If you had 10k to spend on a pc. What would you do?

[marc512]

If you got given £10,000 to spend on a custom pc. Not allowed to spend on anything else. I am meaning a complete FULL system, monitors speakers and other stuff like gamepads are allowed.
I got asked if i could make a system useing all £10k. I couldnt even come close.
How would your £10k system look? you dont need to give tonnes of links and stuff, just describe how it would look and what would be inside it.

 

[baked188]

Id spend 2k on an i7 system and **** the other 8k up the wall lol

 

[JonJ678]

3 thousand on a quadro fx5800
1200 apiece on two nehalem xeons
400 on an intel motherboard
800ish on ecc ram
Two 24" monitors at another thousand

7.6k down, around a thousand on water cooling it, the rest on ssds and a raid 5 card.

I would then be angered that I couldn't fit a waterblock to the quadro.

 

[D D Danneh]

I'd invest in icelandic banks. Oh, wait..

 

[RIZZEE]

upgrade my current spec, and save the rest for a car

edit; well if your not allowed to spend it on anything else..suppose id go to watercooling my rig then.. but i doubt that would take 10k, so new rig time

 

[snowdog]

10k on a pc ? Easy!

Sub Total : £9,493.85
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Total : £10,943.34

That's with only 2x30'' monitors and Z5500 speakers, I could instead go with 2x 58'' tv's and a 10k+ sound system...
And these are no ''pro'' gpu's but actual gaming gpu's , everyone can stack up quattro's .

 

[marc512]

snowdog LAMO at 2 mars editions 295GTX i think 1 of them is probably more powerful than the whole pc put together...like the system a lot!

 

[Randomface74]

I'd get a couple of 30 inch monitors, those are about a grand each. Then I'd build a high-end system for about 2-3 grand. Then I'd have 5 grand left to.... save for next year?

I'd probably try to get it silent and cool, by installing it in a fridge. I've wondered for a while if it was possible to use a fridge as a place to store your PC...

 

[marc512]

billysielu i think your on to something there....spend rest of the money designing a ice cooled pc? or a case what freezes itself?

 

[MikeHunt79]

well if you're going to include a screen and speakers then I'd be tempted to pick up a 46" LED samsung screen for use as a monitor and a Void Stasys setup for the sound... maybe even go for triple screen...As for the spec, nothing silly, as it will date much faster than a screen or speakers...

 

[Caracus2k]

if i had 10k to spend on a computer id spend 2.5k on a top new rig and save the rest for future upgrades because in six months there will be new cheaper hardware that beats the stuff that cost $$$$ now..............

 

[JonJ678]

everyone can stack up quadro's

I dearly wish that were true

I only included one since I'm pretty certain one by itself will outpace the two i7s, and I don't think server boards do sli

 

[GreatAuk]

lol, I have no idea of the bes way to spend (e.g. would a standard motherboard be good, or get one with space for two CPU's...don't know)..... but I could easily spend 10k !
all of those SSD's in raid mount up, and all those super expensive RAM modules with an extra 1mhz for extra £100 mount up..... basically, just going overboard on everything (biggest case, extreme edition I7 :eek , lots of SSD's, uber watercooling stuff, pre-overclocked GFX cards.... you'd be surprised how quickly 10k gets used up

 

[ac1d1ty]

I'd spend 8500 on a decent HTPC setup and the remaining 1.5k on a decent pc ^^

 

[OLDPHART]

the misses would spend it all, while l was deciding on the spec...

 

[Hairybudda]

Are we limited to one machine or can we build a beast storage server to go along with that?

 

[arc@css]

Just off the top of my head,

30" monitor; 2 Asus Mars; 12gb ram; desk; case - maybe Lian Li super tower; top of the range surround speaker set up; i7 best mobo and cpu (sod the money!); cpu cooler like noctua for example; SSD intel or samsung raid 0; Win7 and then I start to struggle to think of anything else. Not sure how much that lot is but I reckon 6 - 7 k so far.

 

[Happy]

3 thousand on a quadro fx5800
1200 apiece on two nehalem xeons
400 on an intel motherboard
800ish on ecc ram
Two 24" monitors at another thousand

7.6k down, around a thousand on water cooling it, the rest on ssds and a raid 5 card.

I would then be angered that I couldn't fit a waterblock to the quadro.

Mine what be similar except I'd replace the Quadros with 2x GTX295s and then do the same again, so I have two rigs

 

[LostPhil]

Couldn't ever spenf 10k on one PC, I'd rather build/buy:

A NAS box (5TB maybe?)
A small low power HTPC with mid range AV gubbins - LCD TV, Amp/Speakers etc
An i7 gaming rig (single card, 4890 maybe?) with maybe a 24" monitor and a budget amp/bookshelf speakers.

That would kit a house out quite nicely!

 

[SfnX]

...why would u have 10k to spend on a system, 2k is enough to get the best comp u can get, maybe more.
if you want the best tho:
3x 285gtx
core i7 965
Asus P6T7 WS Intel X58
best ram kit avail and perhaps 3 28inch monitors plus a racing setup then ye thatd be nice. if u wanna wait for directx11 then wait for some awsome new gcs. but if i had 10k id save for a renault clip sportv6 2001 (damn i want that so badly)

have fun!