$4000 for the 1% (updated 11/15/2011)
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Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
If you just don't care about price, here's a monster budget PC that will give you bragging rights, yet it's still somewhat within reason. Take the rest of your filthy money and buy three or six monitors, you rich bastard.
Motherboard: ASUS Rampage IV Extreme $449
So begins a theme: "Best." Never has there been a board packed with more features, more overclockability, or better base components. The RIVE is the pinnacle of today's motherboard technology.
CPU: Intel Core i7-3930K $599.99
What does six cores get you that the 2600k doesn't? About 10% extra performance, truth be told. It's not much, but enthusiasts care about every single point. And there's something to be said for the prestige of owning fastest CPU architecture ever produced for the desktop PC.
Heatsink: Noctua NH-D14 $84.99
The best air cooler ever made. Period.
RAM: 16GB G.SKILL DDR3-2133 $164.99
Accommodates the punishing memory clocks that can be demanded by the interaction between SNB-E's reference clock, reference clock ratio and memory multipliers when attempting high CPU frequencies.
GPU #1: AMD Radeon HD 6990 (MSI) $699
The world's fastest reference GPU doesn't come cheap...
GPU #2: AMD Radeon HD 6990 (MSI) $699
And neither does its friend. Four GPUs in one system is the most horsepower money can buy. But what do you care, you 1% you...
Power Supply: Corsair AX1200 $299.99
It might cost a mint, but the 9.8/10 JonnyGuru rating proves this is one of the best PSUs ever produced.
Case: Silverstone FT-02B $249.99
The InWin BUC may be 2°C cooler in the CPU department, but nobody beats the FT-02 for GPU cooling. Four GPUs will need it.
SSD #1 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS $219.99
In the land of SSD performance, read speeds are king, champ, and OCZ is at the top of food chain for 2.5" disks. Hilariously fast, and a bargain at $1.80 per gig, the OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS continues to prove OCZ's preeminence in this space by keeping it simple: it blows the competition away on a SATA 6Gbps port.
HDD #1 3TB Seagate Barracuda XT $429.99
The Thailand floods have jacked the price of this hard disk through the stratosphere—not that you care—but the Barracuda XT is one fine piece of kit.
Optical #1: Samsung 22x DVD writer $19.99
One would hope a savvy user like you has transcended the needed for the quaint polycarbonate discs the plebes use, but if you simply must have a burner...
TOTAL $3916.92
NOTES: It's $4000, has six cores, 16GB of RAM and four GPUs. Don't you dare pair this with anything less than a 2560x1600 monitor, you heathen. Hell, buy six; you can run them with Eyefinity.
Motherboard: ASUS Rampage IV Extreme $449
So begins a theme: "Best." Never has there been a board packed with more features, more overclockability, or better base components. The RIVE is the pinnacle of today's motherboard technology.
CPU: Intel Core i7-3930K $599.99
What does six cores get you that the 2600k doesn't? About 10% extra performance, truth be told. It's not much, but enthusiasts care about every single point. And there's something to be said for the prestige of owning fastest CPU architecture ever produced for the desktop PC.
Heatsink: Noctua NH-D14 $84.99
The best air cooler ever made. Period.
RAM: 16GB G.SKILL DDR3-2133 $164.99
Accommodates the punishing memory clocks that can be demanded by the interaction between SNB-E's reference clock, reference clock ratio and memory multipliers when attempting high CPU frequencies.
GPU #1: AMD Radeon HD 6990 (MSI) $699
The world's fastest reference GPU doesn't come cheap...
GPU #2: AMD Radeon HD 6990 (MSI) $699
And neither does its friend. Four GPUs in one system is the most horsepower money can buy. But what do you care, you 1% you...
Power Supply: Corsair AX1200 $299.99
It might cost a mint, but the 9.8/10 JonnyGuru rating proves this is one of the best PSUs ever produced.
Case: Silverstone FT-02B $249.99
The InWin BUC may be 2°C cooler in the CPU department, but nobody beats the FT-02 for GPU cooling. Four GPUs will need it.
SSD #1 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS $219.99
In the land of SSD performance, read speeds are king, champ, and OCZ is at the top of food chain for 2.5" disks. Hilariously fast, and a bargain at $1.80 per gig, the OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS continues to prove OCZ's preeminence in this space by keeping it simple: it blows the competition away on a SATA 6Gbps port.
HDD #1 3TB Seagate Barracuda XT $429.99
The Thailand floods have jacked the price of this hard disk through the stratosphere—not that you care—but the Barracuda XT is one fine piece of kit.
Optical #1: Samsung 22x DVD writer $19.99
One would hope a savvy user like you has transcended the needed for the quaint polycarbonate discs the plebes use, but if you simply must have a burner...
TOTAL $3916.92
NOTES: It's $4000, has six cores, 16GB of RAM and four GPUs. Don't you dare pair this with anything less than a 2560x1600 monitor, you heathen. Hell, buy six; you can run them with Eyefinity.
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