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The Atomic Supreme Commander PC

By Ben Mansill
11:23 Dec 14, 2006
Tags: supreme | commander | mod | thq | defyant
The Atomic Supreme Commander PC

Atomic brings you the magnificent Supreme Commander modded PC, it's a blitzer, and you could win it!

Three years in the making, THQ’s Supreme Commander is the Real Time Strategy game set to redefine the genre.

From Chris Taylor and Gas Powered Games, Supreme Commander takes RTS gaming to new levels. Read our feature story in the latest issue of Atomic to find out more about this remarkable game.

To celebrate the release of Supreme Commander, Atomic has commissioned the creation of a gaming PC befitting the breakthrough game. Master modder Defyant is hard at work creating a new masterpiece, which is custom specced by Atomic for Supreme Commander.

This enviable machine is being crafted by Defyant to be both a gaming powerhouse, and a showcase of the master-modders art. The winner of this comp will possess a one of a kind PC sure to be the envy of all.

In issue 74 of Atomic we’ll run a worklog showing just how this magnificent machine was created.

Are you ready for the mind-blowingly exciting bit?

YOU CAN WIN IT!
What's in the box?

The main bits:


* 2 x Samsung 215TW 21” LCD monitors for supreme quality dual screen gaming

* Antec Nine Hundred case, one-of-a-kind modded by Defyant

* Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 CPU, watercooled and prime for overclocking

* Gigabyte S series GA-965G-DS3 mobo

* ASUS 7950GT 512MB graphics

* Antec SmartPower 2.0 500W ATX Power Supply

* Team 4-4-4 PC2-5300 Elite 2GB DDR2 RAM

* Seagate 7200.10 320GB SATA II hard drive


The detail:

Antec TriCool 120mm Red LED Fan
Flexiglow Xtreme Neon 30cm Cold Cathode Tube - Red
Flexiglow Dual Xtreme Neon 15cm Cold Cathode Kit - Red
Lite-On SHM-165P6S Internal Super AllWrite DVD Writer
Microsoft Windows XP Home with SP2 (OEM)
Flexiglow UV Reactive Round IDE Cable - 48cm
Flexiglow UV Reactive Serial ATA Cable - 50cm
Swiftech Apogee CPU Water Block
Swiftech MCW60 VGA Waterblock
Swiftech MCP655 12V Pump
Hardware Labs Black Ice GT Stealth 240 PC radiator
ClearFLEX 60 Premium Tubing (1/2")

Special thanks to Defyant, THQ, Samsung and Nintek for helping make this project possible.











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