Are you filthy rich and don’t get out much? Then this is the PC for you. I put together my own PC for a little less than a thousand and it runs everything decently (yes, Crysis), but if you’ve got the money I don’t, why not skip that audio system upgrade for the new Hummer and get this rig instead? Check out the stats: two Radeon HD 3870s in SLI, 8GB DDR2 800 RAM (why not DDR3 I wonder), two terabytes of HD space in RAID 0, a 1000W power supply, and a few more things, like enormous dual monitors. It’s configurable, of course.
It’s a beast, to be sure, but I don’t think the value’s there. For $8,000 you could build yourself two completely decked PCs, or if you build them like mine, eight. There’s no doubt it will chew up your games and spit them out, but if you’re that much of an enthusiast, you’d do better to spend a few hours on Newegg and Tom’s Hardware figuring out the best price for performance. Then go spend the difference on candy.
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Raid 0 not raid 10? As a disaster recovery guy (OK former, I’m jobless right now) Raid 0 always kind of scared me, I mean I love the performance increase but at the cost of no redundancy. Raid 5 never really made me happy as the performance loss just wasn’t worth it. Plus for 8,000 I want RAID 10!!!
Yeah – but people paying $8000 for a gaming rig probably have a little more money than sense in the first place.
Radeons in SLI? Somethings not right here….
What are the specs of your rig? Is it overclocked? (I just upgraded my PC to quad 3.0ghz, dual 8800gtx, 2.25gb ram (vista ultimate 32-bit) and it’s having a lil bit of trouble running crysis at max. The res is at 1600×1200 so I’m thinking that’s the problem, but I may need to overclock a bit.