Voodoo-Designed HP Firebird 803 Is Tiny, Still Has Space for Too
Many LightsS  I loved Voodoo Omen's steely, austere looks, so
the design of HP's pint-sized Firebird 803 gaming tower with
VoodooDNA is kind of disappointing. Oddly, it reminds me of
Linkin Park.  The shrink ray they blasted the Blackbird 02 with
works much of its magic by dumping the power supply outside of
the system and killing expandability, kind of like a game
console—very PC gamer un-friendly. But the specs, as Engadget
has 'em, are fairly respectable, the somewhat piddly GeForce
9800S cards aside. (Why no GeForce 9800 GTs?)  * NVIDIA nForce
760i SLI chipset * Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz processor * 4GB of
RAM * Dual NVIDIA GeForce 9800S cards * Two 320GB SATA drives *
Blu-ray * 5-in-1 card reader * 6 USB, 1 FireWire, 2 eSATA, 1
S/PDIF and 1 DVI dual-link * Bluetooth * 802.11n WiFi
Obviously, we'll reserve full judgments until we get our hands
on it (likely at CES), but given all the compromises needed to
get that firefly form factor, we're