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[wings567]

Hi,

Im a big gamer and im building the ultimate gaming machine please rate it.

Windows® Vista Business! Not even out yet
Conspiracy Blue P2 Chassis
Liquid Cooling
1000 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply
Approved NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Motherboard
AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-62 Dual Core Processor
4GB DDR2 PC-6400 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4 x 1024MB
Dual 768MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8800 GTX - SLI Enabled
AGEIA PhysX™ Physics Processing Unit (Worlds first Physics Processing unit)
300 GB Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s, 10,000 rpm with 32MB Cache (2 x 150GB)
1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7,200 RPM with 2 x 16MB Cache
2x Blu-ray Disc (BD-ROM) Reader / Writer
16/48x IDE DVD-ROM Drive - Black - w/Software MPEG-2 Decoder
Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
28-in-1 Digital Media Reader / Writer
24" Dell UltraSharp Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor with HDCP - Blu-ray Ready!
Creative® 7.1 THX® GigaWorks™ S750

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[CArmstrong]

Dear Lord, how much is that thing going to cost??

[repoman]

I reckon around $3-5k?

[wings567]

Im currently ordering the stuff on wednesday but what do you guys think on this

Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme QX6700 2.66GHz 8MB Cache 1066MHz FSB - new Quad Core technology!

or the

AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-62 Dual Core Processor


cost if its going to be amd based its more like £4-5k (thats sterling 2) But i might not include the blue-ray disc as thats like £470

[UFBSolutions]

Get the Intel Core 2 Extreme, and drop the blue ray, first gen drives like that have so many bugs.

[dkitchen]

Have you thought of getting something slightly more power efficient? A 1Kw power supply is hardly good for the environment, or your electricity bill...

Dan

[CaroNet-Hesham]

Dear Santa, please take a look at this topic and get me something like that

[Energizer Bunny]

Only mistakes you making if you are a gamer : 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7,200 RPM with 2 x 16MB Cache and Windows® Vista Business!

You need 10K + RPM hdd for best gaming performance, drop the space get yourself a fast hdd, plus 1 TB hdd would cause more heating than 2 fast hdd with half the storage.

Do not use VISTA , just stick with either windows 2k or windows xP pro.

[Mike V]

If you do decide to use WindowsXP to start with (get Pro if you want a free Vista upgrade), you'll only be able to use 3Gb of RAM to start. XP doesn't see anything above that to the best of my knowledge. Also since you're going for latest and greatest the newer NVidia boards are out (based on the 600-series chipset). Might as well go for that instead...

[Alex]

Why are you bothering with half the stuff on your list? You really do not need most of that.

I've edited your list a bit...

Conspiracy Blue P2 Chassis
Whatever Liquid Cooling you want
NVIDIA Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Extreme Kentsfield (Quad Core since you demand "ultimate", but dual core would be fine)
2GB DDR2 RAM
Dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800's
Whatever CD/DVD drives you want, just not Blu-ray
A few HDDs. Don't bother with RAID unless you want RAID-1 for data integrity... for example:
1x 200GB SATAII 10k RPM System disk
2x ~300GB SATAII Data disks in RAID-1
If you need more storage adjust accordingly
Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
28-in-1 Digital Media Reader / Writer
24" Dell UltraSharp Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor with HDCP - Blu-ray Ready!
Creative® 7.1 THX® GigaWorks™ S750
Windows XP Pro
Some modest power supply - 600 watts max


There. That will not only save you money, but it won't be a power hog and you can upgrade it as time goes on. There is no point in shelling out thousands on a system that in 2 years will be obsolete. There is no reason you need 2GB of RAM, or half the other stuff there. Maybe when Vista comes out you can upgrade, but until then why bother? You will be able to run every game on the market with graphics settings maxed out and enjoy yourself. I have a Core 2 Duo with one GeForce 7900GT, and I can run everything maxed out and enjoy myself. You don't need to drop $5k to have a nice PC.


Alex

[Shock Hosts]

You should've gone Core 2 Duo.

By the way, Quad core is worse than Dual Core for gaming adb.

[James-Fagan]

nice build.
probably better if you went with a conroe :p or wait until AMD brings a stronger CPU our if u prefer amd
wat ram though? not any 2gb will do... make sure it's faster or the same rate as the CPU, you wouldn't wanna lagg online.
with the gfx, dual - are you talking about SLi?

[Shock Hosts]

You'll probably need more than 1000W to run Dual DX10 Cards.

[freak]

Only mistakes you making if you are a gamer : 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7,200 RPM with 2 x 16MB Cache and Windows® Vista Business!

You need 10K + RPM hdd for best gaming performance, drop the space get yourself a fast hdd, plus 1 TB hdd would cause more heating than 2 fast hdd with half the storage.

He already have a 10000k HDD

If you want to push performance up more, run RAID-1

I'd drop the blu ray though. That is too easy to upgrade in the future, and it just ain't worth it at the momment

[MH-Stefan]

Originally Posted by Energizer Bunny

Do not use VISTA , just stick with either windows 2k or windows xP pro.

If he doesn't get Vista, there's no reason for getting a DX10 card, as DX10 is available only for Vista. It's also much better than 2000 and XP - at least I wouldn't go back from Vista even if someone would pay me.

If you want to save money get your new computer in february, when the prices will drop. New hardware will also come out right after Vista.

Get Core 2 Extreme if you want maximum performance. At the moment there's no better processor than Core 2 Extreme.