There is a contest right now for this computer, and I have to say that this beats the $20,000+ Mac --- computer by a whole lot in terms of hardware, software, and other stuff :lol: Also I providing links to all the stuff just in case someone wants to buy the parts seperately and junk TOTAL ESTIMATED RETAIL VALUE: $30,904.76 For the most part I drop the games since I don't play PC games, and I would unplugged 2 of the hard drives since 600GB is a lot to fill up even though you have Vista Ultimate and Adobe Master Collection taking up a HUGE!! portion of that first hard drive though. Either way I don't think I would even set this computer up and just keep it in the box just because of the hardware that is involved and the fact that it is a tri-monitor set up as well. So I will break this down as best as I can based on my knowledge of computer hardware and junk. Case Built in Water cooling system, oh my god, that would save people the headaches of trying to patch one together. If you look at the picture I would say this is like the ultimate computer case and not caring that its plain white either. Power Supply I think they ment 1000W power supply because a 100 power supply would just blow up to all that hardware power right now, but of course even I think 1000w isn't even enough for what they are offering, I wonder if you can set up a dual power supply in someway. Processor, Motherboard, RAM Ok first why bother dropping two dual cores when you could drop a quad core or the fabled 8-core processor into this, but thats after seeing the specs for this brand new processor, and I say FREAKN SWEET! Of course you need to have a matching motherboard to go with it, and it also supports this dual CPU set up as well which is interesting in itself. Of course when your dropping 8 gigs of real specific RAM into this computer I would say that this would rival computers that monitor satellite systems and junk. Of course the motherboard can support up to 8 cores which means that you would get a very ultra fast system without any lag whatsoever, because of the fact this motherboard is server base meaning that you oculd run a large scale computer server on this thing with no problems of lag. Graphics Card I will say this though I am somewhat disappointed that they didn't drop any 9000 series graphics cards, but of course 8800 series is still top of the line, especially since the motherboard can support SLI because of the Nvidia support as well. SSD With what I know about solid state disks, a person wouldn't have ot wait for a mear 2 seconds for this computer to boot up, and since SSD is still relatively new. In which I am referring to the fact it would cost about $15 a gb to own one of these and right now the biggest SSD is 1.6TB, and so that SSD if I got this right a cool $240,000 to have. However, I say 5-10 years expect that price to drop as the computer industry starts converting to this technology. RAID As I mentioned earlier I would drop bigger hard drives in because with RAID support in this computer, I could spread out the computer's resources more, and maybe help reduce the lag Vista is known for. Especially since they are using Vista Ultimate here the SXS will be needing a lot of room to work with in order to get a smooth running of vista. Hard Drive Ok now I retract everything I said about replacing the hard drives with something bigger after looking at what these hard drives are packing. Still though I would rather pack in a bit more into the hard drive besides speed, but I guess I would have to see the system in action in order to get a better opinion about it. OF course a thought occured to me on the way home and that even at 10,000 RPM's I highly doubt you would see any difference, but I would think you would see a slight difference with a hard drive at 7200 RPM's though. DVD/CD Floppy Drives Well first off now that Blu-Ray has won the war these drives would be very important to have in storing, movies, videos and other multimedia stuff, and interestingly enough it has HD DVD support as well so it's the best of both worlds in DVD formatting. As for the floppy drive I don't really see the need for one although this floppy drive comes with several technologies (SmartMedia, MultiMedia Cards, MicroDrive, CompactFlash, MemoryStick, SecureDigital Cards and floppy diskettes). Now to figure how to use all that stuff now. Mother Board Protection Interesting idea to cover up what isn't used with the motherboard with it's own dust protectors, but I would think the heat that get's generated by this computer would melt them on to the motherboard itself though. Tuner Card Well with a Tri-Monitor system I can watch TV on one monitor and use the others for computer related things. Either way I think that piece would go to waste as I wouldn't want my system to be connected to the TV cable for some reason. Sound System Who want to buy my DVD player, thats how bad this sound system looks right now. Monitors Remember that ultimate computer furniture topic I made last week? Well you will need that to work this system properly although I think you would have to make some customizations in order to fit these behemoth's together properly. External Hardware Well I start with the EHD, and I have to say is that desk of yours has to be huge or rather the area around your desk because you will need it on top with the baack up power supply. Which I think is a bit excessive especially since the back up power supply is huge in itself. As for the keyboard I rather have the all LED keyboard for $1500 just to make it more high tech. As for the mouse it looks nice but really though why spend $150 for a mouse? As for the rest of the external hardware I don't see to many problems with it, I wish I could get my Star Wars Tie Fighter Game to work and I be happy. Software Like I mentioned before I don't want the games just because I never got into PC games that much, most likely I sell those off along with hte controllers and stuff. As for everything else I got my drool bucker ready if I do win this computer (ahahahaha). Labor I do question the labor though just because it would seem that it would take at least 20 hours to get the hardware installed, and at least 10 hours to get the OS's installed to dual boot, and about 5 hours to get everything else installed. Of course since most of this hardware is brand spanking new, as in just coming out new, I would add maybe 5 more hours to setting that happen. So yeah I would think it would take less then that, but of course I am not complaining since this is going to be built already for me to go nuts over. Overall I would say there are some things I could change out or not have at all, but since it's a free computer (I think), WHO CARES! :lol: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141628/article.html
I'd take a single x9770 8GB DDR3 and two 8800 ultras and a 640Gb FusioIO drive. then have say 8 of the new Samsung Spinpoint 1TB drives in RAID 10. yes somewhat lesser multithreaded performance, but WAY better memroy performance(DDR3>FBDIMM DDR2) and the disk performance is through the roof. And FYI a highed 1000W PSU probably WOULD be enough FYI.
I'd call you a retard, but this is a flame free forum. Go to any PC e-tailer and hit "sort by price - high". this is hardly worth mentioning, really. Its not hard to make the "uber PC", but it doesn't make you any more knowledgeable about computers. maybe if you had already won it, then maybe post about it.
/agree with gone, if you built that you have more money than sence due to the fast depreciation of components, be worth the same as a basic pc in 18 months plus that monitors OTT, just rig up to your hd tv, bigger creen and cheaper
I'd sooner take a pair of S-IPS 30" Dells over three 24" H-IPS. Besides, running SLi means you only will be able to use 1920x1600 res as opposed to 2560x1900 (i think, but cant be ------ed double checking) the 30"s use.
SLi currently supports only a single monitor but dual monitor support is supposedly in the works... and there is no real limit on the resolution supported
Seems that someone had a lot of free time. But if you're showing it for for the price, I can sell you a pair of scissors for $40,000. You could show it to all your friends and remind them that they're too poor to buy the scissors, but not you. Seriously...buy my scissors.
how the hell is it free? Did you need a tidy wipe after that offer? hopefully you didn't stain your good pants........
everything in there is solid well asside from this Labor for building and troubleshooting -- 100 hrs at $50/hr - $5,000 labor should be 20ish... and then what.. 5 hours tops for setup, not 100.
well they're going to inflate the prices to attract people to the contest. and not everyone has xlink skills...
