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About to spend 5000 dollars on a computer.
EvilMuffin
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And I cannot for the life of me find a case that I like to put it all in. I want something that looks bad ass, but not gaudy or blingy, I cant seem to find that after flipping through both new egg and tiger direct. Could you guys give me any recommendations on other places to look or specific cases you think I might have missed. Taste wise, I would love to get my hands on an empty black bird case as I think those look incredibly cool, but buying one is out of the question since it is to slow for the money. I would really appreciate any help at all.
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$5000.... Owch.
Anyway:
Antec P182 http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=81820
Cooler Master Centurion 5
I have both of these cases. The centurion 5 is simple and understated, but may not be good enough for a $5k system. The P182b is an awesome looking case IMO with sold cooling and sound deadening, although it is slightly too complicated in some aspects.
Hey, that's the same case I have and I love it. It's very solid and I like the removable/reusable air filters in the front.
You may want to go with this case then. It's much larger, has much better cooling and dual PSU's.
Maybe Ebay?
Satans..... hints.....
Out of curiosity, what can you possibly have that makes it so expensive?
Ditto that.
I can't see any reason to spend that much on a computer. You very quickly get to the point where a $5000 computer is probably going to be about 4% better than a $2500 machine. Or you could look at it as a $5000 machine will last about 2 months longer than a $2500 machine before you replace it. It just doesn't scale well enough or last long enough to spend that much in my opinion.
Unless of course you just won the lottery, or $3000 of that cost is going into a shitload of LCDs.
My 2 cents.
I agree with this. This is a good thread.
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If I limed the whole thing it would be annoying but uh, this. In fact you'd be better off spending 1.5k now and 1.5k later and 1.5k later and spending the extra 500 on ten games.
5k seems a little high - even for a High End machine.
I just built a new computer this past X-Mas and used a Cooler Master AMMO 533. It was a nice case, had a lot of space for a Mid-Tower. Sounds like you're wanting a full tower though.
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Well shit, encase that bastard in high carbon steel with a liquid nitrogen cooling system
On a serious note, I assume you're already planning to get an unnecessarily huge monitor? I was in our graphics department room the other day and the guy had a widescreen LCD, larger than a 24 inch, but not like a TV screen or anything, just a normal monitor, it may've been like goddamned 32 inches
It made me cry
The problem is like if his super high end mega video card he needs to run minesweeper in a 74563487x756397 resolution breaks, you can't really downgrade that without having to downgrade the resolution, which probably means downgrading the monitor and so on...
Though replacing your RAM that stores data in dimensional rifts with normal RAM probably wouldn't be a big deal
That's my vote if you want to DIY.
However, if you've got 7K to burn, consider a Falcon Northwest system. They'll put damn near anything in those things, and you can even get custom paint jobs on the case if you're willing to pay for it.
I don't believe it - I'm on my THIRD PS3, and my FIRST XBOX360. What the heck?
Agreed. I've built my last four computers, but my next one will be an Apple. My work gave me a MacBook Pro running Vista and I've never been as impressed with hardware performance.
It's not 1990 anymore.
If they let you, you should get a bad-ass PC and a MacBook Pro.
Apple Boot Camp lets you run Windows native, and it has ever since Apple switched to X86 Intel processors.
Aside from that, Apple machines use PCI express and normal video cards and RAM.
Hell, the processors ALONE on this machine would cost $1500 to buy. Best of luck finding a machine with similar specs for $1400.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?node=home/shop_mac/family/mac_pro
It's not 1990 any more.
Get a pair of these, and then when you upgrade your computer in 2 years you still have a sexy fucking setup.
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
Depends on the game.
TF2 will just use 1.
Supreme Commander can use both.
The frustrating thing about dual monitors is that, most of the time, when running a game full screen you still need to alt tab to move focus to the 2nd monitor.
I used dual monitors a lot when i was doing a lot of coding and playing a lot of WoW. Game in window mode on 1 screen, 2nd screen for thottbot/msn/dvds. Obviously the dev speaks for its self.
If the best machine you can envision building is only a few thousand dollars, for Christ's sake, curtail your spending at a few thousand dollars.
This seems highly unlikely. If they wanted him to spend less than $7k, they would have given him a ceiling of less than $7k. I see no reason for the employer to look down on him for spending within his allotted budget, as doing so would make him and his company look like idiots who don't know how to budget.
I highly recommend a dual or, if you can swing it, triple monitor setup. Three Dell 24" monitors side by side would be dreamlike if you ever have to do spreadsheets, use photo editing software, browse the internet or have a large number of text documents on screen at once. And that's not considering the possibility of games using multiple monitors, which many can.