OC3D & Be Quiet @ LITS 2011

Armari XCP - Intel X79

Published: 24th October 2011 | Source: Be Quiet | Price: | Author: Bryan Waters

Armari XCP

Whilst the 3XS Swordfish is obviously the star in "bigness" terms, back down to low earth orbit we spot an equally intriguing system which you might recognise if you follow the Dream PC awards. If you don't then you'll be amazed at the concept, and if you do you'll still be amazed at the hardware.

A completely fanless, mineral cooled, fully submerged system. Not only is this definite proof that the concept we first saw about three years ago works so well that it can take vastly superior hardware than the prototype did, but there is still something truly eye-popping about seeing the coolant run out like a waterfall.

The hardware inside is probably more impressive. Hex-Core Sandy Bridge-E processor running on the Intel X79 chipset. Twin GTX580s. No fans. It speaks volumes when a brand new Intel processor and a brand new chipset almost play second fiddle to the Armari XCP. Although that's probably because we'll get to review the former, never the latter.

Whilst we are taking a small meander down 'Famous custom computers we've known and desired' road. One stealthy, one extrovert, both gorgeous.

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24-10-2011, 08:28:59

tinytomlogan

The London International Technology show was on over the weekend, so of course OC3D were there.

24-10-2011, 08:30:16

yassarikhan786

Hopefully I am able to go to the next one

24-10-2011, 08:40:29

SieB

I need to go rob a bank so I can buy one of those Swordfish PCs.

I must admit though out of all the retailers Scan do some of the best looking custom built PCs, their Scorpion FT02 custom PC looks awesome too.

24-10-2011, 09:52:46

Lollipop

That swordfish looks AWESOME

24-10-2011, 10:38:19

dugdiamond

i like that RS's bonnet

24-10-2011, 11:25:48

Solidarity

Damn, dat swordfish. Also after watching the videos I couldn't help but notice some people walking around with team dignitas hoodies, was there some kind of mini lan event thing going on or where they just there reprsenting SCAN? Sorry that's the inner competitive gamer in me shining through. the Ln2 OC'ing was pretty cool

24-10-2011, 11:28:09

nothingspecial

Spent many hours on the friday playing around with the pro audio rigs on the Scan stand, and Rainbow Island on the retro arcade machines!

'twas also a pleasure to meet Tom on the friday. Was gonna come back, but you were either not there or busy looking... Shall see you in April anyway

24-10-2011, 11:30:03

Bungral

That last car the new VW Scirocco?

Really do like them quite a lot.

24-10-2011, 13:21:52

piotrekhc

Like the close ups xD

24-10-2011, 13:50:28

mrDMxtreme

that fanless mineral cooled pc

how do i get one

lol can i just throw my rig in a tub with that liquid and then put it in my room ?? :PP

24-10-2011, 14:35:59

SparkleDJackson

i wish my scirocco looked like that

24-10-2011, 16:35:25

Alicarve

i do like that desk

24-10-2011, 16:37:33

yassarikhan786

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alicarve

i do like that desk

Yep, the "Swordfish" is a dream PC

24-10-2011, 16:40:16

Alicarve

Quote:

Originally Posted by yassarikhan786

Yep, the "Swordfish" is a dream PC

oK I do like that desk/dream pc

24-10-2011, 17:14:23

AMDFTW

yer ide kill for one of them i wonder if its in there warehouse ile deffo jump on it

24-10-2011, 18:15:55

steve30x

I would love that race cockpit. There is no way I could afford it though. From what I heard the D-Box motion simulator alone is 10,000.

24-10-2011, 19:27:59

mayhem

after that event i wont be going back to any more tbh. We had a couple of pcs showing our stuff but wasnt impressed over all. The show was tiny and seemed a wasite of time.

We chatted to a few peeps met up with tom and said hello, met up with intel, scan, asus and a few others but to me the show was to small.

From now on ill be moving away from things like this and hideing in my hole and my partner may take over going to these events. I think allso were now looking into producing a Modded PC for show casesing our stuff properly.

24-10-2011, 20:34:48

CocaCola

Pretty cool event. 8 Jigahertz...I mean Gigahertz.

Would love to see a showcase of your systems mayhem.

24-10-2011, 23:55:09

Excalabur50

Some seriously nice goodies there. So tell me honestly were the floors slippery with the amount of drooling that would have been going on!

25-10-2011, 04:25:18

yassarikhan786

Quote:

Originally Posted by Excalabur50

Some seriously nice goodies there. So tell me honestly were the floors slippery with the amount of drooling that would have been going on!

There wouldn't be just drool on the floor

25-10-2011, 12:53:25

Woozzer

That laptop would cost allot of money and if there is a GTX570M in the UK version, it will just be crazy !!!

29-10-2011, 10:46:28

suenstar

I so want that Swordfish system, that would fit in perfectly with my other furniture!

Guess I better start saving up some money.

Just thought I should say, on page 3 of the article you got the link to http://triplewidescreen.co.uk/ wrong, there's only one 'p' in triple.

OC3D & Be Quiet @ LITS 2011

Armari XCP - Intel X79

Published: 24th October 2011 | Source: Be Quiet | Price: | Author: Bryan Waters

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