What is the Ultimate PC Gaming Rig?

[HopJokey]

Sometimes I dream about building a monster gaming PC rig (FX-55, 6800GT SLI, etc), and I'm probably not alone here. If you guys had an unlimted budget to put together the most powerful machine money can buy today, what would it look like? So far the only thing I could think of that would be creative is like buying a crazy cooling system for quad AMD Opteron 852's (having trouble finding a MOBO that supports these processors and SLI) and overclocking like crazy. Here is what I have so far on my list of the "Ultimate PC gaming rig":

Processor(s): Quad AMD Opteron 852s
MOBO: Tyan - 800-8XVID QUAD OPTERON 2U
Vid Card: Radeon X850 XT Platinum (Don't think there is a PCIe MOBO for Quad Ops)
Hard Disk: Segate ST373453LW 73.4GB Ultra 320 SCSI (68 PIN) 3.6ms 15000rpm 8 MB

Right now I don't think the FX-55 can be beat because of SLI support. But maybe 4 Ops could beat it (probably not with not many games taking advantage of parallel processing).

 

[w00t]

u dont wnat to get opterons for gaming and quad it stupider and you dont need scsi for gaming either.

 

[Excelsior]

I agree..but having SCSI certainly wouldn't hurt anything...

 

[imported_Kensai]

You wouldn't want quad opterons for current games, SCSI will be good though.

 

[shoRunner]

overclocked fx-55 or 4000+ san deigo would perform better for gaming since games are not optimized for multiply CPUs...and with those you can get the dual 512mb 6800 ultras and be the uber 3l33t money waster

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: HopJokey
Sometimes I dream about building a monster gaming PC rig (FX-55, 6800GT SLI, etc), and I'm probably not alone here. If you guys had an unlimted budget to put together the most powerful machine money can buy today, what would it look like?

it'd look a lot like an Xbox360
[with KB+mouse support for FPS]
:roll:


Absolutely NO point building a awesome PC gaming rig when the current Games are created to run on a Radeon 8500/GF3.
:thumbsdown:

 

[theMan]

Motherboard:
DFI LANParty nF4 SLI-DR ? $216

CPU:
AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 (San Diego) ? $850

Video Cards:
2x BFG Geforce 6800 Ultra OC 512MB PCI-e ? $1610

Memory:
1024MB OCZ EL DDR PC-4000 Dual Channel Gold VX ? $265

Power Supply:
PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 850 SSI (black) ? $500

Hard Drives:
4x Western Digital 74GB Raptor (Raid 0+1) ? $688

DVD/CD-RW:
2x NEC ND-3520A ? $116

CPU Cooling:
Asetek Vapochill Lightspeed (black)? $889

Case
Vapochill LightSpeed Ready Lian-Li PC-65 (black) ? $200

Graphics Cooling:
2x NVsilencer 5 ? $60

Monitor:
Diamondtron UWG RDF225WG 22-inch Black CRT Monitor ? $4750

TOTAL:
$10,139

hehehehehehe, could be better, maybe some scsi's and better gfx cooling.

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Diamondtron UWG RDF225WG 22-inch Black CRT Monitor ? $4750

Whoah...Where the hell do you find a CRT monitor for $4750??? Apple's 30" LCD is cheaper than that!!

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Absolutely NO point building a awesome PC gaming rig when the current Games are created to run on a Radeon 8500/GF3.

True, But I will say Half-Life2 didn't like my GF3Ti too much, But it loved my 6800

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: GonzoDaGr8

Absolutely NO point building a awesome PC gaming rig when the current Games are created to run on a Radeon 8500/GF3.

True, But I will say Half-Life2 didn't like my GF3Ti too much, But it loved my 6800

Yeah, i ran a R8500 till i upgraded to a 9800xt over a year ago . . . .

my point is - unless you are runnning at super-hi resolution with lots of AA - you aren't going to 'see' [much of a] a difference in HL2 with your 6800 and a uber-rig.

kind of a waste with curent gen games . . . . i am planning a last AGP upgrade - the 6800ultra IF the supply is good and the proce drops this Fall - getting a nextgen console and "sitting tight" until the Physics processors, dual-core CPU, multicore GPUs AND PC games "catch up" - probably in '08 . . . . until then i'll save a boatload of $$$ on [not] upgrading computer HW.

carry on dreamin'
:roll:

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: theman

hehehehehehe, could be better, maybe some scsi's and better gfx cooling.

I saw one who used the vapochill on his videocard, so add two extra vapochill units for gfx cooling

 

[SVT Cobra]

id take my rig...right now a little over 4000$, but i would definately like to add a vapochill...

 

[theMan]

Originally posted by: GonzoDaGr8

Diamondtron UWG RDF225WG 22-inch Black CRT Monitor ? $4750

Whoah...Where the hell do you find a CRT monitor for $4750??? Apple's 30" LCD is cheaper than that!!

i looked up crt on froogle, and recorded the most expensive one.

 

[classy]

Originally posted by: w00t
u dont wnat to get opterons for gaming and quad it stupider and you dont need scsi for gaming either.

SCSI absolutely would be included in an ultimate gaming rig. SCSI will load maps without question faster than conventional hard drives.

 

[Excelsior]

I think using Raptors or having a RAID setup just doesn't really make sense. Just getting the fastest/best 15k RPM 74GB scsi drive, then a big seagate for backup would work great.

 

[HorseShoe]

Originally posted by: theman

Originally posted by: GonzoDaGr8

Diamondtron UWG RDF225WG 22-inch Black CRT Monitor ? $4750

Whoah...Where the hell do you find a CRT monitor for $4750??? Apple's 30" LCD is cheaper than that!!

i looked up crt on froogle, and recorded the most expensive one.

lol there is one more expensive than that.
http://www.computers4sure.com/product.asp?productid=1906670&affid=10000483

 

[The Boston Dangler]

What you would need for storage is a few of these bad boys.

No price is listed, so you know it's up there. I saw a similar drive for about $10K.

 

[theMan]

Originally posted by: HorseShoe

Originally posted by: theman

Originally posted by: GonzoDaGr8

Diamondtron UWG RDF225WG 22-inch Black CRT Monitor ? $4750

Whoah...Where the hell do you find a CRT monitor for $4750??? Apple's 30" LCD is cheaper than that!!

i looked up crt on froogle, and recorded the most expensive one.

lol there is one more expensive than that.
http://www.computers4sure.com/product.asp?productid=1906670&affid=10000483

thats the same one i posted. just at a more expensive site.

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Originally posted by: theman

Originally posted by: HorseShoe

Originally posted by: theman

Originally posted by: GonzoDaGr8

Diamondtron UWG RDF225WG 22-inch Black CRT Monitor ? $4750

Whoah...Where the hell do you find a CRT monitor for $4750??? Apple's 30" LCD is cheaper than that!!

i looked up crt on froogle, and recorded the most expensive one.

lol there is one more expensive than that.
http://www.computers4sure.com/product.asp?productid=1906670&affid=10000483

thats the same one i posted. just at a more expensive site.

Dayum...:Q That has got to be aimed more at the CAD/CAM, Engineer-type workstation market.

 

[MDme]

what about using two opteron 875's (dual core) then using vapochill for overclocking (which will negate the clockspeed advantage of the FX-55) on a tyan dual nForce pro mobo with dual 16x PCI-E using two 6800 ultras with 512 ddr3 each (OC'd as well using vapochill).

 

[SVT Cobra]

opertons would not benefit gaming ppl...it would be a waste of money and litterally would see no gains in gaming....plus go ahead and try to find and OC friendly dual core mobo...

also the tyan is supposed to be good.

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Originally posted by: MDme
what about using two opteron 875's (dual core) then using vapochill for overclocking (which will negate the clockspeed advantage of the FX-55) on a tyan dual nForce pro mobo with dual 16x PCI-E using two 6800 ultras with 512 ddr3 each (OC'd as well using vapochill).

Dual or quad cores would be a waste for a gaming rig. However, with the right graphics card, would be a dream CAD station.

 

[MDme]

I know it's not the best use for the amount of money... but the thread is not about the money. the only reason am saying opteron is that you cannot use two FX chips or X2 chips in one mobo. someday in the future when games become multi-threaded, this system would rock.