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here's a chance to take a look at the very latest in CPU and GPU hardware I'm Dan Ackerman this is the origin PC millennium now this is a bill to order gaming desktop PC that a company named Origin PC makes and you can configure this in a lot of different ways starting from about $1500 up to $6,000 and north and the reason we're primarily interested in looking at this particular model is because it's our first chance to see a couple of very important new pieces of hardware one is Intel's Haswell II processor that's a super high-end Core i7 processor that's really intended for these gaming systems and that just was announced back at the end of August and also Nvidia is latest desktop graphics card we have the highest end one in here that's the nvidia geforce gtx 980 and we have not just one not two we have three of these cards all strung together so if you put that together with the new intel x99 chipset you've pretty much got every bleeding-edge gaming pc piece of hardware in one big box so what would you do with a very high-end gaming desktop like this there's only so far you can push games on 1920 by 1080 monitors we hook this up to a 4k TV and this is a 4k gaming that's really the next horizon for gaming and this is one of the few systems that can actually handle that we played a whole bunch of games cranked up to 4k cranking the detail levels the game scale from medium high to very high not quite ultra because you're pushing four times in pixels and really the first time we're able to get a very satisfying 4k gaming experience it really miles beyond anything you can do with a current gen game console or a gaming laptop or even most other gaming desktops now here's the bad news this configuration cost $6,000 the better news is if you really want all this next gen stuff yeah you can you could dial down the CPU a little bit and still keep it as well and just get one of these cards tell me about $2,800 in the same millennium case from Origin PC and they do a very nice job making a very adjustable case you can set it up with the window on this side you can invert it some windows on this side you can actually rotate the whole motherboard 90 degrees you know the cards pointing down from the top that actually gives you some bit heat management and of course you want to hook this up as we do here with a liquid cooling system if you're the kind of person who's in the market for eight six thousand dollar gaming desktop you probably already know kind of what you're looking for what kind of hardware and how you want it set it up but it's very nice to have that flexibility in a case that's a little bit different from a lot of the off-the-shelf cases that you see a lot of even high-end gaming desktops built into I obviously get plenty of ports and connections on the back especially if you have three video cards in there in the front they've got this window that opens up and you've got five hot swappable hard drive trays in here so that's really cool if you want to move a lot of data around or just access data very quickly and put in a new drive and upgrade it I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the origin PC millennium