Origin Promises Big Things in Small Form Factor Chronos PC

Posted 05/27/2011 at 6:23am | by Paul Lilly

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In Greek mythology, Chronos was known as the Titan god of time and the ages. He swallowed each of his children as they were born in fear that one of them would rise up and take his throne, just as his father (who Chronos killed, by the way) prophesied, but his wife managed to hide one of them (Zeus), who would later fulfill that prophesy. None of that has much to do with PCs, except that boutique system builder named its small form factor (SFF) gaming line after the Greek god.

We presume Origin's Chronos doesn't have the same murderous tendencies as its namesake. But despite its small size, it can be configured with the right parts to help you kill your friends on a virtual battlefield at the next LAN party. There are four different SFF cases the choose from, the least expensive being the NZXT Vulcan, which comes as the default option at the starting price of $966.

Other components include:

• Intel Core i3 2100 processor
• Asus P8H61-I motherboard
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti
• 4GB DDR3-1333 memory
• 320GB hard drive
• 24X DVD burner
• 500W power supply
• Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Hardly worthy of a Greek god, but that's what you get for a pedestrian price tag. However, there are plenty of upgrade options to choose from, including dual GTX 590 (or AMD Radeon HD 6990) videocards, faster processors, up to 8GB of RAM, up to four HDDs or SSDs, and more.

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