What Does a $16,000+ PC Look Like, Anyway?

justechn writes "Tom's Hardware has an article about custom PC maker Puget Systems, who had just finished a custom $16,000 PC for one of their clients. So what exactly goes into a $16,000 system? How about: Four quad-core Opteron processors, 32 GB of memory, Windows Server 2008, Asus Xonar DX PCI Express sound card, 3Ware 9550SX-8LP SATA 3 Gb/s RAID controller, Two Western Digital 300 GB VelociRaptor hard drives in RAID 1, Two 1 TB Samsung SpinPoint F1s also in RAID 1, and Four 1 TB Samsung SpinPoint F1s in RAID 5. Puget went with MagiCool's Xtreme Nova 1080 radiator, Nine 120 mm fans, Four Koolance CPU blocks, Koolance combined pump and reservoir unit, and Cooler Master Stacker 810 case. In addition to all that hardware, it also runs very quiet and very cool. The temperature of the CPUs is 36 C at idle, 45 C at load."

Comments

Want to see a gallery of super PC's from the past

[vistic]

What I'd really like is to see a gallery of these super PC's from 5 or 10 years ago.

A $10,000 system with 2 GB of RAM and a RAID set up (these things ALWAYS need RAID !!) with 50 GB of storage...

Or a $10,000 system featuring dual 3dfx voodoo cards in SLI configuration and blah blah blah.

Then we laugh and realize we can do better than that today for a few hundred dollars.

Those systems are all over-priced and a HUGE waste of money when you consider how soon it will be obsolete.

Whoever ordered the system in this article is an idiot.

Re:But can it play Crysis?

[JoeMerchant]

Nah, the Crysis sequel was qualified on a $700 system... from 15 years in the future.