The Large Pixel Collider.

Watch out for speeding particles.

Remember our talk about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) over at CERN, the same place that developed the World Wide Web? About how people were worried that in its quest to find the Higgs boson (or 'G-d particle' as it is more colloquially known) it would create black holes that would destroy the universe?

Well, in a nod to that beast of physics and discovery, and in response to some emails and Facebook notifications I've received about it, I would like you to feast your eyes on the most beastly PC I've ever seen. The editors over at PC Gamer have developed what they call the Large Pixel Collider, a PC meant to test the limits of PC gaming functionality. Like it or not, gaming pushes computing technology further than any other force outside of government research, and many of our best technologies have come from it (pathfinding artificial intelligence, leaps in graphical fidelity, input methods, etc.).

It's not just that this machine is in a case that could house a small family, or has 8 storage bays, or a 1200 watt power supply; no, it's the quad-SLI graphic setup they put in. What that means, simply, is that they have four graphics cards all running together serving as a single device. Specifically, four NVidia GTX Titans which run about $1000 apiece.That means it will be able to push images and video at beyond-4K resolution.

Four fans, massive liquid-cooling...if you're a PC enthusiast, prepare to drool. If not, prepare to ask 'Why would anybody *do* this?' Just don't ask if it can play Angry Birds. Because it can! It'll fling those birds clean off the screen and onto your desk!