Here lies a Fork in the Road.

[FMod]

if youre talking all around $7k, meaning custom water loop, custom fabricated case, etc, where every little detail down to screws was changed and altered, then i could see how it could cost you $7k, but even then it wouldnt be boring.

 

It takes much less than that to eat up this amount of money, no custom cases or anything special. Mostly just a lot of fast storage, X79 Deluxe and a controller to fit it all, two PCI-E SSD and 8x8 RAM to keep the drives cached, 2x680 with waterblocks for video.

 

Then if you count peripherals - keyboard, mouse, wheel, HOTAS, trackIR, a few extra inputs - the total comes out to 7k, not including the TV and audio components. And that's without everything being high end, no "extreme" CPUs, memory heatsinks, magic cables or other junk.

 

In contrast, recently I've seen - while buying used parts from the owner - what's indeed an impressive PC: all solid state storage (and quite a bit of it), two fanless PSU, two 780Ti, 32 GB of DDR3-2933 memory (stock!), and two DDC water loops with all rads fitted to the case. Nothing sticking out and nothing except the TV screen betraying whether it's turned off or running at full steam.

 

What makes a PC impressive is when you try to suggest just one thing to make it better and can't. The parts may cost the same in total, but everything being the latest and the greatest makes all the difference.

[hoofhearted4]

ill keep my money lol.