Voodoo Personal PC's For Gaming!

[Voodooman1943]

Hi All,

I am a 60 year old retired businessman who discovered gaming about 6 years ago, and have gone thru several systems with average performance over the years. I am not a techie and have no desire to build my own power pc, but I do want the best on the market for pc gaming. Then I discovered Maximum PC Mag., a true PC enthustiast publication who goes for the throat in all their reviews and puts the cards on the table. I have read this mag. and 4 others also for the last 5 years to learn all I could.
If you want to build your own, you could do no better than to follow Maximum PC's annual review of "The Best PC" and componet reviews, in my opinon.
But if you want to own the BEST PC ever built for gaming, state of the art leading edge componets, overclocked and reliable with the beauty of fine art and "bragging rights" performance that is built for you personally by the best enthusiast tech's there are, then there is only one way to go:
Voodoo PC's F Class Computer!
I had one built for me 3 years ago, stating I wanted the best of everything, custom tuned (as I called it) for the best and most reliable perfromance you can get with an icon-clad warranty and service to boot. I have not been disappointed in any manner and never treated better by anyone, I feel like they are friends.
No they are not for everyone, if your budget is tight, look elsewhere, but they made my Computer Dreams come true in every way! I can hardly wait for their NEW "Liguid Cooled" F Class computer to hit the market in a few weeks, I'll be the first in line!

Voodooman 1943

I have re-opened (and edited) this thread, though it still reads like spam to me. Regardless of the spam concerns, I ask that you please refrain from cursing in the forums.

Robert Richmond
Editor, TechIMO.com

What a nice testimnial.

I bet my old K6-2/500 OC'd to 502MHz would blow the doors off the "Liquid Cooled" P.O.S.

Signed,

"Unimpressed"

[DPA]

Evil rick! you back stabbing thug!

those K6-2 504's were some bad mothers too! Ill tell you what, techimo will furnish a test rig with the following components to run up against a POS class water cooled comp:

K6-2 500@ 112FSB=504MHz
128MB PC133 CL3-6-6-5
Epox SUPER Socket 7 motherboard
TNT2 Riva 64MB
8GB Western Digital ATA33 HDD

it'll be a smoke fest

does it smell like spam in here to anyone?

How I remember the days.....

Best I could ever get out of my K6-2 450 AHX was 522.5 MHz (5.5x95). Not too bad, considering it was a tempermental 2.4v chip, running at 2.7v with air cooling.

It would post 550 MHz at 2.9v, though 3.1v was required for stability. I was tempted to push higher, but most 2.4v chips cooked the core around 2.7-2.9v. An AMD rep supposedly had my chip upto 3.3v with a dual-stage peltier before shipping me the sample.

Now I'm going to have to show you guys how it's really done.

K6-2/500 @ 5.5X112=616 w/ P3 retial HSF

You gotta rip that pesky "heat xfer plate" off the top though.

Yeap, but your 500 was a later generation 2.2v chip. It was definitely a much cooler running than the furnace I had to deal with. Dual 4-inch fans with a modified heatsink could barely keep my temps right under the kill range.

The even later Sharptooth core (+ series) often hit 600+ MHz with air cooling. A few even ventured close to 700 MHz with vapor-phase or NO2 cooling. The K6-2 offered poor floating-point performance, but when overclocked to 600 MHz, the architecture would sail past the early generation Pentium 3 Xeon chips in integer-specfic tasks (desktop/server).

Robert Richmond

[DanGrease]

Actually I also think Voodoo is a excellent gaming machine. It places in 2nd place in my list though right after Alienware which I believe is even more "mosterish"

dan

[shawshank62]

sniff sniff.......i can smell the spam....at least there isnt any linkage to voodoo

[Voodooman1943]

No spam was intended at all, it took me years to understand what speciality game machines were, not all of us all geeks, techies or nerds (all meant with respect) and I was inspired to make this note After reading How to Build your own computer listing here, it's that simple. If I offended some of techies with my views, I am sorry for that, I only wanted to express my views to others of my irk, who want something special and do not have the knowledge or skills to do it themselves, as I don't.