$10,000 AUD No Joke Gaming Monster

Have you considered building two $5,000 PCs, one now and one four years from now?

You chose an extended atx motherboard BUT the case you chose doesn't support e-atx. Go with a lian li or HAF

What's this? A rich Aussie?
 


Your power supply won't handle all three of those cards, but no problem. You don't need 3 anyway.

A couple of these:
http://www.mwave.com.au/newAU/mwaveAU/productdetail.asp...

And a couple of these:
http://www.chilledpc.com.au/index.php?page=shop.product...

Along with the rest of a water cooling system will get you far better bang for the buck than throwing all that cash around for a few frames per second.

The same goes for the CPU. Downgrade and use the water system to get your performance.

I concur. Hell, a 920 should be fine.

Yeah buy your parents something nice...im sure they have helped you out in the past...

you better get a TEC or phase change cooler with that 975, I think you'd probably hit 6ghz.

Fail/lies/Dumass

Dude, just spend $5,000 on a kick ass system and tell your folks "Thanks, but for an overindulgence in a freaking useless hobby you shouldn't have to help me pay for it" Just because you can take advantage of your parents doesn't mean you should.

Another +1 for spending some of that now, and saving more for future systems.

If you save/invest right, you could keep rolling that forward to get a sweet system every few years.

Don't wast the cash on the top end CPU - get the i7 920 and OC. The GPU suggestions are right on as well.

This is a joke.
Get out from under the bridge.

6ms Grey to Gray refresh rate sucks.

These have 3ms black to black.
The only drawback is the 160* viewing angle but you wont be much closer than 5-6 feet any way which really widens things up.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

lol

Your $10,000 system is absolutely ridiculous and will be slower than a $1,500 setup in roughly 3-5 years.

Looks like a waste of money to me.

lies.... waste of time..........

H U G E . W A S T E . O F . M O N E Y          

It will be outdated in 6 months... And you have no RAID card - have fun maxing out the onboard crap controllers on your motherboard with the SSDs - it's like driving an indy car through NYC during rush hour. Let me guess, you "Sorted by Price" and picked the most rediculous crap you could find.

Lame.

Get a life.

Troll Alert!

waste of money. u dont ened something so strong.

I think you could probably get 95% of the performance for about 30% of the money; some of the comments thus far have been good ones. For example, something like this:

Intel i7 920 D0; OC to 3.4-3.8 GHz
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2
2 x Radeon HD 4890
6GB OCZ Platinum 1600's
Antec 900 case
Western Digital Caviar Black 640 GB HDD
Corsair 850W PSU
Xigmatech Dark Knight CPU Cooler
(Optical Drive of your choice)

Would probably cost you ~$1500-2000 AUD without a monitor if I had to guess, and should max out basically any game you can throw at it. (Of course, other people will have different parts preferences, this is just an example). It would also leave you $3000 to spend on other stuff. Think of how many pizzas you could order with $3000... powerful stuff.

What these ppl are saying in questionable terms is basically this: You buy a crazy out-specced PC now and u'll find that it will be outdated in a year or two. (or next yr when DX11, windows 7 and a new generation of processors are out). technology changes quite rapidly, and ur PC for $10,000 wont be able to run games 2 years from now on max settings while using the newest technologies. On the other hand if u were to spend AUD 5000 on a good PC now u will be able to run pretty much any program/game at awesome resolutions. then in 2 years get another comp for around teh same price (minus the monitor, if u make sure u get a realy good monitor now. or go for the Samsun + NVidia 3D Vision bundle and hold on to it). This way u'd not only have two computers (one very good one, and one that is cutting edge, but u'd actually be better off.

i.e. in 2 yrs u'd still have a cutting edge computer. but if u shell out 10k on a PC now, in 2 years ur comp will be great, but it won't be cutting edge.

If you notice, some of the stuff he's spending money on won't be outdated so quickly, such as the monitors. Some people are willing to spend quite a bit of money, I find it frustrating for him that so many people are offering financial advice, which he didn't ask for, instead of hardware advice, which he did.

I'd get a RAID controller for the drives, the graphics set is quite nice, you might even consider a dual CPU board with one or two GTX295s, but if it's mainly for gaming you're right on track.

Sure it will... easily. No system uses up all the Amps and Watts available to that unit.

EDIT: Regardless, don't spend this money. There are so many better things that you could spend it on that are infinitely more worthwhile. Get a $2500 system if you feel you need to waste money, or even a $1500 one, which will still max out games like no other.

Honestly, put it in the bank or a mutual fund and get some interest on that cash. Send your kids through college... although it doesn't really look like you'll be having any kids, does it? (couldn't resist the roll  )

Not sure about your system but if you want to get quality monitor think EIZO, dam expansive, but some of the best quality picture you can get.

@cdnchemist:
if i could get that rig for 1500-2000 aud, it'd be gone... thats gonna cost between 2500-3000 aud, and thats without any monitors... check the prices b4 u advertise

you can get a sportscourt built in your backyard for like $5000 it has a tenis net, and a full court basketball thingy.

If you are going to buy this system you simply HAVE to OC, otherwise it's a complete waste of money. If you buy an i7 920 and a good watercool setup you could get more performance than you would get out of the stock 975 and save atleast 1000$.

It's quite clear that money isn't an issue, but i'm sure you would like to get the best possible performance. Buying this rig and running it at stock settings just wouldn't do it.

Skultrail any one

2,000 Max on any computer... This is just rediculous

Let this thread die already...

God, Just go to the bank record yourself asking to get that in 5C pieces and wol'a your a youtube superstar.
Then have a bath in all the 5c pieces.

wow id rather buy a yamaha yz450f and spend the left over on a $1500 gaming rig

I cant really blame the others for getting jealous about this 10k system. I say go for it, Its your money you spend it the way how you want to. But IMHO the i7 975 is just a little off the top.

Haven't you worked out he's a spammer yet?

I agree with some of these posts! Buy a cheaper machine to use and invest the rest!

Such a waste...

i would change the monitor

PSU--> eep. the psu you selected is ultra expensive, you might consider the far better rated brand: 'pc power and cooling' you might consider looking at one of the few high-efficiency 90PLUS rated psus...
CASE/Cooler-> Take a peek at the RCS100 case. It offers refrigeration for the cpu -- at $10,000, you need to have something exotic. If not refrigeration, the CoolIT Boreas 12 is the highest rated non-painfully-custom cooling solution. you can order it for one cpu, two cpus, one gpu, two gpus, etc. the antec twelve hundred is a terrific case, very tall though. I have five HDs in raid0 and two graphics cards in my antec nine hundred, and it still isnt full. I replaced all the antec stock fans with nice quiet variable speed ones -- fans, fan silencers, psu silencers, noise reduction padding inside the case, i dont see any of that listed...
MONITORS-> 30s are huge, did you look at (26inch?) the 120hz models with the glasses as an alternative?
RAM-> good ram, but the reviews of the included fan are terrible. buy the version w/o the fan. Also, 12gb won't likely give you any improvement over 6gb. you wont max out 6gb no matter what you do....
VID-> the FTW is awesome (I have it), although if going with multiple cards, i think the single gpu 280 is a better choice (faster) than the dual gpu 285. check toms, buy i'm 99% sure that the reviews show that having two 280 single gpu cards are faster in most games than two 285s (four gpus).
RAID->a raid card will likely help speed up your system, Raid0 on your ssd drives with the card, and raid0 on the 7200 drives using your motherboard sata connectors...

Nice necro.

It will be slower in some respects than a $1,500 setup in more like 1.5-2 years. Personally I would just buy the accessories and screen then spend $2,000 on a new PC every year for the next 4 years.

If you have this kind of cash and want the best peformance, then get 2 ATI HD5870.

Lol, this was originally posted 4 months ago, and the prices have already dropped considerably for everything he's wanting. If money is no issue, hell, go for it. It's better than getting Syphilis from a Hooker. Well, almost... depends on the hooker.

Monitor - 30" SAMSUNG 305T+ (2560 x 1600, 6ms, 1000:1, 400cd/m², Black) x 2 $3100

Would go for 6 monitors instead: Hanns·G HG-281DPB Black 28" 3ms Widescreen HDMI LCD Monitor x 6 = $1800

Save that little extra for 3 ATI HD5870's.  

Hell, I'd go for 2 Crucial CT128M225's Primary in RAID 0, and 4 Crucial CT256M225's Secondary in RAID 5.

Every year, I would just buy another mega system for $10k and have a computer in every room. If you're making this kind of bank, you should have a 8 BR house on Long Island.

You know what's great. The OP never reposted in the thread. I think some people here were right.

We just need to start linking Falcon Northwest or Alienware in these threads and be done with it.

^Incorrect, you people need to stop necro threads that are like 2-3months old...

troll thread?!?!

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your going to be disappointed you will never use that much power (I am NOT talking about your power supply.) You could play any game you want to on max and only spend about $3,000 easy. JUST BECAUSE YOU GET THE MOST EXPENSIVE THINGS DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE THE BEST!!! So calm down and save your money.

This was posted in 2009... now why did you bother to bump this

lol

case: cooler master cosmos II
mobo: asus maximus IV extreme-z z68
cpu: intel i7 2700k
cpu cooler: noctua nh-d14
video card: x2 amd radeon hd 7970
ram: g.skill ares series 32gb 4 x 8
hhd: 2x western digital caviar black 2tb
ssd: x5 intel 520 cherryville 180gb
psu: corsair professional series ax1200
optical drive: lg black 12x bd-rom

Why?