gardeda84 :
i have had this argument so many times. as a system builder, this would be a waste of time and money. but if you dont build your own systems, for whatever reason, then this would be a good buy. granted, the graphics cards could be water cooled as well.
as a former system integrator, a customer wants the best components that give them the best price. for a gamer, which quad core enable games out there that are CPU bound?
lets take a look at what componets are in this(since we can't even get a list)(prices from newegg(aprox))
Case Cooler Master Stacker RC-832 $240
Mobo -unknown
CPU qx6800 $1100
Cooling RL-EUL-GBU1-GP $90
Hard drives 2x raptor $400 1x HDD $100
Memory 4GB $550
CD -unknown
video card HD2900 XT x2 $800
psu - silverstone $250
sound - unknown
so even though they did not give us a spec list of components used this brings us to around $3130. Throw in $320 for mobo+cd+sound and you get $3450 add in $550 for a techs time assembling/testing setting up and its not a bad price.
There is no argument from me about the cost of the thing. my issue is how
much faster it is vs a:
Case - $100
mobo - unknown
cpu - qx6700 $500
fan cpu cooler $50
hard drive 1x raptor $200
memory 4gb $200
cd - unknown
video card - $400
psu - silverston $160 (750 watt)
sound - unknown
1610 + 320 = $1930 + 550 for techs time and you get $2480.
so you end up with $2500 that is in real world performance going to be how much slower than the $4000 model?
That extra $1500 could be used to buy a nice NAS for all that extra storage you miss out between the two systems.