You have $50K to get 1 Computer. What would you choose? I'm showing this guy Alienware does NOT make the BEST pcs.

[LordPhoenix]

Post everything here. I'm not planning on BUYING one. I'm just showing some guy that Alienware doesn't make the "best" pcs in the universe.

Don't care if its dual cpus and dual video cards. Just post the best you can get for that amount. Including Monitor, Case, etc.

Please include every part including motherboard, cpu, case, video cards, ram, hard drives, etc.

 

[NarcoticHobo]

About 20 x 15k rpm cheatah scsi drives w/ a scsi connector with additional buffer
4x 2.6 ghz opterons
4 Gigs of ram
a 10 Gig powered ram drive to put the operating system on

With the remaining money I would find a way to somehow build a dedicated graphics computer with a athlon fx-55 and 4 Gigs ram... this would replace the video card in the system, and I'm sure with the 10-20k left over I could get someone to design it for me.

Edit: the motherboard would be a tyan NF4, the case would be just whatever server case I could find, probably a lianli, and the monitor would be either the apple 30" or the IBM one with like 3000x2300 resolution.

 

[Tab]

Just one computer...

-Dual Opertrons
-Dual 6800Us
-4GBs of Ram
-4 Terabytes ALL SCSI

 

[DarkAmeba]

I would buy a nice car. Then I would put together an FX-55 system with dual 6800 ultras in SLI and a bunch of cheetah scis drives and a few gigs of powered ram like above.

 

[Mojoed]

Originally posted by: Tabb
Just one computer...

-Dual Opertrons
-Dual 6800Us
-4GBs of Ram
-4 Terabytes ALL SCSI

Don't forget the display(s)!

 

[Goi]

Originally posted by: LordPhoenix
I'm just showing some guy that Alienware doesn't make the "best" pcs in the universe.

You're not showing him, we are

 

[MercenaryForHire]

What the F. $50K is obscene. At least make it "He picks the L33t Alienware system of his choice, we equal it with a custom-build for 1/3 the price."

And for $50K, I'm going to say the ECU, with attached Lotus Elise.

- M4H

 

[madthumbs]

I thought stupid rich people bought Falcon Northwest?

 

[Mrvile]

Ok here we go:

Iwill dual Opteron nForce4 SLI motherboard
2x Ultra Extreme PCIe
2x 250 Opterons
8gb OCZ Platinum DDR533
4x 300GB 10.7k rpm Cheetahs in RAID10
Audigy2 ZS Platinum
OCZ Powerstream 520W
4x 16x DVD/RW DL

Water cool the whole damn thing.

Spend the remaining 30k on a 60in LCD monitor.

 

[Zepper]

You must have meant $5k... but if you meant it. I'd take the first $45k and move to New Hampshire with the Free State Project and put a large down on some property. Then I'd have Monarch build me a custom job with the remainder.
.bh.

 

[NautikaL 8]

10gig ramdrive for os and some games
1tb 4 250gb in raid 0+1
CRT projector with 100 inch screen. 30inch LCD display for casual viewing.
4x opeterons
16gb ram
Audigy 4
Dual 6800 ultra
4 loop watercooling. 1 loop=2x cpu 2nd loop= 2x cpu and chipset 3rd loop = gfx cards 4th loop = hard drives
super duper motherboard xxx trinity 90000000000 plus 4000
2x 600w server psu's
tv tuner
mx1000 logitech elite
sennheiser headphones
some really nice speakers
porn to watch on your 100inch screen

there the best computer ever

 

[LtPage1]

what about going to virginia tech route, linking a bunch of apple xserve g5s in a cluster? i really dont know any of the technical details, but its the 3rd fastest supercomputer in the world. of course, it cost a couple million dollars and had a lot more than just a few in it.

 

[Tiamat]

Here is my stab:
4x 30" Apple Cinema Displays: $13200
2x 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 800 640MB: $3262
4x AMD Opteron 850: $5880
Appropriate mobo with 2x PCI-E 16: ~$2000 (since Tyan S4882UG2NR costs $1700)
16GB PC3200 ECC Reg Pro(Mushkin): $4864
Creative E-MU 1820m: $500
4x VapoChill LightSpeed: $3556
12x Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 300GB ST3000007LW: $18600
Coolermaster CM Stacker: $170
2x Coolermaster 4-in-3 Device Module (SPB-3T4-E1): $80
Coolermaster CrossFlow Fan: $30
LSI MegaRAID 320-2: $590
NEC 16X Double Layer DVDRW: $66
2x Enermax Noisetaker 600W: $400
Total: $53198

 

[coolred]

I amnot saying alienware makes the best PC's, maybe they do, maybe they don't.

But first think of the term PC, personal computer. How many people do you know will spend 50K on a personal computer. Almost none, except for the insanely rich, and even then how many of these rich guys really care if they have a computer that fast. I mean obviously alienware doesn't make the faster computers in the world, but they do make some of the speediest PC's.

 

[frootbooter]

I'd buy a cray. It'd probably have to be a relatively cheap one though. 50k isn't much for a supercomputer.

 

[Cryption]

Why would you buy a cray? You couldn't run anything besides a Ph.D. experiment, maybe map some weather, or fold a protein or two.

Yea that sounds like a great use of $50K, why didn't anyone else think of that?!?

 

[dethman]

i'd buy an M3 and keep my current computer.

 

[erikistired]

i'd buy a pimped out conversion van with the fold out bed in the back, and then install an alienware super pc in where the captains chairs would be. then i'd live in it. down by the river.

 

[rammstein junkie]

umm i know what mouse i would get...mx510 baby

 

[NautikaL 8]

mx510? try the mx1000...

 

[Mrvile]

Nah I like the MX510 myself.

 

[dguy6789]

Ok HEHEHEHEH.

I would build the following

2 AMD Opteron 250s
The best opteron board
8 Gigs of Ram
4 400GB harddrives all in raid 0
Get an ATI Radeon X850XT PE
800Watt PSU
Probably get a Thermaltake Xaser V case
and i would get 3 prometia mach 2 coolers, one for each cpu(and run em at 3ghz each), and one for the vpu.

Lets see alienware make ANYTHING even 1/5 the speed of this baby

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
Here is my stab:
4x 30" Apple Cinema Displays: $13200
2x 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 800 640MB: $3262
4x AMD Opteron 850: $5880
Appropriate mobo with 2x PCI-E 16: ~$2000 (since Tyan S4882UG2NR costs $1700)
16GB PC3200 ECC Reg Pro(Mushkin): $4864
Creative E-MU 1820m: $500
4x VapoChill LightSpeed: $3556
12x Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 300GB ST3000007LW: $18600
Coolermaster CM Stacker: $170
2x Coolermaster 4-in-3 Device Module (SPB-3T4-E1): $80
Coolermaster CrossFlow Fan: $30
LSI MegaRAID 320-2: $590
NEC 16X Double Layer DVDRW: $66
2x Enermax Noisetaker 600W: $400
Total: $53198

thats about what I woudl do except id go with 8 gigs of ram, save about 2200$ there, id use a Lain li PC2000B case and id go with either 4x IBM T221's or 4x Planar WS231's cost less then then 1/2 of what thoes apples cost

also the Nvidia Quadro FX 4000 does dual, Dual link DVI and its considerbly cheaper then the 3D labs card

 

[jimikim]

How many $$ a day in power consumption would your machines take?

 

[CraigRT]

50 grand?
that will get him a high end alienware and a G35 coupe...

a high end computer is like 5 grand, not 50!!