£10,000+ budget for ultimate gaming rig

[nikebee]

The problem with spending that amount of money right now is that within a few months, it'll be wasted.

New cards from nVidia are right around the corner, as are the new chips from Intel.



That said....

Then for cooling you should strip the coolers off the GTX's.

Build a custom water cooling rig, but it'd have to be pretty beefy to cool two QX9650's and two 8800GTX's, hell may as well cool the northbridge too.

Then spend the spare change on a new amp, floor standing speakers, headphones and of course a decent sound card.

 

[Chimerical]

Those QX CPU's won't fit in that Skulltrail mobo.

 

[badbob]

pfft only a Eclipse case? I'd get that new Lian Li on the case thread, that's two 5.25" bays wude,

 

[mysticsniper]

Those QX CPU's won't fit in that Skulltrail mobo.

yeah, you need a couple of Intel Xeon E5450 LGA771 cpu's instead

£10k on a rig is way too much, and must have to make up what there lacking in another department.

 

[Chimerical]

Buy some 64GB SSD's too.

 

[dokko]

yeah, you need a couple of Intel Xeon E5450 LGA771 cpu's instead

£10k on a rig is way too much, and must have to make up what there lacking in another department.

Between the ears?

 

[Kainz]

Probably uses it to access irc on quacknet.

 

[badbob]

8K system here...no idea if bits are compatible..

orsair 4GB DDR3 DHX 1600C7DHX Twin3X (2x2GB) £419.99
(£493.49) £839.98
(£986.98)
Intel Xeon E5450 "LGA771 Harpertown" 3.00GHz (1333fsb) 12mb-cache Processor - Retail £535.99
(£629.79) £535.99
(£629.79)
Swiftech H20-220 Apex Ultra+ Watercooling Kit (Socket 462/478/LGA775/754/939/940) £171.99
(£202.09) £171.99
(£202.09)
Asus P5E3 Premium/Wifi@N Intel X48 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £219.99
(£258.49) £219.99
(£258.49)
Asus ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £259.99
(£305.49) £519.98
(£610.98)
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000340NS) £168.99
(£198.56) £3,379.80
(£3,971.20)
Pioneer BDR-202BK 4x BD-R/RE Blu-Ray Serial ATA Dual Layer DVD Writer - Black £149.99
(£176.24) £449.97
(£528.72)
Pioneer DVR-215BK 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
(£21.14) £35.98
(£42.28)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro 7.1 Sound Card - Retail £169.99
(£199.74) £169.99
(£199.74)
Adaptec AAR-1430SA PCI-Express x4 4-Port SATA-II RAID Controller £54.99
(£64.61) £109.98
(£129.22)
Enermax Galaxy 1000W EGX1000EWL ATX2.2 Modular PSU £146.99
(£172.71) £293.98
(£345.42)
Lian Li PC-343B Aluminium Cube - Black £183.99
(£216.19) £183.99
(£216.19)
Total : £8,164.41

 

[Azza]

8K system here...no idea if bits are compatible..

...

No they aint.

 

[EffBee]

If I had that kind of money I would be looking at a few thousand for a current top end machine and spend the rest on the environment where I use the PC.

That is to say a dedicated room with blackout blinds on the windows, air conditioning, soundproofing to protect the neighbours, decorated to personal taste, custom 5.1 sound, custom desk, custom seating, fridge full of wine, lockable door, burglar proof, alarm system, cabling for phone/video/internet, insurance for the equipment, UPS, .. and so on.

Whatever PC I have used in the past, I have always regretted not having somewhere completely dedicated to it, and bespoke for it.



To spend more than about 3K on a PC is a criminal waste of money. Same with Hi Fi. You can spend obscene amounts of money on it but is a £20,000 system really REALLY better than £3000 one. If so is it 6 -7 times better or 10% to 20% better?

With PCs once you have the best mobo, processor,graphics etc which actually doesn't cost that much, you don't increase performance, you increase capacity - if you see what I mean.

Or if this is a serious thread and the OP is after Bling factor - get the case and all exteral components gold plated and diamond encrusted.

 

[nikebee]

Those QX CPU's won't fit in that Skulltrail mobo.

Ah indeed you are correct, my apologies.

 

[nikebee]

pfft only a Eclipse case? I'd get that new Lian Li on the case thread, that's two 5.25" bays wude,

Only an Eclipse?

Cases are relative to personal taste, some people like those God awful XClio cases after all.

 

[CliffyBiro]

Take him and the 10k out and find him the skirt he desperately needs. I suggest he'll probably need to go to Amsterdam.

 

[nikebee]

Buy some 64GB SSD's too.

Solid State HDD's don't offer that much in terms of performance gain over SATAII drives.

Sure they fast for the read speed, but they're not that great at writing.

I'd just get a 32GB and install your OS of choice on it and put everything else on some Samsung F1's

 

[badbob]

If you're building a high end rig a Eclipse is too small. Something like this..

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-098-LL&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=

 

[Azza]

Spend the rest on kick ass sound and watercooling.

£35 next day shipping aswell. Not too bad.

 

[wannabedamned]

Get Him A high end PC with TRI SLI, Silent, Loads of RAM, and Storage, with a 3 Monitor spread all 24inch.

A PS3, 360 and a Wii, and a 52inch Sony Bravia for the Consoles, With decent 7.1 Surround.

Then get him to take you and the Lads to amsterdam for a few weeks, While I rob him.

 

[Azza]

Get Him A high end PC with TRI SLI, Silent, Loads of RAM, and Storage, with a 3 Monitor spread all 24inch.

A PS3, 360 and a Wii, and a 52inch Sony Bravia for the Consoles, With decent 7.1 Surround.

Then get him to take you and the Lads to amsterdam for a few weeks, While I rob him.

Going to be a bit hard to get all of that into a van on your own isnt it?

Just intercept the delivery van to be honest.

 

[Chimerical]

Solid State HDD's don't offer that much in terms of performance gain over SATAII drives.

Sure they fast for the read speed, but they're not that great at writing.

I'd just get a 32GB and install your OS of choice on it and put everything else on some Samsung F1's

64Gb Mtron 3.5" SATA SSD Drive (120Mb read/90Mb write)

New one's have improved write speeds or you could just shove them in RAID.

However, the cost of the model above is a 'mere' £ 1173.83 inc. VAT.

 

[bledd]

gotta be 4x 74gb 16mb cache raptors in raid 0