Boutique Sandy Bridge-E PCs Priced From $6K to $13K

Ok, I think the term that you pay a large premium for slightly increased performance just got taken to a whole new level.

$6000-$8000 needs to include quad/tri-SLi/CF and multiple large SSDs in RAID

I think ive started to appreciate my 500 dollar build more, so much cheaper for nearly the same performance....

You spend all that money and then the developers make crappy games. Sigh.

Save yourself around $3000 and read the Tom's Hardware forums and learn to build/OC yourself.

I see no point in buying sandyE just go with the regs and be happy. The tiny increase is not worth it.

bleh... wake me up when Ivy Bridge gets here...

"...command a premium of at least $500..."
Five Hundred bucks you say? Sounds like great deal to me.

If you added up the "extra stuff"

6x 46" 1080p Tvs = around 8k
2x dual GPU video cards (nV or ATI) = 2k
+ RAM CPU, SSD RAID, bad azzz mobo (and all the other ish) = 3k

wheres the other 9k going on the 22k build?????

just spotted the specs - dual xeon and workstation graphics cards (x2) would definitely cost a lot more. Still...

Under most circumstances, there'd be almost no perceivable difference in the gaming experience between the $22,000 rig and a $2000 home-built rig with an overclocked i5-2500k and a couple of GTX580s.

and this is the world we would live in if AMD dies out....

That's true. If you're buying a workstation then yeah, CPU=$1500-2000 each; GPU=$1500-2000 each.

why would you buy a pimped out 'work' station?

WFT? People are willing to pay these prices for a stupid computer? I'm in the wrong business. Time to start selling highly over priced extreme computers.

Shipping and Handling? Seriously though, for $that price I could use a band new car for the computer's case..

Brand new Nissan Versa - $13k...

Good point. Maybe if you worked at Google's wacky offices.

i painted my antec 300 pearl white myself. i even color sanded it and 2 coats of clear. some one give me 4k for the 3 hrs it took.

why buy such expensive PCs when basically all game makers build their games so they can work well on game consoles which use much cheaper hardware?

Six hard drive bays, six time 1,300 for 600GB SSD, Intel 320, custom liquid cooling for CPU and GPUs

This is what happens when AMD is not competitive.....happy now intel fans?

I checked out Origin's website to confirm this - an X79 system with 32GB quad channel RAM, quad liquid-cooled EVGA Frostbite 580 cards, Asus Rampage IV motherboard, and two NEC PA-301 monitors runs you approx $17K, so this is true.

Pretty much. Every build I do goes from $1K-$1500 and is priced at about $4-6K through those guys. Such a rip.

Funny part, is they're not even praying on idiots (well sorta) - if you can tie your shoe, you can build your own computer.

Open a guide. Buy a mobo with auto overclock and pretty, uncomplicated BIOS and put RAM where RAM goes according to the nice manuals and countless instructions and guides online.


I could even understand if this was a week job - where it took some serious time - but it doesn't. It literally takes 1 hour or less to build a new computer ( longer if you're dedicated and are in no hurry). Regardless, it's not as if building is boring, it's actually exciting and fun ( at least it is for me).


The fact that you can't invest a few hours to save a $500-$1000+, is beyond retarded.

What Xeon are you actually looking at? You can get pretty good Xeons for a workstation for $500 to $600 a piece.

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Why so fucking expensive!?!?!?! Has Intel gone mad?!?!?! I know that were in a crisis similar to the great depression, but this is ridiculous.

Apple has already patented this.

You don't build a system like this in one evening.
Buying a complete system like this saves you at least a day of work, two if you don't already have the knowledge required.
Choosing all the right parts, getting all the parts, screwing it all together, cables, etc., water cooling(!), OS installation, overclocking, stress testing...

If you are in the market for gaming PCs with $4000 worth of hardware inside + the kind of monitor or projector setups that actually require hardware like this, then you probably have better things to do with your free time than to spend it with screwdrivers, water pumps and bios-settings.

If you have better things to do, you can hire me, I will do all the work and save you around 50% and you can pay me a $1000

after seeing prices of these prebuilt enthusiast boutique pcs, i am seeing red.
these are for high end customers only, people who have the money to spend and can take advantage of the performance this (sb-e) platform promises.
for instance, workstation users who don't need xeons, gamers who game, record and stream at the same time - severe multitaskers, not like people who surf internet and play blu ray movies, will get a lot out of these imo.
regular people who want to play around with performance stuff will get more out of lga 1155 anyway.
i might sound like a whiner but amd has got nothing (that is efficient ppw-wise) at this price point or niche. if they had, intel would have thought differently about pricing these so high.

that would be going to the "i can say i spent 22k on a computer" portion of the bill.