if you had $5000 spare- what would your computer look like?

**PCrasher** · 12-07-2005, 02:39 AM

Just to put everyone in the imagination mode (atleast all of us who dont have the money to spare) - when your in the mood... post in the thread, what your $5000 dream machine would be composed of.. feel free to explain your discission aswell

**saphalline** · 12-07-2005, 02:41 AM

OMG! I'm gonna have to think about this one... give me a day or two...

**PCrasher** · 12-07-2005, 03:06 AM

You know what... i think you should be the final judge (you cant judge yourself, but i think most people will agree that youll probably have the best rig haha)

**i an not a nerd** · 12-07-2005, 08:29 AM

Gold plated case perhaps? (for the bling bling factor!)

**rond36** · 12-07-2005, 10:49 AM

Does it have to be under $5000

If it does I went over budget big time!

**saphalline** · 12-07-2005, 03:12 PM

Stick to the budget. You can always create more threads for other budgets if you want.

**rond36** · 12-07-2005, 08:43 PM

Can I re-use parts from my present system?

**Wandrille** · 12-07-2005, 09:05 PM

dude i think hes just askin to make a new pc from scratch with $5000

**beerbelly** · 12-07-2005, 09:05 PM

I suppose that's up to PC, since he or she is the one who started this.
But,

what your $5000 dream machine would be composed of.

sounds to me like you have to buy everything.

I'm having a blast with touch screen monitors, the more you research, the neater they get! What the heck, I've got $5k to spend!

It's looking like I might have to back down to twin 7800GTX's (darn!), and back off the RAM, a little!

**jahajazz** · 12-07-2005, 09:50 PM

Does it matter where I get my componets from? (like eBay instead of newegg).

**hockey man** · 12-07-2005, 10:12 PM

Stick with Newegg. You can never tell the quality of EBAy sellers and products.
Look for a AMD 64 X2 CPU, nForce 4 SLI MOBO, 7800GT graphics cards, 2 Gigs of RAM, 200+ GIG HD space, 500+ watt PSU, dual layer DVD burner.

**beerbelly** · 12-07-2005, 10:16 PM

Think bigger hockey man, you're not even close to 5 grand.

**PCrasher** · 12-07-2005, 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by beerbelly

I suppose that's up to PC, since he or she is the one who started this.

well, i am a "he", and the main rule is a $5000 rig, stick to newegg, and if there not big, go to and other reliable store (ebay does not count for reliable)
and you cant tkae your old rig or your grandmothers rig either
just decide what you dedicate your system to, and rig it like a mad man with $5k

keep the thread active!

Originally Posted by saphalline

Stick to the budget. You can always create more threads for other budgets if you want.

thanks for keeping the thread ...

**rond36** · 12-08-2005, 12:12 AM

Lian Li PC-75B Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower (modded) $399.00
Maxpoint Maximum Plus 660W Power Supply $252.50
Tyan Thunder S2895A2NRF $422.50
(2) AMD Opteron 265 Italy core 2MB L2 Cache $1422.00
2GB (2 X 1024MB) Gigaram Reg ECC PC3200 DDR $280.00
LSI Logic SAS3442X PCI-X SCSI Host Bus Adapter $319.99
(2) HITACHI Ultrastar 36.7GB 15,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Hard Drive $438.00 RAID-0 for the OS
(2) WD2500KS 250GB Hard Drives $230.00 RAID-1 for data
Plextor 8M Cache SATA DL DVD Burner $115.99
(2) XFX Geforce 7800GTX 256MB PCI-E video cards $1050.00 SLI in 2 full 16 lane PCI-E slots and each has its own 1000Mhz HT bus to its own CPU with another 1000Mhz HT bus between the two I/O chips
$4929.98

**hockey man** · 12-08-2005, 12:18 AM

I actually went over $5000 really quickly! Check this out it leaves just enough to get the other neccesary stuff (case, mice, etc)-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822145087
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131540
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16829102188
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16817703002\
2x http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227210
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103544
http://www.newegg.com/product/Produc...82E16837102062
http://www.newegg.com/product/Produc...82E16822144160
2x http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150119

**jahajazz** · 12-08-2005, 02:16 AM

Ok, so I guess you have 5,000 and want us to build you a computer?

Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813151148 $422.50

CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103550 x2 $1,356.00

RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145513 x4 $660.00

Vid Card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130254
x2 $938.00

My secret weapon

two Asetek VapoChill LightSpeed PHASE CHANGE COOLERS

(-50c mmmm)
http://www.overcool.com/exec/product...4&add_id=31204
$1581.90

And a liquid cooling system for the rest of the computer: http://www.newegg.com/product/Produc...82E16835124005

That's the core system for only: $5048.39

I wouldn't do anything special with the rest of the system only 19' LCD 620w PSU two 300GB HDD's basic speakers, keyboard, mouse...

I CURSE YOU AND THAT LOW BUDGET!!!!!!!!!!

**PCrasher** · 12-08-2005, 11:07 AM

PSU and the HDD is part of the core..... cant let you steal those.. haha

**beerbelly** · 12-08-2005, 11:11 AM

**PCrasher** · 12-08-2005, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by hockey man

I actually went over $5000 really quickly! Check this out it leaves just enough to get the other neccesary stuff (case, mice, etc)

the mouse and keyboard is on me, but you're gonna have to keep the parts in a shopping bag (or the ups box from newegg shipping) cause case is in the core as well

**dfgasner** · 12-08-2005, 01:31 PM

K I'm really new at all this high end stuff because I've never had a reason to look at it. But after no research this is what I have come up with. I know that most of the boxes out here will be used for overclocking, with nice cooling systems. Well I think that a computer like this has no need to be overclocked and the extra cooling money should be put towards quality parts.
So here it is:

LOGISYS Computer CS888UVBL Blue Clear Acrylic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case Pre-Assembled - $75.99

2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3500641AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (Running in Raid 0 for awesome performance and space) - $713.00

Acer AL2416Wd Silver 24" 6ms gray-to-gray Wide Screen LCD Monitor 500 cd/m2 1000:1 0.27mm Pixel Pitch - $939.99

2 x XFX PVT70FUND7 Geforce 7800GTX 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 VIVO PCI Express x16 Video Card - $1,050.00

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS GAMER Limited Edition 70SB035000013 8 (7.1) Channels 24-bit 192KHz PCI Interface Sound Card - $113.50

ENERMAX EG651AX-VH EPS12V 550W Power Supply 90 - 264V UL, cUL, VDE, CB, DEMKO, NEMKO, SEMKO, FIMKO - $196.50

Logitech Z-5500 505 Watts 5.1 Speaker - $214.98

2 x OCZ Gold Series 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM Unbuffered DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory - $519.82

ASUS P5N32-SLI Deluxe Socket T (LGA 775) NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - $209.00

Intel Pentium 4 670 Prescott 800MHz FSB 2MB L2 Cache LGA 775 EM64T Processor - $602.00

2 x PLEXTOR Beige 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 6X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 4X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 8M Cache IDE DVD Burner - $225.98

UPS Ground - $99.97

Total system w/o Keyboard or Mouse - $4,960.73

Thanks a lot for this awesome thread, it was fun.
Excited to see everyone else's dream machines

**PCrasher** · 12-08-2005, 01:37 PM

MASSCOOL CS-ICS8200ML Black Air-Conditioning Cooling Computer Case - Retail - 219
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811221002

SILVERSTONE ZEUS SST-ST65ZF ATX12V 650W Power Supply - Retail - 177
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817163108

TYAN S2895A2NRF SSI EEB 3.0 Server Motherboard - Retail - 428
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813151148

2x AMD Opteron 175 Denmark 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model OSA175DAA6CD - OEM - 958
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103583

2x THERMALRIGHT XP-120 Heatsink - Retail - 120
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835109118

Adaptec 29320A-R 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X SCSI Card - OEM - 209
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816103159

2x Fujitsu MAU3073NP 73GB 15,000 RPM SCSI Ultra320 68pin Hard Drive - OEM -730
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822116151

2x Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM -210
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822144417

2x OCZ Performance 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model OCZ4002048PFDC-K - Retail -209
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146970

2x XFX PVT70FUNF7 Geforce 7800GTX 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card with 450MHz Core and 1250MHz Memory - Retail - 925
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150100

2x Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM -210
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822144417

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic Sound Card - Retail - 125
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16829102188

Logitech Z-5500 505 Watts 5.1 Speaker - Retail -240
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16836121120

ASUS Black IDE DVD Burner 5X DVD-RAM Read Model - OEM - 40
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827135046

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including shipping

UNLEASH THE BEAST!!

**dfgasner** · 12-08-2005, 01:47 PM

Isn't the moniter part of the price, cuz if it ain't i could put another grand into my box

**PCrasher** · 12-08-2005, 02:46 PM

the idea is the case... but if you want to change or add things like a 1k monitor or a $250 set of speakers... be my guest

**saphalline** · 12-08-2005, 02:53 PM

Ok, let's lay down some more concrete rules for this thread (and feel free to re-do your proposed systems if you want - no point penalties

):

1) - Peripherals are not needed. You can leave out the monitors, speakers, mice, keyboards, printers, whatever! These parts are very user-specific and are not included in "the box". If you wish to include them, consider them "free".

2) - Parts that help in OC'ing can be included (like liquid coolers) but OC'ing is not required nor is it encouraged by the forums!! (Gotta get that disclaimer in here.

)

3) - No leaving out any core/box parts!! You can't start a system without a PSU or a hard drive. You must include these parts by default.

4) - You may include any OS for "free". Even if it costs money. It's not technically part of the box, but it is needed for a working PC and we are working on a budget here. You may even include multiple OS'es for free. If your idea of a dream machine is a triple-boot system, by all means, share it with us. But the OS is free.

5) - You may resubmit any of your current configs as per these rules. You may also submit multiple configs if you want to approach this from a different angle (A64 vs Opteron vs Intel for instance) but all configs from the same member must be different enough to be considered a different system, and they must be labeled as such. As in "Config #2 - Dual Opteron" or something like that.

As for all your configs, they're not bad!

Lots of fun stuff, and I think this is a great thread for getting some of the more esoteric and unusual components out in the open. I especially like the fact that a lot of you thought of dual-socketed mobo's right away - quad-core, baby!!

All of these are pretty awesome in their own way. Keep the configs coming! And let's start a $10K thread with the same rules, shall we?

I've got some ideas for this thread that I'm working on. Should be interesting...

**jlreich** · 12-08-2005, 03:02 PM

I like the 10K idea. It's really hard to stay under 5K when your dreaming.

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