£10,000+ budget for ultimate gaming rig

[hellarda]

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

 

[clv101]

Computers shouldn't be built "up to price". They should be built to specification. What does he want the computer to actually do?

 

[hellarda]

he games a lot and he has the cash to throw at it and he wants it to be as powerful and as fast as possible

 

[UKDTweak]

he games a lot and he has the cash to throw at it and he wants it to be as powerful and as fast as possible

All of that can be done for a lot less, there is no point spending that much on a machine that will be out of date in a year...

 

[badbob]

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.

 

[Deluxe1]

Is this thread a wind up?

 

[Azza]

Is this thread a wind up?

More than likely.

 

[hellarda]

i no but has anyone got a shopping list for an ultimate gaming rig

 

[badbob]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-031-OK&groupid=43&catid=1080&subcat=

Under £3K. If you need storage load up on 1 TB drives, if you don't need speed (just storage) perhaps build another rig just with HD's for your data...

 

[dokko]

What a load of rubbish.

Go away.

 

[steveo]

Is this thread a wind up?

thought so myself

 

[Greenlizard0]

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.

 

[hellarda]

cheers

 

[semi-pro waster]

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

 

[badbob]

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

Pretty low budget...what about Stax phone? £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.

 

[Deluxe1]

Would love to see pics of the finished 10k setup but somehow i dont think i will....

 

[semi-pro waster]

^ 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.

 

[Chimerical]

So have we confirmed whether this is a wind-up or not?

 

[Gee]

HAHAHAHA 10K HAHAHAHA

 

[Blackhawk47]

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 .