When High End Gaming Machines Fight

mikemuch writes "Games for Windows Magazine and ExtremeTech teamed up to determine which prebuilt high-end PC delivers the ultimate game performance in terms of frame-rate and ability to yield the highest game quality settings on large displays. The winner, VoodooPC's Omen, features an Intel Core 2 Duo QX6800 processor and two Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX's in SLI configuration. It delivers over 15,000 3DMarks (as do a few of the other contestants), but 'only' costs $5,700 — in contrast with some of the other machines that go for close to eight grand."

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Honestly

[webheaded]

Who cares about prebuilt systems that much anyway? Most PC enthusiasts that are looking for this kind of power are the type that build their own PCs anyway, so who are these companies marketing to?

What would you guys do? Build your own or buy from some random manufacturer?

Re:Honestly

[Nightspirit]

Oddly enough the only thing wrong with my new home-built system was my Corsair memory.

I understand the feeling though. First I spent 8 hours wondering why the damn thing wouldn't boot (I didn't push hard enough on the intel core 2 duo heatsink pins, a much worse configuration than AMD, which is relatively easy). Then I do a memtest, everything is find, install the OS, then everything starts going haywire. I do another memtest and find out one of the sticks of RAM is bad.

The part that sucks is that the memory is matched, and I'm not going to waste time sending both sticks back (I want to actually use what I paid for), so I hope that it doesn't make a difference if the ram is matched or not.

Re:$6000 == $600 ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Odd, I don't know anywhere you can buy a PS3 for $600. At least not this month.