HP Firebird 803's Liquid-cooled Innards

[Castiel]

News of HP's Firebird 803 may have leaked out over the holidays, but now that its been officially announced, we have a batch of photos, including the freakishly tidy insides, as well as pricing details.

As you can see, HP put some work in getting the internal layout of the Firebird to be as simple and clean as possible. A couple of interesting details not revealed in the leak are that the Firebird actually has 3 GPUs—two discrete Nvidia cards in SLI configuration for performance needs only, and one integrated GPU for Windows to run on. The external power supply is a big reason why the machine is 80% less power hungry than most gaming PCs, while the hot-swappable drive bays and sub-30db noise level are also nice touches.

But even more impressive is the price. Considering you're getting a 2.83 GHz Core 2 Quad, 640 GB of storage, Blu-ray, 4 GB RAM dual SLI graphics cards and liquid cooling, it's not bad that the Firebird 803 will only run around $2100 when it becomes available. There will also be a Firebird 802 available which will lack the Blu-ray and only have 500 GB of storage for $1800.

Source:Gizmodo

 

[Darknova]

They've removed 2 of the RAM slots! Yet another reason I shall never buy pre-built PC's like this. If it had decent "upgrade-ability" I'd consider it, but when you pay that amount of money for a PC and they seemingly try to stop you upgrading then I take issue.

Still, nice set up, should last a while.

 

[Castiel]

That is the same problem I have with pre built systems.

 

[KBD]

i wonder what kind of a watercooling system it is? who's the manufacturer? voodoo?

and in regards to buying, this, well, its an overpriced joke. All components seem prorprietary and thats a dead end in terms of upgrades. The case design is not bad for small pc but other than that i there is nothing i find attractive about this system

 

[HolyCow02]

I personally think the blackbird was a better system. You could swap things out like nothing, and upgrade it if you want. With this Firebird, the only thing you can really upgrade is the hard drives... the ram your stuck with only the 2 sticks. Especially with the graphics cards... the blackbird you could change them out... not with this one.

 

[Castiel]

i wonder what kind of a watercooling system it is? who's the manufacturer? voodoo?

and in regards to buying, this, well, its an overpriced joke. All components seem prorprietary and thats a dead end in terms of upgrades. The case design is not bad for small pc but other than that i there is nothing i find attractive about this system

Yeah, when it comes to the High End Hardware, Voodoo steps in.

 

[1Kurgan1]

Whats it running 2x 9800GTX laptop gfx cards? Looks ok, and really htat price isn't bad for what it offers. But I don't know whats with the small case.

 

[ascstinger]

It's a cool concept, hell, if I didnt go through hardware changes every few months, I'd almost consider one.

It's meant as a sff system, the blackbird as a gaming system. One thing's for sure, hp has an excellent design team