Can The Rich Boy Join Your MMORPG? - Puget Deluge-i L2 gaming PC Review

Can The Rich Boy Join Your MMORPG? - Puget Deluge-i L2 gaming PC Review

There is one in every class, the rich kid who brags about how much his clothing costs. It's always name brand. It's always made of the most durable material. And of course, it costs more than anybody else's similar clothing that you know. The Puget Deluge-i L2 is a computer made specifically for such an individual. This gaming PC has it all. Let's start with just under a terabyte of data storage capacity. Why 900 GB? I would have preferred they gave me a smaller drive them to taunt me with one so close to the psychological benchmark. But I guess that over $5000 I just get a little picky.

I actually miss the days of user maintenance watercooled systems. If you're a real geeky you want people to know it, the best thing you can do is show them how you put water inside your computer and have it be on purpose. That being said, if you don't buy your computers at swap meets watercooled units usually come with an enclosed system, and for very good reason. One thing you don't want your geek worshiping friends to know is what a motherboard looks like if you forget to fill your watercooled system and you overheat due to coolant evaporation. The Yorkfield XE-based QX9650 quad core would be an expensive way to learn this lesson. This Intel Extreme processor can really make the heat fans roar, especially sitting on top of 4GHz. Of course there is the bright, fuzzy glare of the blue neon bulb to show you the cooling unit. Your new GeForce 8800 GPU will make sure that your frame rate refresh stays ok, but with your money you can buy the fastest card there is and add it to your system next week, right? Wrong. With the extreme overclocked CPU making sure everything stays in a tropical fever, to add another card you will have to find someplace else to put the cooling system. You could grab the screwdriver and buy some heat sinks, but why, when you can take it in and have it done for a few hundred dollars? The wiring of this audacious beast is tidy and out of the way for easy maintenance (or to make it "pretty"), so if you wanted to upgrade it and remove the cooler, you could, but then why not build a white box?

The Puget-i L2 is a great frag box, and has all the muscle it needs to get noticed on the block. It comes with a larger than life pricetag that is however upsetting. It is a box built for a bodybuilder. Looks good, strong, and can hold his own but a little high maintenance and may have to back down from a fight or two. For the type of cash you have to put out for this right, I deserve a prize fighter, that looks good and can take care of himself no questions asked. If you've ever been asked if you want to learn to play bass and be in our band, in your basement, then this will impress all of your friends and you will like it.

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