Rethinking PC Design

The HP Blackbird 002 PC was designed with two goals in mind: to bring innovation back to the gaming PC by delivering extreme customer-centric innovations, and to completely reinvent the look and feel of the performance PC. Blackbird’s design draws inspiration from the bleeding-edge gaming hardware pioneered by Voodoo, and the technical skill of its designers is matched only by their passion for gaming.


Suspending Disbelief

The Blackbird 002 isn't a PC that you want to hide under a desk. It commands attention from every angle. It's a pure gaming machine that rejects conventional PC design in favor of an aggressive, dynamic appearance that seems to defy the laws of physics. It hovers over a single cast aluminum foot, capable of supporting up to 600 lbs. The cantilevered design allows airflow under the 002 chassis, making it possible to seat the 1.1 kW power supply at its base and enabling an array of hidden vents to funnel air through all six sides of the chassis, dramatically improving overall internal cooling.
Form IS Function

Every element of the Blackbird’s chassis tells its story. Its wedge-shaped design and vectored lines hint at the raw speed inside. The fins that line the top and front reflect a heat sink, paying homage to the Blackbird’s extraordinary thermal management capabilities. And the tight fit and finish of the chamfered edges make it clear that this finely crafted machine is tuned to perfection.


Obsolescence Is Obsolete

The Blackbird is a best-in-class, upgrade-friendly PC, and it's built to endure everything from internal modifications to frequent trips to LAN parties. Its cast aluminum chassis is significantly sturdier than plastic, while remaining lightweight, non-magnetic, and corrosion-free. As part of the design process, the Blackbird was put through the HP "House of Horrors," a torture chamber for technology designed to identify weaknesses. One test involved placing the machine in an industrial-sized paint shaker. Anything that broke was re-engineered until it didn't.



Processor
AMD® X2 Dual Core Architecture

* 64 bit data paths and registers
* Hypertransport™ I/O Bus
* 16 128-bit SSE/SSE2/SSE3 registers
* Integrated DDR2 memory Controler


Configurations

* Athelon™ AMD X2 6000+ 30GHz
o 1MB of L2 cache per processor


Intel® Core™ Micro architecture

* 128-bit SSE3 vector engine
* 64-bit data paths and registers
* Energy efficiency optimization
* Thermal cut-outs to mitigate damage from system overclocking


Configurations

* Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme X6800 2.93GHz
o 4MB of L2 cache per processor (8MB total)
* Intel® Core2™ Duo E6750 2.66GHz
o 4MB of L2 cache per processor (8MB total)
* Intel® Core2™ Duo E6850 3.0GHz
o 4MB of L2 cache per processor (8MB total)
* Intel® Core™2 Extreme Quad-Core QX6850 3.0GHz
o 8MB of L2 cache per processor (16MB total)

1.33 GHz, 64-bit front side bus


Memory

* 1GB 667 MHz DDR2 PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM
* 1GB 800 MHz CORSAIR PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM
* 1GB 1GHz CORSAIR PC2-8500 DDR2 SDRAM SLI enabled

Four FSB-DIMM slots supporting up to 8 GB of main memory

256-bit-wide memory architecture


Communications

Two independent 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet (RJ-45) ports that can support jumbo frames
Graphics and Displays

Two Doublewide, 16-lane PCI Express graphics slot with one or more of the following graphic cards installed:

* NVIDIA® GeF® 8600 GT with 256MB of GDDR2 SDRAM, one single-link DVI port, and one dual-link DVI port
* NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS with 640MB of GDDR2 SDRAM, one single-link DVI port, and one dual-link DVI port (available with liquid cooling)
* NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX, with 756MB of GDDR2 SDRAM one single-link DVI port, and one dual-link DVI port (available with liquid cooling)
* ATI RADEON&trade X2900 XT 512MB, with 512MB of GDDR2 SDRAM, (available with liquid-cooling)
* ATI RADEON X2900&trade XT 1GB, with 1GB of GDDR2 SDRAM, (available with liquid-cooling)
* ATI RADEON™ HD 2600 XT, with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, Dual configuration only.



Ageia PhysX™ PCI-E GFX Accelerator Card

Four slots for up to two PCIe graphics cards

Dual-link DVI ports support up to 2560 by 1600 pixels.

Support for analog resolutions up to 2048 by 1536 pixels at 85HZ

DVI to VGA adapter included

Dual-display support for extended desktops and video mirroring modes


Storage

Five independent Serial ATA slot loading hard drive bays

Up to 4TB of internal storage using drives with the following capacities:

Hard drive bays 1 – 5

* 160GB 10,000 rpm SATA (Western Digital Raptor)
* 320GB 7200 rpm SATA
* 500GB 7200 rpm SATA
* 750GB 7200 rpm SATA

Two Super multi-drive, slim slots with Lightscribe (DVD+/-R/RW+/-DL)

* Writes DVD-R discs at up to 16x speed
* Writes DVD+R DL discs at up to 4x speed
* Reads DVDs at up to 8x speed
* Writes CD-R discs at up to 40x speed
* Writes CD-RW discs at up to 24x speed
* Reads CDs at up to 24x speed


A single 5 1/4 bay for Blu-ray Rewriter and HD DVD-ROM Super multi-drive with LightScribe

* CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW/RAM, +R/RW, +/- R DL
* BD-R/RE SL/DL read and write compatible
* CD Family, DVD-ROM read compatible
* HD DVD-ROM/R read compatible

Electrical and environmental requirements

* Line voltage: 100-120V AC or 200-240V AC (wide-range power supply input voltage)
* Frequency: 50GHz to 60Hz single phase
* Current: Maximum of 12A (low-voltage range) or 6A (high-voltage range)
* Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)
* Storage temperature: -40° to 116° F (-40° to 47° C)
* Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
* Maximum altitude: 10,000 feet


Peripherals and audio
Back panel:

* One PS/2 mouse port
* One PS/2 keyboard port
* Two eSATA ports
* One IEEE1394 port
* LCD screen (for diagnostics and status)
* LCD back light button (some boards only)
* SPDIF out and optical out port
* Two RJ-45 (Gigabit Ethernet) ports (number depends on MB)
* Four USB 2.0 ports (number depends on MB)


Top panel:

* 15 in 1 multi-card reader
* One IEEE1394 port
* Two USB 2.0 ports
* One 1/8" microphone jack
* One 1/8" headphone jack


Optional audio cards:

* Creative Audio Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer
* Creative Audio Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional

Features

* Speaker and Headphone connections: Stereo to 7.1 (Line Out via three 3.5mm mini jacks)
* Flexijack: Line In / Microphone In / Digital Out / Digital I/O via shared 3.5mm mini jack
* Auxiliary Line level Input: 4-pin Molex connector

Expansion slots

* 3 PCIe x16 slots (The two blue PCIe x16 slots operate with a full compliment of 16 PCI Express lanes, while the third white slot operates with only 8)
* 1 PCIe x1 slot
* 2 PCI v2.2 slots


Operating System and Software

* Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate
* Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium Security

Security

* AVG Anti-Virus


Productivity

* Adobe® Reader®
* Microsoft® Office Pro 2007
* Microsoft® Office Small Business Edition 2007
* Microsoft® Office Basic


Burning

* CyberLink DVDPlay
* PowerProducer
* Power2Go


Size and weight

* Height: 598.64 mm (23.5 inches)
* Width: 266.96 mm (9 inches)
* Length: 557.23 mm (22 inches)
* Weight (full configuration): 72 pounds (32.659 kg)