£10,000+ budget for ultimate gaming rig

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My friend would like me to build an ultimate gaming PC. He has said that he is looking to spend over £10,000. because this is such a huge budget I was completely blown away and have no idea of a shopping list.

If anyone has a list that will be the ultimate machine i would love to hear it.

i will be overclocking it.

thanks in advance
 
Computers shouldn't be built "up to price". They should be built to specification. What does he want the computer to actually do?
 
If building a top end gaming machine, I'd also put £2000 on a audio rig. Kinda stupid to get quad core, quad GTX and then use £100 PC speakers. Hell even £8K on a PC is stupid, unless you need 800TB or something.

£2000 is probably enough to get you a awesome rig, with 24" monitor etc. Or maybe a bit more for 30"...could also get a 6 chip DLP 1080p projector would look fantastic in games.
 
You couldn't spend £10,000 on a gaming rig alone - but if you really want to dent that budget - then as the post by badbob indicates above - you can get some proper high end audio equipment :

£500 on headphones and headphone amp
£1400 on Amp + lovely floor standing speakers

A very large screen (42"+) for games / dvd's etc. and a medium one (~21") for general browsing.
 
I'm not entirely sure that the graphics cards work in Tri-SLi but if they do this system is more than powerful enough and doesn't even touch half the budget.

Pioneer BDC-S02BK 5x BD-ROM + 12x12 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer ReWriter - (Black) - Retail £83.99
(£98.69) £83.99
(£98.69)
Asus Striker II Formula nForce 780i (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £172.99
(£203.26) £172.99
(£203.26)
Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition QX9650 "LGA775 Yorkfield" 3.00GHz (1333FSB) £559.99
(£657.99) £559.99
(£657.99)
Enermax Galaxy 1000W EGX1000EWL ATX2.2 Modular PSU £146.99
(£172.71) £146.99
(£172.71)
Dell Ultrasharp 3008WFP 30" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey £879.00
(£1032.83) £879.00
(£1,032.83)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST3750330AS) £86.99
(£102.21) £347.96
(£408.84)
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x2GB) Supplied with Airflow Fan (TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF) £94.99
(£111.61) £189.98
(£223.22)
Gainward BLISS GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £199.99
(£234.99) £599.97
(£704.97)
Western Digital Raptor 150GB 10000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM + Battlefield 2 Complete Collection (WD1500ADFD) £106.99
(£125.71) £106.99
(£125.71)
Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) £35.99
(£42.29) £35.99
(£42.29)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro 7.1 Sound Card - Retail £169.99
(£199.74) £169.99
(£199.74)
Lian Li PC-A71B Aluminium Tower Case - Black £144.99
(£170.36) £144.99
(£170.36)
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66R-00838) £99.99
(£117.49) £99.99
(£117.49)
Sub Total : £3,538.82
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £35.71
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £625.54
Total : £4,200.07
 
£500 on headphones and headphone amp
£1400 on Amp + lovely floor standing speakers

Pretty low budget...what about Stax phone? :-D £2500 alone or Sennheiser Orpheus?
£1400 for stereo amp and floorstander speakers isn't that much. Hell even my main speakers cost more than that. Pre-amp and poweramps more than £1400 also.

^ Why not multiple optical bays? I'd have a Blu-Ray plus a couple of DVD burners. Also probably RAID-O for OS, another RAID-O for games that are generally slow for loading - ie FS-X. Then something like 10 x 1TB drives, in normal mode.
 
^ Why not multiple optical bays? I'd have a Blu-Ray plus a couple of DVD burners. Also probably RAID-O for OS, another RAID-O for games that are generally slow for loading - ie FS-X. Then something like 10 x 1TB drives, in normal mode.

Do whatever you want to it, that was just a starting point as I'm a bit limited for time here. The basic point is that after here (in fact about £2k before this) you hit the law of diminishing returns and you hit it hard until it becomes nearly exponential. If anyone wants to spend £10k on a PC they can but I could spend less than half that and get 95%+ of the performance.
 
So have we confirmed whether this is a wind-up or not?

seems to me like it is but anyway.
i wouldnt spend more than £4k on a gaming pc. if i did it would have to do a lot more than gaming. you can build for £1k a gaming pc which will run games great at the moment.

if you really want ultimate get an:

Intel V8 Skulltrail motherboard. 4 way sli 8800gt'. two physical cpus at £800 each. and the rest as usual. but that would be stupid .
 
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