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

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the half-the-cost-was-windows-server-liceses dept.

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."

3 of 495 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why the 300GBx2 drives by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You'd think that for $16,000 they could have put a couple SSDs in there.

  2. BAARF by tepples · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The RAID5 is probably planned for longer term bulk storage since it can be a tad slower than Raid1.

    RAID 5 isn't worth it. If you want to put four drives in a RAID, use RAID 10. Writes are faster on RAID 10 than on RAID 5, and if two drives fail, there's only a 33 percent chance of needing to restore everything from backup, compared to 100 percent for RAID 5.

  3. Re:Where have I seen this before? by Vectronic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wow, it's fugly... for $16,000 it should have a case that's the equivalent of a Ferrari, or maybe a black Murcielago, not a dune buggy based on a VW Beetle.

    I know the looks don't matter, but, this still looks like someones case mod they made in their basement out of old PC's and some jiffy markers.