I want to build the most powerful Gaming PC possible. No price limit. Suggestions?

[Supremetraders]

I want to build the most powerful gaming PC possible. No price limit at all.

I just need some help on what the best parts are from you guys. Preferably a list of things I should buy if possible, thanks a lot.


THE SKY IS THE LIMIT. GO CRAZY.

 

[Vectronic]

Uh... why?

The most powerful would be like a 4 socket 2011 with Xeon E5-4650... and you're already at about $16,000 dollars.

Drop that back to something a bit more realistic, get a dual 2011, like the Z9PE-D8 WS... and then 2 4650's... that's about $7,500... add 64GB of DDR3 2400... $8,200... tag on 4 7970's... $10,000... PSU to power all that... $10,500.

Pretty much the same performance as a $1,500 rig.

 

[aaksheytalwar]

Wrong answer. For gaming the practical consumer limit is:

3930k or 3970k if money is really no issue

32gb ddr3 2400+ is more than enough for an infinite budget as well

 

[BoomerD]

Why? It'll be ""obsolete" within 6 months...



(by obsolete, I mean the components will no longer be the "best and fastest" available...)

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

I will be interested to see what you do with RAID SSDs for fast loading times! Since you have no price limit I imagine you can spring for expensive raid controllers to make that actually work.

 

[Sleepingforest]

Have a machine shop create a custom case out of aluminum. Deck Legend Keyboard, a nice speaker system or audiophile headphones, and three 30" 1600p monitors. A legit water cooling loop or maybe liquid nitrogen. Enterprise PCIe SSDs.

Unfortunately, the interior components tend to be pretty boring.

 

[lehtv]

With no budget limitation I'd pay someone to build me a water cooled table PC with a large radiator and fans installed under the floor á la L3P desk. As for the internal components, 3x GTX 680 4GB OC'd, 3930K @ 5GHz+, 4x4GB of the fastest RAM the board supports. And peripherals: 3x 2560x1440 monitors, Zowie mat & mouse and some nice mechanical board.

 

[KeithP]

How did I know the OP had less then 10 posts just by looking at the thread title? The only thing that keeps it from being perfect is a missing pcpartpicker.com link.

In any event, repost http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2278763&highlight=ultimate

Probably repost x10 if I really wanted to dig.

-KeithP

 

[mfenn]

How did I know the OP had less then 10 posts just by looking at the thread title? The only thing that keeps it from being perfect is a missing pcpartpicker.com link.

In any event, repost http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2278763&highlight=ultimate

Probably repost x10 if I really wanted to dig.

-KeithP

Agree. We already have a thread for this.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

This is where i started. Back then it wasn't this expensive.. maybe 2-300$ Still have it today and it's Beautiful! Desktop real-estate is very important for me

 

[Vic Vega]

Lets get some more clicks in. More clicks for Intel threads and less for AMD. That's the name of the game around here, correct? Seems to be that way the last 5 years or so. Sheer volume seems to be the name of the game now. For every AMD thread you get 10 of these from a poster with zero history on the forum. Golly, Batman? Do you think we're being duped?

 

[Torn Mind]

Quad SLI or Crossfire is a must. Liquid nitrogen and some laborers to pour it for you. Custom cooling for the GPUs. Ergonomic chairs.

 

[meeshu]

Extreme overclocking and liquid Nitrogen/liquid Helium cooling excluded.

Principal components only listed.

Motherboard: Asus Rampage IV Extreme

CPU: Intel i7-3960X overclocked to ~ 5GHz

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i

RAM: G.Skill TridentX 16GB (4 x 4GB) quad channel

Video Card: EVGA GTX690 x 2 cards

SSDrive: OCZ Vector 256GB

HDDrive: Western Digital Black 1TB

PSU: Seasonic X-1250

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

This is where i started. Back then it wasn't this expensive.. maybe 2-300$ Still have it today and it's Beautiful! Desktop real-estate is very important for me

EDIT: I don't have the entire office setup, I just have the 72" Bow-front desk.

Whoops, thought i Edited my previous post

 

[Supremetraders]

I made this thread after I searched "Most Powerful PC" with the search tool and couldn't find what I was looking for. Your posts are helping a lot so thank you.

 

[mfenn]

Lets get some more clicks in. More clicks for Intel threads and less for AMD. That's the name of the game around here, correct? Seems to be that way the last 5 years or so. Sheer volume seems to be the name of the game now. For every AMD thread you get 10 of these from a poster with zero history on the forum. Golly, Batman? Do you think we're being duped?

Que?

 

[Sleepingforest]

I think he just refuses to accept that once you're above $400 for a computer, AMD doesn't make sense on the CPU side (GPU-wise, they're certainly superior right now for gaming, but it's just not true for CPUs).

 

[frozentundra123456]

Lets get some more clicks in. More clicks for Intel threads and less for AMD. That's the name of the game around here, correct? Seems to be that way the last 5 years or so. Sheer volume seems to be the name of the game now. For every AMD thread you get 10 of these from a poster with zero history on the forum. Golly, Batman? Do you think we're being duped?

You have to be kidding me. The majority of the threads with low post counts for the op are designed to show a scenario favoring amd.

 

[Torn Mind]

It is an off topic accusation anyway. This is yet another "I got infinite money, spec out parts thread", not an Intel pimp thread.