The Cryo Octane - fastest desktop PC on the planet


The Cryo Octane is THE new number cruncher with eight ('Octa') cores and Intel's new Nehalem 5500 chipset (with the old 5400 Skulltrail still optional) it supports both nVidia SLI and ATI Crossfire multi GPU card technologies.  Realising that anyone after a beast like this wants the best from every component we've also included a SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) with 400MB/s bandwidth point-to-point bus its the fastest IO you can get and previously was only possible with enterprise level investments in storage arrays.  This enables us to use enterprise class 15K rpm drives in the array offering the fastest desktop storage ever made available.

What you get

  • The base unit with the above specification plus any options you have selected below, or customisations you have asked for
  • We assume you already have your own preferred keyboard, mouse and monitor
  • Our Two Year Warranty (T&C's available on request)
  • Our Cryo Obsolescence Assurance policy and component upgrade support

Cryo Octane

Key Benefits

  • The most processing power available with eight overclocked cores, outperforming anything else on the market
  • Already 2-3 years ahead of all the main manufacturers PC technology providing you with a high performance PC with an extended lifetime
  • Offering typically 40% or more performance benefits over a standard PC of the same configuration
  • Obsolescence designed out so that your investment lasts longer, and you feel greener
  • Cryo Boost™ - Overclocking and Optimisation for unrivalled performance and stability
  • Personal service and support by one of our experts assigned to your build - NOT a telesales agent
  • 20 years of practical design expertise from our industrial and commercial performance critical background
  • Fully braided internal Cable Management included at no extra cost
  • A careful and deliberate choice of emerging technologies is designed into the Cryo Octane (i.e. SLI and Crossfire, 45nm Xeon 64bit CPU support, modular components, excess cooling and power capacity)
  • RAID5 over five Enterprise Class high speed 15K rpm drives designed in for a combination of maximum performance and resilience (a failed drive can be 'hot swapped' without loss of any data)

See our design and build Ethos for further benefits offered by a Cryo PC.

Cryo Octane


Cryo Octane

Technical Specification (A)

Operating SystemStorage
  • Windows Vista all Editions
  • Windows XP all Editions
  • 32-bit (to 3GB memory) or 64 bit (to 24GB memory) optional
  • Dual boot to two install Operating Systems optional
  • Rapid system recovery option available to be used in the event of a system disaster
  • Overclocking Tools
  • Hardware monitoring onboard and tools (temperature, clocks, voltage and fans)
  • Optional Backup and Disaster recovery
  • High performance RAID0 set of two Seagate 7200.12 drives, 1TB capacity
  • SAS 400MB/s and SATA-II interface to 300MB/s bandwidth (optional discrete RAID adapter)
  • Up to 10-ports (including external)
  • JBoD, RAID 0/1/5 and optionally 1+0 or 10
  • Solid State drives supported (SSD)
  • Disks up to 15k rpm and 64MB drive cache memory
  • Optical storage includes standard 22x DVD-RW
  • Optional Blu-Ray Reader and Rewriter
  • Optional Enterprise Class storage and 15k rpm drives
Processor, Chipset & MemoryCooling technology
  • Intel Nehalem EP (Xeon 55 series) or Skulltrail (Xeon 54 series) processors
  • Standard and Extreme Edition processors
  • Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) 6.4GT/s+ (6400 FSB equivalent)
  • Clock Speeds from 3.33GHz standard, Cryo Boost™ to 4.5GHz+ (Intel Core i7 975)
  • Intel X58 Chipset with nVidia SLI and ATI Crossfire multi-GPU support
  • Up to 96GB Triple Channel DDR3 at 1866MHz+, low latency, Cryo Boost™
  • 6 dedicated DIMM slots for Triple Channel DDR3 Memory
  • PCIe v2.0, typically PCIex16 channel x 2, 1 PCIex8, 1PCIex4, 2xPCI slots
  • 12GB PC3-10666 1333MHz+ low latency memory, 6 memory slots, half populated, expandable to 96GB
  • 3DMark06 Benchmarks: around 25,000
  • Over engineered cooling solutions onboard to enhance over performance capability
  • Large coolers fitted to Northbridge/Southbridge/MOSFETs
  • Use of small high speed fans minimised or completely eliminated
  • High performance air cooling used throughout, optional Extreme Water or TEC cooling
  • Large low rpm high cfm (>50cfm) fans used for case cooling
  • CPU heatsink used with high grade silver thermal compound for efficient heat transfer and durability
  • Oversized 750W power supply (PSU) used to minimise heat generated in use and provide ample headroom for expansion
  • Cooling available for the complete system GPU/CPU/Motherboard
  • Temeprature monitoring, management and alerting

Cryo Velox

Technical Specification (B)

Graphics & VideoAudio
  • Standard Single GPU Graphics Cards
  • Cryo ATI HD4670 Silent 512MB memory, for silent 2D and moderate 3D graphics performance
  • Upgrades to professional and high end consumer cards available for extreme GPU performance
  • Dual, Triple and Quad GPU configurations available
  • Both Crossfire and nVidia SLI supported
  • Latest GTX 200 (55nm) and ATI RV770 GPU's available
  • nVidia cards pre overclocked with Cryo Boost™ technology
  • Additional card water or air cooling options available for further performance enhancement
  • Onboard Physics processing available
  • Dual DVI, Display port, PureVideo HD (nVidia), Cinema 2.0, S-Video or HDMI output, DirectX 10
  • Max resolution 2560x1600 pixels (DVI)
  • High Quality soundcard fitted, Ultra high fidelity cards optional
  • Multichannel 7.1 sound
  • Low signal to noise, hi definition
  • Front panel Azalia header for Mic, Headphones, Line-in and Line-out
  • CODEC enables high-quality 192KHz/24-bit audio, typically
  • Rear panel SPDIF digital IO to preserve sound quality
  • Optional soundcard with AV200 processor reduces SNR to 120db with Dolby True HD, DTS-HD Hi-Fi sound
  • and unloads Audio processing form the CPU freeing up processing cycles
ChassisNetworking & Peripheral Interfaces
  • Lian-Li PC-A1110, Black, full tower chassis
  • 1x 120mm fans, quiet low speed, high cfm (volume), adjustable speed
  • 1x 140mm front quiet fans mounted behind mesh and filter
  • Ample room for full internal multiple triple/quad water cooling heat exchangers with top panel blow holes
  • All aluminium construction, tool-less maintenance, drive bay with anti-vibration drive mounts
  • Hot swap drives available for redundant RAID configurations
  • Removable motherboard tray
  • Dimensions: 220mm x 590mm x 585mm (W, H, D)
  • Typically Dual Gigabit LAN RJ-45, aggregatable for 2GB/s bandwidth
  • IEE1394 Firewire 400
  • eSATA for hot plug-in of external SATA devices, including backup/restore
  • USB2 typically 6+ ports
  • Front panel ports for Mic, Headphones, 4x USB2, Firewire and eSATA

Cryo Octane

Take a tour around the optional upgrade Lian Li P80R special edition case (note the standard P80 has the same technical specification):

 

Below is our quotation request form which you can use to select from a large variety of options to customise your Cryo Octane to your very own personal requirements.  Once your done hit at the bottom of the form and we will send you a no obligation price quotation.  Alternatively Contact Us directly and we can help you select your custom built computer components with you.

 

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