Best Gaming rig

BeerWolf

If money was no object - what would be the best set up possible, today (Including extras, like monitor, speakers, etc.) and its rough cost estimation?

hopeful

Just for the laugh...

Vadim Computers will supply the following for £11435...inc shipping!

Custom Fusion-LQX-Intel-775G2-Crossfire system 21430
Case: Lian-Li V2100B Plus Black CASE (NO PSU)
Cabling: Supreme Cable Management and UV Modding - Green and Blue
Window: Complex Custom Precise Machine-Cut Window
Cooling Mesh: Precise Machine-Cut Plain Rectangular for meshing
Airbrushing: Supreme Air-Brushing (Complex Custom Pattern)
Cooling: LiquoCool Antarctic TXD Extreme (CPU+2Chipset+2VGA)
PSU: Enermax Galaxy Modular DXX 1000W PSU
Motherboard: DFI LANPARTY UT ICFX3200-T2R/G (ATI RD600- 1333 FSB Conroe)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad QX6800 Extreme Retail (4x2.93GHz 1066FSB 8Mb)
Memory: OCZ DDR2-800 2x2048MB Vista Upgrade 4GB Dual Channel Kit
Hard Drive: (4x) 150Gb Raptor 10000 16mb E-SATA
Storage HD: (4x) 500GB WD Caviar RE2 7200 16mb Cache SATA II NCQ
MasterGraphics: Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB GDDR3 TVO
Graphics2: Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB GDDR3 TVO
Physics: BFG Ageia PhysX Accelerator
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-S183L SATA 18x DL DVDRW Black
Optical Drive 2: Plextor PX-B900A/T3KB Blue-Ray DVDR
Floppy Drive: Icy Box 16-in-1 internal/external USB Card reader (Black)
PCI card: WinTV-HVR-4000 Quad-mode TV tuner
Sound Card: Creative 7.1 X-FI ExtremeGamer Fatal1ty
Operating System: Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit DVD OEM
Building: Standard Build (5-15 working days)
Overclocking: Safe Stable Overclocking (3-40% - CPU/Memory/VGA)
Warranty: Deluxe 3 Year Collect and Return-Onsite Warranty
Keyboard: Logitech diNovo Media Desktop Laser
Mouse: Logitech G5 Laser Gaming Mouse
Speakers: Creative GigaWorks S750 Multimedia 7.1 Speaker System
Monitor: (2x) Dell 3007WFP-HC TFT Black (30"-11ms) Widescreen
Free T-Shirt: Vadim Computers Baseball T-Shirt (L)

TerrorFirmer

A free t-shirt....that really seals the deal.

game4it70

"A free t-shirt....that really seals the deal."
lol havok had me sold

papu

hd2900xt?!?!

blu ray!?

Linkey to this magical site plx!

BeerWolf

8 hard drives? I doubt I'd ever need more than 2


And for a Rig of that calibre, what kind of fps can you expect off... say, Oblivion [outdoors] on Ultra settings ? :eek:

Anti

400 million fps id say.

DirkVoodoo

Its immaterial what FPS you get above the refresh rate/response time of your screen (im guessing this machine would have an LCD). Also, small changes in higher frame rates are nearly imperceptible to the naked eye rather than small changes at lower frame rates.

Spending 11k sterling on a PC is pretty sad. The best setup in my opinion would be the best rig for about 2500k.

hopeful

The question was asked...I merely answered. No one would ever buy this spec...but Vadim would build it!
I really hope that no-one thought that was a serious build...I wonder about people's sense of humour sometimes!
LINKY as requested.

And the 'Free tee shirt' bit also made me chuckle

8T8

Going for a God-Box the 8800GTX to two in SLI is definitely better the HD 2900XT is trades blows with the 8800GTS 640 not the 8800GTX which easily dispatches it.

Given time ATI might be able to work out the problems but it's not something I would recommend at this time given the raw state of the drivers.

4GB of RAM isn't all that useful to gamers 2GB under 32-bit is really the optimal amount any more is diminishing returns.


For about €5800 this is what I would go for with no plans for overclocking or going totally nuts on burning money either.
Case: Antec P180
PSU: Seasonic 700W
GPU: GeForce 8800GTX - get 2 for SLI
CPU: Core 2 X6800
DVDRW: NEC SATA & Samsung SATA
HD1: WD Raptor - get 2 for RAID 0 or just JBOD
HD2: WD 500GB - get 2 for storage/backup.
OS: Vista 32-bit retail or XP.
Mobo: nForce 650i - why because it uses passive cooling and no real difference in having dual x8 slots for SLi and x16.
RAM: 2GB of Corsair DDR-2 800
Sound: Creative X-Fi Platinum
Speakers: Logitech 5.1 Z-5500 HTX/DTS
Key/mouse: Wireless combo Microsoft laser 6000 or Logitech MX5000
Monitor: Dell 30" 3007 widescreen display

As far as I'm concerned anything else is just excess or going to offer very small improvements - again no overclocking taken into account.

Fremen

I hear you can get some fairly decent rigs here, if you have the money:

http://www.cray.com/

sebastianlieken

Fremen wrote:

I hear you can get some fairly decent rigs here, if you have the money:

http://www.cray.com/

...ok.. not 'literaly' supercomputer!, dont they use those systems in the US intelligence agency or sumthin to scan like all the information in the world....or sumthin...

can u imagine goin up to them n buyin one askin.'so how willit run all the latest games like crysis?...

i read one part where one of 'mid range systems' has 16 terebites of ram.... DAMN!

realisticaly, the toke prob doesnt have a graphics card...so.....yeeeeeeah...

challengemaster

Antec 900 case
Asus P5W64 WS Professional mobo
Intel Core2Quad Q6600
4GB of this stuff
4 x 8800ULTRA
3 of these bad boys
one of these
tuniq tower 120
2 of these
Soundcard
This thingy

OS: Vista ultimate && XP && Linux distro of choice
Mouse/kb : Logitech MX518 && G15
Moustmat: Everglide Titan Fnatic edition
Monitor: 2x 22" Syncmaster and one of these plz

S'good

conzy

Err you cant use 4* 8800s in one machine....

Even if you could, that 500watt PSU wouldnt be to happy about it....

And why the Hell would he need/want a 375 euro fiber optic lan card?!

papu

4 x 8800ULTRA

2 for the pc and 2 to use as feet warmers

Going for a God-Box the 8800GTX to two in SLI is definitely better the HD 2900XT is trades blows with the 8800GTS 640 not the 8800GTX which easily dispatches it.

at this time id like to land a roflcopter.

http://r800.blogspot.com/2007/04/radeon-hd-2900xt_28.html

im sure were going for a future save system? Dx10 and Hd is the way forward


the gtx Isn't THAT much better than the gts

Slutmonkey57b

Ah, those well-known benchmarks "N-Patches" and "Global Illumination", er - what? I'm not saying that blog is run by a marketing drone but - oh wait.

papu

Ah, those well-known benchmarks "N-Patches" and "Global Illumination", er - what? I'm not saying that blog is run by a marketing drone but - oh wait.

Its a benchmarking system for the dx10 game

8T8

Those Call of Juarez benchmarks are cooked by AMD they benchmarked a version of the game that doesn't work with GeForce 8

For reference NVIDIA has been supplying these as well with a driver 158.47 and build of the game that does work with their hardware as you can see they easily leapfrog the HD 2900XT a little disappointing if true as superior DX10 performance was one of the few bright spots for the 2900 series.


Taken from French Clubic review.


GeForce 8 GTX is still king of the hill.

Slutmonkey57b

Am I reading that right? Wow - for an extra, what, 300 quid you get 1.5 WHOLE FPS performance boost? Goooo the GTX! King of the hill! w00t!

8T8

You mean the Ultra yeah everyone knows that's a waste of money more of an experiment by NVIDIA to see how many people with more money the sense would actually bite.

There is a dedicated thread for the Radeon HD 2900XT in the graphics forum for any more chatter on that topic.