ultimate PC

[michael_JCWS]

hi all,

any recommendations on the ultimate games PC? currently looking at a dell 710 H2C with a 30" monitor

cheers

michael

[Steve Evil]

Depends on your definition of ultimate, I could probably spend 10k on a liquid nitrogen cooled, quad core rig with 4 graphics cards, but I wouldn't.

[deckster]

ul·ti·mate [uhl-tuh-mit] adjective
not to be improved upon or surpassed; greatest; unsurpassed

Given that anything you buy will be out of date by the end of the month and obsolete in a couple of years, perhaps the wrong word to use

No real recommendations, but Alienware (actualy a Dell subsiduary these days) are probably the best gaming-specific systems you can get without being too anal about things. You can spend days agonising over GeForce this and ATI that but frankly life's too short.

Edited by deckster on Wednesday 2nd May 13:22

[LukeBird]

Ummmm just some basic bits and pieces.
Being lazy

Say an Asus top of the range mobo M2N32-SLi - £151
AMD Athlon64X2 6000+ £157
4gb RAM of mega DDR2 1066mhz stuff - £936!!!!!!
Seagate 750gb main HD 7200RPM - £146
Pair of 74gb raptors for fast booting - £196
Decent PSU 1000w enermax - £223
Asus case - £40
Pair of 768Mb XFX 8800 Ultras in SLi - £1056.

Thts just basic i.e. no OS, no mouse, keyboard, monitor etc. etc.

and that tops out at £2904!!
That'd just be about top I guess for the week

[chris watton]

LukeBird said:

Ummmm just some basic bits and pieces.
Being lazy

Say an Asus top of the range mobo M2N32-SLi - £151
AMD Athlon64X2 6000+ £157
4gb RAM of mega DDR2 1066mhz stuff - £936!!!!!!
Seagate 750gb main HD 7200RPM - £146
Pair of 74gb raptors for fast booting - £196
Decent PSU 1000w enermax - £223
Asus case - £40
Pair of 768Mb XFX 8800 Ultras in SLi - £1056.

Thts just basic i.e. no OS, no mouse, keyboard, monitor etc. etc.

and that tops out at £2904!!
That'd just be about top I guess for the week

And that's just a very medium PC! (The M32N SLI Delux is good, but fragile, I know!)
The 'Ultimate' as in good for the next couple of months until the next 'Ultimate' componants are released, would be something like an Asus striker Extreme mobo, Intel Extreme quad core CPU, 2 GB of fast RAM (Not 4, unless you plan to install a 64 bit operating system), and one 8800 GTX, two would be a waste, as just one card will give you all the resolution you need and still have any game on top settings, 2x150GB WD Raptor 10000rpm hard drives in RAID0, and 2x500GB Samsung Spinpoint hard drives in RAID1 array - add a Creative XFI Extreme soundcard, a couple of DVD drives and a 750W PSU, and that's as good as you'll get regarding a gaming PC, at this moment in time, all for a little over £2K - I know because I just built mine to the above spec

[[k]arl]

I'm in the middle of building a pretty meaty new games PC at the moment. Here is the main spec:

Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX6700 (watercooled)
EVGA 680i mobo (watercooled)
4Gb OCZ DDR2-3500 RAM
2 x BFG GeForce 8800GTX-OC (watercooled)
2 x 150Gb WD Raptor HDDs, 1 x 74Gb Raptor, 1 x 400Gb WD Caviar

Hopefully that should allow me to enjoy "all options on" gaming for a while

[k]