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1x Lian-Li Silver ATX Full Tower Case, Model "PC-V2000A"
1x GIGABYTE "GA-K8NSNXP-939" nForce3 Ultra Chipset Motherboard
1x ENERMAX 550W Power supply
1x AMD Socket 939 Athlon 64 FX-53, 1MB L2 Cache
2x CORSAIR XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series, 2GB(1GBx2) DDR PC-3200
8x Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM SATA Hard Drive
1x Logitech Cordless MX Duo USB/ PS/2 104keys
2x ViewSonic VP230MB 23.1" LCD Monitor w/ Speakers
6x NEC 16X Double Layer DVD±RW Drive, Beige, Model ND-3500A
1x Epson Stylus Photo 2200 Photo printer
1x Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum PCI Sound Card
1x Klipsch ProMedia ultra 5.1 Personal Audio System
1x ASUS ATI RADEON X800 XT Video Card

Just added 3 more burners to fill up all the drive bays
I think im going to get rid of the viewsonic and get this from dell
dell
so if i add the dell it will be around 16,000
Tax: $898.62
Subtotal: $ 10,892.36
Shipping & Handling: $122.86
Grand Total: 12,185.64

I can get all this from Alienware
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Power Supply: Alienware® 480 Watt Power Supply
Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 3500+ Processor with HyperTransport Technology
Motherboard: ASUS® A8V Deluxe - VIA K8T800 Pro Motherboard
Memory: 4GB Dual Channel DDR PC-3200 SDRAM at 400MHz - 4 x 1024MB
Video Card: ATI RADEON™ X800 XT Platinum Edition 256MB DDR3 w/Digital and TV Out
Video Optimizer: AlienAdrenaline: Video Performance Optimizer
Video Cooling: AlienIce™ Video Cooling System - Terra Green
System Drive: High Performance - Serial ATA - 400GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 7,200 RPM w/8MB Cache
Storage Drive: Additional Storage Drive - 400GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 7,200 RPM w/8MB Cache
Optical Drive One: Plextor® PX-712A 12x DVD±R/W Drive
Optical Drive Two: Plextor® PX-712A 12x DVD±R/W Drive
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$13,410.00
 
basura...

jesus you would really spend that much on a computer????

ok ok... sorry.. don't quote me.. i understand that you have the right to ifyou got the cash.. i'm just commenting...
 
Anyone else just realize he never included a video card? And yes, I still think it's ridiculous.
 
ok im going to add the Zalman Reserator Water Cooling Kit for 300.00
 
Instead of the VP230MB 23.1s,

I would go with the HP L2335s, they seem to be the hot stuff for gaming at 16ms response time as well as a 1920x1200 16:9 widescreen resolution.

Just check out the monitors forums and there is huge post all about it
 
Why not wait a few months and get the Nforce4 motherboard and run two 6800 Ultra cards in SLI?
 
first off,

screw the resorator. Talk to me about getting an Xice EC900. Much better and will last a hell of a lot longer.

secondly, you'll need a decent raid card. would highly recommend a 3ware card. Also, if you're going to buy that many WD drives, talk to me...i'll get you a quantity discount and save you some tax while you're at it.

thirdly,

WTF are you spending that much money for? :)

cheers,

dave

PS> btw, i'm the guy selling L2335's for 1500.00 a piece right now...screw the viewsonics.
 
Well my grandma died and left me 25 thousand and i want to build a kick ass system. im also going to get a new desk for all this.
 
Can you even FIND a case that can fit all those drives, and not start a fire after 20 minutes of use anyways?
 
This must be a joke. He doesn't even have all the right parts to even put this together.

Renu, it would be best if you buy a pre-built computer. If you bought all that crap, you wouldn't have all the right parts to use more then 4 hard drives and maybe 4 DVD/RW
 
Sure, I don't know, but for $12,000 get dual 21" LCD Monitor Setup, and ditch some of the Harddrives in place of a 250GB one(like 2 raptors and a 250GB storage), Only have 2 or 3 DVD-RW's.
 
Dude, you could build a kick-ass setup for about $5000-$8000. Dont be a damn fool and buy tons of shit you'll never need. Hell, with $12k, I'd build an AMD system and an Intel system.
 
Never waste $12,000 on a computer. Buy something for around a $2000-$3000 that will play the latest games and invest the other $9-10k. If you do it right down the road you can be sitting on some serious cash.
 
So you're blowing half of your inheritance on a comp? Seriously man, there are better ways to spend the money your grandmother left you.

For one thing, 8 Raptor 10K 740GDs. Over the top. Cut it down to maybe 2. RAID 0 is pointless for the most part. If you're thinking of RAID 5 or something, I still don't see the benefit of 8 drives (then again, I'm not entirely a pro about RAID 5 with so many drives).

Instead, if you really want, get a nice large hard drive to go with the Raptor 10Ks.

Also, filling up drive bays is not really a good excuse to buy so much. All your PCI slots would be filled with IDE and SATA controller cards, not to mention the case you have selected would not possibly fit something like 12 drives.

And what's the point of 3 DVD-RW drives anyway? Are you gonna burn three at once? Pointless for the most part.

If you wanted kickass that doesn't go defunct quite as fast, I'd rather invest in a multiprocessor system, but then again, that's just me and I'm not the gamer type, where MPs don't really help at all.

It's all about the money market. :cool: I don't take risks with stocks or mutual funds (seeing as how one of my MFs is totally dead and I have to take all the funds out because the company won't let me keep it in there anymore).

In conclusion, $12000 is ridiculous to spend on a system. I don't even see the snaz factor except in the fact that the monitors are expensive and the machine itself will be hot like an oven.
 
Ya its going to get hot so im going to have somebody install air condition unit for my room that can keep it at like 30 degrees maybe 25

maybe this one for now and I will add another one in a few months

air
 
renu said:
Well my grandma died and left me 25 thousand and i want to build a kick ass system. im also going to get a new desk for all this.
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Spend $1200 for a new rig, and take the rest to A.G. Edwards. I am reminded of the British kid who inherited 30 million pounds sterling, and lost it all in Monte Carlo the very first night.
 
Dude, at least be wise. Build an Fx-53 box and a P4EE (socket-T, of course), spending no more than $5000 on each, and then buy something your grandma would've wanted you to buy: a car.
 
renu said:
I already have a car
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Get a better one? Seriously, blow your money on something better, something actually useful. Who really needs 7 hard drives and 5 DVD-R drives in a home machine?
 
renu said:
I already have a car
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Then invest the rest and let it gain interest. Listen, that comp you listed is absolute madness. I could bake cookies in that thing, WITH the air conditioner attached. Be wise and splite those funds between two comps, and do something honoring to your grandmother with the rest of the money.
 
renu stop wasting our time. You are obviously joking or being very stupid about this because no right person would build a pc in the way you have it configured. I mean multiple dvd-rw drives.... :rolleyes:

If your grandma really did leave you that money (and im sorry for your loss if true) $4000 to the PC and the rest to a clinic to get your ideas on what a computer really should be built as explained to you in detail.
 
I have the 5 out program with netflix so i want to burn each disk at the same time.
 
This is not a joke I want a kick ass system and desk. I also want to host tribes 3 servers
 
renu honestly your being very wasteful. u can buy the best of the best for 5-6k with phase cooling. alls your doing witht eh other 6-7k is adding extra uneeded bullshit like hardrive space.
 
yeah.... good fucking luck with that.

1. Even with those dvd burners -- you're not going to be able to burn 5 DVD's at once.

2. To host servers requires more than just a kickass computer -- you're going to need a 100 mbps backbone connection to host those servers -- which probably means you're going to have to send that $12k computer to some place to co-locate it, which means you can't even use it to do what you built it for.
 
renu said:
I have the 5 out program with netflix so i want to burn each disk at the same time.
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Well, for one thing, this is entirely illegal.

For another thing, hosting Tribes 3 servers would not require a 12K computer. Server machines aren't $6000 computers if they're just for games.

Whatever, waste your money. This is a big joke to me. Most of us have kickass systems and desks, and haven't spent anywhere near as much as you.
 
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