HP set to unveil power-sipping PCs for gamers

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December 30, 2008, 03:05 PM —  Computerworld — 

Hewlett-Packard plans to release a pair of high-performance desktop PCs that, sporting a slim, green-friendly design, buck the conventional wisdom that brawn is best.

The Windows Vista-based Firebird with VoodooDNA 802 and 803 bookshelf systems come with state-of-the-art gaming specs -- quad-core Intel Core 2 processors of up to 2.83 GHz, 4 GB of DDR2-800 memory, and dual Nvidia Geforce 9800S video cards with 1 GB of memory.

At the same time, the new systems use compact, power-sipping components usually found in notebook PCs, providing a reduced footprint and maximum energy usage -- 350 watts, or one-fifth the energy used by an average high-performance desktop PC, said Rahul Sood, Chief Technology Officer for HP's Global Gaming Business. Sood and the HP division he runs are still major proponents of SUV-like PCs such as the $3,000 Blackbird 002 PC, released last fall. Its configured weight is three times that of the Firebird.

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Well, you should know that

Well, you should know that the most wattage allowed by law in the U.S. is 1200 watt psu. This is why folks like Psychsoftpc and other gamer pc manufacturers use 1200 watts and no more. It is not only illegal to use anything above 1200 Watts in a PC for U.S consumption, it is impossible to get one legally domestically. Also, the 9800S is not a video card, it is an on-board video chip with half the performance of the 9800GTX+, which is an actual video card. So, no possibility of upgrades to video further on down the line.
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