I have found computer Nirvana

[Theodore Kurita]

I was browsing around on www.theinquirer.net when I stumbled upon this article.

L-Technologies stops PCs being boring
PCS have become rather boring. Every year, someone comes out with a case design, form factor, or widget that looks impressive, and sometimes, they even perform better than the average beige box. Small Form Factor PCs are all the corporate rage, Apple Powerbooks set a high bar, and NEC makes some awful pretty monitors. Imagine my surprise when someone pointed me to a new PC maker, one that is coming out of the gate aiming for the highest end of the spectrum. I was a bit skeptical, then I visited the L Technologies website (link: www.go-l.com).
It took me a while to pick my jaw off the floor and move on to the other things they offered, and then I paused again to pick my jaw up a second time. After three, I just let it hang there. If you browse the site, start at the monitors. The Grand Canyon line is a gamers dream, 4 23 inch LCDs in a single package. Not only that, it looks astounding, clean and modern. The only down side is the shatteringly high price tag of a hair under $20K. Now, high end 23 inch panels are not cheap, and 4 of them will set you back well into the 5 digits, so the price is not out of line, but I don’t expect many gamers who fret over the cost of a Radeon 9800 to spring for many of these. Still, they are pretty, aren’t they?

Moving over to the desktops, the high end Mach L machines hit every check box on the gamer fanboy list, and a few that you haven’t even thought of yet. The main statistics are a 3.8GHz P4 with 4GB of DDR533, a Radeon 9800 with 256MB, a Terabyte of individually cooled drives, DVD-R, and a 6 channel professional audio system. I will skip the boring stuff. Oh yeah, you read that right, I said 3.8GHz P4, it is vapor cooled (refrigerated), and has temperature sensing speed controlled fans, and all the other thermal goodies you can imagine. Everything else is overclocked also.

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And for anyone wanting to know what PuRam is... Here is PuRam summed up for the average techie

Puram is a Ram drive think of it as a hardrive thats has a seektime of 20ns rather than 12ms everything is fast instant loading windows loadins in seconds defrags of any kind seconds but dont think this will be incredible gaming performance. it isnt everything will just load quicker problem is everything on the ram drive is usually temp bu Puram and Rocketdrive have battery taps which store files onto the ram.



Oh, and click here for the companies website:

http://www.go-l.com/


Refrigerated Servers and PC's


I wish I could just afford all of this stuff though!

 

[WanderingKnight]

"Nerdvana"

 

[Skeptoid]

Hey, chessmanskeptic, when did you change your screen name? It's a lot better than those punctuation marks you used to use.

 

[Theodore Kurita]

Hey, chessmanskeptic, when did you change your screen name? It's a lot better than those punctuation marks you used to use.

About a week ago.


Anywho...

What do you think of the site?

 

[Skeptoid]

Very impressive. Nice toys for rich guys. I wish I had that kind of money to throw away though.

 

[Cecil]

Puram is a Ram drive think of it as a hardrive thats has a seektime of 20ns rather than 12ms everything is fast instant loading windows loadins in seconds defrags of any kind seconds but dont think this will be incredible gaming performance. it isnt everything will just load quicker problem is everything on the ram drive is usually temp bu Puram and Rocketdrive have battery taps which store files onto the ram.

Yeah, it's basically just a Ram drive. Plus, it's solid-state, so there nothing spinning; hence, no noise.

 

[Jim_MDP]

The debates have been running for the past week whether the site is a hoax or not.

Some of the tech is bs and the best of the rest is cryo'ed beyond limits. It's really not spectacular. I would however like a 92" wide multi-monitor.

On a side note...the whole site design is such a blatant rip-off of Apple.com there should be a pool on when the injunctions start flying.

 

[Theodore Kurita]

The debates have been running for the past week whether the site is a hoax or not.

Some of the tech is bs and the best of the rest is cryo'ed beyond limits. It's really not spectacular. I would however like a 92" wide multi-monitor.

On a side note...the whole site design is such a blatant rip-off of Apple.com there should be a pool on when the injunctions start flying.

Actually...

Most of the hardware on their site is known as vaporware!

Vaporware = Hardware that was announced and ready to be manufactured that has not been released yet!

 

[Jim_MDP]

And knowing this, you touted the site with that OP?

Mook.

 

[Theodore Kurita]

And knowing this, you touted the site with that OP?

Mook.

The sad thing is, we don't know if the stuff beyond 3.2 ghz for PC's is real yet.

I am seriously thinking about calling the company if this is just alot of preordering, or if they actually have the products on hand!!!

 

[egslim]

Need more PCI slots for add-on cards for special projects and monstrous setups? Fear not! The revolutionary Mach 3.8 feature out-of-the-box, PCI expansion capabilities to up to 74 additional 32-bit or 64-bit PCI slots!

Yeah, right. 74 expansion slots, this has to be a hoax. Not to mention the fact that P4 is limited to 2 or 3GB of memory under Windows, because it's a 32 bit system. Not up to 16GB as they claim.

 

[Theodore Kurita]

Yeah, right. 74 expansion slots, this has to be a hoax. Not to mention the fact that P4 is limited to 2 or 3GB of memory under Windows, because it's a 32 bit system. Not up to 16GB as they claim.

They mention 64 bit PCI slots...

If the system is a 64 bit system, then it is theroretically possible...

 

[egslim]

They mention 64 bit PCI slots...

If the system is a 64 bit system, then it is theroretically possible...

No it's not. By the way, 64 bit PCI has absolutely nothing to do with wether the CPU is 64 bits.
For one, they claim to have PAT (Performance Accelerating Technology). This is only available in 875 chipsets and "hacked" 865's. These chipsets only support 32 bit PCI.
But more importantly, 74 PCI expansion slots above eachother would require at least 140cm case height. (74 * 1.9cm)
Estimating from the size of the CD-ROM drives gives a case height of 65cm. (13cm * 5) And this doesn't even take the backplate and PSU surface into acount.

To clarify, 64 bits PCI has been with us at least since PIII Xeon. It works perfectly with 32 bits CPU's. P4 is a 32 bit CPU, which means it cannot adress more than 4GB of virtual memory. That translates to 2 or 3 GB of physical memory.
More memory is supported through PAE, but this feature isn't enabled on P4 Extreme Edition.

(Not to mention the fact that this P4 EE was launched solely as a publicity stunt against Athlon 64 FX, the CPU is practically unobtainable - even for reviewers!)