By leveraging modern miniaturization, the Octane III can handle up to 80 CPU cores, yes that’s EIGHT-ZERO CPU cores, along with up to 1TB, yes that’s ONE TERABYTE of RAM. If that’s not enough, the top-of-the line config has room for ten 2.5″ SATA II hard drives. And it all fits in a box that’s not much bigger than your average workstation tower (a 1-foot by 2-foot footprint).

The Octane III workstation can be purchased in a variety of insanely powerful configurations, including:

• Ten dual-socket, Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5500 series-based nodes.
• One dual-socket, Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5500 series-based workstation with advanced NVIDIA graphics and/or GP-GPU card support.
• Nineteen single-socket, Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 3400 series-based nodes.
• Nineteen single-socket, Dual-Core Intel Atom processor-based nodes.

Prices for the Octane III start at $7999 (USD) and go up from there. While that might sound like a lot for a desktop PC, this thing is in a league all by itself.

I can’t wait to play some CRYSIS on this bad boy.

[via SlipperyBrick]

Fully maxed out, the systems can have two Quad-Core Intel Xeon 3.0GHz processors, up to 3TB of hard disk storage and up to 16 GB of RAM. Designed with graphics, video and multimedia professionals in mind, the new Mac is one serious machine. Some serious graphic card options are also available, supporting massive display configurations such as dual 30-inch monitors and more.

Eight-core Mac Pro systems start at about $4,000, but can go all the way up to $11,000 when you max out RAM and disk storage. If that’s too rich for your blood, you can always pick up a basic version of the system with dual 2.0GHz Dual-Core Xeons for just $2,200.