HP Blackbird 002 Video

HP Blackbird 002 Video Transcript

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>> Hi, I'm Rich Brown, Senior Editor for CNET.com. Today we're gonna talk about the editor's choice winning HP Blackbird 002. This is the first product of the HP Voodoo PC partnership and it totally delivers on the promise of a unique high end gaming desktop. This is of course a very imposing system. The black, all metal case and it's angular design, actually this kinda looks like an accordion. It sits up off the top of your desk too, cause there's a vent under here. It actually increases the air flow, helps keep the system nice and cool. Now on the front of the system, there's actually two drive slots here and a third one behind a door. On the top there's a media card reader. Although the exterior of this Blackbird may be impressive, the inside is where the system really shines. Now inside, this is one of the cleanest systems we've ever seen and HP and Voodoo designed this system to be almost totally tool free as well. They made it really easy to add or remove hard drives thanks to these removable trays. Same thing with the spare optical drive bay up top. Just pull out this little lever, slide the tray out and you can put a new drive in, in about 30 seconds. They also put together a segmented plastic system in order to keep the heat and air flow very well managed inside the box. Even the case door itself is removable. So inside this might look like any other high end gaming PC. You have a liquid cooled quad course CPU, 2 ATI graphics cards, also liquid cooled, a giant power supply down here, room for added memory here, as well as a heat exchanger and general fan assembly up here on the top. Now thanks to all those parts, this system is just as fast as we expected. It set multiple benchmark records and you would definitely be excited to have this as your high end gaming system. But what earned the system the Editor's Choice Award is that it not only supports 2 ATI graphics cards, it also supports 2 Invidia graphics cards. Most motherboards are specialized that only take one or the other. HP and Voodoo worked with their suppliers to make the system support both formats which gives you tons of options for upgrading down the road. So thanks to it's unique design, it's high end performance and the truly innovative technology going on here, this system very easily wins our Editor's Choice Award. So I'm Rick Brown. This is an HP Blackbird 002. ^M00:02:13 [ music ]