The guys at Smoothcreations assembled a few custom deals. Any i7 Platform that is built with a pair of BFG's  Geforce 260 or 280 GTX  will get custom BFG logo & themed fender guitar and a free copy of Far Cry2.

This series will be called "The Prophet" series. Anyone Remember, Hercules graphics cards ? Yeah .. they had registered that Prophet series brand name. Anyway, there will be three series products.

The three units come housed in the true traditional spirit of a custom painted Smoothcreations rigs or can be customized to fit the users

Apple has drastically cut down the shipping time for their new 24-inch Cinema Display. Customers who ordered the new Cinema Display won

The Taiwanese motherboard maker Asustek has came out a new gimmick called Instant Boot that claimed to cut Windows booting process down to 4 seconds! The new technology uses the S3 and S4 states of the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) that enabling Windows Sleep and Hibernation modes to put user system into sleep mode when shutting down then bypassing the bios process while booting up.

Yeah, it

So with Intel's Core i7 platform taking over PC land by storm, we figured .. it would be a nice idea to design a completely new test-system for graphics cards. X58 as you guys know can support both SLI and Crossfire, allowing one PC to test both. We figured, let's make a new system and go a little crazy.

So the guys over at Smooth Creations decided to help us out by handling a custom paintjob. I wanted, blue Guru3D colored flames with our logo stamped in there, with a black coating. And so they made that happen on this new Silverstone chassis. This week the chassis came back from the USA (towards Europe) and I have started building the new PC yesterday. It's so good that I didn't want you guys to wait on a completely article we'll do covering the design stages and paintjob over at Smooth Creations.

• Chassis - Silverstone Temjin TJ-10 aluminum
• Motherboard - ASUS X59 Rampage II Extreme ROG
• Intel Core i7 965 @ 3750 MHz
• Memory - OCZ DDR3 6 GB 1600 MHz
• PSU - 1200 Watt
• 2x HDD
• 1x Optical drive

Now this is the chassis in early stages. We still are seeking a proper water-cooling block for Core i7 as this system screams H20 really. Likely next week I'll have a nice full article covering all ins and outs of this new rig as at this moment, I'm still building it. After that we'll need to stability test it, then tweak and then write down every system BIOS setting to preserve consistency during the timeframe we'll use the rig as test-platform.

So what do you guys think about this chassis ?

A little over exposed, colors are a bit off here but you get the idea.

80% finished - still need to do wiring properly and align lighting - but you can get the general idea here ...

If you play World of Warcraft, you

Alienware on Thursday veered away from its normal high-end audience to unveil the Area-51 750i. The system is the company's least expensive gaming tower but comes with the same lightable casing, wiring and stronger power supplies as more expensive Area-51 models; only the individual components dictate its price, and the system can be scaled upwards to include some of the better features from Alienware's catalog, such as liquid cooling and noise damping.

The base model is a relatively inexpensive $1,049 and carries a 3GHz Core 2 Duo, a 750W power supply, a GeForce 9800 GT for video, 2GB of memory and a 250GB hard drive. Systems can scale up to a quad-core 3GHz Core 2 Extreme, a 1,200W power supply, two Radeon HD 4870 X2s, 3TB of hard drives, Blu-ray and 8GB of memory. Alienware is promising a relatively quick turnaround for its PC and should ship pre-orders in late November.

Hercules has unveiled the XPS 2.150, the latest addition to its line of multimedia speakers. The system features two eight-watt compact satellite speakers and a 16-watt wooden subwoofer. The magnetically-shielded satellites feature a gloss black finish with orange driver cones and a back-lit control knob. Users can adjust the ported subwoofer separately, with bass controls and an on/off switch.

Key Features Include:

• Compact 2.1 speaker system (Satellite: 7.8

The guys over at vr-zone published an exclusive photo of the upcoming 4-way Tyan S4992 motherboard for the AMD Shanghai server processor. This motherboard will arrive in Q1 2009. 

TYAN offers 23 current and 1 new platforms that will support the enhanced Quad-Core
AMD Opteron

Valve just announced that Left 4 Dead has officially gone GOLD! This means that the game is on track for its release next week. Additionally, the game can now be pre-loaded. Yes, pre-load now and then proceed to count down the hours until its release. Go on, I won't stop you :P As the press release mentions, there is still the pre-load period going on. 10% off of the full price between now and the release on the 18th.

Left 4 Dead is the new survival action game for the PC and Xbox 360 that blends the social entertainment experience of multiplayer games such as Counter-Strike and Team Fortress with the dramatic, narrative experience made popular in single player action game classics such as the Half-Life series of games.

Those who pre-order the game via Steam save 10% off the regular price and may pre-load the game so they are able to play at 12:01 am EST on November 18, 2008 when the game is made available. The pre-order discount is also available for both the PC and 360 versions at participating retail outlets.

Playable in single player, co-operative, and multiplayer modes, Left 4 Dead is one of the most anticipated releases of 2008 and winner of numerous pre-launch awards, including Best of E3 from multiple outlets. The official demo for the game is available now through November 17 for the PC and Xbox 360.

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