Digital Storm Bolt stuffs full-power graphics into a mini gaming desktop,

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/10/digital-storm-bolt.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/24/digital-storm-bolt-stuffs-full-power-graphics-into-a-mini-gaming-pc/)Attempts to create truly small gaming desktops usually involve at least some kind of performance hit. Even HP's category-bending Firebird (http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/08/hp-firebird-with-voodoo-dna-hands-on/), one of the few stand-out examples, had to use toned-down graphics to succeed in a tiny enclosure. Digital Storm (http://www.engadget.com/tag/DigitalStorm/) might have broken the trend towards sacrifice with its new Bolt desktop: although it's just 3.6 inches wide and 14 inches tall, the Bolt can cram in as much as a GeForce GTX 680 (http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/22/nvidia-geforce-gtx-580-review-round-up/) and will even let gamers upgrade the graphics like they would in a full-size PC. The seemingly logic-defying (if also finger-defying) case still allows room for as much as an overclocked 4.6GHz Core i7, 16GB of RAM and storage options that meld a spinning hard drive with up to two SSDs and a DVD burner. Digital Storm isn't even setting an absurd base price, but it's in the cost that we finally see the catch to the miniaturization tricks. The $999 entry-level Bolt carries a modest 3.1GHz Core i3, 8GB of RAM, a 1TB hard drive and GeForce GTX 650 Ti, while it takes a staggering $1,949 to get a fully decked-out Core i7 system with a GTX 680. Those prices might be worthwhile for anyone who has ever strained while lugging a traditional tower to a game tourney.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/24/digital-storm-bolt-stuffs-full-power-graphics-into-a-mini-gaming-pc/