I'd love to see how many thousands of dollars would be saved by someone who decided to buy the equivalent parts and -- horrors! -- put it together on his own.
Sans drives, case, and cooling, I get about $3500 on newegg, compared with the $6000 of the review model. Add about 200 for a decent home made liquid cooling setup (out of box for the lose, amirite?), 100-200 for a sexy case, 300 for hard drives, 100 for a power supply, and you get about $4200. Did I forget anything? Got to keep in mind, some this hardware is extremely expensive. The CPU is almost $1500, the GPUs are $1200 together, and the ram was over $400 itself.
Yes 711, you forgot a few things. Motherboard, Vista Premium, 2 DVD-R/W drives, Logitech keyboard and mouse. Final cost is more like $4,800 and the new price is $5,500
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I'd love to see how many thousands of dollars would be saved by someone who decided to buy the equivalent parts and -- horrors! -- put it together on his own.
Sans drives, case, and cooling, I get about $3500 on newegg, compared with the $6000 of the review model. Add about 200 for a decent home made liquid cooling setup (out of box for the lose, amirite?), 100-200 for a sexy case, 300 for hard drives, 100 for a power supply, and you get about $4200. Did I forget anything? Got to keep in mind, some this hardware is extremely expensive. The CPU is almost $1500, the GPUs are $1200 together, and the ram was over $400 itself.
Yes 711, you forgot a few things. Motherboard, Vista Premium, 2 DVD-R/W drives, Logitech keyboard and mouse. Final cost is more like $4,800 and the new price is $5,500
A much smaller gap