HP Announces Blackbird 002 Performance PC

Though it may be difficult to believe, it’s now been one full year since HP announced their surprise acquisition of Rahul Sood’s baby, Voodoo PC. In that year, we saw virtually no benefits to either side product-wise, but now HP has finally unveiled a huge gaming rig, the Blackbird 002. HotHardware has a first-look and makes sure to let people know that this is not due to Voodoo PC’s joining of the company.

The concept has been in the planning stages for quite some time, but there’s no doubt that Voodoo helped push it out a little faster. At least that’s what the “Voodoo DNA” badge is telling me. The machine comes in various configurations, but you can acquire one with a pre-overclocked QX6850 CPU that is overclocked to 3.67GHz, dual 8800 Ultra cards in SLI, 4GB of Corsair DDR2-8500 RAM, ASUS Striker Extreme, SoundBlaster X-Fi… ok I need to stop. This machine… I want it, and chances are you do as well.

As you would probably expect from a high-end gaming machine powered by Intel’s fastest quad-core processor that’s been overclocked by more than 22%, 4GB of Corsair’s top of the line Dominator memory, and a pair of NVIDIA’s flagship 8800 Ultra graphics cards, the Hewlett Packard Blackbird 002 is simply a high performance machine. When you cram as many high-end components into a machine like this, it can’t help but be fast. And in a few of the tests the machine put up benchmark scores higher than any other machine we’ve tested to date.

Source: HotHardware