Xotic PC's New Exodus PC Costs $6,700

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Michael Justin Allen Sexton is a Contributing Writer for Tom's Hardware US. He covers hardware component news, specializing in CPUs and motherboards.
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  • 06yfz450ridr
    3 ssds in raid 0 wow that's a great idea
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  • DrakeFS
    I get it, this PC is supposed to be the top of line but over $6700, its not even Quad SLI (course it would need to be a Haswell system for that). I still haven't figured why builders keep using SSDs in a raid setup. It does nothing for a gaming machine and it is questionable if it is actually useful for any use case.

    The price doesn't match the specs, bells and whistles. Even for a boutique builder.
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  • Morbus
    That's a pretty awesome PC right there, but it looks fairly overpriced. The tower is pretty cool looking though.
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  • p8ball4life
    Great detailed post on PCMR yesterday about how shitty this company is. Immediately followed by multiple tom's hardware paid ad articles for them...
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  • DrakeFS
    That's a pretty awesome PC right there, but it looks fairly overpriced. The tower is pretty cool looking though.

    The problem is, the case is something you can buy from In Win directly. Its not a custom component, you can order it from an online retailer. I have always liked In Win's cases but could never justify the cost.
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  • Rhinofart
    This is for people with more money than brains. They don't even use top of the line components, and charge that much? I'd be embarrassed to release that.
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  • Neur0nauT
    17230701 said:
    Great detailed post on PCMR yesterday about how shitty this company is. Immediately followed by multiple tom's hardware paid ad articles for them...

    I was just reading that post last night. this outfit sound like a complete joke. There's no smoke without fire.

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  • Skyhawk101
    A quick stop by PCPartsPicker.com shows that all these components (minus the water cooling) add up to 3454$ , whichs makes this build almost 3300$ overpriced. You could literally buy 2 of those sytems for their price.
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  • dstarr3
    I get it, this PC is supposed to be the top of line but over $6700, its not even Quad SLI (course it would need to be a Haswell system for that). I still haven't figured why builders keep using SSDs in a raid setup. It does nothing for a gaming machine and it is questionable if it is actually useful for any use case.

    The price doesn't match the specs, bells and whistles. Even for a boutique builder.

    It definitely improves your sequential read/write speeds. So, y'know, during the two times in your life where you might copy a single 4GB, awesome.

    But yeah, otherwise, it does nothing except add latency. Marketing aside, I think the practical reason for doing RAID0 on 3 SSDs is just for the sake of having all three SSDs as one large volume. RAID1 could accomplish this, but RAID0 would provide some wear leveling. All the SSDs would see an equal amount of wear in RAID0, as opposed to the second and third SSDs doing literally nothing while the first SSD does all the work until you finally do fill up the volume with enough data to utilize the additional SSDs in the array

    But mostly marketing. Because this is so volatile as to be just stupid. Honestly, for $6k, they could certainly throw in a 2TB 850 Evo. But nope, they need the bullet point on the press release saying "OMG SUPER FAST SSD RAID0 TELL YOUR NEIGHBORS."
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  • dstarr3
    Also, for $6k, they only give you a 1TB hard drive? Please. You can afford to give us a 4TB for that price, AT LEAST. You want to put RAID0 in this somehow? Awesome, do it for data storage instead of the OS drive. Two 2TB hard drives in RAID0 would be great for a system like this, and if it's just simple data storage, it's super easy to back up to safeguard against failure. And for $6k, that's something they could have provided. But nope. They didn't. Because this was designed for people that don't really know what computers do or what they're worth.

    PASS.
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