If you had $50,000 budget for a pc...

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17

Originally posted by: PhoenixOrion

$80 creative sound system?!?

I thought it was funny that he has a $400 sound card and then $80 speakers.

 

[randay]

Easy, I pay myself 49999.99 to build a custom built dell desktop for myself. Then I take several months off from work.

 

[joecool]

a really nice car ... !

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17

Originally posted by: PhoenixOrion

$80 creative sound system?!?

I thought it was funny that he has a $400 sound card and then $80 speakers.

You would be setting the benchmark as to how good those POS's could possibly sound:laugh:

 

[imported_Doughboy]

Build two $3500 gaming Rigs
Buy two 30" LCD monitors (~$1300 each)
Build a $2000 Media Center PC
Build a $2000 Personal Network File server
Buy a $3000 Laptop (mobile Gaming)
Buy a $2000 Laptop (light-weight & portable)
Buy a new 4-door Truck with the leftovers.
... and a nice steak dinner with the family.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
You would be setting the benchmark as to how good those POS's could possibly sound:laugh:

Maybe I should have done the speakers at the beginning of the build when I cared a little more. By the end I was just throwing crap in there.

I've still yet to hear anything as good as the sound that came out of that sound card in the recording studio of the radio station I used to work at.

 

[caivoma]

Originally posted by: dmw16
I'd buy an M5 and a macbook and invest the rest.

Or if you have to buy a PC with it. I'd spend $5000 on the PC and then pay someone $45,000 to punch me in the face for being retarded.

haha, that makes me lol.

 

[QueBert]

my system would have dual Sony 24" widescreen CRT's, that would only cost about $800 ish, a nice PC about 2.5g's, the rest goes into a super desk that can support both CRT's

 

[LtPage1]

I'd go for one of those mammoth, silent pc cases with a serious watercooling setup, and sink the rest into ridiculous components and an embarrassing monitor setup.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Agreed.

68pin ultra 320?! What is this...2002?

sata 3.0Gb/s if at all......sas if you must.

and may I say that a fool and his money....



even in dreams, if not especially in dreams, ones true character is defenseless.

Ouch, that's pretty harsh!

What would you guys have done? There's nothing wrong with Ultra320 SCSI.

10 68pin scsi cables....just picture it...madess...MADNESS!!!!


<--him

pay off electricity bill

10x1TB SATA in a raid with hotswap;

10Gb (only $4000/port) to the switch

1Gb to each client


for starters.....

While SAS is the way to go really...but WTF are you talking 10 SCSI cables...they have had StorageWorks and the like for about the same length of time you quoted.

Not all of us are dealing with this stuff day to day...if one was truly bringing $50k to the table there would be a lot of room for negotiation.

I thought the guy built a decent system except for some misc periphs (the keyboard, speakers...), but for some that is all they need. I remember in the day a lot of power users wouldn't make the switch to 'windows' keyboards holding on to their IBM Model M's.

 

[Coldkilla]

50k for a pc and only a pc!

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: rocadelpunk
I'd rent a supercomputer and have it calculate if it's humanly possible to beat battletoads for nes without cheats.

I can already tell you the answer: It's not. :|

Oh, and $50k on a personal computer is ridiculous.

 

[Coldkilla]

Originally posted by: MrPickins
Oh, and $50k on a personal computer is ridiculous.

What? Never!!!!

 

[Megatomic]

I'd get a Macbook Pro and a tri bike and pay off my vehicles and save the rest.

 

[rockyct]

I'd probably spend 10k on a computer and the rest on solar panels to power it.

 

[DrPizza]

And I could *only* spend the 50k on the computer? The answer is simple: Which components have the highest resale value?

 

[Rogodin2]

I'd purchase 24 dell poweredge sc1425 (console and switch too) servers and become a zippf ISP for my own enterprise host.

Rogo

 

[GoingUp]

Mac Pro
Part Number: Z0D8
Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme
Final Cut Express HD preinstalled
750GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse - U.S. English
750GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
Accessory kit
Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Two 16x SuperDrives
Mac OS X - U.S. English
16GB (8 x 2GB)
750GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
750GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB, Stereo 3D (2 x dual-link DVI)

and two 30" displays

 

[potato28]

A very nice 100TB array of HDD's, mixture of SS and MD, a great USB output from PCI-E slot, Benchmark DAC-1, and a good core system with low EM radiation. All boxed in a wood case grounded properly, and a good power conditioner with an APC for back-up.

 

[ultimatebob]

Yeah... I'd spend about $3000 on the computer and get an Audi TT as a "carrying case"

It doesn't how much you spend on a computer, since almost everything in the case will be obsolescent 18 months later and worthless another 18 months after that.

Seriously, though... It's easy to blow that much on a server.

 

[soydios]

build a $5000 computer right off the bat
put the other $45000 in a high-rate savings account
withdraw $5000 every two years to build a new rig
...
kick-ass gaming for the next 20 years!

 

[Polish3d]

One 5k machine, one 5k big flatscreen, 5 of the best games out, and 5 $7,000 dollar a day supermodel hot blond Yugoslavians to have sex with in between levels

 

[shortylickens]

I'd by 25 nice gaming rigs and gigabit hub.
Then LAN like a motherfvcker!

Oh, and headphones too.

I do NOT wanna hear 25 systems all blasting explosions and laser bolts at the same time.