$4000 Gaming System

[error_f0rce]

Ok, a buddy of mine has $4000 to blow on a balls-to-the-wall gaming system.
Minimums: Conroe, dual-graphics cards, physics accelorator, 320GB storage, 4GB RAM, liquid cooling.
Please list your component suggestions here (list links only if you want to):

 

[POGE]

E6800 Conroe
DFI Infinity 975X
X-Fi Platinum
X1950XTX Crossfire
Asus PhysX
Raid 150GB Raptor X
Lian Li v1000
Vapochill (water sucks. )

 

[KennyT772]

um the hardware is pretty easy really. i would get dual 320gb hdds in raid 0. 2x1gb is more then enough for now and high speed 2gb ddr2 is a rarity. make sure he gets a huuuge lcd and nice speakers. they make the biggest difference. i think a mx518 and a g15 are a neccecity also.

 

[cdawall]

its x6800 btw poge

but i would do the e6700 and o/c it too the equivelent of a x6800 and run dual 7900gt's asus phsyx dual raptor 74gb raid 0 and a big 500gb sata hitatchi from there other than getting an asus w/ nvidia chipset i agree w/ poge

 

[mandelore]

swifttech has a new TEC cooler for high end graphics cards wheee! with that money duel pelt cool those babies! tho he may need to use a car chassie to house all the gear in haha

 

[SlipSlice]

U could get all that for what about 2k?

 

[stealthfighter]

get a quad-processor mobo ;D

 

[pt]

2xdual core opteron's, or 2xdual core xeon's

 

[stealthfighter]

Yeah xeons have phat bandwidth, and they've ALWAYS been 64-bit.

 

[Chewy]

make sure you get a nice 20-22 inch samsung widescreen monitor, 2 X150 raptors. Some real nice expencive ram and a couple of good ati grafics cards (best ones if he dont want a duel dx10 set-up soon as its out)

sorry for no links, just what I would get. wish I could max f.e.a.r. out with my 1900gt maxed

 

[strick94u]

nvidia nforce 590 mommy board
what ever flavor conroe he wants 2 xfx7900 gtx xxx videos
2x raptor 150's raid 0 4 1 gig corsair ddr/800 some nice dvd-rws nice ones
a good 600 watt power supply dont skimp
the conroe wont need water cooling so water cool the video cards
and a koolance pc4-1036bk liquid cooled case
and you should have enough left over for a monitor maybe

 

[error_f0rce]

Ok here's what I've collected so far, please suggest any changes (not brands, just other ideas please):

CPU: x6800 Conroe
Mobo: DFI Infinity 975X
RAM: 2 GB matched pair Corsair TWIN2X2048-8500C5 1066MHz DDR2
Sound: X-Fi Platinum
Graphics: 2 X1950XTX in Crossfire
Physics: Asus PhysX
Storage: 2 150GB Raptor X in RAID-0
PSU: PC Power & Cooling, Inc. Turbo-Cool 1KW-CrossFire
Case: Lian Li v1000
Cooling: Vapochill
Monitor: 22"-24" Samsung LCD (model/widescreen up to you)

Thanks for all the help guys, he's gonna have one wicked machine!!! Please also let me know if you see any potential problems with this rig.

 

[mandelore]

Dell 24" HD widescreenie, i got one and it rox

 

[pt]

When does it have to be ready?
what is the remaining cooler's for the GFX Cards, chipset, HDD, etc.?

 

[strick94u]

Ok here's what I've collected so far, please suggest any changes (not brands, just other ideas please):

CPU: x6800 Conroe
Mobo: DFI Infinity 975X
RAM: 2 GB matched pair Corsair TWIN2X2048-8500C5 1066MHz DDR2
Sound: X-Fi Platinum
Graphics: 2 X1950XTX in Crossfire
Physics: Asus PhysX
Storage: 2 150GB Raptor X in RAID-0
PSU: PC Power & Cooling, Inc. Turbo-Cool 1KW-CrossFire
Case: Lian Li v1000
Cooling: Vapochill
Monitor: 22"-24" Samsung LCD (model/widescreen up to you)

Thanks for all the help guys, he's gonna have one wicked machine!!! Please also let me know if you see any potential problems with this rig.

you can do all that for 4 grand?
not bad
oh I see no speakers that could be a problem with that sound card

 

[cdawall]

lol 600watt what you smokin 1kw coolermaster
2 7950s
e6700 (o/c beyound the 6800 of couse this is b/c the performace gain between the e6700 and x6800 isnt worth the gain in speed)
nvidia 590 mobo
4x 1gb corsair ddr2 800 (2x dual channel)
4x 74gb raptors raid 4
1x 500gb hitatchi
there that beats everything you asked for

 

[CjStaal]

do a raptor 36.7 for the operating systerm and 2x 150Gb raptor x's for multimedia/games

 

[CjStaal]

Don't forget to disable the paging file for him

 

[cdawall]

still think raid 4 would be faster

 

[Dippyskoodlez]

E6800 Conroe
DFI Infinity 975X
X-Fi Platinum
X1950XTX Crossfire
Asus PhysX
Raid 150GB Raptor X
Lian Li v1000
Vapochill (water sucks. )

Add in some water for the dual GPU's and you're good to go. No guarantees with the DFI however.

Pcpower and cooling PSU.

 

[Dippyskoodlez]

do a raptor 36.7 for the operating systerm and 2x 150Gb raptor x's for multimedia/games

36.7gb raptor gets smoked by the 16mb cache maxtors I wouldnt bother.. if anything just raid 0+1 a few 150gb raptors....

 

[CjStaal]

then a 70GB for the OS