Maximum PC's Dream Machine 2011

Dark Sun · 15 Jul 2011 at 13:26

Category Part URL Price
CPU Intel 3.4GHz Core i7-2600K
www.intel.com $317
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD7-B3
www.gigabyte.com $350
GPU 3x EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Superclocked
www.evga.com $1,557 ($519 each)
Case Cooler Master Cosmos II Prototype
www.coolermaster-usa.com $350
RAM Corsair 16GB Vengeance
www.corsair.com
$180
PSU Silverstone Strider ST1500
www.silverstonetek.com
$380
Cooler Corsair Hydro Series H100
www.corsair.com
$120
SSD 2x 240GB OCZ Vertex 3
www.ocztechnology.com
$1080 ($540 each)
HDD 3x 3TB Seagate Barracuda XT
www.seagate.com
$600 ($200 each)
ODD Plextor B940SA
www.plextor.com $169
Speakers Corsair SP2500
www.corsair.com $250
Mouse Cyborg R.A.T. 9
www.cyborggaming.com
$130
Keyboard Razer BlackWidow Ultimate
www.razerzone.com
$80
Monitor 3x NEC PA301W
www.necdisplay.com $6900 ($2300 each)
OS Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
www.microsoft.com
$125
Total Cost $12,588

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/dream_machine_2011_video_building_dream

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/dream_machine_2011_how_we_created_best_pc_ever

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Apem · 15 Jul 2011 at 15:41

Whats that Coolermaster part in the bottom with the twin fans?

KiiYzOo · 15 Jul 2011 at 15:50

cosmos 2??

banger9365 · 15 Jul 2011 at 16:39

If we had the money .it look
s nice

C64 · 15 Jul 2011 at 16:45

mmm all that lovely warm hdd air blowing towards the gpus

setter · 15 Jul 2011 at 16:45

No watercooling? Wouldnt fancy three 580's sitting so close together on stock cooling.

DampCat · 15 Jul 2011 at 16:53

Seems silly to me. Spend 8 grand on a machine you may aswell watercool it. especially with that complete lack of space.

Jony27 · 15 Jul 2011 at 17:42

gotta love the colour scheme though

black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow.....

Marvin · 15 Jul 2011 at 17:50

No dedicated sound card? No water/fancy cooling? Not the best motherboard for the job? I'll keep my hypothetical 8 grand thanks.

Good monitor choice though.

Kurisu Makise · 16 Jul 2011 at 02:48

cosmos 2 looks nice

Shayper · 16 Jul 2011 at 03:41

Would definitely watercool for that price. Christ, I'm not gonna build myself another machine at all unless I'm watercooling it. I like it too much

DampCat · 16 Jul 2011 at 05:58

In fairness I haven't used a dedicated sound card for years. The overwhelming factor here though is that the middle 580 must be on fire.

mjones1 · 16 Jul 2011 at 09:14

Remember nearly $7k is spent alone screens alone, shame its not crazy as last years jellyfish build.

Mollari · 16 Jul 2011 at 10:07

Oh I want this case!

Shame on me, Haf X is only 3 months old..

Any info when it will be available?

joxang · 16 Jul 2011 at 12:42

Those GPUs are gonna be **** hot. Without a side fan or any conceivable airflow from the front, and so close together...yikes. You pretty much have to WC that or live with a jet engine under your desk.

JayyCee · 3 Oct 2011 at 21:35

Apem said:
Whats that Coolermaster part in the bottom with the twin fans?

its more HDD racks

shamzzz · 3 Oct 2011 at 23:30

they could've neatened up the gfx card power cables a bit..

Verloren · 4 Oct 2011 at 00:47

Worst looking dream machine ever?

Lack of water cooling is totally killing it for me, as are the ugly cables. I can live with that colour scheme though, its waspish.

Reaper 392 · 4 Oct 2011 at 01:15

OcUK will be selling a much better prebuilt tower than that in the vaguely near future (assuming the mods wink in response to me asking if there was going to be a 2600k version of the ultima XXX means yes)

also, if you were planning on air cooling three 580s then surely you'd want the silverstone raven (yes you'd have to get the antec khuler 920 instead of the H100, but who cares about 3C on the processor when your going to stop the graphics cards from roasting)

ChrisD. · 4 Oct 2011 at 06:40

Why have the two fans in the bottom section of the case? I don't get it.

Don't understand why anyone would get this case? Its overpriced and the cooling looks questionable.