Razer Project Christine: Modular Gaming PC Business
Razer is making a modular gaming PC.
Valve Software and Nvidia aren't the only ones trying to transform the PC gaming scene; Razer is jumping on the bandwagon as well thanks to Project Christine. The company promises that Project Christine will be the most modular gaming system ever, that it will change how users will view PCs from here on out.
According to Razer, this modular setup eliminates the technical know-how, allowing anyone to put a gaming rig together. And as new upgrades come to the market, owners can easily and quickly upgrade the same rig without additional technical assistance or fears of obsoleteness and incompatibility.
We've seen something like this before with Xi3's Piston and its other small form factor modular PCs. However, Razer's take on the modular design appears to be a bit deeper, allowing novice customers to replace the CPU, the GPU, the memory, the storage and more.
Need more storage and graphics power? Simply insert additional modules, or swap the old ones out. The PCI-Express architecture of Project Christine automatically syncs components.
"The modularity of Project Christine make it perpetually customizable, offering plug-and-play upgradability as new and improved technology evolves, ostensibly eliminating the need to replace entire systems," Razer's press release reports. "Modules connected to the PCI-Express backbone can be added in any order or combination, featuring up to quad-SLI graphics, multiple SSD and RAID storage components, I/O and even power supplies, ensuring maximum flexibility."
Razer explains that each sealed module is entirely self-contained and features active noise cancellation and liquid cooling. This aspect allows Razer to factory overclock components without voiding warranties. The system also comes packed with a touch-based LCD screen that indicates control and maintenance information, as well as the ability to run two different operating systems.
When asked about a set of minimum hardware specs, a Razer rep told Tom's that the company is currently looking at all types of components. The project is still a concept, so pricing was out of the question as well. However, here's a neat twist: there may be a tiered subscription system that will send new components to subscribers when they're released.

Then I realized that this obviously isn't marketed towards me.
It's just another case of enticing people to spend more money so they have to do less work.
1. It is mineral cooled.OMFG K00L. Not cool. People think that if they stick a system under mineral oil it magically cools it to amazing temperatures. This is true but only for ~an hour under load until the heat gets trapped in the water. At this point, people create methods of circulating the liquid (oil) and find a way to cool it which IS NOT easy.
Razer is mineral cooling those little black boxes? How will they circulate and cool the oil? To me, It seems like a hard task
2. Doesn't this look like the thermaltake Level 10? That ugly yet cool thing. Yeah yeah, we got over that a while ago.
3. Seems like Apple and Razer share investors. They both make nice looking products (idontagreebutwhatever) and they innovate but their innovations hold back the consumer mentally. Ever since all these apple gizmos kids aren't really learning. They know how to use the easy ipad or macbook but when it comes to anything else, they are stuck. All these things to make stuff easier which hinders critical thinking for people. (Iphone, Ipad, <--- My grandparents use them)
4. Everybody mentioned the price, yeah. We know. Let's just ignore this and look at more indepth issues above though.
4.5. This is made for the "average person"? Average people don't have $3k+ to spend on a system. And they likely DON'T want to upgrade their parts for $500 a piece.
Bottomline: Razer shouldn't innovate. It's cute but I'd prefer they begin making computer cases, NOT computer systems. Modular design? Doesn't appeal to me. BUT I really like the middle system that is basically cable control. This also connects all the parts with PCI-Express which makes me wonder where we'll see bottlenecks within the bus.
Just because you can remove a module doesn't mean a new CPU is going to be compatible with an older system.