The Future of Desktop Gaming - Razer's Latest PC Concept

Razer has revealed its latest gaming PC concept Project Christine, at International CES 2014, in Las Vegas, NV. Project Christine can very well be considered as the future of desktop gaming PCs.

It is a fully modular, easy to upgrade, silent yet powerful PC. Razer has never made a desktop PC before and only recently made PCs at all: the Razer Blade and Razer Edge were its first products, both showing a lot of design prowess.

Project Christine

is a thing of beauty. The base station is a single piece of aluminum. All down the front and back it has modules that can be modularly added or subtracted from the middle tower. The modules are attached to the base station with completely proprietary interface on the back and front with two quick disconnect fittings. The back modules consist of multiple GPU modules, CPU and RAM module, rear IO and a PSU and water cooling module at the base.

The front modules consist of Blu-ray reader/writer, multiple SSDs, front IO and a LED control and maintenance display module. All the modules communicate with each other through PCI express running through the middle tower. And if you are worried about the cooling, it is fully mineral oil cooled! It can also run multiple operating systems.

Project Christine looks like something from space age. It is truly an evolution of what a PC can be. It is not an end product which might not look anything like this and can also be years away, depending on how much demand is there, how much support it gets from other manufacturers.

Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan said that the company is thinking about offering a subscription model for the PC, which would allow you to always keep your rig up-to-date with minimal effort. Tan explained that a person could sign up for a top of the line package that would allow them to receive new components when they come out. These components would be delivered to your door, while you'd be responsible for sending your old modules back to Razer. This package would be offered as a monthly subscription.So instead of having to pay thousands of dollars in a single shot, there could be a standard subscription fee and you could have always, at any point of time, the best possible PC, Tan said. You wouldn't have to worry about compatibility issues, either, as subscription packages would include components tailored specifically for your system.

Project Christine itself is only a prototype at the moment, so Razer is not talking about pricing details for the system or potential subscription packages just yet.

Source | LinusTechTips