If I won, I would just take the processor, motheboard, case, ram video card and monitor. I don't need a terrabyre of space and that sound system is a waiste, my fiend has it.
The main thing that seperates this PC from a regular PC is the SSD's, the overkill monitors, and the insanely overpriced monitors, labour, uncessary software and the fact that they probably have rounded the prices up a good 10-15%.
This pc sucks ----, very fugly case, and other things. The watercooling on that I bet bearly gets better temps than the stock air cooler but it only comes with 1 waterblock so whats the point?. For 30k you could at least get phase change cooling or extreme high end watercooling [4 Thermochill 120.3's & Quad Loops], or even painting from smooth creations.
It's the SSD's which make it insanely better than your standard Gaming rig. Also, expensive cooling is over-rated. I can build you a 2 phase cascade for less than a grand if necesarry, and wasting time on quad water cooling loops is plain stupid, even if you were a millionaire.
Haha, the noobishness of some of these posts. First off, in real world performance, extreme cooling offers minimal performance advantages, unless you just enjoy running a heavily overclocked PC. Secondly, TriSLi doesn't scale particularly well yet, even compared to regular dual card SLi. On top of that, this PC uses the Skulltrail chipset, which does not support TriSLi, but instead has dual QX9775 CPUs. A nice tradeoff IMO. HOWEVER, most people here don't understand the truely impressive parts of this pc. DUAL 64GB SSDs. This is something that practically does not normally exist in a home desktop environment. 4 SEAGATE CHEETAH HDDs. These are practically SCSI drives, not to mention with a very expensive RAID controller, which is important. This PC is one of the most powerful PC's you can get, however I hardly think wanking over a non-existant PC, which within a few years, will be outclassed by our regular $2k gaming rigs.
That's the point of phase change... And for most 1900x1200 (+) users tri sli is effectively. Agree on the rest of your post though.
I'll be honest... to me phase change is too noisey. highend water will get you pretty good temps still and is fairly respectable. If I had $30k to blow on a system... 3*27" monitors 3*9800GTX q9650 some highend 790i board 8Gb highend RAM 4*SSDs in RAID0 4*1TB drives in RAID6 for storage higend RAID controller WCing single slot blocks for the GTXes so i can use the other slots on the board dual triple radiators, dual pumps too. HR-05 on northbridge and southbridge custom case, or perhaps a highly modded TJ07. screw custom paint jobs though, simple powder coating works for me.
Its true. If anybody was to customize their PC it won't be anything like whats in the original thread. You don't need the best for every component ever.