Would you buy or no

[RobinGBrown]

Regardless of wether it's a good price or not that box will devalue about 50% in the first three months - so you're blowing about $4K to get a top spec box for up to 3 months.

You'd have to be pretty rich and pretty dumb to go for that

Please share us your infinite wisdom, oh wise one.

If it takes me 140 hours to compile a terrain database on a Q6600/8GB machine, and it only takes me 48 hours on an i7 965/12GB machine

Hold your generalizations for the kiddies who think the world revolves around gaming.

For your own argument without regard to non-gaming use, the price of this box won't devalue by more than 10-15% in the next 3 months since i7 965, 12GB memory, etc will STILL be the best available. A couple new videocards will be out soon, but that's a minor difference in price when you're talking about the overall cost of a high performance system.

I did make a generalization yes, but you were an ass about it, this is an internet forum, not the source of all knowledge. Just because you have a highly specialised field where processing power makes a serious difference doesn't mean that everyone else does.

IIRC all computer hardware, for accountancy purposes, devalues by 100% in a year. If you think that you could buy that box for $9K and then sell it for $8K 3 months later then I think you're mistaken.

The kit in question is sold as a _gaming_ box not as a number cruncher, thus applying generalisations is fine, why are you being such an ass when it's a simple 'would you buy' question?