My New £10,000 Build!

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Ooooooh Go on....

I know you want to....

If You HAD To Spend £10,000 on a new PC. How would you spend it?

My opening three minute gambit :-) ...

NEC MultiSync LCD3090WQXi 30" Widescreen Professional LCD Monitor

- £1667.47

Intel Core i7 975 3.33Ghz (Nehalem) Extreme Edition (Socket LGA1366) - Retail

- £801.99

Asus Rampage II Extreme Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard

- £268.99

OCZ Blade Series 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-16000 Triple Channel Low Latancy (OCZ3B2000LV6GK) x 2 -

- £719.96

BFG GeForce GTX 295 1792MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail BFG GeForce GTX 295 1792MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail x 3

- £1064.97

OCZ Vertex Extreme Series 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTXEX120G) OCZ Vertex Extreme Series 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTXEX120G) x 2 (for boot disk)

- £2069.98

Samsung PB22-J 256GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (MMDOE56G5MXP-0VB) x 8 (Super fast video storage area) (Raid 5) (you can get two in one bays for the ssds - so those 10 could fit in 5 bays)

- £4367.92

Western Digital RE4-GP 2TB SATA-II 64MB Cache - OEM (WD2002FYPS) x 3 (Raid 5) - (General Storage) (Naturally I am assuming I would also spec out a separate back up server to backup all this data)

- £704.97

Icy Dock MB-454SPF 4-Bay Internal SATA Drive Enclosure x 2 (to fit the hard drives)

- £156.38

Intel RAID CONTROLLER SRCSASJV PCI-E X8 8P SAS 512MB

- £483.82

Pioneer BDR-203BK 8x BluRay-RW/DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer Drive - OEM x2

- £339.98

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium - Fatal1ty Champion Series 7.1 Sound Card (70SB088600005)

- £155.97

Lian Li PC-P80R ATI Special Edition Aluminium Case - Red (No PSU)

- £390.99

Noctua NF-S12 1200RPM 120mm Silent Case Fan - 3 Pin x 8 (to replace system fans until I get my butler to fit me a water cooling system :-))

- £137.90

PC Power & Cooling Turbo Cool 1200W Power Supply (1 at the beginning, but might need two for kicks and giggles...)

- £356.98 (Only 1! - I economised!)

Various Other cooling sprays, neon lights and cables to make it all work

- £150


TOTAL COST - £13,838.27

Damn!!! Over budget! Oh well. I am worth it.

Of course dual monitors could be cool...

And then there is always software...

Or I could buy a car instead!
 
I wouldn't end up with one new PC

£2,000 on a top-of-the-range PC
£1000 on a super quiet HTPC
£1500 on a macbook pro

£500 on networking hardware, peripherals etc

£3,000 on servers
£2,000 on internet connection
 
Audigex said:
I wouldn't end up with one new PC

£2,000 on a top-of-the-range PC
£1000 on a super quiet HTPC
£1500 on a macbook pro

£500 on networking hardware, peripherals etc

£3,000 on servers
£2,000 on internet connection
Click to expand...

erm yeah, you were doing alright til you added the Macbook Pro...
 
All you've done is put the most expensive of every item into the cart, the PC is unbalanced. The graphics cards are useless for a start,

A) 3 GTX 295 won't work
and
B) 3 GTX 285 would be better than 2 295 with such as large screen as they have more VRAM.

I wouldn't chose those hard drives either, the intel SSD is best, and those GP drives should be Caviar Blacks. In addition neither the RAID card nor the sound card will actually fit into the motherboard when you have tri or quad SLI.

:p:D:p
 
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Part of me would be tempted to get a top-end Dell XPS, but the other part would love to put together an immensely expensive system, it'd just be cool. That said, I'd want water cooling and I don't think I'd want the hassle of setting that up, so I'd get someone else to do that bit. And maybe the cable tidying too. :p

But still, that XPS...
 
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