best I could and went expensive with the SilverStone touchscreen case and PSU. I used 5x BFG GTX280's and a swiftech kit for the CPU. Didn't bother cooling the video with water but priced an extra kit to even it out. Short story: save 2K by building this yourself.



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[Stanley Pain]

^

But you don't get BFG techs coming to your home and setting it up, nor do you get the 6 month maintenance visit

[kemo]

^

But you don't get BFG techs coming to your home and setting it up, nor do you get the 6 month maintenance visit

huh

[freeloader]

Too bad it will be obsolete in 6 months.

[Stanley Pain]

huh

It's with $2k isn't it? I could show them my collection of BFG T-shirts

[Think]

Not sure if this is such a good move. The majority of 'pc gamers' that I deal with are involved because of the creative aspect of design or just the ability to have the choice of assembly. I don't think there is a market such a company to shoot itself in the foot with proprietary configurations.

If both my arms were broken, had allot of money to burn and was looking to buy a pre-built unit then there's really no comparison to Falcon PC.

[kemo]

It's with $2k isn't it? I could show them my collection of BFG T-shirts

only time i had a technician at home for an Electronic device was for a 47-inch LCD because of the wall mounting + Validate the warranty , other wise the average XS user knows 10-times more than these people

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

only time i had a technician at home for an Electronic device was for a 47-inch LCD because of the wall mounting + Validate the warranty , other wise the average XS user knows 10-times more than these people

Same here.

For SH*ts and giggles, go to a "computer repair store" w/ a liquid cooled computer. I've done this for fun. They look confused b/c there's "no heat sink" and what are all the tubes for?

XS is my PC repair destination.

[grimREEFER]

would have preferred an asus mobo
and gtx285 sli and gtx 260 for physx for a base model would have made alot more sense.

although, any folding team would kill for one of those systems i imagine. 5 high end graphics cards and one high end cpu gets alot of points

[BiFfMaN]

one out of how many posters?

Its more fun to Watch others go off on what they dislike about this system...

Me i would simply not buy it....why pay for something i can do myself.

[Easybeat]

To be fair to them I doubt that we are their target customers.

One other thing there is no way they will be paying newegg or any where elses prices for those components. If it is retailing for $8K I would reckon they pay a lot closer to $4K than $6K for those bits.

[SamHughe]

there are better boards out there

have a look at HWBOT world records. Asus dominates results and for good reason. You will also see Gigabyte a lot as well

some of the other boards which are always a cut above the rest are DFI boards.

What part of this configuration gives you the idea that this is a benchmark system?

This is simply over the top, I'm-so-rich-I-put-diamonds-in-my-food-so-my-doodo-sparkles type of system(BFG NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 Graphics Cards x2 for Quad SLI +BFG NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 for Dedicated PhysX Processing can you say overkill).

You're trying to compare formula 1 cars to a Rolls Royce.

In that sense MSI eclipse make sense because it has some over the top features like x-fi soundcard and stuff.