Computer that costs more than a car.

[ussfletcher]

http://kotaku.com/5631785/would-you-like-a-liquid+cooled-xbox-360-with-your-gaming-pc

At least it has a built-in Xbox 360...

 

[Dankk]

This is perfect. I've had $17,000 lying around and I've been wanting to spend it on a computer. Looks like this is the one to get. Purchased.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

I drive an 18 year old Honda...I think most new Dells are worth more than that .

 

[Wag]

That "wooden crate armor" sounds useful. You never know when your PC is going to get into a medieval tourney.

 

[TallBill]

If I had a bazillion dollars I'd buy one.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Not impressed.

It's nowhere near as bad as a Mac Pro, but for $17k I'd expect it to have a Z-drive and 96GB RAM.

I priced a dual Xeon X5670 with 96GB, dual 5870's, and 8TB and it came to under $9k.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I'd rather buy a quality laptop, a nice quiet HTPC, a big noisy gaming rig and a decent file server. But that's just me.

 

[grrl]

From the article:

>>I'd be in a house before I paid $16,999 for a gaming computer, but that's just me. I'd just as soon attach my Xbox 360 to the top of my PC with duct tape. It wouldn't be nearly as attractive, but I'd have enough money leftover to put my child through college.<<

He must be talking about community college.

 

[Rubycon]

Not impressed.

It's nowhere near as bad as a Mac Pro, but for $17k I'd expect it to have a Z-drive and 96GB RAM.

I priced a dual Xeon X5670 with 96GB, dual 5870's, and 8TB and it came to under $9k.

Why bother with gaming cards in a workstation? Dual Quadro 6000 all the way! That's $10k right there. :biggrin:

 

[The Boston Dangler]

i wouldn't have that in my home for anything more than free. if i had the tools and several grand, i could build a machine that would perform identically as far as i'm concerned, and clobber that thing aesthetically. hell, for that kind of money you could easily get carbon fiber, glass, et cetera made to your specs and a perfect match for your selected components.

 

[xSauronx]

I drive an 18 year old Honda...I think most new Dells are worth more than that .

yeah, my nissan is 14 years old....a brand new thinkpad loaded out is not only more expensive, but more durable.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

Do want.

 

[Cogman]

Meh, If I was going to blow that kind of dough I would build it myself. BTW, On-board audio for the more expensive system! Fail.

 

[Rubycon]

Meh, If I was going to blow that kind of dough I would build it myself. BTW, On-board audio for the more expensive system! Fail.

Yes because 4X SLI takes up all the (physical) space on the mainboard.

HOWEVER there are very good (as in professional) USB 2.0 and 1394 external solutions available that will blow away consumer sound cards.

 

[Krazy4Real]

But how much is shipping?

 

[Cogman]

Yes because 4X SLI takes up all the (physical) space on the mainboard.

HOWEVER there are very good (as in professional) USB 2.0 and 1394 external solutions available that will blow away consumer sound cards.

Well, that is just poor planning on NVIDIAs part. Either way, at Quad SLI, you should be in the arena of diminishing returns. Tri-SLI (Do they support that?) would probably be just about as fast and leave room for a nice new sound card.

Barring that, like you said, an external sound card would probably be better than the crappy onboard sound card.

 

[ViviTheMage]

yikes, bet they'll only sell 2-3, haha.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

Meh, If I was going to blow that kind of dough I would build it myself.

I wouldn't mind being one of the guys building these. :sneaky:

 

[mmntech]

Meh, If I was going to blow that kind of dough I would build it myself. BTW, On-board audio for the more expensive system! Fail.

I suppose if you could afford that, you're probably going to bitstream audio to an AV receiver anyway.

The fact that is has TWO 1kw power supplies is what blew me away. I wanted to see how much power the $17K model actually uses. I'm ballparking 1382w power consumption for it according to the Extreme PSU calculator. Now the maximum load for a standard 15A circuit is 1650w. It's cutting pretty close to needing two separate circuits to run it.

 

[Juddog]

Well, that is just poor planning on NVIDIAs part. Either way, at Quad SLI, you should be in the arena of diminishing returns. Tri-SLI (Do they support that?) would probably be just about as fast and leave room for a nice new sound card.

Barring that, like you said, an external sound card would probably be better than the crappy onboard sound card.

True but tri-SLI just doesn't have the epeen power that quad SLI has.

 

[Rubycon]

Actually it's possible to do seven way SLI. Not for gaming but processing power. The actual cards are attached to connectors above the board which are connected via ribbons to the actual PCI-E slots. If they did this they could use 4X SLI, a 480 for physics processing and still have two slots left perhaps for a sound card and 10Gbps NIC. :biggrin: Cost would easily be four fold as well. Personally I'd use a slot for a high end storage controller with six or more dual ported (SAS) enterprise SSDs.

Well, that is just poor planning on NVIDIAs part. Either way, at Quad SLI, you should be in the arena of diminishing returns. Tri-SLI (Do they support that?) would probably be just about as fast and leave room for a nice new sound card.

Barring that, like you said, an external sound card would probably be better than the crappy onboard sound card.

 

[Rubycon]

dp

 

[SKORPI0]

Maximum PC Dream Machine 2010 - $15,782 :hmm:

 

[HumblePie]

The computers in my sig technically cost more than some used cars. But I didn't pay anywhere near the prices these articles are listing.

 

[thescreensavers]

Yoshi's Boxx > all