Commodore Gaming PCs Now Available Online

[Evil Avatar]

Future PC gaming giant, Commodore, sends along word that their new line of high-end gaming PC's are now available for purchase online.

At 4pm today Commodore Gaming will open the virtual doors to their online store (www.commodoregaming.com (http://www.commodoregaming.com/)) for the UK and Ireland, offering gamers in these countries the privilege to be amongst the first in the world to own one of the unique Commodore Gaming PCs. Commodore Gaming plans to roll out their cool gaming rigs across Europe in mid May, before the rest of the world.

Bala Keilman, CEO for Commodore Gaming, commented “This marks a new chapter in the history of Commodore, opening our webshop to offer great gaming PCs that are as unique as they are customizable. We’re extremely excited and proud to offer our range of exceptional gaming machines and since PC gaming and online gaming is about instant entertainment, this is what we intend to deliver with machines that will satisfy everyone from the casual gamer to the professional.”Click on the Headline for the Full Press Release.

Editor: Commodore is working on an Evil Avatar.com C-kin for their gaming PC's!!!

[Evil Avatar]

Commodore Gaming PCs Now Available Online

London, April 23rd 2007: At 4pm today Commodore Gaming will open the virtual doors to their online store (www.commodoregaming.com (http://www.commodoregaming.com)) for the UK and Ireland, offering gamers in these countries the privilege to be amongst the first in the world to own one of the unique Commodore Gaming PCs. Commodore Gaming plans to roll out their cool gaming rigs across Europe in mid May, before the rest of the world.

Bala Keilman, CEO for Commodore Gaming, commented “This marks a new chapter in the history of Commodore, opening our webshop to offer great gaming PCs that are as unique as they are customizable. We’re extremely excited and proud to offer our range of exceptional gaming machines and since PC gaming and online gaming is about instant entertainment, this is what we intend to deliver with machines that will satisfy everyone from the casual gamer to the professional.”

The online store will be launching across Europe in mid May, alongside retail outlets in UK, Germany, France and the Benelux. Further details on retailers for European territories will be released shortly.

The online store will supply the higher specification models Commodore gx and Commodore xx, while the Commodore g and Commodore gs range will be made available in retail outlets. Commodore Gaming machines are priced competitively for such high spec components and hand-finished build quality:

Commodore gx - £1759 (inc VAT)
Commodore xx - £2899 (inc VAT)

(Above prices include buyers choice of C-kin case artwork)

Commodore Gaming has also confirmed that customers will be able to customise aspects of their gaming PC, offering a customized interior and exterior. All components can be selected to build a personal specification on each machine.

Commodore Gaming now offers over 100 unique ‘C-kins’ designs in their online store, each case being artistically painted using a patented dye process (unique to Commodore Gaming) and individually finished with a scratch proof surface usually reserved for the automotive industry.

All Commodore Gaming PCs come with a full two year service and parts warranty.

For a product specification of the Commodore xx and Commodore gx please see below.

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About Commodore Gaming
Driven by a team of gaming veterans and enthusiasts across a broad range of disciplines Commodore Gaming is a passionate provider of products and services for the mobile, PC and Video game market. Created through a joint venture with Commodore International Corporation, Commodore Gaming was founded in 2005 and aims to re-establish the brand as a leader in its industry.

Starting Specifications:

XX:

CPU Intel® Core™2 Extreme QX6700
Memory Corsair™ DOMINATOR™ TWIN2X2048-8500C5D
Motherboard ASUS® P5N32-E SLI (i680)
VGA card(s) 2x NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTX (SLI)
Harddrive 1 TB (2x 500 GB 7200 RPM sATA 16 MB cache RAID0)
I/O 7 in 1 Card Reader
Optical DVDRW
PSU 850 Watt ICE Cube
Sound Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Xtremegamer
OS Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium

Price £2899

GX:

CPU Intel® Core™2 Quad Q6600
Memory Corsair™ DOMINATOR™ TWIN2X2048-6400C4D
Motherboard ASUS® P5N32-E SLI (i680)
VGA card(s) 2 x NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GTS 320 MB (SLI)
Harddrive 500 GB 7200 RPM sATA 16 MB cache
I/O 7 in 1 Card Reader
Optical DVDRW
PSU 750 Watt ICE Cube
Sound SupremeFX (ADI 1988b)
OS Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium

Price £1759

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[Gamefreaks]

Them's some powerful PCs!

[Meusli]

Them's some step prices.

[Sandman]

Looks like Commodore is the new AlienWare.

[Philonious]

I haven't looked into these things in a few months, but aren't these prices more than a little steep? I also like the fact that they make stickers that specifically ruin their very sweet case.

[privatedonut21]

Looks like Commodore is the new AlienWare.
Nah, Alienwares are tacky, them Commodores are slick. The artwork idea is pretty cool since its not just those stupid decals but actually painted (or dyed) and it sounds like they might offer customizable artwork.

All that being said, any real gamer builds his/her machine. It's just better, and more fun!

[Meusli]

$5,804.96, thats how much it converts to which sounds worse.

[privatedonut21]

I haven't looked into these things in a few months, but aren't these prices more than a little steep? I also like the fact that they make stickers that specifically ruin their very sweet case.
Yeah, they're expensive, but thats what you get for buying rather than building. For retail, those aren't too bad for those specs. And the two year support is above average.

The graphics also aren't stickers, they're painted and clear coated.

[cp#]

Goody, another over-priced high end PC boutique

[CaptainAssholay]

All that being said, any real gamer builds his/her machine. It's just better, and more fun!

This is the truth.

[Philonious]

The graphics also aren't stickers, they're painted and clear coated.

I'd still stick with the black. A very small part of me wishes that I hadn't handed off my C64 to my cousin a few years back. Might be fun to sell on eBay, or play some Jumpman on.

[Meusli]

Editor: Commodore is working on an Evil Avatar.com C-kin for their gaming PC's!!!

So does that mean you can get an Evilavatar one? That sounds pretty cool, shame about the price

[Metal Jesus]

A single tear just rolled down my cheek. :P

[Evil Avatar]

Editor: Commodore is working on an Evil Avatar.com C-kin for their gaming PC's!!!

So does that mean you can get an Evilavatar one? That sounds pretty cool, shame about the price

I sure hope so, they look like fantastic machines.

(And I can sure use the upgrade, my machine is starting to show its age.)

[Draft]

$5,804.96, thats how much it converts to which sounds worse.Only a stupid, stupid fuck spends $6k on a gaming PC. I mean stupid.

[lockwoodx]

I just built my pc for $999 on newegg.

80gig 10krpm harddrive, asus M2N-E motherboard, athalon 64x2 6000, 2 gigs of corshair dominator ram, asus geforce 8800 320gts 320meg, Antec trio 650 watt power source.

Runs CnC3, gothic 3, warhammer mark of chaos, WH40K dawn of war, WoW, stalker, half life2, and guild wars flawlessly with every setting maxxed even 8x anti aliasing on CnC3.


Commodore's systems may look pretty, but WAYYYYYY overpriced.

[Draft]

I just built my pc for $999 on newegg.

80gig 10krpm harddrive, asus M2N-E motherboard, athalon 64x2 6000, 2 gigs of corshair dominator ram, asus geforce 8800 320gts 320meg, Antec trio 650 watt power source.

Runs CnC3, gothic 3, warhammer mark of chaos, WH40K dawn of war, WoW, stalker, half life2, and guild wars flawlessly with every setting maxxed even 8x anti aliasing on CnC3.


Commodore's systems may look pretty, but WAYYYYYY overpriced.True gamer. Not like the idiots and pretenders Commodore is trying to fleece.

They'll be out of business in 5 years. What kind of numb nuts thought it was a good idea to resurrect the Commodore name with a bunch of bullshit "boutique" gaming PCs.

[sprankton]

when are these guys going to understand that there is only so big of a market that would get a $5,000+ PC?

When are we going to see prices that are not retarded. Shit, these guys need to understand that building your PC is becoming more and more plug and play. Most of the work for building a PC is the research of the parts.

[Steve_Erhardt]

Future PC gaming giant, Commodore, sends along word that their new line of high-end gaming PC's are now available for purchase online.

Man, I remember playing games on your Commodore back at your place in Brooklyn, heh heh... good times.

[Evil Avatar]

Keep in mind that you can't translate prices the way you are trying to do. Our dollar just isn't worth as much as the pound. If someone had said you could buy one of these PC's for $1800.00, it would seem a lot more reasonable than trying to translate it into US dollars.

[KingGorilla]

JESUS FIST-FUCKING CHRIST! Too Cheap...and I mean that. Those prices are awesome.

EDIT: and while my knowledge of Technology and PC parts is extensive...my ability to do basic currency exchange is not, I will leave this post as a testament to my shame.

[cp#]

Keep in mind that you can't translate prices the way you are trying to do. Our dollar just isn't worth as much as the pound. If someone had said you could buy one of these PC's for $1800.00, it would seem a lot more reasonable than trying to translate it into US dollars.

I could probably build Commodores 2999 pound (6000 US dollar) machine for 1800 US. :p :rolleyes:

[GigaFuzz]

I'm too lazy right now to actually go do some comparisons, but those prices, while high, seem a lot cheaper than an equivalent Alienware.

Edit:
A quick and dirty comparison of the Commodore XX and an Alienware Area 51 customised to have more-or-less equivalent specs:
Commodore: £2937.03
Alienware: £3158.40

So it's pretty close, with the Commodore being slightly cheaper. Some of the upgrades over the standard models of Alienware cost a bomb. It 'started' at £1496, and after bumping the specs to match the XX more than doubled the price.

Comparing the GX to a roughly equivalent Area 51:
Commodore: £1759
Alienware: £2379.38

A much bigger advantage for Commodore this time.

It's still a lot of money - money that a lot of PC gamers don't won't to spend on a box they can build themeselves cheaper, but there is a market for these things out there - and Commodore, with their seemingly cheaper prices and higher degrees of case customisability, might do pretty well.

[LilAbner]

I just built my pc for $999 on newegg.

80gig 10krpm harddrive, asus M2N-E motherboard, athalon 64x2 6000, 2 gigs of corshair dominator ram, asus geforce 8800 320gts 320meg, Antec trio 650 watt power source.


Damn, only an 80GB HDD? Kinda weak, no? At least it's 10k RPM. The other specs look nice, though.

[Ravana]

What the hell? They even use the commodore logo? I thought they went bankrupt?
Regardless, the Supreme Commander case looks pretty cool. I'd love a pimped out Miami Vice case. It will only cost me 7 thousand australian dollars, but that is the price you pay for quality PCs in this, the year 1980.

edit: Oh, I see. Some dutch company bought the name. Wow, the number of times companies have gone into liquidation after purchasing the name is surprising. Its the commodore curse!

[Citizen Philip]

I believe a low level Necromancer has reanimated a corpse and given it some nice clothes, deodorant and a shiny bright pair of dentures.

It still wants to eat you brains, mark my words.

[BrokenSymmetry]

I see that these PCs have a dual-GPU (SLI) system with Vista. Does SLI work under Vista already? I thought there were still a lot of problems. You still can not order an SLI PC from Dell with Vista today (only with XP).

[LilEvilFish]

Guys chill out a bit.

These are the only PC's you'll be able to buy through their website (their flagship models if you will). However, you'll be able to buy less expensive, lower end models through retailers (such as PC World possibly or high street computer stores).

No one listens to me, but there you go.

[KingGorilla]

Guys chill out a bit.

These are the only PC's you'll be able to buy through their website (their flagship models if you will). However, you'll be able to buy less expensive, lower end models through retailers (such as PC World possibly or high street computer stores).

No one listens to me, but there you go.
Teehee...you call fries chips.

[lockwoodx]

Damn, only an 80GB HDD? Kinda weak, no? At least it's 10k RPM. The other specs look nice, though.


I was on a budget and I'm not huge into raping in mass ammounts at a time. If I download somthing I burn it right away and then free up the space, so 80gigs is plenty for me.

[51|RandoM]

Damn, only an 80GB HDD? Kinda weak, no? At least it's 10k RPM. The other specs look nice, though.

Unless you go SCSI, your only choices for 10k RPM drives are 36, 74, and 150 GB at the moment. Presumably he is talking about a 74GB Raptor and rounding up.

The cases on that website look sorta like an Antec P-180.

[Oddmaker]

Can you buy these commadore cases? I mean Alienware dont sell them ;)

[Nimos]

I just built my pc for $999 on newegg.

80gig 10krpm harddrive, asus M2N-E motherboard, athalon 64x2 6000, 2 gigs of corshair dominator ram, asus geforce 8800 320gts 320meg, Antec trio 650 watt power source.

Runs CnC3, gothic 3, warhammer mark of chaos, WH40K dawn of war, WoW, stalker, half life2, and guild wars flawlessly with every setting maxxed even 8x anti aliasing on CnC3.


Commodore's systems may look pretty, but WAYYYYYY overpriced.

Just out of curiosity , are you running XP or Vista ? I am about to purchase a system similar to yours, and i don't know which one is better as a gaming os .

[Thin_J]

Not only are they overpriced but there's typos in their technical information in a couple of spots too. Beh.

I'll stick with building my own for probably the rest of my life. It's so much more interesting.

And it's cheaper.

[Deathwave]

I miss my C64, with Pooyan in the tape drive.

[Disgustipated]

Just out of curiosity , are you running XP or Vista ? I am about to purchase a system similar to yours, and i don't know which one is better as a gaming os .

XP, as of right now, is far superior to Vista for gaming. Better drivers, better performance, better compatibility.

That being said, I'm not excited at all about these overpriced, Alienware-esque PC's. If you want an overpriced PC that's WORTH the overpricing from a boutique builder, go with Falcon Northwest. They have the best support of all PC manufacturers, bar none. True 24/7 tech support, free overnight shipping if your system goes belly-up, and the legendary binder with the checklist etc etc.