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Project Christine: Razer’s future for desktop PCs

We know that you’ve always wanted to be able to easily bolt on extra components to the outside of your gaming rig, supercharging its performance and leaving you the l33t pwnr of all that you survey. Rejoice then my fellow gaming brethren for Razer has unveiled a modular PC concept that let’s you upgrade your HDD to SSD with the skills you acquired assembling your LEGO Death Star.

Razer has a history of announcing products at CES that no one was expecting to see. Last year it won the Best of CES, People’s Choice and Best of Show awards for the Razer Edge gaming tablet which was an unexpected concept device just one year earlier at CES 2012. And this year it has already shown off a smartwatch-fitness tracker hybrid called the Nabu which is again up for the best of show honours. Razer owes its beginnings as a company to servicing the needs of gamers with its range of high performance peripherals and it’s looking to return to that same market with the latest concept, Project Christine.

Christine is a modular desktop PC design that Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan thinks ” will revolutionize the way users view the traditional PC”. Christine’s backbone is a tower filled with mineral oil coolant running down its center components all arrive in various pod-like modules that can be plugged into the tower in any configuration to suit the user’s needs. For example, if you were a fan of Nvidia’s SLi multi-graphics card setup, you could plug the three separate graphics card modules into Christine and it would configure everything for you.

Each module is self-contained and sealed with active liquid cooling and noise cancellation to allow for the tinkerers to overclock components and swap in new components for upgrades or repairs quickly and easily. The modules connect to the main tower on either side using PCI Express 3 connectors which should offer more than enough bandwidth for the foreseeable future.

Project Christine is of course just a concept design at the moment with Razer looking for feedback from attendees and the internet audience at large to see if it has enough value to become a future product line like the Razer Edge before it. The most interesting suggestion as to how Christine could be brought to market by Razer so far is via a subscription service that would allow users to trade in old modules for newer parts as they become available to keep up with the constant evolution in high performance PC gaming.

Engadget managed to get an interview with Min-Liang Tan where he takes them through the entire concept of Christine. Well worth a look in our opinion.

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