Curse

zamial · Jun 18, 2008, 03:10 PM // 15:10

My opinion: upgrade to a thermaltake 1500 watt psu, and 3 x280 in tri-sli.

that mod alone will make the e-peen surge.

Skull trail should have been called numskull trail, it has its own issues and While everyday there a few more software apps that use multi-threading few do. a quad is all you need.

Also I am not super familiar with the sata2 hard drive but the velocoraptors are sweet. 1 veloco for os/os's, 2 in raid for apps, 1 tera drive for a shadow copy of the raid disks and a lil storage space left over or to shadow the 1st veloco.

other than that, grats on winnings and new comp set-up.

now we have achieved complete over kill.

Spangly_boy · Jun 18, 2008, 03:43 PM // 15:43

lol, I dont care for epeen

I think maybe the whole idea of me getting this thing is too much, as when on earth will I ever use all of its power ^.^

I get bamboozled all to fast with the numbers thrown about for performance etc.

zamial · Jun 18, 2008, 05:38 PM // 17:38

Well being on the bleeding edge is an expensive propistion BUT the system here will (more than likly) play any game you want at max or near max settings for at least the next 2-3 years. If all you plan on ever doing is enjoying guildwars then take solice in knowing that you can watch a movie,play guildwars, use a voip, monitor stock prices, download music, and IM all at the same time, plus whatever else you wanted to do. there are some very good games comming.

Spangly_boy · Jun 18, 2008, 06:37 PM // 18:37

true, Cant wait for duke nukem forever, mirrors edge and many more, I dont just play guilds so thats a bonus, I use GIS mapping software in my job and take work home with me often. I have had times where my output spread sheet in excel has been over 60000 rows and 200 columns all with outputtable data. anywho thats another story.

Lord Sojar · Jun 18, 2008, 10:22 PM // 22:22

You may now purchase your dream PC. If your budget is still insane, go for the extreme overclocked quad core Intel 45nm processor with 3x GTX 280s in Tri-SLi config. Mind you, your PC will have more than 3 Teraflops of processing power, but who cares!?!! MUAHAHHA!

The Meth · Jun 19, 2008, 12:01 AM // 00:01

Christ, you make me envious. As soon as you get this I want to know how many instances of Crysis you can run at once.

Lord Sojar · Jun 19, 2008, 01:34 AM // 01:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Meth

Christ, you make me envious. As soon as you get this I want to know how many instances of Crysis you can run at once.

3.14159. Wait... Yes, it would be amusing. I only had the chance to fiddle with the GTX 280 testbed card for 3 days, and I only had one of them.

The Meth · Jun 19, 2008, 04:29 AM // 04:29

After spending all this money on such a super computer, the only thing left to do is a HAL 9000 case mod. That makes it priceless.

Lord Sojar · Jun 19, 2008, 06:28 AM // 06:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Meth

After spending all this money on such a super computer, the only thing left to do is a HAL 9000 case mod. That makes it priceless.

I fully agree and support this. Have that company do that for you. Tell them you will give them an extra 1000 euros if they do it to your exact specs. It would be so amazing.

Spangly_boy · Jun 20, 2008, 02:12 PM // 14:12

~That is probably one of the best idea's I have ever heard of. It'd actually cut down the cost a bit also, considering I was going to pay almost 1500£ for a paint job. All I need now is an Red globed eye on the front of the machine

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Dude's you have made my day with this, I'll see what they can do.

Can't wait for Minesweeper on this beast ^ ^

Hannes · Jun 20, 2008, 02:47 PM // 14:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna

OLED? SED? Never heard of it.

What's the advantages, what does it do?

OLED:

"...A significant benefit of OLED displays over traditional liquid crystal displays (LCDs) is that OLEDs do not require a backlight to function. Thus they draw far less power and, when powered from a battery, can operate longer on the same charge. Because there is no need to distribute the backlight, an OLED display can also be much thinner than a LCD panel. OLED-based display devices also can be more effectively manufactured than LCDs and plasma displays. However, degradation of OLED materials has limited their use..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic...emitting_diode

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/oled.htm

Hehe I also learned something new today

EDIT: But back on topic... I can't give any tips/info, just wanted 2 say how envious I am! lol
Enjoy it dude, post some pics once u have it

Spangly_boy · Aug 21, 2008, 12:56 PM // 12:56

Thought I'd update you guys who gratefully gave me pointers though this thread and by PM as I've moved onto AoC since I ordered my beast.

As some of you may know, Vadim have ceased trading and were due to ship my Computer 4 days after they announced going into Liquidation. I am now going to be involved in a court case (as a creditor) to get my money back.....

Dreams up in smoke.. pretty much like my primary account bannage in GW.

Regards

Spangly

isildorbiafra · Aug 21, 2008, 01:24 PM // 13:24

O.o, life a biaaatch

imnotyourmother · Aug 21, 2008, 01:25 PM // 13:25

Here is what I came up with

Case: Lian-Li PC-201B Black CASE (NO PSU)
Cabling: Supreme Cable Management and UV Modding - Blue and Red
Window: Complex Custom Precise Machine-Cut Window
Cooling Mesh: Precise Machine-Cut Artistic Skulls
Airbrushing: Supreme Air-Brushing (Portrait)
Fans type: Non-LED fans
Cooling: LiquoCool Antarctic TXST (2xCPU+2xChipset+2VGA+Memory)
PSU: Enermax Galaxy Modular DXX 1000W PSU
Motherboard: ASUS Striker II Extreme (Nvidia 790i - 1600/1333 FSB DDR3)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad QX9770 Extreme Retail (4x3.20GHz 1600FSB 12Mb)
Memory: G.Skill DDR3-1600 2x2048MB PI CL7 Dual Channel Kit
Graphics: BFG Nvidia 280GTX OC 1024Mb PCIe 2.0 HDCP
Hard Drive: 74Gb WD Raptor 10000rpm 16mb SATA
RAID Card: Areca 1280ML 24xSata/SAS PCIe x8 Raid Controller
Storage HD: 300Gb VelociRaptor 10000rpm 16mb SATA II
Optical Drive: Plextor PX-810SA/T3B SATA 18x DL DVDRW Black Retail
Optical Drive 2: LG GGW-H20L Blu-Ray RW-HD-ROM Black SATA
Floppy Drive: Lian-Li 3.5" Aluminium 25 in 1 Card Reader and USB (Black)
PCI card: Matrox GC RTX100 Video Editing
PCIe Device: Terratec Cinergy 2400i DT DVB-T TV Tuner PCI-Express x1
Sound Card: Creative 7.1 X-FI Elite Pro
Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP2 OEM
Secondary OS: Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 32 bit DVD OEM
OS Extras: X-Image on 2.5" 120Gb, Vista opt. and Genesis CD
Building: Express Build (5-10 working days)
Overclocking: Extreme Overclocking (10-50% - CPU/Memory/VGA) (NOT RECOMMENDED)
Warranty: Deluxe 3 Year Collect and Return-Onsite Warranty
Free T-Shirt: Vadim Computers Baseball T-Shirt (XL)
Packaging: Aluminium Custom Trunk (Full Towers - 80x80x40)
Changes: Changes to the configuration are possible

Total: £10872.53 In USD that is a punny $ 23,919.57

Or just wait 3 months and get it for 50 bucks

Quaker · Aug 21, 2008, 02:42 PM // 14:42

My only advice - if you won something like $1 million, then sure, waste $23k on a computer (after all, you DO get a free T-shirt!). But if the $23k is a significant portion of your winnings, you'll be kicking yourself later on for wasting so much money on a toy that will be "obsolete" in a few years. Just imagine if you had spent that on a P4 rig with dual 8800GTs a few years ago and what it would be worth now. (A Q6600 with a single GTX 280 or HD4870x2 would spank it.)

You could save that 23k and buy yourself a very good rig every year for the next 10 years or so.

Jumping Is Uselss · Aug 21, 2008, 04:48 PM // 16:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quaker

You could save that 23k and buy yourself a very good rig every year for the next 10 years or so.

I was thinking the same thing. Since some parts will become obolete in a few years, i don't need to blow all of my money on one comp.

But since the OP has a large sum of money in hand, he should go for it.

Elder III · Aug 21, 2008, 07:17 PM // 19:17

if the OP has a large amount of money in hand then he can put 100k aside and buy the best of the best of the best every 3 years for the next 2 decades.

Or if you turn around and sell your "obsolete" old rig you could add another decade on to that I bet.

hehe - don't mind me, it's always fun playing with other peoples money XD

Crimson Flame · Aug 22, 2008, 02:37 AM // 02:37

The OP no longer has such a large sum of money in hand. As posted a little while ago, the company went bankrupt and now he has to go to court as an unsecured creditor in order to recover that spent money. The general rule of thumb is that unsecured creditors typically recover about 10% of the money they are owed by the insolvent debtor.

OP, sucks for your loss. I feel for you, man.

Spangly_boy · Aug 22, 2008, 07:30 AM // 07:30

Indeed Crimson, lol your the only person who replied that grasped the situation. I think it teaches me not to put all my eggs in one basket. I'm informed that maybe I will receive my computer if a few other customers pay up, as they are trying to honour the people who placed orders in the recent weeks/months.

As for the wallet, it won't be light for a while I have enough to tide myself and most of my family over for at least 15 years, thats besides the point tho.

If you want custommade then do it yourself and don't depend on these 'fringe' companies to build it for you.
If you havent got the cash, go for a big name and get 90% of the performance you would have got with your custom, soe people are enthusiast and like to squeeze fps out of their rigs lol.

As for a replacement for this mishap I went to www.meshcomputers.com, they have some very nice computers and offer reasonable price.

Roll on GW2, the exile is killing me.

Snograt · Aug 22, 2008, 08:10 PM // 20:10

/sigh

I know it's been a bad time with Vadim going bust (had similar problems with Evesham) and I know you felt the need to go with a big name company, but Mesh?

http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/
http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/
or even Dell-in-disguise http://www.alienware.co.uk/