You can never have too much power. Velocity Micro is banking on this sentiment with the new version of their Raptor Z90 performance gaming desktop. The Z90 has the potential to be one of the players in the $5k club, with a next generation Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition processor, multiple graphics cards and available SSD drives in RAID configurations. It's going to go up against rivals from Falcon Northwest, Maingear, Digital Storm, soon to be followed no doubt by the Alienwares of the world.
The new Core i7-3930k and Core i7-3960k processors are paired with an Asus motherboard built on the Intel X79 Pro chipset to give the customer up to 12-thread performance across six cores for the latest games and multimedia tasks. The system is built into the same Velocity Micro Signature case with windowed side panel that we've seen before on previous Raptor Z90 desktops.
Velocity Micro is one of Intel's launch partners for the new Extreme Edition processors (aka Sandy Bridge-E), and is pairing them with liquid-coolers from Asetek. Velocity Micro is claiming overclock speeds "approaching 5 GHz," though Intel's Turbo Boost 2.0 will dynamically overclock the processor up to 3.9 GHz at stock speeds.
Like previous Raptor gaming systems, the new Raptor Z90 is available with a selection of graphics cards, from a single eVGA GeForce GTX 490 card up to dual ATI Radeon HD 5970 cards in a CrossFireX configuration or two Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 cards in a SLI configuration. If you still have some money left over from the graphics cards, Velocity Micro is offering a wide selection of hard drive options, from a single 1TB spinning hard drive to RAID arrays with up to four SSD drives, 10,000 RPM drives, and 2TB hard drives. System memory is slightly easier: you have a choice of 8, 16, or 32GB of DDR3 SDRAM. 850W and 1200W power supply choices round out the primary hardware.
The Velocity Micro Raptor Z90 will start at around $2,799 with higher-end, multi-graphics, card-equipped systems topping the $5,000 mark. On the plus side, Velocity Micro will be packing in a complimentary copy of Battlefield 3 with every new Sandy Bridge E desktop. The ordering Web site is currently live on www.velocitymicro.com.
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