Pentaborane Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 How much money would it cost roughly to build a computer with the best of everything on the market right now. I am guessing $3500 give or take Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medium_pimpin Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 For a PC, more like $7k or more. For a Mac, closer to $10k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shihchiun Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 You can easily get to $10,000. If you go for a high-end workstation (but not server) you'd be spending at least $2500 on the processors and motherboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chconline Veteran Posted March 12, 2006 Veteran Share Posted March 12, 2006 all quotes in CAD$ AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 $1400 Asus A8R-MVP $130 2xX1900XTX $700 Each ATI HDTV Wonder $200 Creative X-Fi Elite Pro $400 Seasonic 600W SLI $170 Antec P180 $160 2xNEC 4550 (I think?) $60 Each 2x150GB WD Raptor X $350 each 2x1GB OCZ EL Platinum 2-3-2-5 (2 sets 4GB total) $280 each 2x Dell 3007FPW 30" Widescreen $2000 each Logitech Z-5450 5.1 $500 Logitech G15 ($70) Logitech G5 ($50) Digital Persona Fingerprint reader $100 Func sUrface 1030 Archetype MBA $50 Windows XP Professional $150 Windows XP Professional X64 Edition $170 $10330 CAD Tax and shipping not included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pentaborane Posted March 12, 2006 Author Share Posted March 12, 2006 wow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwai lo Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 That's not including the server end stuff either.. Sooo...did you have something planned? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gummyz Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 and that's not including moving over to SCSI which will cost you a few pennies more. And with that, I'd be concerned with a 600W PSU, and would rather get a PC P&C 850W or 1KW version which is another few more pennies too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallithrax Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Is this with best parts or most expensive parts, because there is probably a big difference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougggg Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Since you have unlimited money, I would go for the Fujitsu MAU3147NC 147GB 15,000 RPM SCSI Ultra320 80pin Hard Drive hard drives. They are around $800 each on newegg. Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallithrax Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Zalman TNN500AF Totally No Noise Computer Case - With 400W Fanless PSU x1 ?764.86 Antec Phantom 500GB Atx12v V2.01 500w 20or24pin Psu x1 ?99.57 Intel Xeon Processor Mp 3.0Ghz 667FSB 8mb x2 ?2555.64 Intel Eden Prarie Board SATA - Dual Xeon DDR2 1 SATA 2 Gigabit lAN x1 ?203.93 GeIL (GX22GB8000DC) Value 2Gb Kit (2 x 1GB) Dual Channel DDR2 PC8000 1000MHz DIMM x2 ?425.48 Ultrastar 10k300 73gb U320 - 3.5in 10krpm 8mb 68pin x2 ?11743.84 Pny Quadro Fx 4000 AGP8x 256mb DDR Dual Screen 2xvga Or 2xdvi Or 1xvga And 1xdvi x1 ?1168.29 Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro x1 ?164.94 Creative Labs Gigaworks S750 7.1-THX, 70 Watts Rms Per Channel 7 Channels 210 Watts Rms Subwoofer x1 ?213.15 Logitech Dinovo Media Desktop Laser - USB x1 ?93.16 Ppm63h3 - 63 Plasma 1366x768 700 Cd/m2 10001 169 2 Year Warranty x2 ?13227.68 Microsoft Windows XP Professional inc SP2 x1 ?194.95 Asc-39160 Efigs Kit PCI Dual Channel Ultra 160 Scsi Card 2x 68pin Vhdci External Connections 2x 68pin Lvd 1x 50pin Internal Connection x2 ?127.64 Hitachi Deskstar 7k500 500GB 7200RPM SATA2/300 8MB Cache - OEM x1 ?745.14 Cart Total: ?31728.27 Shipping Band: ?4.89 Shipping Surcharge: ?20.40 SubTotal: ?31753.56 VAT: ?5556.95 Total: ?37310.51 This is one from ebuyer using the expensive part. Not sure if they all fit together though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medium_pimpin Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Well, I think we've made the point that $3,500 is a little low for a top of the line PC. You could just get an HP Superdome for a cool $1 million... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEX4S Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 i have spec'd my next machine on ebay and the boutique dealers a couple of times - and without adding something stupid - or without adding the monitors its about $5500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pentaborane Posted March 13, 2006 Author Share Posted March 13, 2006 awesome thanks guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 all quotes in CAD$AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 $1400 Asus A8R-MVP $130 2xX1900XTX $700 Each ATI HDTV Wonder $200 Creative X-Fi Elite Pro $400 Seasonic 600W SLI $170 Antec P180 $160 2xNEC 4550 (I think?) $60 Each 2x150GB WD Raptor X $350 each 2x1GB OCZ EL Platinum 2-3-2-5 (2 sets 4GB total) $280 each 2x Dell 3007FPW 30" Widescreen $2000 each Logitech Z-5450 5.1 $500 Logitech G15 ($70) Logitech G5 ($50) Digital Persona Fingerprint reader $100 Func sUrface 1030 Archetype MBA $50 Windows XP Professional $150 Windows XP Professional X64 Edition $170 $10330 CAD Tax and shipping not included. thats no where near the best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circaflex Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 thats no where near the best it actually almost is, what is the best then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James123 Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Ultrastar 10k300 73gb U320 - 3.5in 10krpm 8mb 68pin x2 ?11743.84 ?11743.84?:blink:k: You can get them for ~?150 each from exciteit UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn4k36 Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 For the ram i would be going with: OCZ EL PC2-5400 DDR2 667MHz Dual Channel Gold Memory and that's only 2x 1024MB which is around $364cnd before tax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 it actually almost is, what is the best then? not gonna go in all details here are the CPUs, make that TWO ;) http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/m...pricewatch&NR=1 then a nice Tyan board, make your pick, boards with nforce, can be enabled to work in SLI http://www.tyan.com/products/html/opteron.html depending on what board you get, either 16 or 24gb of memory. SLI for now, Quad SLI later. and they do make 1000W PSU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aud Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Monster of all monster PSUs: http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/vie....php?show=TC1KW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANova Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 There are always ways to burn money, there are also ways to get comparible products for much less. Price means very little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCA Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 check out tiger direct and plsu is cheaper to build one then buying one at a store or pc shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waurbind Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 you want the best? there is no limit, you could spend millions devloping a whole new architecture to hand 1500 cpus at once and many other things equally rediculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEX4S Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Yes that is a monster - its heavy, loud, durable and $500.00 - and is the best one you can buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
999 Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 n/m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pentaborane Posted March 13, 2006 Author Share Posted March 13, 2006 (edited) Okay - this is my interpretation... CPU: AMD Opteron 885 Dual-Core 2.6GHz (TIMES 2) Board: AMD-8000™ Series chipset Thunder K8QW – supports 16 GB memory PSU: TURBO-COOL? 1KW Memory: OCZ Platinum PC4000 1024 MB (TIMES 16) =16 GB memory> Hard Drive: Fujitsu MAU3147NC15000 RPM> Video Card: 7900GTX(TIMES 4)> Case: Antec P180 Cooling: Cooler Master Liquid Cooling + Silverstone 120MM ? 5 + OCZ Ramsink ? 16 Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-FI ELITE PRO DVD Drive: LG Electronics Super-Multi GSA-2166D ** This is just the main stuff – no monitor / speakers etc. [ I am not so sure all the cooling supplies would fit ] ...Some say its impossible for computers to touch consoles... Edited March 13, 2006 by rocketship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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