Uber Gaming Machine Suggestions

[smurkin]

Just for interest, have a look at savrow:

http://www.savrow.com/nsite/desktops.html

Reassuringly expensive. They used to do a model in leather and trimmed with ermin (the fur, not the Tracey) with a sort of solid state "RAM drive" where you could keep your os and boot up in seconds.

They also do shuttles. All look really nice...but at the end of the day, they just put normal components into fancy customised cases - if you can respray a car, you could probably do a Savrow style box. Nice, still. Very nice. Especially the laptops.

 

[Sar]

This is a beast:

Component Selection
Core System Options
Bespoke SavRow System SavRow Deuterium
Advanced Processors AMD 64 X2 : 4800+ - PREORDER
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI
Memory Solutions Sub-Light : 1GB PC-4000 - Dual DDR SDRAM - Quantity 2
Operating System Business Class : Microsoft® Windows® XP Pro
High Performance PSU PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 850SSI
SavRow HeatSeeker™ Cooling System HeatSeeker™ X2:SLI
Hard Drives - Primary Supersonic : 400GB SATA - Quantity 2
Hard Drives - Secondary Supersonic : 400GB SATA - Quantity 2
Optical Storage - Primary First Class: Plextor PX-716
Audio Visual Options
Sound Card Supersonic : Audigy 4 Pro
Audio Speakers Supersonic : Creative GigaWorks THX® 7.1 700Watt
MP3 Players Creative Zen Micro 5GB - Black
Gaming Interface Devices Logitech Freedom Cordless Joystick
Graphics Processing Unit NVIDIA GF7800GTX 256MB *New* - Quantity 2
Monitor Viewsonic VP231WB LCD 23" 1920x1200 Black - Quantity 3
Other System Options
Keyboard First Class : Cordless Keyboard and Mouse
Internal Wireless LAN Internal Wi-Fi 802.11 B/G
Additional Modems Netgear DG834GT Wireless ADSL Modem & Router
TV Tuner Digital Freeview TV Tuner
USB 2.0 Memory Key USB2 Flash Memory 2GB
Printer Kyocera FS-1020D Laserjet
Office Software Business Class : Microsoft Office 2003 PRO
Anti-Virus Software McAfee AntiVirus 2005
Games World of Warcraft
SavRow Options
Paint SavRoyal Extreme Chromatic Paints [SavRoyalXGreenPurple]
SavRow Service
SavRow Client Access SavRowClient.com Email and Forums
Service Options Supersonic : 3 Years
Delivery TNT Express UK Mainland Delivery (Excl. NI & CI)
Total: £10966.17 (£12885.25 inc VAT)

Nearly £13k!

/faints

 

[SawTooTH]

Try Lan pirates, they do systems at that sort of price range.
I have an Alienware myself and its very fast but you could make something better yourself for that kinda money. I was being lazy..yada yada yada

 

[dysfunction]

How about this from Mesh:

Case: MESH Praetorian 732 ATX Aluminium MidiTower - Silver
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Pro
Motherboard Features: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Mainboard - DDR400, Dual GB LAN, IEEE 1394, SATA 3GB, PCIEX16, SLI Ready
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 FX 57 (939PIN)
Memory: 2048MB PC3200 DDR Memory 400MHz
Hard Drives: 2x 500GB Serial ATA (150MB/s) Ultra Fast Hard Drive
Video Card: 2x 256MB nVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX - TV Out + DVI - PCI Express - SLI configuration
Monitor 1: 19'' Iiyama ProLite H1900 Professional Graphics LCD TFT Monitor
DVI Monitor Cable: DVI Connector Cable
Optical Drives: SONY 16x Dual Layer DVD-Re-Writable +R/-R/RW + 52x24x52x16 CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo (2 Drives)
Sound: Creative Soundblaster AUDIGY 4 Pro (External)
Speakers: Creative Labs Inspire T7900 - 7.1 Surround
Modem: External USB 56kbps V90, Data, Voice, Fax Modem
Keyboard & Mouse: Logitech Cordless Desktop Keyboard & Rechargeable Mouse
Video Editing: Cyberlink PowerDVD, Power2Go, PowerProducer3, PowerDirector3, PowerBackup, MediaShowSE, PowerCinema4 (oem)
Software: Microsoft® Works® 8.0
Wi-Fi: ASUS 54MBps 802.11G Wi-Fi PCI Card
Game Selection: X-treme-4 Games Bundle - Cyborg Evo Force Joystick, Steering Wheel, Games (3 titles)
Warranty Options: Classic Warranty - 1 Year Back-to-Base - Parts & Labour (Mainland UK only - Terms Apply)

Price Including VAT + DEL: £ 3121.20

 

[Embattle]

I would say ask again a couple of weeks before you actually plan to purchase....and just keep saving

 

[Danya]

I would be suprised if 600W PSU would do for that setup - especially if your stripping the drives as pairs. Mine is not too dislimilar ( Only 1 graphics card but 4 HDD 2 DVD R/W) and I had to install a 550W + 300W to get keep it all nice and smooth. Without the extra PSU I started to get warnings that the Graphics were stepping down because the card was not getting enough power. Now with the extra PSU I managed to cram in two more SATA drives.

Um, unless you buy the cheapest PSU known to man a 600W is massively overspecced for that. I have an SLI box with a 15k scsi disk, sata raid and such and my 480W is easily coping. It's not even working hard. HDDs only use about 15W; you can add a lot of them without stretching it much. The main power users are the GFX cards (100W a pop, roughly) and the CPU (about 60W).
You can run any* single GPU system on a quality 300/350W PSU, and any sli system on a good 400-500W PSU.


* obviously people with 20 disks stuck out the back in an extra tower may need more juice, but if you an fit them in the box then a standard psu is enough.

 

[Rubber Bullets]

Graphics Processing Unit NVIDIA GF7800GTX 256MB *New* - Quantity 2
Monitor Viewsonic VP231WB LCD 23" 1920x1200 Black - Quantity 3

Can 2 cards in SLi run 3 monitors?

RB

 

[Sar]

If they've got a DVI and SVGA socket on them both, then they could run 4 monitors.

Benched D3 on mine tonight. 1024*768 in High Quality: 52fps in demo1.

I was getting 21 on my last rig.

At 800*600.

 

[Clown]

Not in SLi mode, though, unless something has changed.

 

[Sar]

Seriously?

Bit of a drawback there.

 

[Clown]

If you can afford SLi, you can afford a machine that reboots in 10 seconds

 

[Rubber Bullets]

I ended up with a Gigabyte {url=http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/185/]3D1 and although the performance is go...onitors in SLi mode. It seems not :( RB

 

[Clown]

I have two laptops and another computer under my desk. If I got SLi, it would be for gaming, and not so much the multitasking. I could always run stuff on my other monitors. EXtra keyboards are a pain though. What was that KVM over LAN thing again?

 

[Honza]

IMO wait for mobo that can run true 2x PCI-E16... Asus has super new boards for it both for Intel and AMD based on nForce4SLI chipset now.

 

[PLightstar]

Get one of these
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+


http://pcformat.msn.co.uk/home/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=37335&subsectionid=2458

 

[Dommers]

Mate of mine just got a couple of components from ebay(3.8ghz intel pentium 4 OC to 4gh, 4gigs of ram and 2xx250gig HDD + a graphics card with 512mb ram but i can't remember what one) for under 700 pounds. You should look there.