Rahul Sood "Founder of Voodoo PC" Leaves Hewlett-Packard =(

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Source from BSN
Rahul Sood Leaves Hewlett-Packard
My own take on it, wish he never sold out to HP its what big companies do to a good custom PC maker. Look at alienware it was a great company until the Dell buyout of the company around 2005, has been going down hill in quality since. Then Voodoo PC was bought out in 2006 in 2008-2009 the brand minus the envy notebooks was cut from HP product lines as the economy went down hill.  Spending three years finally getting my grubbies on an HP Blackbird 002 w/voodoo DNA has been a mission for me the past 3 almost 4 years I finally got one this year at over a thousand dollars on ebay with old parts. I should had gotten one when HP was shutting down the Calgary factory and selling cases for six hundred dollars, in the end the case cost me around eight hundred dollars. It is the only case to this day unlike any other I have owned that has gone up in its original MSRP where every other case has gone down... does not matter if its lian li, silverstone, mountian mods, cooler master, antec, thermaltake, the list just continues once you buy one of the brands I mentioned for a case its price drops and the resale value is horrid, while the HP Blackbird 002 w/Voodoo DNA case continues to climb in cost if your lucky enough to get your hands on one. 
So far it is the best case I have owned able to cool 3x GTX 480's in tri sli with temps in the high sixties under full load with a single 120mm fan using the case's thick die cast aluminum fins as an air cooler as air is pulled into the case, hitting the cool metal fins into the case though the hard drives, into the 120mm fan then into the gpus. No case I have seen has been able to do this without high multiple cfm fans. Nor has any case I have seen/owned gone up in value they all went down in their original msrp over the HP BB 002 case that has already climbed one hundred to two hundred dollars plus HP's original sale msrp of the case and that was for a new case. These are used cases we are talking about some not in premium/mint condition anymore.
I bet if Rahul Sood kept his hands on Voodoo PC it would still be a popular brand today. Worth well more than the money HP offered him in the buyout in 2006. Maingear is pretty much the new voodoo pc but there is alot left to be desired from them design wise in their cases. The shift is a nice case but in essence its still a Silverstone Raven RV-01 with a new shell thrown on top of it with lack of cooling for high power consumption gpus. Maingear's cases are not all that original most are just re-shelled cases from different companies. Too bad Rahul Sood could not take the Voodoo name with him when he leaves HP. Because if he was able to those wanting an original custom made pc from the case to what is inside along with the red carpet laid out for them Rahul Sood would offer that to the pre-built custom gaming machine industry again.
"Jet Fire" HP Blacbird 002
Core I7 980x, EVGA X58 759 Classified Limited Edition, EVGA GTX 480's
Antec TPQ 1200, 12gigs Corsair Dominator DDR3 Tri-chn 1600
10 TB of hd space, Razor Megalodon, Voodoo keyboard/mouse
Nvidia 3D Vision Kit,Alienware OptX AW2310 23-inch 3D

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donta1979 wrote:
Source from BSN
Rahul Sood Leaves Hewlett-Packard
My own take on it, wish he never sold out to HP its what big companies do to a good custom PC maker. Look at alienware it was a great company until the Dell buyout of the company around 2005, has been going down hill in quality since.
Now that's where your wrong Alienware quality has gone up dramatically now Dell are building them. You also don't have to worry about month long delays and being lied to as many of my friends have been. If I didn't have an Apple laptop i would seriously consider Alienware now they've been taken over, never before.
As to Rahul I expected this. I've spoken about it with a lot of friends and HP should have done what Dell did with Alienware fund them and let them do their own thing. Instead they ran it into the ground produced two/three good products and poof nothing else. They've had some amazing products and as one of a very select few to have a Blackbird in the UK the quality and innovation level is insane compared to pretty much anything else out there and its such a shame things have panned out so badly overall.