Vadim Fusion LQX PC - a sight to behold at £5,800

[HEXUS]

Vadim Computers' Fusion LQX PC costs £5,800. It's got fancy water-cooling, a massively overclocked quad processor and some saucy air-brushed artwork. But what kind of value can it be with only a two-year warranty and a single graphics card and no monitor, mouse, keyboard or speakers?

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[ArcticFox]

No Core 2 Extreme Quad, no SLI GPU, no next gen Optical drive, only 500Gb hdd space, no windows vista, only 2Gb of ram and this is worth £5,800 because it has a pretty paint scheme?

Christ and i thought Alienware were overpriced tosh.

[kalniel]

Originally Posted by Vadim

Yes, we have a similar SKU that ships with two SLI'd, overclocked GeForce 8800 Ultras, a simpler airbrush, and two Western Digital Raptors instead of the SSD drive. The price drops to £4,600 and you can find that system here.

This would seem a better system to test.

[d032sh]

Is it just me who thinks that the case looks really frugly?

[usxhe190]

the case is frexpensive as well...

[kalniel]

*shrugs* It doesn't seem all that bad, considering you're getting a professional airbrush of *anything* you want on there.

[DeSean]

The watercooling system looks amazing, but I agree with the other posters: They are saving hundreds by overclocking a low end processor but the system still costs huge amounts. Plus the "meagre" 2 gig of RAM is scandalous.

He is right to highlight the superior performance of the P35 over Nvidia's SLI capable alternatives. If silly Nvidia only allowed Intel to use SLI on X38......

It looks to me that the heatsinks that Asus supplies little fans for (when watercooling is used) are covered by tubes, possibly explaining the toasty mobo temperatures?

[badger]

That's bloody ridiculous. Anybody who actually buys one of those deserves to be repeatedly punched in the face for being so stupid.

[Andrzej]

Am I the only person here who thinks this is reminicent of super-car/car-mod arguments ?

There has to be an element of personal taste in here

At the lowest level, there are (at least) 2 ways to spend £20,000 on a car:-

• Buy a brand new BMW/Alfa/Merc etc for £20k - where the whole look/feel/style holds together because the manufacturer has made sure that it does
• Buy a half-decent £10,000 car and spend another £10k on performance/aesthetic mods

Most will plum for 'a' - but there is also a significant market for 'b'

Once you choose 'b', then you need to pick where the 'balance of your spend' will happen between 'looks nice' and 'goes fast'

[Clunk]

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[chuckskull]

The price argument is a bit moot tbh, anyone buying something like this is unlikely to care whether it costs £2k or £6k, custom airbrushing and the fact they can claim it's the "best" is worth a lot to some people. Added to the fact that 90% of people on here given £6k to spend on a PC would simply disappear into their bedrooms for a week and build it for themselves, I don't think we're really Vadim's target audience, at least not in this case.

Also that's a thermalright not thermaltake cooler on the southbridge

[usxhe190]

but the problem with that argument is...if a guy brought this and rocked up to the next lan party thinking it is the best...unless the other guys dont know much about computers, they will say it is very overpriced...

[chuckskull]

Originally Posted by usxhe190

but the problem with that argument is...if a guy brought this and rocked up to the next lan party thinking it is the best...unless the other guys dont know much about computers, they will say it is very overpriced...

It's huge, wont be fun moving it more than a few feet.

[usxhe190]

sorry you are right

i guess what was i trying to say is people who buy this is to show other people...but they can only do that he/she tells people of the price...