The System im getting in 2 weeks :D

[Sam DeathWalker]

That system is excellent but a complete waste of money, $5000 for ram LOL. DDR2 is going as low as $10 a Gig ....

You need to wait for or find a board that will let you get 24G with 12 slots so you can buy 2G DDR3 if thats what you want. The 4G are WAY WAY WAY WAY overpriced.

920 is more then enough.

You DO NOT need a SSD with 24G ram as you can put the wow folder in the Ram.

I would really suggest a Tyan server motherboard to save you LOTS of monies:

http://www.tyan.com/tech/product_matrix.aspx


http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=560

You can get get 32G of DDR2 on that board for like $500 or so, and it holds up to 128G ..... And dual 5400's should be close to a 920 at least, if not better. Note you cannot put I7's in this board, but 5400's (8 cores all together) are no slouch 45nm, certianally equal to what Blizzard has on their server.


wow I guess the P6t can do 24G, as you saw:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us-pktP-Q_g

Well yur system will be the best, but the tyan system should be like 90percent of yours for 20perccent of the price ....

I would think that a pair of these would be close to a 975 but not sure:

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-1333MHz-...6065708&sr=1-6

http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=12460655...71&sort=-price

[mmcookies]

For that much money, I hope your system comes with a cute "onsite technical support" girl.

[Sajuuk]

For that much money, I hope your system comes with a cute "onsite technical support" girl.

For that price, she better be in my house 24/7.
Price comparisons/part alternatives in after I deep clean my keyboard.

Meh.

For the same price as your Solid State Disk, you could get SEVEN 30gb drives, RAID 0 them for greatly increased performance with only a SLIGHT loss of storage (Other raid solutions might move available space down, but increase redundancy. Or have one SSD for your system /six for WoW.)

Where are you ordering your system? On newegg the P6T6 is 349.99.

Go down to a 920. It's at the very least a 720 dollar price difference, still overclockable.

And...my god. Five THOUSAND dollars is NOT worth it for RAM.

If I had 13 thousand dollars of money to spend on a computer... I'd try building five, plus a couple other things.

edit: BRB building several computers on a 13K budget. -done

Regions may differ, so prices obviously differ.

• 5x P6T Deluxe V2 - 1449.95 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131365
• 5x i7 920 - 1399.95 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115202
• 10x G.skill 6g (3x2Gb) DDR3 1333 (12Gb PER computer) - 899.90 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231223
• 5X KINGWIN 600W PSU - 349.95 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817121012
• 5X NORCO 4020 4U server case (for kicks, I like the case, lots of hot swap bays) -1449.95 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811219021
• 5x RiDATA 32GB SSDs (First low priced 30Gb I saw, would be decent for wow/games. I keep my wow data folder off my system drive) - 535.00 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820183202
• 5x EVGA 285 2GB - 2014.95 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130486
• 5x Seagate 250gb drives (Meant to be a system drive) - 239.95 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148261
• 10x WD 2TB SATA drives (This was to inflate the price, gives you 20TB of HDD space, raid card not included) - 2399.90 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136344
• 5x slim DVD+/-R burners (Norcos use slim drives) 249.95 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827118006
• 5x NORCO IDE adapter (converts Slim-IDE to normal IDE) - 29.95 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816133024
• 5x Vista ultimate SP1 - 1249.95 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832116473

Subtotal - 12.269.35 dollars.

Specs for EACH system - i7 920, 12gb DDR3 1333, a 30gb SSD, 250Gb HDD, maybe 2x2tb HDDs, GTX 285 2gbs. Norco 4020 case, 600W PSU, 8X DVD+/-R burner.

Just ONE of those systems would have you running five copies of wow smoother than molten butter for only 2453.87. Systems do not include monitors. So taking the rough difference between USD and AUD, total cost for the five computers I layed out (including extra components), is 15459.

edit: http://www.priceusa.com.au/ Apparently you can use it to make purchases at USA prices (not sure about exchange rate, stumbled upon it)

[ioho]

There HAS to be a point where the price jump to the next 'slight' upgrade outweighs the jump in performance.

and I think you have gone over that line on most, if not all your selections. $800+ PER ram, that's ridiculous!


It's be nice to have - sure - but oh so not worth it.

TBH, I'd just make one of those computers , sajuuk, and be happy. lol. :thumbup: And acctually, the computer I'm putting together is similar to that, just down a few grades on a couple of items listed.

[syncorion]

Im changing the specs, I am also getting the price better from a wholesaler friend of mine.

Same deal..

CPU= Intel i7 core 975 extreme
Mobo= EVGA Classified X58
Memory= Kingston 6x4gb ddr3 (24gb ddr3)
Video= 2x EVGA Geforce GTX 295
Sound= Creative Sound Blaster x-fi titanium
HDD= 1x 250gb SSD, 2x 1TB WD
Monitor= 3x 22" 5ms LCD

I'm getting it wholesale so the price is much better.

This price is without the monitors - $8200 AUD

[Sajuuk]

Im changing the specs, I am also getting the price better from a wholesaler friend of mine.

Same deal..

CPU= Intel i7 core 975 extreme
Mobo= EVGA Classified X58
Memory= Kingston 6x4gb ddr3 (24gb ddr3)
Video= 2x EVGA Geforce GTX 295
Sound= Creative Sound Blaster x-fi titanium
HDD= 1x 250gb SSD, 2x 1TB WD
Monitor= 3x 22" 5ms LCD

I'm getting it wholesale so the price is much better.

This price is without the monitors - $8200 AUD

So... why don't you get a TripleHead2Go and have some nice surround gaming action? (That would be pretty uber, five characters spread across three screens. It'd also use some of that power you've got there (equiv 4x260s)

I still say you should get six SSDs and raid them together. (or at least get a SLC SSD instead of an MLC {As I am aware SLCs have higher transfer speeds})

[Sajuuk]

D'oh.

/me wonders when self-deletion of posts is going to work.