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[DizZa]

Ultimate computer eh?

Tyan Tempest i5000XL
Dual Intel Xeon DP 5355's
2 x Kingston 8GB(2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR2 FB-DIMM ECC Fully Buffered DDR2 667 (PC2 5300)
Dual 8800GTX
4 x Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 ST3146854SS
4 x Seagate 750gb
Blu-Ray drive Philips SPD7000BD
Fish tank to put PC and Olive Oil in.
Phase-change cool everything
Overclock everything

I reckon you'd be abled to play four seperature Flight Simulator X's at the same time on that rig with no slow down.  ;)

If only fsX was optimised for EIGHT cores....

[Nick N]

Grand Total: $10212

Can you say 3DMark world record?

Cheers
Cameron

I just got finished explaining why a high power multi-rail PSU is crap Cam. That one is no better either as I check out the specs on it. The PS Power and cooling unit will still run 100% of its load when that one is crying for its mommy

As for your choice of motherboards, sorry but I dont buy into the Nvidia/Asus/EVGA screw job. That board is still not worth what they ask for it. The EVGA board has also been found to be defective and they just released a new one to replace the one they shoved on the market some months ago based on the same Nvidia chipset.

Whats the Quad CPU for Cam? Video encoding? Absolutely!

[DizZa]

Yep, 3d mark is fake.

My stock Pentium 4 650 seems to own all Pentium 4's upto 4.2ghz and all AMD"s upto 4000+ in all the CPU tests. Oh, and thats with my terrible Dell motherboard with the slowest and loosest RAM you can possibly imagine.

[Nick N]

[quote]Ultimate computer eh?

Tyan Tempest i5000XL
Dual Intel Xeon DP 5355's
2 x Kingston 8GB(2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR2 FB-DIMM ECC Fully Buffered DDR2 667 (PC2 5300)
Dual 8800GTX
4 x Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 ST3146854SS
4 x Seagate 750gb
Blu-Ray drive Philips SPD7000BD
Fish tank to put PC and Olive Oil in.
Phase-change cool everything
Overclock everything

I reckon you'd be abled to play four seperature Flight Simulator X's at the same time on that rig with no slow down.

[ctjoyce]

Damn Nick, way to shoot everyone down/

What are your dream specks AS OF NOW! Nothing else is EVER coming out, and we are at the best of technology. What are you putting in your rig?

Cheers
Cameron

[Mees]

That'd be 15 times my rig.....

[congo]

I see the holiday has mellowed you down a bit Nick   8-)

Thankyou so much for that refreshing critic  ::)

[Nick N]

Damn Nick, way to shoot everyone down/

What are your dream specks AS OF NOW! Nothing else is EVER coming out, and we are at the best of technology. What are you putting in your rig?

Cheers
Cameron

[quote]I see the holiday has mellowed you down a bit Nick

[justpassingthrough]

Damn Nick, way to shoot everyone down/

What are your dream specks AS OF NOW! Nothing else is EVER coming out, and we are at the best of technology. What are you putting in your rig?

Cheers
Cameron

[quote]I see the holiday has mellowed you down a bit Nick

[Nick N]

Running dual 8800 cards (or any dual card setup) has its advantages. This is especially true for those who use multi-monitor setups. For those who do not, running a dual card rig can have limited benefits, none of which I think are worth the huge investment.

There is a real and defined problem with the 8800 card shader engine approach that Microsoft has confirmed. They did not confirm it by saying Nvidia's cards have issues, they did it by refering to the ATi DX10 rendering engine for comparison. Because of it Microsoft is now looking at the new ATi R600 engine which may alter their plans in FSX optimizing and development. That says quite a bit because if they thought Nvidia was going to correct or change their shader approach in the next core I do not think

[ctjoyce]

I'm doing everything but GPU in April. I'm waiting for next gen DX10.

Cheers
Caemron

[Nick N]

I'm doing everything but GPU in April. I'm waiting for next gen DX10.

Cheers
Caemron

If you plan on curbing spending, spend a but extra money on the E6700 and do not waste it on the E6600.

[Ashton Lawson]

I'll bet can break your bank with 1 part

well, lets see then...

i really wanna know wat u guys think will make the best gaming PC, even without overclocking (pre-overclocked parts allowed).

Ive got a $10,000 budget in mind. This includes display, keyboard / mouse, speakers, joystick, custom case parts.

Case: Silverstone TJ-07 $329
Motherboard: ASUS Striker Extreme 680i $350
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 $850
RAM: Corsair Dominator DDR2-1100 4GB (4x 1GB) $1220
Video Cards: 2x eVGA 8800GTX SLi $1200
DVD Drives: 2X Plextor 18x DVDRW $200
Hard Drives: 2x 150GB WD Raptors RAID 0 + 2x 500GB RAID 0 $740
Power Supply: Earnmax Galaxy Gamer 1KW (UV Sleeved)$360
Cooling: DangerDen TDX Watercooling $780
Fans: 4x 120mm LED, 2x 92mm LED $80
Lighting: 4x 12" UV CCFL, 4x 4" UV CCFL, 2x 15" Blue CCFL $90
Monitors: 3x Dell UltraSharp 2407WFP 24" Widescreen LCD + Thermaltake 7" Retractable LCD $2450
Keyboard: Logitech G15 $70
Mouse: Logitech Revolution $90
Joystick: Cougar Thrustmaster $250
Backup Drive: Western Digital MyBook 1TB $410
OS: Windows XP Professional OEM $120 + Windows Vista Ultimate OEM $200
Custom Case Painting + Internal UV spray $320
Speakers: Logitech Z550 5.1 $303

Grand Total: $10212

Can you say 3DMark world record?

Cheers
Cameron

Dude, i apprieciate the enthusiasm, but i merely meant the system parts, not cooling or lights or keyboard or mouse...

looks good tho.

[Ashton Lawson]

whoa there guys...

maybe wen ill get my new rig ill start a new post,  this ones a bit overloaded (which isnt a bad thing, unless ur totally torn between opinions)...

[Ashton Lawson]

ya no, maybe ill just wait till crysis comes out, then get some DX10 stuff...  (by that time there better be processors thatll be able to handle them)