HEXUS.net builds Extreme Rigs for Bloodline Extreme Challenge!
As if you needed yet another reason to roll up to Black Island Studios, London, for the Bloodline LAN, then HEXUS.net has one for you. In association with some of the world’s leading computer component manufacturers and suppliers, HEXUS.net brings the best of the best together to make not one, but TWO of the most extreme gaming machines on the planet.So who has allowed HEXUS.net the best of their products to build these uber-rigs?
Intel - www.Intel.com
At the heart of each machine is Intel’s 3.46GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition with Hyper-Threading. Based on 130nm process technology, with more 2.5MB of cache memory, this is THE processor for the serious gamer, providing all the raw power you could ask for to get the most out of modern games.
ATi - www.ATi.com
With all that grunt, you’re not going to want to bottle neck your machine with any old graphics card and here ATi have supplied the very latest card from their stable. In fact, this card is so damn new, I’m not even allowed to talk about it, it really is that new! Suffice to say, HEXUS.net are proud to unveil this card for the first time in the UK!
NVIDIA - www.NVIDIA.com
Of course, the other HEXUS.net rig is going to be something special too, and here, NVIDIA have supplied two 6800 Ultras for HEXUS.net, in conjunction with Scan, to build an awesome SLI system around. Can you say ‘I want blisteringly fast framerates’?
Scan Computers International - www.Scan.co.uk
Those lovely people over at Scan have lent a hand too, by giving a massive amount of support to HEXUS.net in the form of peripherals for both rigs and the other, less glamorous but no less essential bits of kit. With nothing being too much trouble, these chaps are the epitome of a computer retailer.
ECS - www.ECS.uk.com
With such quick bits of kit, a decent motherboard is essential and ECS have come up trumps with their amazing ECS PF21 Extreme 925XE. Boasting features such as PCI Express, DDR2 and a 1066MHz FSB, this is the board to squeeze every last ounce of performance out of processor and graphics card alike.
GECUBE - www.GECUBE.com
These guys deserve a mention just for allowing HEXUS.net to get it’s sticky fingers on there latest graphics card, which will be seen for the first time in the UK in the HEXUS.net machine.
AKASA - www.AKASA.co.uk
Now, while all this kit is very nice, unless we’ve got something to put it in, it’s next to useless. So step forward and take a bow Akasa who have supplied a couple of their superb Eclipse 62 cases and the all the cooling gear HEXUS.net could wish for to keep things chilly.
AG-Neovo - www.Neovo.com
Whenever a 'designer' system is being used we feel the most important part is to be able to actually see what is producing thus using the AG Neovo panels with crisp image quality works for us :)Corsair - www.CorsairMemory.com
The quickest rig on the planet is nothing more than a doorstop without some memory, but to keep things running at high speed, HEXUS.net has had some help from our friends at Corsair who have generously thrown in a few sticks of their Pro High Performance Series memory to give HEXUS.net a whopping great 2Gig per machine!
Western Digital - www.WDC.com
Last, but by no means least, storage is provided by Western Digital in the shape of their renowned Raptor series of drives, giving ultra fast load times for an ultra fast pair of systems.
