Who Has The Best PC

[Dippyskoodlez]

I think everyone is applicable here, the OP didn't ask who you had to kill or how many of your offspring you sold to get it, just who has it

He asked for a $$$$$MONEY$$$$$$$ rig, but the $$$$MONEY$$$$ rig is gonna get curb stomped by someone with a well tuned overclocked rig.

Really just a battle of who has the best 24/7 cooling

 

[cadaveca]

I think everyone is applicable here, the OP didn't ask who you had to kill or how many of your offspring you sold to get it, just who has it

He asked for a $$$$$MONEY$$$$$$$ rig, but the $$$$MONEY$$$$ rig is gonna get curb stomped by someone with a well tuned overclocked rig.

Really just a battle of who has the best 24/7 cooling

Actually, he asked is anyone here is known to build such rigs, and in such a case, there are only a few options, none of which are really in this thread yet. Having a nice rig now doesn't mean you're known to be "that guy that buys top-level gear on every release".


In that instance, I'd be one of those. Highend ATI/AMD GPUs bought on launch day for the past 6 gnereations, CPUs too, but not in the past 18 months, nope. I am no longer one of "them".

 

[sneekypeet]

I was just saying there is no reason to discriminate.

 

[cadaveca]

I was just saying there is no reason to discriminate.

Meh. He asked who builds such rigs, not who has them? Depends on how you read the OP.




Actually, I'm wrong. Oh well.

 

[T4C Fantasy]

ahh reviewers have sponsors?, but there must be some out there... i mean thats why i would like to see them because they are not common at all

 

[cadaveca]

ahh reviewers have sponsors?, but there must be some out there... i mean thats why i would like to see them because they are not common at all

Actually, when i became a reviewer, I stopped buying high-end hardware, so I can be of no help any more...I got pics of previous builds, nearly all watercooled, but that's no fun as they are already posted here in other threads. Parts aren't sponsored, per se, everythnig i got was used in reviews, and now I keep them so I can update numbers in the future.



But if W1zz and I got together, I'm sure between us we'd have one killer rig. He's got VGAs...I got CPUs and boards.

 

[20mmrain]

Having the Best PC is subjective.... For example... I have GTX 680's in SLI water cooled.... a i7 2600K that is freaking amazing when it comes to overclocking..... and not to mention Raided SSD's plus the rest of my system is on water. I love my system!!

Is it fast??? Yes!!!
Is it pretty and all decked out with all the bells and whistles??? Yes!!!
Is it considered a higher end modern system??? Yes!!!
Does it do what I needed too??? Yes!!!

But all of these questions don't matter...compared to the last one I am going to ask. Am I happy with it??? And that answer would be....Yes!!!

If you are happy with your machine and it does what you need.... I would consider that the best PC in the world. Because it's the best one for you!

 

[D007]

If you're going to quote someone. Quote them accurately plz.

Does anyone know anyone on the forums that is known "for getting "the very latest and greatest parts and going crazy with it, like for example 1500watt psu 4x680/hd7970? 2x xeons or 3960x and like 64gb quad channel ddr3-2800 ram lol

Getting, not building, or stealing or humping.. Just getting..

I can "get" all kinds of stuff. Doesn't mean I know how to build a pc..

 

[Dippyskoodlez]

Meh. He asked who builds such rigs, not who has them? Depends on how you read the OP.




Actually, I'm wrong. Oh well.

getting the very latest and greatest parts

Its quite subjective. I would consider a 2500K going for monster overclocks to be more "latest and greatest" than having a Sandy-bridge-E running stock. Only difference may be cache and HT but performance wise, the 2500K would be the greatest. I was trying to imply, $$$ does not buy the "greatest" all the time (unless you have too much and just overkill the highest end parts.).

The question really just boils down to do you want to ask for someone that has enough money to just splurge on overkill everything, or a strategic way to surpass the performance?

 

[cadaveca]

The question really just boils down to do you want to ask for someone that has enough money to just splurge on overkill everything, or a strategic way to surpass the performance?

+1.

 

[T4C Fantasy]

Its quite subjective. I would consider a 2500K going for monster overclocks to be more "latest and greatest" than having a Sandy-bridge-E running stock. Only difference may be cache and HT but performance wise, the 2500K would be the greatest. I was trying to imply, $$$ does not buy the "greatest" all the time (unless you have too much and just overkill the highest end parts.).

The question really just boils down to do you want to ask for someone that has enough money to just splurge on overkill everything, or a strategic way to surpass the performance?

what if you can do both?

 

[T4C Fantasy]

If you're going to quote someone. Quote them accurately plz.


Getting, not building, or stealing or humping.. Just getting..

I can "get" all kinds of stuff. Doesn't mean I know how to build a pc..

fixed

 

[cadaveca]

what if you can do both?

Not sure if serious...





That's what overclocking used to be all about, but OEMs have greatly limited the skills needed to get a decently optimized rig. Unless you are tweaking memory subtimings, which very very few people do, there's really nothing that can differentiate between one rig to the next.

Perfect example is the ASUS Z77 ROG boards, with like 25 profiles for different memory ICs...no skill required at all with those boards. I mean sure, there's something to be said about choosing your components wisely, but even that doesn't realyl require much "skill" at building PCs.

 

[T4C Fantasy]

Not sure if serious...





That's what overclocking used to be all about, but OEMs ahve greatly limits the skills needed to get a decently optimized rig. Unless you are tweaking memory subtimings, which very very few people do, there's really nothing that can differentiate between one rig to the next.

i guess that would be understandable, but how come we dont see people with power7 gaming pcs etc... or not even for just gaming, but for folding, we have so many amazing folders and crunchers here on the forums why doesnt anyone satisfy their folding needs with rarely reviewed parts.

 

[cadaveca]

i guess that would be understandable, but how come we dont see people with power7 gaming pcs etc... or not even for just gaming, but for folding, we have so many amazing folders and crunchers here on the forums why doesnt anyone satisfy their folding needs with rarely reviewed parts.

Most cannot afford to, I would think. I know that if it wasn't for doing reviews, I'd probably not have the rig I do today. Things changed greatly after the "ecomony collapse" or whatever, before that there was always lots of high-end rig all over, but not so much any more.


When it comes to folding, even stuff from 8 years ago can run the client, so its very easy get a folding farm going for relatively cheap. We do have a fairly large crowd of crunching guys that share parts and such too, so it's much more a community thing that having a high perforamcne PC is.

 

[Lionheart]

Is my rig worthy for this thread or should I go sit in the corner and eat a cookie

 

[T4C Fantasy]

Is my rig worthy for this thread or should I go sit in the corner and eat a cookie

ours is pretty similar hows the 920? i hear x58 is a very reliable chipset

FYI: i never had the chance to experiance that chipset, i went straight from a Pentium 4 HT 3.4GHZ 478pin 2GB DDR1, no pci-e slot ATI Radeon HD4350 pci pc to the rig u see in my system specs... thats a huge leap from 1 system to 1 system lol

Fun Fact: i still use this Pentium 4 computer to run my website, my game server, and other things you wouldnt expect a rig like that to be doing.

 

[Dippyskoodlez]

what if you can do both?

Thats what I put the exception in for at the end

It's all in the hands of the overclocker; different people can pull different numbers out of their rear end, even with the exact same gear.

 

[T4C Fantasy]

Thats what I put the exception in for at the end

It's all in the hands of the overclocker; different people can pull different numbers out of their rear end, even with the exact same gear.

just like a built engine block noone will have the same exact compression ratio.

 

[Lionheart]

ours is pretty similar hows the 920? i hear x58 is a very reliable chipset

FYI: i never had the chance to experiance that chipset, i went straight from a Pentium 4 HT 3.4GHZ 478pin 2GB DDR1, no pci-e slot ATI Radeon HD4350 pci pc to the rig u see in my system specs... thats a huge leap from 1 system to 1 system lol

Fun Fact: i still use this Pentium 4 computer to run my website, my game server, and other things you wouldnt expect a rig like that to be doing.

Nice 920 still going strong and yes, to me X58 is a reliable chipset and still is, I have no need to upgrade to a new platform, this handles all games at max settings with ease

The i7 920 was the favourite back in the day (2009 & 2010) but now it's the 2500K & 2600K and I can see why, they rape, wouldn't mind one but no need really I'm happy with what I got

 

[T4C Fantasy]

Nice 920 still going strong and yes, to me X58 is a reliable chipset and still is, I have no need to upgrade to a new platform, this handles all games at max settings with ease

The i7 920 was the favourite back in the day (2009 & 2010) but now it's the 2500K & 2600K and I can see why, they rape, wouldn't mind one but no need really I'm happy with what I got

which cpus are the ones to look out for that will bottleneck a hd7970

 

[TRWOV]

I have a 7950 AGP.

I rule.

 

[jgrahl]

People often give me random amounts of money to build PC's for them. The first question I always ask is, "what do you intend to do with your PC?" Then I build it and everyone is always content or impressed. So, having all of the best hardware does not matter, it's how you use it.

 

[ShiBDiB]

Mines the best.. for me.. for what i use it for.. and what i was willing to spend

 

[T4C Fantasy]

People often give me random amounts of money to build PC's for them. The first question I always ask is, "what do you intend to do with your PC?" Then I build it and everyone is always content or impressed. So, having all of the best hardware does not matter, it's how you use it.

yea but you could be one of them second life drones that do nothing but play second life all day with a 8500GT... and they think that their $1200 HP PC is so awesome and they are impressed but to a gamer you can see the mind numbing lag that "they" blame on the internet connection.