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CyberPowerPChas launched a new gaming PC called the Trinity. The chassis of this PC breaks away from the usual utilitarian box shaped structural efficiency with its tri-blade construction. CyberPowerPC says the design isn't just for eye-candy but brings with it maximum cooling capacity for the separated heat-generating components. A version of this PC/chassis was on show at CES in January.

Now you've clapped eyes on a couple of shots showing the Trinity PC in this article I don't need to go any further describing the 'spaceship-like design' and so on. Instead let's focus on this gaming PC's unique configuration. As mentioned in the intro, the PC is formed from three 'blades'. These are dedicated, more or less, to the three functions of; graphics performance, power and storage, and motherboard fitted with CPU and memory.

Blade 1: This is dubbed the 'performance blade' and offers the capacity for a full length graphics card including the likes of the Nvidia GeForce GTX TITAN X and the AMD Radeon R9 series. For flexibility and expansion possibilities you can also fit some SSD drives in this blade.

Blade 2: This is dubbed the 'storage blade' and can accommodate up to 3 SSDs, 2 mechanical hard drives and even a slim optical drive if desired. You can see an ODD fitted, as evidenced by the ODD slot in the main picture. Within this blade you also fit your PSU, which can be a full sized ATX unit.

Blade 3: The 'CPU blade' is designed to fit an AMD or Intel compatible ITX motherboard. The latest processors are supported, according to CyberPowerPC. The CPU blade is also designed to allow the fitting of a 120mm liquid cooler.

The system's tri-blade compartments are connected using a hexagonal steel spine which is hollowed to allow for tidy cabling. Each of the three steel blade casings weighs a hefty 5Kg unpopulated. The Trinity can be situated on your desk resting upon two blades or in a 'Y' configuration, perched upon a single blade, says CyberPowerPC.

The systems maker has three pre-configured Trinity PC systems listed upon its pages but these are user configurable to include many hardware choices. Fully configured systems come with a three year warranty. See the image below for the Trinity 100, Trinity 200 and Trinity Extreme base configuration specs.

Over the past year, Chris Sims and David Uzumeri have provided ComicsAlliance with in-depth reviews of the final season of Smallville and the Batman film franchise. Now, they turn their attention to a film franchise with a supernatural edge: Blade.

Chris: True. Reynolds is one of two actors in this film who would go on to star in three different comic book movies as three completely different characters. The other, oddly enough, is Parker Posey.

Chris: Not unless you count his role as the former Wonderboy on The Venture Bros. Posey, however, was in this, the abysmal Superman Returns, and the single greatest comic book movie ever made, Josie and the Pussycats. I'm not kidding about that, either.

Chris: So disgusted with you right now. But anyway, back to Blade: Blade II was an even bigger success than the original, so of course they went ahead with a third. Rather than bring back Guillermo Del Toro, however -- who at the time was already busy directing the first Hellboy movie -- they handed things over to Goyer, who had previously only directed one other film.

Chris: Which is even more interesting when you consider that the two seemed to have something of a falling out over this film. Snipes ended up suing both New Line and Goyer himself for, according to Wikipedia, not paying him his full salary as a producer for the film, and locking him out of casting and filmmaking decisions.

Chris: He also contends that he was given less screen time than he should've been, which I have to say I kind of agree with. If Blade II had a major flaw in not giving costars -- and by that I mean Donnie Yen -- enough to do, this one has the flaw of giving them way too much. They might as well have called it Blade Buddies. Reynolds even narrates the whole thing.

Chris: Then no. Although, looking over his IMDB page, it looks like he also had a part in a Sabrina the Teenage Witch TV movie, which makes him a four-time comics movie star. He even matches Posey's Marvel/DC/Archie trifecta!

Chris: One more bad word about Josie and you are reviewing this movie yourself, buster. Point being, this movie was clearly meant to branch the Blade franchise out into more Marvel Monster movies with the Nightstalkers, which would've been really interesting. Basically, What I'm saying here is that Morbius the Living Vampire almost hit theaters before Captain America and Iron Man. Imagine that for a second.

Chris: It wasn't the only idea that Goyer had, though. His first plan for Blade 3 was to skip ahead 20 years to a post-apocalyptic world where vampires had taken over and Blade was humanity's last hope, but that was discarded. Maybe because it was a little too close to the Omega Man / I Am Legend movie that was already in the works, but probably because nobody really wants to see that Blade just totally failed for 20 years.

David: We open with Ryan Reynolds delivering a monologue about Dracula myths over a camera shot of pooling blood. He talks about how in the stories, Dracula always gets defeated by some old English dude with a cross. But it really "started with Blade, and ended with him." Because that's how badass Blade is: He's about to kill Dracula. With Ryan Reynolds. Who is attempting to deliver a serious monologue about Dracula.

Chris: Well, look at the bad guys. He fights The Ancient Blood God, then he fights A Whole New Kind of Vampire Vampire, and then he fights Dracula. Don't get me wrong, I think the record will show that I'm a pretty big proponent of Dracula as an awesome ultimate bad guy, but doesn't that feel like he's stepping down after each fight? After you chop up The Blood God, everything else seems a little anticlimactic, no matter how many monologues Ryan Reynolds gives about how Dracula has never had to evolve.

David: A bunch of vampires land in Syria with a helicopter and walk into a temple, while one of them, in his sunproof suit, stops to give the sun the finger. I'm serious. These vampires are apparently vampire achaeologists, one of whom can't actually recognize cuneiform and has to be informed where the cradle of civilization is. They all get wrecked by some dude in Predator armor who busts out of the floor. (Spoiler: that dude is Dracula.)

Chris: The fact that the vampire -- who, by the way, is Triple-H from the WWE -- takes the time to stop, turn around, and flip off the sun is without question the best thing about this movie. It is... I mean... David Goyer wrote that down, and then when he saw it later when it came time to shoot that scene, he was still like "YES."

Chris: Yeah, you can only tell because he's the biggest one of the ones that go into the temple. Which is also great, because I totally believe that if Triple-H from the WWE was turned into a vampire -- possibly from being bitten by Edge -- that is exactly what he would do. That's seriously the defining moment of this movie: A vampire just flipped off the sun because he was so damn mad at it. It's not like he can possibly be hoping to accomplish something with that gesture, he's just so angry. Does he expect the sun to be all like "Did you see that? Guy just flipped me the bird!" No. The sun don't care, Hunter. The sun don't give a damn.

David: Then, in The City, a warehouse blows up. A dude on fire launches out of it, but is then staked to death by our proud protagonist Blade. Some other vampires run out, and Blade wrecks them. This is all accompanied by a credit sequence that looks, at best, Square Enix-esque.

Chris: Yeah, there were some interesting design choices for these credits. And by interesting, I mean "is there any way we can do this for $30?" I do like it when Blade cold stiff-legs that dude on fire, though.

David: Blade jumps onto the freeway and launches over to Whistler's truck, jumping into a car in the back (!) and using that to drive alongside Whistler (why not just ride shotgun?) and shoot vampires with his shotgun. One of them, it turns out, actually isn't a vampire, and confuses Blade by not dying when being staked with silver. He calls Blade a dumbass and takes out his fake fangs. Back at the Bladehouse with Whistler, Whistler chides Blade on how killing humans is way messier than killing vampires due to evidence, and gives him a new oral delivery system for his serum that will no doubt play a role in the plot in a later date.

Chris: Yeah, except that we have two movies where Blade kills A TON OF HUMANS. All those guards at Caliban Industries? The ones that Blade was suplexing through glass floors? They were human! Scud says it when they first show up! Hell, Scud himself is human and Blade kills the bejeezus out of him. Although admittedly, vaporizing him doesn't leave much evidence.

David: Well, he DOES admit later that he's killed a ton of familiars. Wasn't the dude he killed a familiar? What was his plan, even? "Let's screw up Blade by pinning a public murder on him?"

Chris: Yeah, it's established earlier through the medium of what looks an awful lot like a PBS talk show starring Eric Bogosian as a guy named, no fooling, "Bentley Tittle" that the police are looking for Blade because they think he's a psychopath murderer. So this plays out like an attempt to turn the public against blade and get the police after him --- except that the vampires run the police (Blade says that in Blade I and it's definitely the case here) so why weren't they just sending them after Blade to begin with?

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