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- chaoswings, on 03/31/2009, -2/+94I took one look at the first line of specs...
CPU Intel Core i7 965 $1,000
which costs almost as much as my entire rig and promptly closed the window out of fear. - inactive, on 03/31/2009, -1/+88Retarded expensive. The i7 920 can clock just as high as the 965. Costs 700 dollars less.
- Callidus, on 03/31/2009, -1/+77Or you could just not be a moron and build one with parts that are slightly below bleeding edge, lose no noticeable performance, and spend $1000 instead of $4500 on a system that's obsolete by the time you receive the parts.
Not to mention you're probably an idiot if you're spending more than $500 on a monitor and peripherals, you could get a 22 inch widescreen Viewsonic for $200 on Newegg, $100 for a great set of 2.1 speakers, and no more than $100 for an awesome mouse and keyboard.
BUT THAT WOULD BE LOGICAL =[ - blackmesa, on 03/31/2009, -0/+63Exactly. There's a difference between "super high performance" and "I'm just trying to spend as much as possible".
- zaferk, on 03/31/2009, -8/+40Build A Killer Gaming Rig
AND NEVER GET LAID AGAIN - jotux, on 03/31/2009, -0/+26again?
- wheresmclean, on 03/31/2009, -3/+27It's not a true "killer" rig unless you run liquid nitrogen cooling -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUc6znC848o - Amazetbm, on 03/31/2009, -2/+24The sick part is labeling these specs as a "killer gaming rig" will be almost laughable in 18 months.
- mysticalone, on 03/31/2009, -1/+22Old motherboard, they should have used EVGA Classified. Graphic cards are outdated, the GTX 295 are out. The memory sucks balls, OCZ 1600? Kingston have 2000, but it's a bitch to find them in stock. Onboard sound? Because the rampage has a sound card included? It runs software mode, which translate to suckage. Storage, I dunno, SSD reads are quick but the writes are slow unless you rely on burst. Raptors in raid can keep up.
For a tech site they don't keep up on the tech and no excuse except for the motherboard it has all been out for a while now. - inactive, on 03/31/2009, -1/+19Im not building my next rig until the end of this year if not early next. There's no incentive right now until USB3.0 comes out by then they will have new chips, chipsets, faster timings on DDR3 and hopefully lower prices on parts like SSD harddrives
- bkraj, on 03/31/2009, -2/+17There's a slide for every ***** component? I just don't care enough to go through all that *****.
- AlanCayce, on 03/31/2009, -0/+14period?
- Dream0Weaver, on 03/31/2009, -0/+14The monitor is a complete overkill, and so are the SSD drives. Also... onboard sound? I'd expect some quality sound from something around this price.
- shoppingkart, on 03/31/2009, -0/+14Give it a sword?
- ProfessorFoo, on 03/31/2009, -6/+19My computer with Vista beats the ***** out of anything I throw at it and has had no viruses or really problems of any kind, and it only cost me about $800 a year ago. Also it doesn't take me 10 hours to get basic applications running. Silly Linux users.
- sexybobo, on 03/31/2009, -0/+13not a bad pc but if you get
i7 920 $280
2 gtx260 $400
ASUS P6T $230
you save $1200 with out losing hardly any noticeable performance. - SpeedSteamBoat, on 03/31/2009, -0/+11I guess I get the point of the article is to build some kind of "super rig", but really some of these parts of just gratiutous and virtually impossible to justify looking at performance states. I mean, the next fastest i7 is literally almost half the price of that one, and it will blow the socks off of any piece of software you through at it. Hell, there are Core 2 Quads and even Core 2 Duos that will easily be powerful enough to meat the needs of even the most hardcore gamer and still cost 1/4 the price of that processor.
The rest of the parts in there are of a similar fashion. It seems like they just bought the most expensive parts on the market, but what's the point of that? You could spend well under half of what they did and still have a "killer gaming rig." Then maybe the article would be worth something since it would contain actual useful information instead of just a list of the most expensive component in every category on Newegg at the moment. - Jahian, on 03/31/2009, -1/+13I kinda want to know how the Killer Gaming Rig they build last year that cost $6000 compares to the one they built this year for $4500. Probably not as fast, which just goes to show that it's a waste of money to get the best parts out there because they're the best for about 30 seconds.
- sneaker98, on 03/31/2009, -1/+13I've been running Vista full time on my gaming computer for well over a year now, and despite an odd boot-crash issue that occasionally happens, I don't have problems. Certainly no more problems than I did with XP.
And before you make a claim about me being a fanboy or some such - I dual boot with Ubuntu on my laptop, I used to dual boot it with OpenSolaris (but it just didn't run as fast as I would've liked), and I've messed with a linux kernel just for fun. This is sort've an area of some knowledge for me. - RoloTomasie, on 03/31/2009, -0/+11If you successfully played with Lincoln Logs -or even better, an Erector Set - as a child, you are qualified to build a pc. Really.
It's satisfying to use something you've built. - ProfessorFoo, on 03/31/2009, -0/+11Rich hardcore gamers maybe. Otherwise just spend $1000 (one sixth as much) every few years on a computer maybe two-thirds as fast as this one. And of course the computer you buy three years later will already be faster than the one outlined in the article.
- patm1987, on 03/31/2009, -0/+11Didn't you hear, question mark, English just got upgraded to English 2.0, exclamation mark, it is also permitted to xcld vwls!
- mitrovarr, on 03/31/2009, -0/+11There's no sensible reason to get a i7 965 when a 920 will frequently overclock higher than a 965, and will always overclock higher than the 965's stock speed.
- mason092, on 03/31/2009, -5/+15Wow. You're such a bad ass. I wish I were as cool as you.
- inactive, on 03/31/2009, -1/+11yea cuz right now we all have 4 thousand to throw around
- mabsark, on 03/31/2009, -0/+8How can it run the next generation of games when they don't exist?
- phpirate, on 03/31/2009, -0/+8"Next Gen" is a retarded console fanboy term. Just say "can run all current games".
- Gryffydd, on 03/31/2009, -1/+9I'll agree on everything but the monitor. There is a big difference between $200 22" monitors and $500+ 24" monitors. Especially when you consider that they're full 1080P and many have either HDMI or component video inputs.
- whoreable, on 03/31/2009, -0/+8Building it is the easy part. They should write an article on how to pay for it.
- Gareth321, on 03/31/2009, -3/+10XP doesn't support DX10, something I think is essential now.
- blackninja543, on 03/31/2009, -3/+10Lawl no liquid cooling on a $4k machine... also if your going to spend that much might aswell get a high end sound card, surround sound, kick ass headphones, and a high end widescreen monitor.
It also looks like someone got board and just did some shopping for the most expensive ***** they could find. - atonalpanic, on 03/31/2009, -0/+7Why stop at playing just one game? VM those ***** and play 4 at the same time.
- ATL, on 06/20/2009, -0/+7...but did you read the article?
- golfkarma, on 03/30/2009, -2/+9Yeah, it's definitely beyond my spending limites, but for the hardcore gamer I'm sure it would be a great set-up.
- chaoswings, on 03/31/2009, -5/+12You are from a linux forum (possibly debian) aren't you?
Either that or your PC is 10 years old, on a single core and 512MB of RAM....and you wonder why it won't work. - SpeedSteamBoat, on 03/31/2009, -0/+7Oh, I'm sure it would get plenty of laughs if you happened to mention what you spent on it.
- inactive, on 03/31/2009, -0/+7It makes it "Extreme" and adds nothing else to the package justifying any amount of money. Good luck bottlenecking on 4.8GT/s.
- DRG2003, on 03/31/2009, -0/+7Remember UGM on The Screen Savers?
- Diggbotness, on 03/31/2009, -0/+7It's overboard even for gaming. I can run Crysis on max settings and I only paid a little under $2K 6 months ago. There aren't any games out that would utilize the horse power. I could buy a car that goes 200 MPH, but but when the max speed limit is 70 MPH whats the point.
- DevSingh1359, on 03/31/2009, -1/+8comma*
- mysticalone, on 03/31/2009, -0/+6paint flames on it
- DarkShroud, on 03/31/2009, -0/+6That mobo's onboard sound is an X-FI. Which is why the thing costs $400 as opposed to the $240 Asus P6T.
- kingofmyworld01, on 03/31/2009, -1/+7bought myself some parts on tigerdirect and a free used pc case with psu. and its a nice little set up i have :).
amd 5000 black edition - 60 $
2 gb ram - $ 15
500 gb hd - $ 87
asus mobo for 60 $
xfx 8600 videocard - 65 $
windows xp - the pirate bay ;-)
runs fallout 3 on max settings perfectly and without denting my wallet. - inactive, on 03/31/2009, -0/+6You really want to keep liquid hydrogen in your house?
- Gareth321, on 03/31/2009, -0/+6It's a great processor, but it requires and entirely new system. There are amazing and affordable core 2 duos available now that just plug in. They're faster than anyone really needs.
- zaferk, on 03/31/2009, -5/+11but it wouldnt be 'killer', which was, the point of the article
/comprehension fail - sephiroth965, on 03/31/2009, -0/+5And even if all they were trying to do was spend ridiculous amounts of cash they made some stupid choices. $250 speakers with integrated sound? ASUS Rampage Extreme II mobo has something like a 15% failure/DOA rate. Honestly this is a terrible article.
- untitlednet, on 03/31/2009, -0/+5Missing: http://gizmodo.com/5168424/fusion+io-iodrive-duo-i ...
- dbz253, on 03/31/2009, -0/+5actually that's my computer :/
- sneaker98, on 03/31/2009, -0/+5We get the spec difference Taru, but what always matters are the benchmarks.
It's the difference between theory and application ;) -
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