Two things first off before I get FLAMED to death for my choices of hardware.
1. I did this because I can, the price to performance ratio is absolutley OBSCENE and I know how expensive this stuff is, I know in oh so many ways I could save money, but I didn't want to.
2. I know there is absolutely no Good reason to spend this much money on a computer cept for bragging rights. I'm an idiot and I know it.
Now that that's out of the way, I decided to build a top end machine and here's what I came out with:
Hardware:
3.2 GHZ P4 Extreme Edition (retail for 3 year warrenty)
Abit IC7-Max3
2 Gigs of Corsair XMS PC-3200Pro LL (2 twin mx sets of 512)
Raid 0 WD 10k 73 gig SATA drives
Asus Radeon 9800 XT
Audigy 2 std ( front thing is ugly )
Plextor 8x DVD+-RW (top end one)Black
Black Sony 52x CD-Rom drive
Black Floppy
Antec True550
Cooling:
Decided to stick with Air cooling due to weight and annoyance factor of water cooling.
Lian LI PC-6099 Black Alluminum case
4 Red Quad-LED 80mm Crystal Ball Bearing Fan
Black Frozen CPU PWM Fanbus
UV cold cathode
Red reactive SATA cables, floopy cable and Power splitters
I also picked up a prismQ to send my media across my wireless network to my TV.
You can see my current config right now in my sig, this is what I'm moving to.
I'm crazy huh? Total price ~ $3500
1. I did this because I can, the price to performance ratio is absolutley OBSCENE and I know how expensive this stuff is, I know in oh so many ways I could save money, but I didn't want to.
2. I know there is absolutely no Good reason to spend this much money on a computer cept for bragging rights. I'm an idiot and I know it.
Now that that's out of the way, I decided to build a top end machine and here's what I came out with:
Hardware:
3.2 GHZ P4 Extreme Edition (retail for 3 year warrenty)
Abit IC7-Max3
2 Gigs of Corsair XMS PC-3200Pro LL (2 twin mx sets of 512)
Raid 0 WD 10k 73 gig SATA drives
Asus Radeon 9800 XT
Audigy 2 std ( front thing is ugly )
Plextor 8x DVD+-RW (top end one)Black
Black Sony 52x CD-Rom drive
Black Floppy
Antec True550
Cooling:
Decided to stick with Air cooling due to weight and annoyance factor of water cooling.
Lian LI PC-6099 Black Alluminum case
4 Red Quad-LED 80mm Crystal Ball Bearing Fan
Black Frozen CPU PWM Fanbus
UV cold cathode
Red reactive SATA cables, floopy cable and Power splitters
I also picked up a prismQ to send my media across my wireless network to my TV.
You can see my current config right now in my sig, this is what I'm moving to.
I'm crazy huh? Total price ~ $3500