hello there (any PC guru especially), My friends is currently going crazy about Pc games and wanted to invest buying the fastest pc available outside there and he does not mind what is the cost. I advice him if he's in Kuala Lumpur, to go to Low Yat Plaza and scout there all the necessary hardware or advice for such mission. He said he went to Low Yat already, had many talks with alot of fanatics pc gamers, browse the internet reading alot of stuff about this and at the end, he summarised the superfast PC machine components that he wants was this massive setup( and i don't know from who or where he manage to get all of this info: CPU Two Xeon X5680 RAM 24GB Corsair Dominator DDR3/1600 (24 Gig...., my current i7 Pc with 4 Gb Corsair already also can run smooth playing Crysis.......but 24 GB...... It seems i'm already outdated.....) Motherboard EVGA Classified SR-2 Graphics Three EVGA GTX 480 SuperClocked ( THREE Graphic Card.....this guy want to play games or make a game?????) Power Supply Corsair AX1200 Thermaltake Power Express 450W Solid State Drives Two OCZ Vertex 2 200GB Hard Drives Two Western Digital 2TB Caviar Black Optical Drive Plextor B940SA Soundcard Auzentech X-Fi Forte Case Mountain Mods U2-UFO Cooling Danger Den Custom Liquid Cooling Bezels MNPCTech Keyboard Microsoft X6 Mouse Mad Catz R.A.T. 7 Fan Bay NZXT Sentry LX Monitor Three HP ZR30w ( THREE monitor......) - Estimated cost: Rm 30 - 40,000 eek:) He went to most of the pc shops in K.L ( Low yat, BB plaza etc) and the problem is some of the components are not available locally. If he wants to assemble the best and fastest pc setup with all the available components that can be bought locally, and money is not a concern, what will be your advice for the components setup for such massive appetite. FYI: He is not into any of the PS3/Xbox etc platform........( hhhhssshhhh....i was just going to ask him to buy any mega inch LED HD Tv for the gaming purpose...)
Hmmm....one good question. I think he ( in fact like me also ) bought and plays mostly the singleplayer version of any current first/third shooter type of PC games like Call of duty, fallout etc and not into online.
For keyboard, try get the logitech G510 Mouse, imo, razer does have the best mice around http://www.razerzone.com/ your friend should also get a mouse pad (also razer recommended) as well i can only guess this ridiculous gaming setup is for intense gaming or hyper fast multitasking or doing complex calculations or game making
Couldn't agree more. Hardcore gamers like my friend, when it is about playing it with a pc, speed will be their main concern. Such high tech components and whooping price tag is like a waste of money from my opinion because of whatever technology he will invest now,by next year, it will be surpass by another superior high tech gadget and the upgrade story will just not end......its a miracle how advancement in the technology of PC can make people so glued to such passion......... well,its his money....... Key board: Logitech G510 Mouse: Razer
Gee. This PC is way more power than a lot of supercomputers 30 years ago and it's only used for playing games.
Don't need dual Xeons. The SLI's take over all the GPU intensive tasks. You just need a fat bus. And higher cache on the CPU. And 10k rpm disks. What the heck, since he's spending all this cash, go for 15k rpm. Try Velociraptors, they are killers.
Three NVIDIA GPUs is a sure-fire way to take down the local powergrid and burn down your house. Tell him to buy ATI cards.
Great advice. This can trim the budget. 15k rpm HDD wow...i don't even know such beast exist. That's is the last thing that my friend wants while playing his pc games........
I did some reading a few years back regarding using Xeon processors for gaming and its effects - the end result was not very significant - only slightly better in some things, no noticeable difference in others. Mind that was a few years back. Technically speaking the Xeon processors are made for raw number crunching which his multimedia PC won't really be doing much - the graphics are taken care of by the ATI/NVidia cards. The bottleneck is still going to be fast the graphic cards can churn them out. In that regard, Xeon processors are most commonly found in servers to do heavy calculations, e.g database transactions; not multimedia home PCs. If anything your friend could just settle for the best Core i7 Extreme Edition and save quite a bit of money in the end. I know money's no object for this project of his but wasting it isn't exactly a smart thing to do either when you know something just as good is available for less. Mind you my knowledge is many years behind, perhaps technology caught up since!
You're right. Xeons are also good when it comes to actual frame rendering, i.e. when actually creating graphics, animations, 3d renders from CAD etc. They are commonly used in post shops as well. Gaming PCs need a fast CPU with lots of cache (always a good thing), a fast fat bus on the motherboard (pretty common now,) lots of fast RAM and monster GPUs. Even the additional RAM is useless beyond a point. There are many good CPUs with 8 MB L3 cache available in the marketplace. A 6-core Xeon or i7 is not going to improve your gaming experience. Quick note: there is nothing like the Best PC Ever, as quested for in the title of this thread. It depends on the application.
Wow.....you guys sound technically knowledgeable in this issue. At my current near half a century age, reading all of this "computer" language and trying to understand also like "my god...this is to much haha".. Well all of your advice are noted.
Well here is another advise for you/your friend. If he/she is very rich, hell YES, he should buy what is recommended. If I am the super rich person, I would even go further. I would spend another US$10K to pay and invite one of those crazy kid who recently won the world overclocking championship and come over to help configure/overclock the PC to the extreme. Bugger what other people say. They are just jealous.
He won't be able to use the machine to its most maximum capability - or notice the difference. Will he be able to see the difference between 200 and 120FS? How about a 0.05ms extra time to process one thread?
