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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."

6 of 495 comments (clear)

  1. Meme-A-Holic by senorpoco · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But will it run Crysis?

  2. Re:Where have I seen this before? by causality · · Score: 0, Redundant

    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, andCooler Master Stacker 810 case. By a remarkable coincidence, these are almost exactly the hardware requirements for Windows 8!

    You beat me to it :-). So, I'll say that maybe Vista will be snappy and responsive on this machine.

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  3. And no SSD? by MartinSchou · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Tom's Hardware have been swooning over SSDs, partly Intel's SLC editions, partly IoFusion's PCI express monster, showing several times that one of Intel's SSDs can easily keep up with a pair of harddrives in RAID0 - and yet when they go all out on a system like this, they don't even choose one as the system drive?

    How very inconsistent.

  4. Vista? by mr+bms · · Score: 0, Redundant

    does it run windows vista ok ?

  5. onomatopeia by dna_(c)(tm)(r) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Woosh!

    That fast, hm? And that was just the virusscanner...

  6. Re:Where have I seen this before? by dov_0 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Could it be that someone has finally produced hardware powerful enough to run Vista smoothly?

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