iBUYPOWER Launches Chimera Killer Special Edition Gaming PC

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, August 06, 2009, 07:34 PM EDT

iBUYPOWER Launches Chimera Killer Special Edition Gaming PC

New gaming rigs are designed to provide online PC gamers with an edge over their competition

El Monte, CA – August 6, 2009 – iBUYPOWER, leading innovator in gaming PCs, is excited to announce two new Chimera Killer Special Edition Gaming PCs, optimized for online gaming. Built in iBUYPOWER’s signature Chimera “Inferno” case, the Killer Edition Systems feature the innovative Killer Xeno Pro gaming network card, and the latest gaming technology to create a system truly optimized for the best multiplayer online gaming experience and maximum gaming edge in games such as the popular World of Warcraft and Call of Duty.

“Bigfoot Networks’ prime objective is to provide smooth, lag-free gameplay, and the Killer Xeno Pro gaming network card underscores this mission. Our teaming with iBUYPOWER to power their iBUYPOWER Chimera Gaming System with Killer Xeno Pro benefits gamers, empowering them to maximize frame rates and accelerate game action,” said Michael Howse, President and CEO, Bigfoot Networks. “The Bigfoot-iBUYPOWER combination optimizes the online gaming experience for gamers, giving them accelerated voice chat and reduced lag, which are gamer ‘musts,’ within a powerful gaming computing system.”

The Bigfoot Killer Xeno Pro improves online gameplay by offloading several key processes from the CPU to the NPU, allowing the CPU to focus on other tasks and boosting overall gaming performance. These include shifting voice chat to the Killer Xeno’s dedicated audio chip and transferring network processing to the Killer Xeno to boost average frame rates. The Bigfoot Killer Xeno offers online gamers hardware accelerated voice chat; smoother gameplay; game network acceleration; and Bigfoot Networks’ Bandwidth Control, and Killer Firewall.

The Bigfoot Killer Xeno Pro, combined with the latest in graphics and processing hardware in the advanced Chimera “Inferno” Chassis, makes the Chimera Killer Edition Gaming PC one of the most advanced and sophisticated tools available to PC gamers to date.

The Chimera Killer Edition Systems are available with both Intel and AMD configurations for $1.899 and $1,499 MSRP respectively at www.iBUYPOWER.com. iBUYPOWER systems come standard with 3 year limited warranty and lifetime technical support.

Tags: AMD, Intel, Gaming, system, IBuyPower, Chimera

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com