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if you had 5000 dollars what would you get?

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BeLikeMiKe716

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i am looking to build a new computer but am currently out of the loop. I have just skimmed reviews of amd fx60 and the coming conroe and amd am2... please help me out =)

if you had $5000 and you have to buy:

motherboard
CPU
Video Card/s
Memory

which exact setup would you recommend?
 
$5000 is a heap of money. I think the performance:cost ratio drops off at about $2000. I'd get an Opteron 165 Processor, SLI'd 7900GTX's, DFI Lanparty Expert mobo, Team Xtreem 2x1GB PC4000 Micron RAM, along with a great water cooling system.

Take the money that's left over, put it in the bank, and use it for your next upgrade. That should hold you over for a good 10 years.
 
Originally posted by: loserxleet
$5000 is a heap of money. I think the performance:cost ratio drops off at about $2000. I'd get an Opteron 165 Processor, SLI'd 7900GTX's, DFI Lanparty Expert mobo, Team Xtreem 2x1GB PC4000 Micron RAM, along with a great water cooling system.

Take the money that's left over, put it in the bank, and use it for your next upgrade. That should hold you over for a good 10 years.
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I whole heartedly agree. IMO after 1500-2000 dollars the value really starts to diminish. If i had 5k i would buy a SLI system with an Opteron 170, 2GB of ram etc... and throw about $1500 into speakers and a monitor.

The rest would be kept in the bank so that the computer could be kept up to date for the next 5 -10 years. Selling slightly used componenets that are only 1 year old for 75% of their original cost plus drawing off your pool of extra money could keep you going for a long time.
 
A couple of Dual-Core Opteron 265's @ $332 a piece.
A stable, dual socket 940 motherboard for these babies.. probably a Tyan of some sort...
and then the other typical stuff...memory, decent graphics with gaming capability.. etc .. etc..

probably wouldn't even come close to tapping into a $5000 budget.
 
I'd go for:

Opteron 170/175
A8N32
2GB of the most expensive RAM ever made.
2x7900GTX
4 WD raptor 150s in 2 RAID0 Arrays
1 WD5000KD as backup
XFI soundcard with external breakout box
Seasonic S12 600W PSU

Of course that's a massive waste of money, but who cares?
 
are the dual core dual proc oc'ing boards? what would a dual 265 setup need in terms of ram? obviously ecc ram? $$$?
 
I'd invest it, but if I had to spend it on computers...

1 x Dell 30" Display
2 x Dell 20" Displays
SLI 7900GTs
maybe an XFi and PhysX card or something. I just want the big monitors and something that'll push em.
 
You n00bs don't know what to do with $5000 so lemme show you.


Tyan K8QE mobo (4 CPU's, Dual 16x PCI-E and dual 4x PCI-e.)
Tyan M4881 board (+4 cpu's to above mentioned mobo)
Either 4 7900GTX's (not 2 7900GX2's, 4 7900GTX's), or 4 quadro 4500's.
8 Opteron 885's. (Pretty much the same as 8 FX-60's).
128GB Ram.



This would pwn. Of course, each CPU costs ~$2000, so the cpu's come out to about $16000 alone. Add in the GPU's, the ram, the ~$3000 mobo, and I think it may be a bit over $5000 lol.
 
http://voodoopc.com/showroom.aspx?ProductID=1092

Base price is $2500, and if you hook it up well up to $5000, you can get a pretty damn good system, and futureproof yourself. Additionally, VoodooPC comes with a nearly unvoidable warranty, with overclocking accepted and encouraged by them. The only way you could possibly void the warranty is if you threw the computer out the window of a 12-story building.
 
Originally posted by: Shadow Conception
Base price is $2500, and if you hook it up well up to $5000, you can get a pretty damn good system, and futureproof yourself.
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I wouldn't call it futureproof, when Conroe comes out and whatever AMD has after am2, it will probably be equaled by parts costing about 1/8 the amount, and you'll wish you had only spent $1500-2000 and put the rest in a CD.

 
Originally posted by: Crescent13
You n00bs don't know what to do with $5000 so lemme show you.


Tyan K8QE mobo (4 CPU's, Dual 16x PCI-E and dual 4x PCI-e.)
Tyan M4881 board (+4 cpu's to above mentioned mobo)
Either 4 7900GTX's (not 2 7900GX2's, 4 7900GTX's), or 4 quadro 4500's.
8 Opteron 885's. (Pretty much the same as 8 FX-60's).
128GB Ram.



This would pwn. Of course, each CPU costs ~$2000, so the cpu's come out to about $16000 alone. Add in the GPU's, the ram, the ~$3000 mobo, and I think it may be a bit over $5000 lol.
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For maybe a year, during which time you would get almost no benefit from all that processing power unless you have very specific needs; for gaming it would be ridiculous overkill.

If you want to have a system that does absolutely everything you want it to do, you'd be better off with a mid-range AMD X2 or opteron now, and upgrading as needed; that $5K will keep you in great gaming for a decade or more, as one poster above suggested.

Edit, for comparison, consider an SMP P2 system with voodoo2 sli. It was certainly king sh1t a decade ago, but wouldn't do you much good now.
 
For around $2,200 you could get an A64 4000+ (faster at stock than X2 4400+), 2 GB, single 7900GTX, boot HD + Raptor 150 for game data, with a nice case and PSU.

Put the other $2,800 into an INGDirect.com account and upgrade a year from now when there is something worth spending the money on.
 
If i had that sort of money, albeit in GBP, i sure as hell wouldn?t waste it on constantly depreciating hardware! It wouldn?t really be much of an investment would it.

I would much prefer to invest it and make money 😉
 
I'd buy one of those cool Bose Acoustimass 20 systems that cost $4500 and spend the other $500 on a budget computer.






j/k 😉
 
Originally posted by: Crescent13
You n00bs don't know what to do with $5000 so lemme show you.


Tyan K8QE mobo (4 CPU's, Dual 16x PCI-E and dual 4x PCI-e.)
Tyan M4881 board (+4 cpu's to above mentioned mobo)
Either 4 7900GTX's (not 2 7900GX2's, 4 7900GTX's), or 4 quadro 4500's.
8 Opteron 885's. (Pretty much the same as 8 FX-60's).
128GB Ram.



This would pwn. Of course, each CPU costs ~$2000, so the cpu's come out to about $16000 alone. Add in the GPU's, the ram, the ~$3000 mobo, and I think it may be a bit over $5000 lol.
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Let's see you get windows running on that... 😛

 
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