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ORIGIN PC's over-the-top water-cooled powerhouse

2015-08-07
we're looking at the latest from another heavy hitter in the custom PC seen and that's origin PC introducing the Origin PC Chronos micro-atx desktop machine with a LAN Lee case an Origin stage 3 hardline liquid cooling now behind the glass origen remarkably cramped an EVGA micro x99 motherboard with a fully liquid-cooled 8 core 59 60 X chip now this chip usually runs at 3 gigahertz but thanks to all this liquid cooling we're able to safely overclock it well past 4 gigahertz for some pretty insane performance all the tube bending inside here is custom and origin even found room to display a water coolant reservoir at the base of the case as well so what about the machines graphics card well mount it at the bottom of this is not one but two NVIDIA Titan X cards though because of the spacing here these cards aren't able to be water cooled like the processor is now the unit we received also shipped with 16 gigabytes of RAM a one terabyte SSD drive and a four terabyte SSD HD drive for storage real estate is a little tight inside the case so there's really not a lot of room for expansion if you wanted to say add another hard drive I'm not totally in love with the placement of the PCs power supply as the cooling fan is pressed right up against the glass also I found this space between the back of the case and access to the various USB and DisplayPort connections to be difficult and sort of out of reach so those few negatives aside what can you expect to pay for a rig like this well the Chronos micro ATX desktop that line starts at thirteen hundred and twenty-five dollars but the souped-up over-the-top version we received right here would retail for wait for it eighty one ninety nine now there's no doubt about it you're definitely paying a premium for this kind of pretty hardware but you can definitely customize a more than capable machine for thousands less it's definitely an engineering feat and for the enthusiast PC gamer that needs something that no
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