Gamespot builds the most powerful consumer grade gaming rig of all time!

OK, strictly speaking this DOES belong in the desktop computer section, but I figured since gamspot.com, a well known gaming review website was in charge of this project it was sufficient grounds for posting here

Gamespot UK have decided to build the most powerful gaming PC currently available technology allows for. They are rocking with:

2 6 core intel xeon processors

24gb ram

4 nvidia gtx 480 gfx cards

128 ssd and 1tb hdd

3 bigass (not sure quite how bigass) Screens, all running in 3d

and the best gaming peripherals out there.

All us UK residents have a chance to win!

tl;dr: Awesome gaming rig, read article here:


Greatest Gaming Rig Part One - We Had a Dream - News at GameSpot

 

Still gonna cost less than that guy's MacPro with the 12Core Westmere 32gb ram 5870 and 4x512GB ssd.

 

btw, in order to win this rig (the contest is in like a few weeks) one has to estimate the cost of this setup. Anyone care to make a guess? I'lll be probably looking up all the components at UK prices and adding them together but I'm curious what estimate you guys would make... Would a setup like this be more than say, a 17" DTR notebook with a desktop cpu and gtx 480m SLI? thats like what, 8-10 grand?

 

The case is going to be as big as Shaq.

Funny thing is, it will be obsolete within a month, haha.

 

the Hellmachine DTX is about 5k euro if you max it out with the 980x 12gb ram and 3x128GB ssd

 

Save for the gold plated connectors, that Keyboard doesn't look all that special......looks like it got jacked off an IBM someone used 25 years ago.....

 

Damn UK residents only I'm only studying in UK and not a resident

Sucks to not be eligible

 

I was actually thking the same thing... What is the advantage of having gold plated connectors anyway? (beyond being able to make a ring out of it if you are ever in need of cash ) lower input time? doesnt really seem worth the money... I'd take a ergonomically designed chiclet style keyboard w/o gold plating anytime over that thing...

 

oh NO! wait what does it take to qualify as a UK resident? I've lived here for over a year (I'm a student studying here too)

if I cant enroll then goddamit I'm finding some UK resident friend and using his name for this thing... 10% of price for me using their name any1?

 

It's probably a mechanical keyboard and frankly they are the best gaming keyboards. No ghosting, no latency, no miss key and can press multiple keys at the same time. And they cost an arm and a leg.

 

Silly me. Misinformation.

 

and yet some games requires you to press 7 keys at a time

 

They should have waited for Interlagos and Sandy Bridge based Xeons. Still beastly though.

 

Oh sorry, my bad. The USB port itself is only limited to 6 keypresses simultaneously, but a lot of keyboard can only do 3.

 

Not that I think it's a bad thing, but their build is fairly similar to the MaximumPC Dream Machine from August 2010.

Dream Machine 2010 - Page 1 | Maximum PC

 

yeah, by the time they are finished building it it will probably be outdated :/

what I don't get is the point of that much hardware (beyond just the concept of it being "the best). what on earth would you need 4 480s for that wouldnt run on 2... same with 2 6 core processors..

 

For lulz? You can probably use SLi to help the graphics rendering and use a third card specifically for physx. The 4th card is there just to max out the SLi slots

 

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man I sat up till 3am writing pointless posts on this forum, and then had to wake up at 8 :/



if I were to win that gaming rig, I'd sell it as soon as humanly posible (before SB and ati 6000 series), cos it seems to me like a waste of money for the most part... The prestige of it being the "best" would only last a few months, and after that its just a huge power sucking beast, of which one only utilises 20% or less of its power...

 

Don't worry, I've been up since 1am up til now lurking around here

And yes, I'd quickly just try to sell it for as high as possible too

 

I'd sell it also. 4 GTX 480... when just one HD5770 does just about everything I want. I don't need AA on 1920*1080 personally.

My guess you can probably sell that desktop for somewhere around $5,000 at minimum. Heh, not ashamed to say, I like gaming on a laptop, so agreed, sell and then wait til next year see what comes around on notebooks

 

I'd also advocate for selling the system if one should get it.

You can always get a state of the art gaming laptop (or two) with that amount of cash anyway.

Which means I'd personally buy one, then deposit the remaining cash into savings and buy a new laptop 4 years later.

 

now you can play games with all your windows opened during winter

 

More like you can play it at the north pole during the ice age

 

yes its overkill, but that's the whole point.
also, have you seen the performance hit for nvidia 3d vision?
now times that by 3? that's right, don't forget they've got a 3x stereo vision monitors setup.

still the cpu's and ram are omg!
how that mobo is designed, the ram will be divided per cpu (has it's own ram slots) so even though it's 24gb, it's actually 12gb per physical cpu.

 

what is the point of 24 gigs of ram. thats like adding 24 hard drives just because you can. whatever though if it makes people feel more special

 

i'd love such a desktop.. nice cash too.. but i need 2 GTX480s at most.. if i win, quite a lot of stuff is going bye bye..

 

well the use of 4 gtx480 is for crysis on 3 monitor in 3d at 60 FPS

damn i'd have it sold befor it eve arrive and replace it by a 6870x4 gaming rig with SB

 

copy the game to a ramdisk and run it from memory instead of hdd
or
play 10 games that can only use 1 core realistically though you could run 2 instances of HoMM5. once you end your turn in the 1st instance you alt-tab to the 2nd instead of staring at the screen waiting for ai's turn. By the time you finish your turn in 2nd instance, the 1st one should be ready. If not, add a 3rd instance.

 

it needs to come with a gaming chair. do they expect us to sit on the floor while we game out?? i'm picturing a throne made of solid gold and the world's most valuable jewels. with back massagers too

 

Was she speaking English? Because I couldn't understand a word she said. lol. Cute though. Massive system, although I think Maximum PC can trump that.

Nah, just a beer hat and gamer trough will do!

 

Silly man. Elite people don't use that silly AMD company.

 

Yeah because nVidia gfx cards are more expensive, so are obviously better...

but NOOO lets not start a whole green vs red thing, especially since ati is coming out with the 6xxx series in q1 and we'll have to wait for almost a YEAR before nvidia even releases something to compete with..

 

Newegg.com - ASUS ARES/2DIS/4GD5 Radeon HD 5870 X2 4GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card put 4 of those in this beast.

 

They use gold a lot in motherboards and stuff because on that small of a scale it really does make a difference and the amount of gold needed is extremely cheap. Tomshardware did a project to salvage gold from a motherboard and ended up with a little gold bead worth maybe $3.

Gold plated connectors though are a joke. It's not a significant amount of gold cost-wise (though I guess they at least have to change the manufacturing process so that would be a significant cost). It's not going to have a significant effect on latency since it's just the connector that is gold plated. And it could even cause static or delays (although these would also be pretty insignificant) when the signal has to cross between the different metals.

 

Connectors are gold plated to eliminate corrosion, not to improve signal quality. Both copper and silver are better conductors, but they both corrode easily when exposed to air. The standard tin connectors are also corrosion resistant, but have an even lower conductivity than gold has.

 

I am thinking to sell my oven and get this

 

I retract my previous post, I was just going off an article I googled up. Now that I think about it I should have remembered gold is less conductive.

 

"4 nvidia gtx 480 gfx cards"

HOLY...*****. What kind of battery do they have in there? There going to need like, 47 twin turbine industrial fans to cool this thing down

 

They arent using liquid cooling according to an update... Not sure exactly which specific cooling system it is, but lets see how that works out :s

 

Must be air loaded with pixie dust.... cause that things gonna light up like the 4th of july..... Unless its running on base clocks with no overclocking.... which is just boring.

 

I think a single overclocked gulftown processor would have been better. Games can't take advantage of that many different cores, so making less cores faster would net better performance, not to mention infinitely cheaper.

Also they only have a 128GB SSD and a 1TB hard drive for storage. Much more benefit would be had by having a handful of 256GB ssd's in raid 0 than having to waste even more money on the dual gulftowns and 4 480GTX's.

This reminds me of maximum pc's ultimate gaming rigs from when I used to subscribe to that magazine. All way ridiculously over the top and a flagrant waste of money that not even someone with an unlimited budget trying to make the best gaming rig would buy. If I remember correctly one year they spent over half the money on some dumb ultra-fancy way-overpriced LCD monitor.

 

Man you have no idea about components do you? High end parts usually last 3 years before they start to choke on applications. The 8800 ultra was released Q4 2007 and yet it still plays all ur games fine on near max settings. This setup will last a LONG time, i guarantee it a minimum of 4-5 years.

 

maybe he was referring to the fact that by the time this computer is finished the ati 6xxx series and sandy bridge will be coming out, and hence it will no longer qualify as "the best"?

 

No way. I have a spare 8800GT and it is really lagging these days. Sure it was great and still is good, but if you max everything out on any game that has come out since about fall '08, you will have a slideshow or worse. And the only way to max out everything with it even when it came out was to run them in sli. High resolutions and AA demolish that card sooo hard.

Think about the hardware that was around in '05-'06. Complete joke compared to today. It would be asinine to spend so much on a computer and not upgrade it for 4 or 5 years. You would be far better off spending less money and upgrading components every year and be able to max out every game as it comes out anyway. Building a beast of a computer and hoping it will last is a big joke.

 

2 gulf town cpu are needed so you can play while you play

 

Yeah, folks with good $1500 machines from 2-4 years ago ago don't really need to upgrade right now to play current games. So I think you are right.

Folks with two year old 280 GTX cards or 4870 cards can comfortably wait for 580 GTX or 6970 (or even just grab another matching video card and double up).

And those folks with four year old Q6600 CPUs that game can probably hold off until Sandy Bridge (even though Nehalem was tempting their patience will be worth it).