HP’s Firebird 803 Mini-Tower Leaked!
HP’s Firebird 803 Mini-Tower Leaked!
Posted 12/23/2008 at 2:22pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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While the Blackbird 002 was a slick system, it was a bit difficult on the wallet. Thankfully it looks like the minds at HP and Voodoo have been working hard on a spiritual successor, the Firebird 803 that scraps space and expandability for a (presumably) lower price point.
The new smaller version of the behemoth gaming PC will pack a Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz processor, 4GB RAM, two Nvidia GeForce 9800S cards as well as other big components. HP has also put the power supply outside of the box, allowing them to cool down the chassis a bit easier.
Sadly, the Firebird won’t be expandable at all given its small form factor, and this greatly offsets any potential savings that might be on the price tag.
Here's the reported list of specs:
• NVIDIA nForce 760i SLI chipset
• Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz processor
• 4GB of RAM
• Dual NVIDIA GeForce 9800S cards
• Two 320GB SATA drives
• Blu-ray
• 5-in-1 card reader
• USB, 1 FireWire, 2 eSATA, 1 S/PDIF and 1 DVI dual-link
• Bluetooth
• 802.11n WiFi
Image Credit: Engadget
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Bender2000
December 24, 2008 at 5:56am
Take those parts, stick them in an uninspired aluminum box, and say hello to the Mac Mini they've been whispering about. Other than that, meh. Throw it up against the $800 PC.
OMGwtfBBQ
December 23, 2008 at 11:14pm
I'd rock it. It's small, good processor, those video cards are enough for WoW, and if the memory is upgradeable more power to this thing.
canbbb
December 23, 2008 at 5:50pm
Appreciate the effort from HP. But this kind of specs would surely fit more on a Best Buy shelf.
And how can you have a new PC config in 2009 with anything else but Core i7 ?? Mmmmhhhh... definitely not a system I would recommend.
Keith E. Whisman
December 23, 2008 at 4:52pm
Well you could upgrade to the 500gig laptop hard drives, you can also use those two eSATA ports to expand with hard drives and dvd burners, and you can upgrade that proc with a faster penryn chip.
Would I buy one of these not a chance. Would I buy a laptop with this configuration and a full keyboard and 17"-19" LCD you bet.
I Jedi
December 23, 2008 at 4:31pm
This looks very, very interesting and neat indeed. Now if the price were lowered enough to fit the budget of the middle class man, then we might see these things become pretty popular for general gamers.
And to the other poster: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9800s_us.html
"NVIDIA® GeForce S Series GPUs are the foundation for
small form factor and all-in-one PCs offering full NVIDIA® GeForce®
performance for games, videos, and photos."E.g. What's offered above.
nmanguy
December 23, 2008 at 2:56pm
What exactly are the numbers in the photo for? I see no list that corresponds to it.
brainwins
December 23, 2008 at 4:47pm
I imagine it´s from the leaked document, and that only the image was posted here.
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