The high end pre-built computer market is chock full o’ companies that tend to come up with insane designs with the price tags to match them and give you something that resembles a high tech cheese grater rather than the insane gaming rig you ordered.

Digital Storm’s Core i7-965 is an insane gaming rig and AnandTech made sure to put together an order that would test the company’s commitment to quality. The CPU is overclocked to 4GHz, there’s triple SLI Nvidia GeForce GTX 285s to game on, and some RAID 0 Western Digital Raptors for that speedy file access. Here’s a look at their revew:

This component mix is the stuff of dreams, with
very good choices all around here. An identical configuration on the
website hovers around the $6000 mark ($6027 at the time of writing), so
clearly this kind of system is an upper end purchase. At this price,
the consumer expects blistering performance. The power supply is
enormous, but the three GTX 285s require a lot of power, and you don’t
want to skimp on this area with a Triple SLI system.

Highly impressive stuff and, from the look of things, a company you should consider for your next high-end purchase.

Since the advent of external USB storage devices, it’s been extremely easy to add storage to your computer without all of the popping open your case and cramming in the hard drive nonsense.

Western Digital’s My Book Essential Edition 1TB USB 2.0 external hard drive promises a good chunk of extra space at an extremely tempting price. There was a point in time where an external drive would set you back more than your run of the mill internal version but that price premium has slowly shrunk down to an acceptable profit-taking level.

The company touts the drive as a little eco-friendlier with up to 30% more energy efficiency than standard systems, which I take to mean competing brands that offer the same storage space using the same USB 2.0 interface.

Click the break for our full review.

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