GamingPC Intros $3,500 Gaming Rig, the Destroyer

[Guest]

Fatal1ty "Professional" sound card. Does not sound all that professional to me, and arent the high end hifi/professionals using USB output anyway?

 

[cats_Paw]

All those gaming PCs are always so fun to watch. You can easy overpay $500 for the building itself...

Best part:Win7 costs same as Win8... Id expect win7 to cost more 😀.

 

[JonnyDough]

[citation][nom]apocalypsing[/nom]8GB should be more than enough for most people. Some people tend to go with 16GB or more even though they don't do any heavy rendering or CAD work, only gaming. Thus, they only use up a fraction of it. I've only used about 6.5GB out of 8GB so far.[/citation]

But if you know what the heck yer doin', you can utilize extra ram. Pagefile, RAM drives, virtualization, etc.

 

[JonnyDough]

[citation][nom]tonitelaoag[/nom]to much yes for most of us but the cost of labor and skills in tuning it properly without heat problems and errors /restart when using it is what you are paying for this[/citation]

Except that in a year I can build a system that's on par with this one for about 1/4 of the price...

Granted, without people who have more money than they have sense we wouldn't be where we are today. That is, if you believe in global warming. (I do. Twenty-one years ago I wrote a paper about deforestation and global warming while I sat in the sixth grade. That was 1991.) I think it was around five years ago I read about how the east coast would be getting hit with hurricanes, how they would travel up the coastline as far New York and America billions in damages.

We were so worried about terrorists but we should have been worried about our consumerism/capitalism/pollution. I find it quite sad that you can't go to any shoreline on earth without finding a good amount of industrial and consumer waste.

 

[billgatez]

You could build something better for less. And probley do a better job. Look at that sloppy water cooling instal.

 

[acerace]

[citation][nom]killerclick[/nom]Desktops are dead, they should come out with a 11" $3,500 gaming laptop, or maybe even a gaming tablet. No, a $3,500 gaming smartphone, that only plays multiplayer games, because the future istouch+mobile+socialtouch+mobile+socialtouch+mobile+socialtouch+mobile+socialget that you dinosaurs?touch+mobile+socialtouch+mobile+social[/citation]

Succesfull troll is succesfull. Nice job, bro. 😀

 

[ricardois]

Well actually the starting price is:

Total Price
U$ 2873.16

In the customization options you have options to lower the price, like removing SO, changing 690 to a 680, cheaper Case, cheaper HD, etc...

 

[rubix_1011]

Simple CPU-only watercooling loop would cost less than $200 from what I can see they used. Should have added a larger radiator and watercooled the GPU as well. Video cards love being watercooled to 40C at load temps instead of 70-80C +.

 

[mrdowntownkiller]

Thats what i call it a gaming pc.
- I5 3570k.
- 8 gb ddr3 1600
- 2 x gtx 680.
- samsung 830 ssd 256gb
- 850w quality psu.
- any 64 cache HDD for storage.

 

[Guest]

Amyone who.buys this and doesnt buy a 30 inch 2560 x 1600 display or better is an idiot and needs to be beaten.

 

[BeatMason]

The only thing this 'destroys' would be your checking account on some way overpriced rig you could just build yourself. Just say no to pre-built desktop rigs -_-. I guess this is only news because of the price.

 

[burmese_dude]

"GamingPC told TweakTown on Mondat."

Today's Wednesdat already. You're covering something from Mondat? Why don't you post this on Fridat, or maybe Saturdat.

 

[Guest]

I love the name they've given it: The Destroyer. Yep, destroyer of your bank account.

This just goes to show that people have very little sense when it comes to money.

 

[spookyman]

I like the Haf X case. Great cooling and looks nice.

 

[spartanmk2]

More like a "gaming pc" for the uninformed.

 

[Guest]

>Gaming focused
>i7 3770k
>32GB of RAM

Planetside 2 and Skyrim benefit from extra CPU performance, plus the i7's better for streaming, recording, rendering(unless you're using an extra card for that too)

 

[maxinexus]

It is missing 30" monitor and water-cooled 680SLI or 7970CF. I would change motherboard and sound card as well...then it would be news worthy.

 

[evga_fan]

"A wallet-destroyer" - nuff said!

 

[Guest]

98% of the readers on this site know this machine is dumb waste of money, most of the items are for luxury and does not improve the gaming performance or experience

this is a computer for the rich kiddies that will buy whatever people will label as a gaming rig, as they dont know better themselves

 

[jalagl]

[citation][nom]apocalypsing[/nom]8GB should be more than enough for most people. Some people tend to go with 16GB or more even though they don't do any heavy rendering or CAD work, only gaming. Thus, they only use up a fraction of it. I've only used about 6.5GB out of 8GB so far.[/citation]

If you need lots of RAM, you need it. I work as a software developer, and work in Java with large memory sets. Both my home workstation and laptop have 16GB of RAM and I take full advantage of it, and sometimes wish I had 32GB. Our production servers have 64GB of RAM (though actual usage is slightly below 50GB). I also sometimes run a full cluster of several VMs to test distributed apps, and that eats up memory as well.

Now, the fact that it is the same desktop I use for gaming ... 😀

 

[cold fire]

I built the same exact system (except for different PSU and WC) through newegg and it came to about $2760 (-$60 discount in coupons + $60-200 depending which route you go for cooling)

My point is, they're basically asking for $500+ just to assemble the damn thing

Here's a link to the wishlist http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=16403214

 

[Soda-88]

$3,000.00 for an 3770K PC? I laughed

 

[Guest]

this is really sad . . not the over spending for a gaming PC but that THG would use a source from TweakTown.

really? really?

have you seen their system builders guide???

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]apocalypsing[/nom]8GB should be more than enough for most people. Some people tend to go with 16GB or more even though they don't do any heavy rendering or CAD work, only gaming. Thus, they only use up a fraction of it. I've only used about 6.5GB out of 8GB so far.[/citation]

im constantly running out of ram at 8gb, and would have 16gb but i only have ddr2 so its a matter of cost for me.

 

[Draven35]

[citation][nom]jn77[/nom]You realize I can gut my current Q6600..... Socket 775, but a new dual 2011 motherboard $600, 2 hex core intel cpu's with hyper threading (12 cores/24 with hyper threading) 96gb of DDR-3 ram, buy 2 Samsung 840 pro 256gb SSD's, and 2 x 7990's for about the same price? and it would make that system look like the system my kid uses.[/citation]

so, you're saying you could outclass it with a $600 motherboard, $1300+ in CPUs, $2000 in GPUs, $800 in memory, and $300 in SSDs? I certainly hope so. For the same price? no, sorry, the total comes out to $5000.

(note: you're going to have to use 16 GB ECC server memory to get 96 GB of RAM)