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HP Shaves $500 off of Firebird 802's Price Tag

Posted 04/20/09 at 05:04:57 PM  by Andy Salisbury

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Only after a few months of being on the market, HP has decided to cut the price of the Firebird 802 gaming desktop by $500. The price cut includes a $150 cut to the base price, as well as a $350 instant rebate, bringing the $1,799 price down to $1,299.

For those that haven’t been paying attention to the Firebird since release, that $1,299 will get you an Intel Core 2 Quad 9400 processor, 4GB of RAM, a 500GB HDD and two Nvidia GeForce 9800S GPUs, each packing 512MB of DDR3. Not to shabby considering the new price point.

If you’re interested in checking out the Firebird 802 for yourself, be sure direct your browser here, to HP’s site.

 

Image Credit: HP

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TAGS: gaming, hp, Desktop, consumer electronics, price cut, Firebird 802
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avatarthat would be nice...

Submitted by skhills on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 8:50am

An all in one gaming PC is an interesting thought. Right now, iMacs can't pack the hardware that the blackbird does.  They currently top out at a 3GHz Core 2 Duo and a single GT 130.  I don't see these systems as competitors at all. 

However, there are notebooks that boast quad cores and dual GPUs, so there is nothing keeping someone from building a high end gaming all-in-one, other than the fact that it would be crazy expensive compared to a desktop.  I think most gamers would put their money towards more powerful hardware rather than esthetics.

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avatarLAN Party Monster

Submitted by Bender2000 on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 12:05pm

The all-in-one PC market I think would be LAN Party. How easy to tote something around the size of a 24" screen rather than a screen and a LAN Box? The Firebird has addressed the problem with gaming laptops and their cooling. Plus They can use a larger and better screen since they don't have to make it usable on the go.

I'd like to see what the other OEMs do to compete with this. Like most people reading this, I see it as a good template but want to bbe able to build one from scratch or do some heavy tweaking of components.

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avatarGood Move

Submitted by Bender2000 on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 5:48am

HP is giving Apple a run with industrial design and innovation, but they were still keeping Voodoo's price. This is a great value but it is in a catagory all its own. Don't drop the ball, HP. Cram all this into a 24" screen all in one design. Is there a market for an all in one gaming PC? Build it and see. Maybe HP can even get the mobile graphics market kick started by allowing upgrades to the GPUs.

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avatarGood, it was WAY overpriced

Submitted by Defiant on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 5:29pm

Good, it was WAY overpriced to begin with.

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