HP's Firebird with VoodooDNA 802 / 803 now available starting at $1,799

We know it's a little easy to lose track of time with the world's craziest consumer electronics show steaming ahead, but today actually is January 9th. The meaning of that? HP's two Firebird gaming towers are go for purchase. Both the Firebird with VoodooDNA 802 and 803 are available for purchase right now, with starting prices pegged at $1,799 and $2,099, respectively. The primary difference between the stock configurations are the CPUs (a 2.66GHz Core 2 Quad versus 2.83GHz Core 2 Quad), the hard drives (2 x 250GB verses 2 x 320GB), the sound card (the 803 has a Creative X-Fi mini-PCI audio card) and the fact that the 803 comes packed with a slot-loading Blu-ray drive. Hit the read link to get your shopping on.

[TrentGreen @ Jan 9th 2009 1:41PM]

WOW its not as expensive as i thought it would be.

[aznofazns @ Jan 9th 2009 2:39PM]

The pricing has been released for a while now... but yeah $1799 is not that bad for the size, styling, and specs.

[CosterMonger @ Jan 9th 2009 3:16PM]

and hopefully build quality as well

[aznofazns @ Jan 9th 2009 2:38PM]

The primary difference are?

[Horse @ Jan 9th 2009 3:06PM]

The main differences are the specs like it says in the article. Did you read the article?

[CosterMonger @ Jan 9th 2009 3:14PM]

YEAH!!! /sarcasm

[mike @ Jan 11th 2009 1:43PM]

Looked good st first but Hp had to skimp and use 5400 rpm hard drives.

[scootinger @ Jan 13th 2009 5:40PM]

Why do they call the the HP Firebird with VoodooDNA in every reference to it? Why not just the Firebird?

For the most part the HP Firebird with VoodooDNA looks pretty slick. However, if the HP Firebird with VoodooDNA is designed for gamers (and has "VoodooDNA") why does the Firebird with VoodooDNA have two 5400RPM 2.5" hard drives? For a "high performance" system like the HP Firebird with VoodooDNA, they should have used 7200RPM hard drives. I don't see why they would cause any problem...they are fairly cheap and don't put out *that* much heat. If my white MacBook has a 7200RPM drive, then so can the HP Firebird with VoodooDNA. It would probably be a minisicule increase in heat dissipation and cost, especially considering the HP Firebird with VoodooDNA's dual SLI video cards and a quad-core CPU. Rather short-sighted of HP not to make 7200RPM drives standard in the HP Firebird with VoodooDNA.