Dell sells out their $10,000 gaming PC

[biggiesmallz]

WTF bought it? 😕
http://gear.ign.com/articles/698/698473p1.html

 

[fitzov]

Probably someone who will use it until his friends aren't impressed anymore. It will then sit on his desk and become outdated and worth 200 or less in two years.

 

[SophalotJack]

I want to be rich.

But then again, if I was rich.... I would be doing uber cool real things and not virtually via a PC.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

It was a publicity thing. They made few enough that they knew they would sell out and therefore get a press release that would get attemtion.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I'll stick to my $399 Xbox 360 instead, thanks!

 

[Goosemaster]

Ibet you 80% will show up on ebay😱

 

[bluestrobe]

Half of the spoiled rich kids on this forum were probably considering it. When your parent(s) supply everything money has no personal value.

 

[DurocShark]

They're going to do a drawing to give one away in April. 😀

But quad sli has just GOT to rock. heehee

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Ibet you 80% will show up on ebay😱

or here on AT in the FS/FT selling for maybe 1500 USD in a year.. by then those 4 cards will be reduced to 2 much cooler running ones, Conroe will be out replacing that space heater CPU, all with some dell coupons and clocking in at less than 2 grand..

 

[Cooler]

I only spent $4000 on my system a year ago and that was with a 19 inch LCD monitor and laser color printer and that was top of the line back then.

 

[Drakkon]

Originally posted by: Hellspawn

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Ibet you 80% will show up on ebay😱

or here on AT in the FS/FT selling for maybe 1500 USD in a year.

No it will show up here only by a guy with 5 posts and no heat...the blackguy avatar...and asking 13K + shipping. He will not ship first and wont accept any lowball offers (which he consideres anything under 12K "lowball") 😀

 

[mercanucaribe]

Why would anyone buy that? It may be pretty fast, but in a year it will be equivalent to a $2000 machine.

 

[maziwanka]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
It was a publicity thing. They made few enough that they knew they would sell out and therefore get a press release that would get attemtion.

FTW

 

[jfall]

I didn't think you could SLI 4 cards

 

[j00fek]

who would really pay for that machine? not I

 

[Saint Nick]

if i had ten grand i WOULDN'T BUY THAT.

however, i might buy a nice PC and then go on a nice vacation.

 

[dquan97]

anyone see the PSU in that unit?

 

[TheStu]

Nvidia foiund a way to do it... essentially they bolted together two 7900 PCBs... and has it connect into one PCI-E slot. They have two of these (So 4 PCBs, but ony two with PCI-E connectors) and all four have the SLI connector. Starting at the PC, number the cards 1-2-3-4, now SLI cards 1 and 3 where 1 is the connectorless card from the first pair, and 3 is the connector-ful card from the second pair. Now SLI Bridge cards 2 and 4... bam quad SLI. Requires (I guess) a special board, chipset and of course the special cards.

 

[lightweight]

Originally posted by: bluestrobe
Half of the spoiled rich kids on this forum were probably considering it. When your parent(s) supply everything money has no personal value.

Wow you're a bitter idiot.

 

[TheStu]

I know that the PSU in the Alienware Quad-SLI struck me as being sort of lacking for the number of cards and drives and whatnot.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Why would anyone buy that? It may be pretty fast, but in a year it will be equivalent to a $2000 machine.

Sometimes, you need to prove that your dick is bigger RIGHT NOW, no matter what the cost and the condition six months from now be damned!

 

[dainthomas]

I notice the PS is not the 1KW PCP&C. This would seem to be a lot better than that goofy setup they have now. It also needs an FX-60 and 4GB of RAM. I love that they emphasize how it's signed by Michael Dell. Wow. Hold me back. One thing they did get right is their "fueled by fire" slogan since it has an EE running at 4.26GHz.

And what's the deal with the physics processing unit? How many games are going to use it before this thing becomes outdated?

 

[TheChort]

at least the flames make it look fast 😛

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Originally posted by: Drakkon

Originally posted by: Hellspawn

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Ibet you 80% will show up on ebay😱

or here on AT in the FS/FT selling for maybe 1500 USD in a year.

No it will show up here only by a guy with 5 posts and no heat...the blackguy avatar...and asking 13K + shipping. He will not ship first and wont accept any lowball offers (which he consideres anything under 12K "lowball") 😀

hehe I forgot that possibility..

and probably also listing a 'from' location outside the USA..

 

[ViviTheMage]

damn quad sli sounds attractive...

Im still with a 6600GT <3