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Commodore Wants to Conquer Again!

Uros "Vader" Pavlovic

03:58 am EDT @ March 15th, 2007

We've already heard about Commodore making a comeback. Well, now it appears to be even more likely. An official announcement, made by Commodore Gaming at the CeBIT 2007, states that a new breed of gaming PCs is coming with the highest specifications available for gamers and featuring a level of personalisation never before seen - whatever that means.

The new range includes four different models from an entry level gaming PC to an extreme specification model which is optimised to the highest level.

Bala Keilman, CEO for Commodore Gaming, commented "The all new Commodore range of PC's will allow gamers of all levels to enjoy the best that PC gaming has to offer. From beginners to professionals, Commodore Gaming ensures that only the very best components are provided to deliver the ultimate PC gaming experience. We also wanted to bring something new to the market, in the spirit of our Commodore heritage, and have worked hard to design a fully personalised product".

Promotech also claims that they have the system specs expected for the first wave:

Intel CoreT2 Extreme quad-core processor
Asus P5N32-E nForce 680i SLI motherboard
Two 150 GB 10,000 RPM SATA drives in RAID 0, with spare 500GB 7,200 RPM SATA drive
4GB (2 x 2048) Corsair Dominator memory at 1066 MHz
Two nVidia 8800 GTX video cards
Creative Labs X-Fi sound card
Windows Vista Ultimate

Sounds too good to be true if you ask me.

Thanks Shack for the heads-up.

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Reader Comments

	MrBored	Mar 15 2007, 04:51 am EDT
	Reply The lamest thing ever.

	Killer Klown	Mar 15 2007, 05:05 am EDT
	Reply Yeah. This is shades of Phantom - overpromise, never deliver.

	2Lions	Mar 15 2007, 05:55 am EDT
	Reply What the fuck, they are selling PCs under Commodore brand now? Lame.

	Vodoo	Mar 15 2007, 06:06 am EDT
	Reply word of advice: keep your kidneys until further notice.

	Ezraen	Mar 15 2007, 06:38 am EDT
	Reply Shit, I wanted to spend my money on a new kidney... But I guess I'll wait.

	RacerX	Mar 15 2007, 07:21 am EDT
	Reply I was a Commodore fanatic because they offered a different package than PCs and Macs at the time. This, I don't understand. I had a Plus4, a C64, an Amiga 500, and an Amiga 3000. I was pretty good with CLI and Workbench. Now they are using PC hardware and the Windows OS? WTF? I already optimize Windows just fine by turning all the crap services off, loading the latest drivers, overclocking the CPU/GPU/RAM, optimizing the registry, making a few registry tweaks, and defragging the hard drive. Humbug to them!

	fatBastard();	Mar 15 2007, 07:32 am EDT
	Reply Ermmrm, how is this different from what Alienware is doing? I mean, Commodore as a product died a long time but the brand name is still alive in many an older gamer's mind. If they manage to design a cool looking box, perhaps with additional peripherals such as keyboards and mice, then I can see the potential. It sort of reminds me of what the former Infogrames did with the Atari brand name. Cheesy for sure, but it seems more or less to have paid off.

	danishpussy	Mar 15 2007, 07:39 am EDT
	Reply I agree with fatBastard. What's wrong with them selling computers like Alienware or VoodooPC under the Commodore brand name? I'm sure they'll update the logo and everything, so our precious "back in MY day" memories should be intact. Those of us who don't want to buy overpriced gaming systems are still going to build our own machines. All this does is give those who buy name-brand systems another option. The sky isn't falling.

	GrimshawUK	Mar 15 2007, 08:01 am EDT
	Reply Does this come with a case in which 70 fans are housed creating a combined noise output the same as a small aircraft carrier?

	skribb	Mar 15 2007, 08:25 am EDT
	Reply It would be cool if they made a new game-optimised OS to go along with the hardware. Now, not so much.

	Nameinuse	Mar 15 2007, 10:47 am EDT
	Reply Who needs 3 hard drives? And will it make the computer more expensive?
	skribb: I have like 4 HDDs right now. I will need more eventu…

	Xmortis	Mar 15 2007, 11:09 am EDT
	Reply Its going to go belly up. The PC market is saturated with hardware and vendors. Companies such as HP , Alienware and Dell have such a handhold on the generic market that Commodore will have a very tough time even putting a pinkie toe into the market. Such high end PC's aren't typically bought pre-fab by high end enthusiasts. Such people buy their own parts and assemble their own systems.

	GMan	Mar 15 2007, 11:24 am EDT
	Reply http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/15/commodore_back_gaming_pc/ has specs for four different machines and what they mean by 'personalized'.

	BadCRC*	Mar 15 2007, 02:39 am EDT
	Reply It all depends on the price and I don't think that with the specs like those it will be a pretty one...

	IcedEarth	Mar 15 2007, 04:50 am EDT
	Reply Hmm... seems silly. I never understood how there could be much of a market for this. Anyone geeky enough to demand a system like that and be willing to pay for it likely would have the knowledge of how to build their own system and for much less. Can't beat that level of "personalization" either. Now that Dell owns Alienware, what other big-name companies still exist other than Voodoo? Is Falcon still around? I never bought one of those gaming-specific PCs since I just build my own. Is there really any point?

	chatnick	Mar 16 2007, 03:32 am EDT
	Reply dell is changing alienware label to commodore?

	SeriousAlex	Mar 16 2007, 03:56 am EDT
	Reply Yeah, I too don't see the point of purchasing a custom pc. I am lucky enough to work in the IT sector so am able buy directly from the dealers. Get an Uber Pc without it being Uber Expensive.