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Though there's a recession on, some gamers still spend buckets of ducats to get top-performance gaming rigs. Custom PC specialist Origin is reaching out to just such a spendthrift demographic with its latest system--cheekily named "The Big O"--which combines both a high-end PC and an Xbox 360 slim in a single, extremely expensive box.

On the PC side, the Big O is customizable, with one or two six-core, 12-thread Intel Xeon X5680 CPUs which can be overclocked to 4.3 Ghz on a ASUS Rampage III Extreme Motherboard. It also boasts a SLI multi-GPU configuration, which can have up to four GeForce GTX 480 FTW graphics cards. Up to 12GB of RAM can be given to device, all versions of which have 2TB hard drives, liquid cooling systems, and customizable cases.

Two things make the Big O unique in today's gaming market. First is its inclusion of an entire Xbox 360 slim, also liquid-cooled, inside the same box. Second is the device's whopping price. The entry-level model, which has a single CPU and GPU, rings up at $7,669. The version recently featured in CPU magazine, which boasts two CPUs and four GPUS amongst other features, rings up at a whopping $16,999--as much as a low-end new car or a round-the-world vacation.

Now the picture of the computer sports a EVGA water blocks on a non-EVGA MOBO. Think EVGA doesn't have a nice MOBO? Think again! Look at the specs for:

EVGA ****fied SR-2 NVidia 5520 DP LGA1366 MAX-48GB DDR3 PCIE x 16 USB 3.0.

That's right boys and girls it holds 48GB of RAM with the ability to slap on both the Xeon or i7 980x

So ask yourself, does this computer by ORIGIN really live up to the hype? Could you not build a comparable system for less that will blow this ORIGIN system out of the water? Seems like they are hoping that we "computer geeks" are as dumb as donkeys to buy this overpriced "gimped" PC.

The starred out section of the blog entry is due to the word: C-L-A-S-S-I-F-I-E-D