If I had $6420 that had to be spent on a PC. Regardless of if anything is a terrible deal or not (such as the RAM) In short: Core i7 975 EVGA 141-BL-E769-A1 X58(4x PCI-E 2.0 x16) 24GB Kingston DDR3-1600 3 x EVGA GTX285 1GB (3GB VRAM total) 2 x WD 1TB 7200RPM (2TB total or 1TB in RAID 1) ASUS Xonar D2X 7.1 Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1800 XCLIO Windtunnel Full Tower Procrastination is fun.
Pfft, you could use your money way better than that. Get a dual-CPU workstation with a decetly priced graphics card, NOT a card that costs a grand. Oh, and you could use MS Paint or Paint.NET, or even buy Photoshop instead of using a warez version if you had that kind of money.
I honestly can't believe you'd spend nearly half of that $6000 on RAM. The graphics card choices are the least of you worries when you're spending $2,400 on some overpriced memory. You really do pay through the nose for 4GB DIMMs - that's $400 per stick FFS! And to top it off you've only spent $110 on a cheap, tacky case. Where's the ATCS 840 and Lian-Li PC-P80?
That is sort of weak sauce. I've seen threads where people routinely go over $20k creating "ultimate computers". They generally feature dual-socket motherboards with high-end Xeons, 3xGTX285 plus a PhysX card (or 2xMARS, actually...), as much RAM as can fit on the board, piles of SSDs paired with 24-channel RAID controllers, and assorted other overkill. Also, shocker, watercooling is weak when you have infinite money and can afford a continuous stream of liquid nitrogen.
You'd really want to keep refilling the ln2 pots every minute?, with your PC looking like a waste disposal site with all the ugly dull copper in the chassis. A 6k pc is even more pointless than a 3k one it seems...
I would rep this. But there was no need... I'll do it anyways. By the way, $6000 and I can tell you that I can make a god of a computer.
I went a little over budget... and I am missing some things (Like a case, Blu-ray player, storage drives, watercooling components....) Plus, I am not sure how much SLI support that board has. Tyan only lists SLI enabled for two high end Quadro cards and not for anything else. That may just have been what they were testing with though. Laz
Infinite budget means no regard to practicality . Of course, with "only" $6000 to throw around I'd go for a chiller or chilled water cooling.
[img=http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/4200/12310084.th.png] yeah yeah, i forgot video card. however, its a server after all. similar price, much moar performance and storage space :O
One flaw, but it is a very very nice fileserver build... I couldn't quite justify such a monster RAID card on my one... The i7 975 only has one QPI link, meaning it won't work in a dual processor config. You need to go with a Xeon 5400 or 5500 series instead.