Your choice.
idahosurge wrote on Dec 24
th, 2007 at 8:32pm:
Cameron,
Question, if you were going to build your own PC rather than spend $6,000.00 on one of those custom game PC's what would you use for a motherboard, CPU, graphics card, memory, PS, hard drive, etc.? Basically if money was no object, but everything had to be purchased off the shelf what would you get?
Rod
Things that Nick knows about, and I shouldn't, unfortunately I don't have a military credit card so I can't buy them.
Seriously though.
2x Intel Xeon X5460
TYAN S5382WAG2NRF
2x 8800GTX from eVGA
16GB PC2-1066 Corsair XMS2
4x Samgsung 64GB SSD in RAID 0
4x Seagate Baracuda 750GB SATA 3 (2x 2 in RAID 0, then pair that RAID into a RAID 1)
LG Combo HD-DVD BluRAY Burner x2 (technically these aren't out yet)
Custom made Silverstone TJ-07 style case to accept a Server motherboard with custom Airbrushing, and interior powder UV blue powder coat.
Thermaltake Toughpower 1300W
Peltier Cooling for CPU, Northbridge, video cards.
UV cathodes inside the case.
HP W2408 as a wall mounted Display.
3x HP W2207 on matrox THG
Optimus Maximus Keyboard
Logitech G9 Mouse
Thrustmaster HOTAS stick w/ CH pedals
OS; WinXP Pro x64, Susi Linux server x64
Overclock: 5Ghz on each core.
Roughly this would cost well over $13,000 seeing as those DVD drives cost roughly $1,200 a piece, but for a rig that costs the same as a new car it would be hella good. And why so much RAM? And why a dual processor setup? And why so many screens? Well in addition to running normal tasks in windows I would be running a virtual machine and a server off said virtual machine. So the 24 is for my server, and the 3x 22s are for windows. The SSDs would be for my windows install, and the 1.5TB worth of seagates for my serer. The only thing that I would need to go with this rig would be dual T3 Lines to the house, tacking on another $1300 a month.
And lets not even think about what the electric bill is going to be...............
Cheers
Cameron
You could go bigger with the monitors though.
Edit: You could wait a until june and get the 65" monitors...
Stick with <$1000. Try seeing if you can buy a computer on a no sales tax day or wait until next year to snag one on black friday (tis what I did and even though I will never recover that sleep, tis ok.) Sales tax is 10%(9.75 to be exact) where I live so buying on no tax days (if available) is a key idea.
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