Origin PC Announces Omega Line of HTPCs

[btarunr]

ORIGIN PC launched today their new line of home theater PCs, the ORIGIN OMEGA, for gamers and enthusiasts all over the world. The ORIGIN PC OMEGA is the ultimate Home Theater PC designed to bring the power and flexibility of a PC to any living room. Featuring a variety of customizable HTPC cases to choose from, support for 4K gaming at 60+ fps, the ability to boot directly into Steam Big Picture Mode and with optional mouse emulation software support for your wireless controller, the ORIGIN OMEGA redefines the HTPC category with countless options and unlimited forms of entertainment. Also featuring custom airbrushed paint in any design or color, up to Triple NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 graphics cards in SLI, and hot swappable hard drive bays with SSDs or HDDS, the new ORIGIN OMEGA is the ultimate solution to bring true next-gen PC gaming to your big screen TV.



The New ORIGIN PC OMEGA starts at $999 and Features:

• Truly Custom Name Brand Components: Customize your OMEGA and choose from a variety of HTPC cases to match your personal home or office set up. Only ORIGIN PC gives you the choice of the highest quality, name-brand components that have been tested and approved for high-performance!
• NVIDIA SLI Ready- Take full advantage of the power of NVIDIA SLI technology with up to 3-WAY NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980s to run any PC game at up to 4K resolutions with buttery smooth framerates that will make all of your console gaming friends jealous!
• ORIGIN PC Professional Overclocking: Unlock the full potential of your CPU and or GPU with ORIGIN PCs professional overclocking services to maximize your gaming experience.
• Multiple Storage Options: Customize your OMEGA to support an SSD and/or, high capacity storage drives for a total of up to 14 TB of space! Install all of your games and media so you don't have to choose only what fits.
• Steam OS Support: Want to choose a different OS other than Windows? Not a problem! The ORIGIN OMEGA will soon also support STEAM OS on its official launch date.
• Steam Big Picture Mode: Want a more console-like experience for your PC? You can choose to boot directly into Steam's Big Picture Mode to enjoy the intuitive navigational menu using a wireless controller and have easy access to your entire Steam Library of games and media.
• Mouse Emulation Software Support: Don't want to use a wireless mouse or keyboard? No Problem! ORIGIN PC can install optional Mouse Emulation software so you can have full control over your mouse and keyboard using your wireless XBOX controller!
• Easy Updates and Access to Your Favorite Apps: Why settle by struggling to properly update your drivers or access all of your favorite non-steam PC games and apps from an annoying/limited GUI? With OMEGA, you have zero bloatware and can have easy access to all of your favorite applications such as Battle.net, EA Origin, U-Play, SKYPE, Netflix, Skype, and much more!
• Free Lifetime 24/7 Support: Every ORIGIN PC system comes with industry leading Lifetime 24/7 Support based in the United States.

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[Patriot]

Aren't they the bag of dicks who took money for publicity... yup they are.
My first thought on hearing Origin is of Nvidia's paying them to drop AMD gpus...

 

[Dieinafire]

Going Nvidia is smart. Only budget gamers use amd

 

[Patriot]

Going Nvidia is smart. Only budget gamers use amd

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Origin pc professsional overclocking services............yeah right.

All sounds pretty pricey to me.

 

[TRWOV]

Going Nvidia is smart. Only budget gamers use amd

Back on topic, I spy Silverstone cases

 

[LDNL]

I wouldnt be suprised that you could build all of those for the price of one Origin PC

 

[Uplink10]

No wonder they use Nvidia cards: starts at 999$.

 

[rtwjunkie]

No wonder they use Nvidia cards: starts at 999$.

Yeah, they aren't cheap. But for those who want a quality product without the "hassle" (as they see it) of building one, they get what they pay for.

Too expensive for my blood though!

 

[64K]

Yeah, they aren't cheap. But for those who want a quality product without the "hassle" (as they see it) of building one, they get what they pay for.

Too expensive for my blood though!

I know this article is about HTPCs but I was curious what they would want for a nice gaming PC and all I can say is customers might be spared the effort of building their own rig but they sure pay for it

Basic Origin mid size case
Gigabyte Z97 mobo
i5-4690k
8 GB RAM
Corsair RM650
1TB HDD
120 GB Samsung 850 EVO
GTX 970
Sealed liquid CPU cooler (they didn't offer air coolers that I saw)
No KB, mouse, speakers

All items without manufacturers name could be any brand

Price $2,100

 

[Uplink10]

Sealed liquid CPU cooler (they didn't offer air coolers that I saw)

If that is true, they missed a lot of news about Intel CPUs and Nvidia graphic cards and their power efficiency. You could say "You can`t cool GTX 970 with water".

 

[TRWOV]

The only way to get to the $999 starter price is:

H97 board
Pentium G3258
8GB Hyperx RAM
GTX960 2GB

They also carry AMD cards but they don't mention that on the press release for some reason. They even do Crossfire:

 

[Uplink10]

I can`t stop laughing at $999 offer.

 

[Dieinafire]

Let's you use Uplay.......... Sold!!!