Your Dream $4000 System

[hoplitehiker]

Say you have $4000 to blow on a high end gaming rig. You already have a sweet 24" monitor, and all the peripherals you could ask for. So you're just building out the tower.

Post your complete spec and let's all see the components that people like best.

 

[hamsystem]

Jennifer Love Hewitt and maybe a sandwich. : )

 

[mlaporta]

Rosie O'Donnell and definately a paper-bag "rofl"

 

[jnava121]

spend 800 dollars on a computer and the rest in a mutual fund or something ? lol

 

[roadrunner197069]

Mine only comes to $2300. I plan to overclock so I dont need a extreme cpu. And I dont have any use for more then one GPU. Oh and forget the 24" monitor mine is gonna be a 42" LCD for day and a 10' Projector for night with touch screen on both.

 

[DarkTide]

There isn't a tower that I would spend $4000 on, it's just not worth it. I think low $2000s is the sweet spot for a godly gaming rig, any higher and you're just not getting great performance gain for the money.

Take the other $2k and buy a 30"+ Monitor/TV.

 

[amddiesel]

couple of these for 300lb men.lol
http://www.suzukicycles.com/Products/LT80K6

 

[rgeist554]

Probably this:

I'd spend the rest on more vacuum tubes though.

 

[grieve]

With the release of the 9 series vid cards approaching in FEB, I don’t think I would build anything right now.

-I can guarantee it would contain two 8800GTX or whatever is the top card when the 9000’s are released.

-Maybe some PC3-15000 (1866MHz) …Looks interesting.

 

[WR2]

$1750 desktop PC and $2250 laptop.

 

[grieve]

OHHH gotta do a Danger Den water cooling system, thatll add $500+ to the build

 

[grieve]

$330 - Asus Striker II Formula w/ DualDDR2 1066, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan, 1394, PCI-E 2.0, 3-Way SLI

$300 - Enermax Galaxy Dxx 1000W Power Supply ATX V2.0 EPS12V SLI RoHS 24PIN 135MM Fan Modular 4PCI-E

$320 - Patriot Extreme Performance 2GB 2X1GB PC2-9200 DDR2-1150 CL5-5-5-12

$1130 - Intel Core™2 Extreme Processor QX9650 3.0GHz Quad-Core w/ 2x6MB Cache

$1328 – TWO -EVGA E-GEFORCE 8800GTX Superclocked 621MHZ 768MB 2.0GHZ GDDR3

$500 – TWO RAID 0 - Western Digital Raptor 150GB SATA 10KRPM 16MB NCQ

$120 - Antec Nine Hundred Mid Tower Gamer Case 900 ATX 9 Drive Bay No PS Top USB2.0 1394 Audio

$70 - Thermalright ULTRA-120 Extreme 6 Heatpipe Cooler LGA775 Heatsink

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There ya go… $ 4,088 + Tax
This machine is Screaming fast and a complete waste of money.

*** Please keep in mind I threw this together in like 5 mins, no research.

 

[chuckm]

Hoplite, you're killin' me man. I"m scrougin' to do an $800 build and you want to drop 4 grand. Tell ya' what, we wait on the video cards , I'll put a whoop butt list together for $2500 and you send me a $500 so I can update to an E8400 instead of a 2160 and finish this off right. Then you still get to pocket $1000 (LOL)