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#1 hama666
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I've managed to get accepted to do a new masters at an excellent university, and to celebrate my parents have offered to buy me a luxurious gift. Now being the poignant nerd that I am I've asked for a new pc :P. (Car was out of the question, I drive a really nice car as it is)

I havent really been into the whole PC building malarchy for some time so im not quite sure thats seperate parts are hot right now. So im wondering if you guys could help me structure together some top of the key parts (i.e. graphics card, processor) to build that dream system.

Thanks!

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#2 nVidiaGaMer
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The $10,000 rig.

6x Intel X25-E Extreme SSDSA2SH064G1 2.5" 64GB SATA II SLC Internal Solid state disk (SSD) for $749 each

ABS TIGAS Full Black Anodized Aluminum Super Tower $599

Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition Bloomfield 3.33GHz $1000

ASUS P6T7 WS Supercomputer motherboard $449

PC Power and Cooling 1200 Watt power supply $519

No time to finish the rest but 8GB of 16GB of RAM plus graphics cards.


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#3 markop2003
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The Reactor Extreme is pretty good also as you're not paying for it why bother building one? :P

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#4 kemar7856
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The Reactor Extreme is pretty good also as you're not paying for it why bother building one? :P

markop2003

wut a rip off its over $9000 and not even with a monitor

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#5 nVidiaGaMer
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The Reactor Extreme is pretty good also as you're not paying for it why bother building one? :P

markop2003

If someone had that money to spend then SSD would be the way to go and get a 1TB HD along with it. Keep the 1TB drive for music and videos while the SSDs for games. The loading times on those are insane. Plus that extreme processor is not even the i7 one and two separate power supplies is a good idea.

I got this baby up to over $8000 and I think its better except the graphics 3x GTX 280 > 2x GTX 295

and the paint jobs on these things are stunning.

http://www.falcon-nw.com/ConfiguratorFX/

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#6 markop2003
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[QUOTE="markop2003"]

The Reactor Extreme is pretty good also as you're not paying for it why bother building one? :P

kemar7856

wut a rip off its over $9000 and not even with a monitor

It has submersion cooling with proper coolant and a custom made case, that sort of stuff is expensive.
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#7 markop2003
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and the paint jobs on these things are stunning.

http://www.falcon-nw.com/ConfiguratorFX/

nVidiaGaMer

If you want custum then go to MNPCtech.com they specialise in case modding and make a lot of PCs for tech shows

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#8 hama666
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$10,000 ?! LOL. I know im not paying for it but I dont want to milk my parents dry :P I was hoping for something top of the line, i.e. ati 4870 2gb cards, top i7 processor, maxiumum ram etc, not something thats gonna need me to take out a second mortage! Will $2500 be stretching it abit? I could just ask them to fund the parts as I build the thing myself instead of having to pay over the top prices for manufacturers.
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#9 nVidiaGaMer
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[QUOTE="nVidiaGaMer"]

and the paint jobs on these things are stunning.

http://www.falcon-nw.com/ConfiguratorFX/

markop2003

If you want custum then go to MNPCtech.com they specialise in case modding and make a lot of PCs for tech shows

those are good I'm wondering if they can mimick the rain one that falcon does because its amazing. Thousands of raindrops painted by hand and all of them look 3D too.

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#10 markop2003
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[QUOTE="markop2003"]

[QUOTE="nVidiaGaMer"]

and the paint jobs on these things are stunning.

http://www.falcon-nw.com/ConfiguratorFX/

nVidiaGaMer

If you want custum then go to MNPCtech.com they specialise in case modding and make a lot of PCs for tech shows

those are good I'm wondering if they can mimick the rain one that falcon does because its amazing. Thousands of raindrops painted by hand and all of them look 3D too.

I doubt they'd do that, it's a small company so all the airbrushing is done by one artist by hand. Though they well do things like custom fan placement and custom windows.
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[QUOTE="hama666"]$10,000 ?! LOL. I know im not paying for it but I dont want to milk my parents dry :P I was hoping for something top of the line, i.e. ati 4870 2gb cards, top i7 processor, maxiumum ram etc, not something thats gonna need me to take out a second mortage! Will $2500 be stretching it abit? I could just ask them to fund the parts as I build the thing myself instead of having to pay over the top prices for manufacturers.

2500 could definately get you what your asking for as long as you shop around for, keeping in mind that the top i7 processor will run you around a grand
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#12 skyyfox1
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do yourself a favor and have the guys at cyberpowerpc build one for you. they built me a kick butt gaming pc that i totally love. it runs crysis. it runs the new demos that are out now. it runs anything. i am very pleased. i got a core 2 duo with a geforce 8800gts (this was a year ago) now they got all kinds of new stuff like a geforce 280 and much more. i can't keep up. let the professionals do it for you.

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#13 bluebusiness
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Go with a dragon platform (2x HD4890 Toxic OCd to 1000Mhz, AMD Phenom II 955, and a good mobo) and use the extra cash for a liquid cooling system, keyboard, mouse, and monitor.

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#14 bluebusiness
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this actually looks like a dream PC for 3500 dollars... i think its worth it if you got the cash. http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/CyberPower_Black_Pearl/
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#15 Revan_911
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Wow man just wow! I can only mastrubate to this stuff.

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#16 jtschmitz
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Lol that is one hell of a gift :) I would love too see somebody buy my companies True Gamer 500 either the Intel or AMD. In fact drop me an email @ webmaster@project-computers.com or on here and maybe we can work out a deal where we do it at cost + shipping.

Intel True Gamer 500: Core i7 940 (extreme is basically a rip off sorry), 2x GTX 285's (maybe upgrade to 295's?), SSD + 1GB storage, surround, etc... etc... price would be less than listed if we did it at cost. We haven't sold one yet and I would love some benchies :P

Or build your own, the world is your playground when money is really not an option. May I ask what your getting a masters in?

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#17 hama666
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I appreciate the offers and links, but I live in the UK, so am only limited to British or European merchants. Another thing, which would you recommend? The Nvidia 285 or the radeon 4870 HD 2gb? And which processor? Is a 3.0ghz quad core going to get the best out of my games or is it worth spending the extra cash on an i7 processor? Or shall I go down the AMD route? Sorry for the eternity of questions, want this to be right!
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#18 kemar7856
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look at trubitars igs their amazinghttp://www.youtube.com/user/trubritar

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#19 SinfulPotato
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Go with a dragon platform (2x HD4890 Toxic OCd to 1000Mhz, AMD Phenom II 955, and a good mobo) and use the extra cash for a liquid cooling system, keyboard, mouse, and monitor.

bluebusiness
Meh, I'd rather spend that extra cash on... you know... games.
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#20 jtschmitz
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If you have the cash go with the i7. I hate to say it but...

Read a review over at toms and they ran two gtx260's in an i7 rig against the "Phenom II X4 955, an impressive 3.6 GHz overclock, and two Radeon HD 4890 cards in CrossFire..." (qouted from this article) and the two GTX260 out performed the two 4890's because the x4 955 was bottle necking(!!!!!) the 4890's. Looking at the graphs, I would have to agree with the bottleneck statement. In fact their build was $1300 without OS I think and was more than capable check out the article and maybe build a similair rig with a single GTX285 :)

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#21 SinfulPotato
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impressive 3.6 GHz overclock

jtschmitz
That's not impressive. The 955 can get to 4.0 GHz easy.
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He said he is from uk ? so how many pound is ur limit il do the build or maybe with help of some other people who know British website to build pc Tough i dont mind any help in building it : but i must know since you say uk Topic Creator ? it mean it as to be in pound ?

did you mention 2500$US of piece or 2500$ of pound !? Beside if someone know how to build pc is surely me im lot Experimented The only domain i haven't Venture Is the Overclocking & Watercooling Custom Build instead of KIT of WC which are alway inferrior to own set

Mean while if you talk about a Dream pc : id put a Core i7 And Overclock it the 920 : 940 : 975 : up to you : 920 with decent cooling is Offering you 4.0Ghz OC But You need Quite a Cooling thing such as haf 932 + A thermalright 120 True + LGA CLip 1336 + TWO KAZE 3000RPM to cool it off at best performances within Airflow

Or a Cpu Water-cooling kit such as Swiftech H2O-220 Apex Ultima : For Water-cooling tough im far from experienced in that domain but i know some guy who are in the Custom Pc Build union How Ever if you speak about Building a Dream PC In Performances That are Godlike such as Alpha_omega_69 : that cost more :P

But TO avoid to get you to dry ur parent out ud get a Core i7 920 : or Phenom II 955 But Require quite more overclocking to strike back the core i7 920 @ at 3.8 & 4.0ghZ as far i heard of it http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=807&p=7

You will also may want a 1920x1200 24-26 inch monitor unless you want to play on a HDTV 30-52 inch at 1080P up to you : But Before i can even come out with somethings id like to know the very money i can spend on it so it would be more like the Dream machine you can afford :D :

Webiste in uk dont offer a great feature as wishlist like newegg.com which can be share and commented by other Experimented PC Builder such as me as Example.

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He said he is from uk ? so how many pound is ur limit il do the build or maybe with help of some other people who know British website to build pc Tough i dont mind any help in building it : but i must know since you say uk Topic Creator ? it mean it as to be in pound ?

did you mention 2500$US of piece or 2500$ of pound !? Beside if someone know how to build pc is surely me im lot Experimented The only domain i haven't Venture Is the Overclocking & Watercooling Custom Build instead of KIT of WC which are alway inferrior to own set

Mean while if you talk about a Dream pc : id put a Core i7 And Overclock it the 920 : 940 : 975 : up to you : 920 with decent cooling is Offering you 4.0Ghz OC But You need Quite a Cooling thing such as haf 932 + A thermalright 120 True + LGA CLip 1336 + TWO KAZE 3000RPM to cool it off at best performances within Airflow

Or a Cpu Water-cooling kit such as Swiftech H2O-220 Apex Ultima : For Water-cooling tough im far from experimanced in that domain
Tough if you speak about Building a Dream PC In Performances That are Godlike such as Alpha_omega_69 : that cost more :P

But TO avoid to get you to dry ur parent out ud get a Core i7 920 : or Phenom II 955 But Require quite more overclocking to strike back the core i7 920 @ at 3.8 & 4.0ghZ as far i heard of it http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=807&p=7

You will also may want a 1920x1200 24-26 inch monitor unless you want to play on a HDTV 30-52 inch at 1080P up to you : But Before i can even come out with someting id like to know the very money i can spend on it so it would be more like the Dream machine you can afford :P

marcthpro

damn u and ur wall of text marchpro

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#24 marcthpro
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Did i Put a wall of text ? nor i don't think i really did : im working here to make him is Dream pc ? Beside my Reading speed is sure Beyond Average user I know that You would type me A Text Like that it would take me no time as long it as Paragraph : else it would take me 30-50% more time : I'm fast at Type & Read : and smart i guess ;) Can't help it Kemar :D

but im asking him what is the Very money he can spend on it !? I mean id not come out with a 1600 pound build if he can't afford it then id have to Recalculate all the thing which would be Troublesome..!

I appreciate the offers and links, but I live in the UK, so am only limited to British or European merchants.

Another thing, which would you recommend? The Nvidia 285 or the radeon 4870 HD 2gb?

And which processor? Is a 3.0ghz quad core going to get the best out of my games or is it worth spending the extra cash on an i7 processor? Or shall I go down the AMD route?

Sorry for the eternity of questions, want this to be right!hama666



See what i talk about !?

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#26 jtschmitz
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[QUOTE="jtschmitz"]

impressive 3.6 GHz overclock

SinfulPotato

That's not impressive. The 955 can get to 4.0 GHz easy.

I was quoting the article. Regardless I think we are getting a little carried away here. Water cooling? OCing the i7? Why? Lol honestly unless he is an enthusiast looking to max out everything I say stick with stock cooling, a decent case, decent memory, and have a reliable fast machine with little fuss. I agree with marc the 920 is the way to go. Grab a decent 22" monitor that can do 1680x1050 , any of the builds listed here, and you will be very happy.

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#27 marcthpro
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but again he dont have told us in Great britan pound how much he want to spend. you know more you have the more drream a machine It sure if i was him. id wait until HD5870 at time of the year we at like 3 month of release of next GPU according rumour of release of HD5870 but again.. it waiting.. quite a while

i waited for 4870x2 to release to get my build lol and Gathering lot of Data i ad some help from my friend at the Custom pc build union also Beside Core i7 920 + overclock is Great : else there is still Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition at 3.8 & 3.9Ghz Like Beefdog that is Really Strong in gaming to handle lot of gpu power