Maingear has unveiled its Alpha 34 All-In-One PC at CES 2016 – the world’s first AIO PC featuring an Intel 8-core extreme edition processor or 18-core Xeon processor.
The Maingear Alpha 34 features a 34-inch curved display with a 3,440 x 1,440 resolution and Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X/AMD Radeon R9 390X graphics cards.
The Alpha 34 also offers Samsung’s 950 Pro M.2 NVME SSDs, with read speeds of up to 2.5GB/s.
Additionally, memory options allow for up to 32GB of Kingston DDR4 RAM.
The Alpha 34 starts at $1,999 (R31, 000) for an entry-level model.
Maingear allow you to customise nearly every aspect of your device, much like Alienware, so there’s a lot of variance between the least and most expensive configurations.
And because we love to make our wallets sweat, we thought we’d look into the price of the top of the line model.
With the GTX Titan X and 8-core, 16-thread i7-5960X selected, the price starts to skyrocket. Throw in 16GB of Fury X DDR4 memory, two Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SSDs (drives we know to be painfully expensive) and a custom paintjob, and you’re looking at just under $7, 100 (or approximately R110, 000).
You may be asking why we don’t select Samsung’s 950 Pro SSD instead, and rightly so.
Granted, the Samsung 950 Pro is a marvel to behold and almost unparalleled in terms of performance, but its immense read/write speeds will rarely bear noticeable gains when gaming or during everyday tasks.
We’d much rather go for a higher capacity drive that yields almost identical results in the real world.
The larger 1TB capacity also makes them more expensive, and this is about absurdity not practicality.
This article originally appeared on MyBroadband and is republished with permission.
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