If anyone can build a better dell machine for the money please let me know. This is the configuration that I am looking at.
Dell Precision T7600, 1300W
Operating System
Windows 7 Professional,SP1, No Media, 64-bit, English
Processor
Two Intel® Xeon® Processors E5-2687W (Eight Core, 3.1GHz, 20M, 8.0 GT/s, Turbo+)
Memory
32GB, DDR3 RDIMM Memory, 1600MHz, ECC (4 x 8GB DIMMs)
Graphics
6.0GB NVIDIA® Quadro® 6000, Dual MON, 2 DP & 1 DVI
Boot Hard Drive
500GB, 10K RPM 3.5" SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive
Additional PCI-E Network Adapter card
Intel® X520-T2 10GbE NIC, Dual Port, Copper
PCIe Hard Drive Controller
PERC H310 for Dell Precision, SATA/SAS 6Gb/s, RAID 0/1/5/10 (8 ports)
DVD and Read-Write Devices
8X DVD+/-RW SATA
Hard Drive Controller
PCIe Hard Drive Controller
Controller Card
1394A Fire Wire Controller Card
TOTAL: $9,569.93