We recently received a sweet gaming rig here at Tom's Hardware Guide. Vigor Gaming, based in City of Industry, CA, sent us a brand new model called "The Quadfather." We haven't finishing testing this QuadFX beast yet, but here are some pictures of the system along with a few of the specs.This SLI-enabled rig looks hot and we can't wait to get it going on some Doom 3 and Oblivion tests.
2 AMD Athlon 64 FX-74 3.0 Ghz processors
2 Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX cards
2 GB of RAM
AsusTek motherboard
A 500 GB Western Digital hard drive
300 GB of RAID
Windows XP
More details coming soon. Stay tuned for some benchmark tests on Tom's Hardware Guide.
Comments (15)
from the pic, it looks like there's only 1 PSU. I wonder how many watts is it
pumping out
Posted by yeah | April 10, 2007 5:06 PM
Posted on April 10, 2007 17:06
I bet it must be running on a 1000watts PSU as I have also come across a system
like this with a 1000watts PSU.
Posted by TheSaint | April 10, 2007 6:41 PM
Posted on April 10, 2007 18:41
I don't know of any systems needing 1000watts. If it has one rated this high, I
would replace it with one I can trust... Watts do not equal performance!
Posted by Annonymous | April 10, 2007 7:22 PM
Posted on April 10, 2007 19:22
I and my girlfriend won a quadfather system from NVIDIA and I will say if is
great. Ours came with PCP&C PSU and 4 gigs of crucial ballstix RAM and two FX-
74s and two 8800GTXs so yes it a good system. I would say that depending on
what is in the Rig you would need an 800 watt or higher PSU to control power
fluxs
Posted by irbiker | April 10, 2007 7:31 PM
Posted on April 10, 2007 19:31
This system does need a hell of a power supply. I built a system that is pretty
much the same as this one, albeit it uses 2 FX-70s and a single 8800GTX. I used
a Thermaltake Purepower 850 Watts and it does the job perfectly. Plus,
seriously, why pay for 2 8800GTX if you don't play games that support
resolutions of 2048 x 1280?
Posted by Huge | April 11, 2007 10:16 AM
Posted on April 11, 2007 10:16
power pc and cooling has a 1Kw power supply and tomshardware certified that its
good for 1Kw constant load too
Posted by dosmastr | April 11, 2007 2:54 PM
Posted on April 11, 2007 14:54
I just built a custom computer for a customer quite similar to this. I installed
dual BFG 8800GTX, an Intel QX6700 quad processor, and a BFG 1000 Watt PS. I also
used 2 300Gb Baracudas, and a 500 GB Baracuda. Man does that rig kick some
butt!!!
Posted by Rhinofart | April 11, 2007 3:03 PM
Posted on April 11, 2007 15:03
rel="nofollow">http://www.pcpower.com/home/
Lower right frame.
I can't find the link for the 1kw one but the 850 from the same company is here
rel="nofollow">http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/07/11/stress_test/page23.html >
Posted by dosmastr | April 11, 2007 3:04 PM
Posted on April 11, 2007 15:04
Excellent catch, Dosmastr. We're hoping to open this beat up soon after the
initial games tests with Doom 3 and Oblivion, maybe a few others. I too am eager
to see how much juice this system needs to run.
Posted by Robert Wright | April 11, 2007 3:29 PM
Posted on April 11, 2007 15:29
nice case. where can i purchase it,,newegg?
Posted by chuck watson | April 12, 2007 3:06 AM
Posted on April 12, 2007 03:06
quad FX.. wow, what a waist "amd smarter choice" my ass.. lol , well see when
they release some new architecture, but for now, intel has their "smarter
choice" beat at every price point.
Posted by phl | April 12, 2007 11:19 AM
Posted on April 12, 2007 11:19
this system seems to be using an ENERMAX Galaxy 1000 watt power supply(the color
finish and fan grill is pretty obvious). so yes, this system is indeed powered
sufficiently considering enermax's reputation when it comes to PSU's :)
Posted by joseph | April 12, 2007 5:47 PM
Posted on April 12, 2007 17:47
Enermax liberty i meant :P
Posted by joseph | April 12, 2007 5:48 PM
Posted on April 12, 2007 17:48
quad father? Me thinks no. 2 gigs instead of 4. 2 HDD's... I would expect
something a little more over-the-top with a name like Quadfather. Go the extra
mile and use a sub-par cpu setup to match it with an over achieving GPU setup
and then short change it with using and aging OS. With a name like Quadfather,
I want it all.
Posted by joe | April 12, 2007 9:05 PM
Posted on April 12, 2007 21:05
Wow !
I can't believe there are people stupid enough to buy this power hungry garbage
from us.
As PT Barnum said, there's a new sucker born every minute.
I thank all you suckers for helping me make $16 Million last year - while my
company is tetering on bankruptcy.
Suing And Puking And Gestapo Raids At Dawn -
Hector
Posted by Puking Hector | April 13, 2007 12:12 AM
Posted on April 13, 2007 00:12