Companies like Origin PC and its competitors are famous for letting you order anything from an affordable (well, semi-affordable) entry-level rig to a fire-breathing monster truck of a system stuffed with the latest and greatest components.
But while it's hardly the only vendor to offer a choice of power supplies or multiple graphics cards, no one else to our knowledge has offered the option Origin does with the Millennium tested here: a choice at configuration time of four motherboard layouts, standard, inverted, 90-degree standard, or 90-degree inverted. This means you can choose to have the CPU and slots facing either the left or right side of the chassis and the backplane ports facing either the rear or the top.
This promo shot from Origin shows a Millennium with four GeForce cards visible through the windowed left side of the system.
This photo of our test system shows its two GeForce cards through the windowed right side of the rig.
Apart from that unique piece of flexibility, the Millennium shows the kind of contrast between mass-market retail and no-compromise specialty systems that we talked about in our recent review of theLenovo Erazer X510£1,299.99 at PC World. Priced at $4,246, our system boasted an Intel Core i7-4790K processor overclocked from its stock speed of 4.0GHz to just south of 5.0GHz; 16GB of DDR3-1866 memory; two Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti graphics cards with 3GB of GDDR5 memory apiece; a 500GB solid-state boot drive plus a 3TB hard drive in one of the five available hot-swappable bays; and a 16X Blu-ray drive.
