CNET builds a "Dream Rig"

[Worf101]

They decided to build a "money's no object" rig and then test it against 3 over the counter gaming rigs and another custom built rig with the chip they didn't take.

They decided to go with... (Drumroll please)

An Athalon FX-53 system, Asus MoBo, 2 Gigs of Corsair Ram (I think) etc... It bested it's Intel Rival in three out of four tests, handily. Intel tried to skew the contest by throwing in some last minute "NEW REVOLUTIONARY" chipset bushwa but CNET, to their credit, wasn't buying it. The AMD rig is the best, fastest most powerful that money can buy.

Final bill, over $6,000 but 2 grand of that was custom automotive paint job on a CoolerMaster Case. Not the case I'd have chosen, believe me.

Here's the link.

<A HREF="http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3118_7-5143923.html" target="_new">http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3118_7-5143923.html</A>

Read it fer yourself.

Da Worfster

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

 

[Worf101]

They post this article saying that "AMD chips are faster than Intel chips".

Again don't believe me, this is what they wrote.

<A HREF="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5322290.html" target="_new">http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5322290.html</A>

I'm not a fanboy of either, I just like the old Henry Ford adage "let's you and him fight".

Da Worfster

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

 

[endyen]

So much to trash, so little time.
The case is well worth $29.95.
With an unlimited budget, the only thing I would keep is the chip.

 

[pickxx]

I would take the CPU, and also the X800XT PE for 451....lol I think the street price i have seen for that is about ~570. Other then that i would take a 6800 Ultra.

Everything else i would chose differently...Then again with an unlimited budget i guess the price for two Raptors being the same as 500GB of storage wouldn't irritate me so much.

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[DonnieDarko]

That case is ugly.

with unlimited amount of money i'd build a dual opteron system. With a 6800ultra, 2gb of ram, 2 raptors in raid 0, 2 120gb drives on a seperate raid array, water cooling.

man, only if we [-peep-] money.

Watch out for the <b><font color=red>bloody</font color=red></b> Fanboys!

AMD64 2800+ :: MSI Neo-Fis2r :: 512mb Kingmax ddr400 :: Sapphire 9800pro 128mb :: 10K WD Raptor

Addicted, finally.

 

[coylter]

Wow The benchmark they used suck sooooo [-peep-] much....its like G4techtv doing hardware review...wow...

Personnaly i'd go with

Amd fx-53
Asus A8V-Dlx
2gig Ram
Nv 6800ultra...

They compare the x800xt platinium xtremebungholiopower Max super Gold to the regular 6800ultra........wow.



Athlon 2700xp+ (oc: 3200xp+ with 200fsb)
Radeon 9800pro (oc: 410/360)
1024mb pc3200 (5-3-3-2)
Asus A7N8X-X

 

[endyen]

I am a bit of an Amd fan, but right now, with an unlimited budget, I'd go for the xeon system, with a mobo that supports SLI.

 

[trooper11]

i dont know, thats tempting i know, but if i had an unlimited budget, id wait for december and get an opteron/athlon 64 system with sli. plus the only why i know as of now to get the xeon sli system is through alienware, and id prefer to build it myself lol.

that system is ok, its defenitely not the best high end i can think of. first thing i would have changed was the mobo to an msi k8n neo2.