The Blackbird 002 that launched last year may be impressive, but the design is nothing special and the price range isn’t very attractive at $1,799-$4,999. Now, HP with VoodooDNA has given us something to look at. The HP Firebird 803 gaming tower flips the disc drive and most other components on their sides to allow for this sleek looking design. The Firebird doesn’t leave much room for modification or expandability, but the standard features sure do give me chills inside:

• NVIDIA nForce 760i SLI chipset
• Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz processor
• 4GB of RAM
• Dual NVIDIA GeForce 9800S cards
• Two 320GB SATA drives
• Blu-ray
• 5-in-1 card reader
• 6 USB, 1 FireWire, 2 eSATA, 1 S/PDIF and 1 DVA dual-link
• Bluetooth
• 802.11n WiFi

The Firebird unusually uses an external power supply to save on space and heat. It also comes with a wireless keyboard and mouse. Hopefully we’ll see this at CES next month and get some pricing and availability info.

via Engadget