[citation][nom]Crashman[/nom]...as much as this one costs, it's still pretty much worthless to the majority of high-end users. Basically it's a $1000 PC with a bunch of extras.To put it another way, money "wasted" on the other one went towards making it more flexible and practical. Money "wasted" on this one went towards supporting future upgrades to its SLI array. It's nothing more than an expensive toy.[/citation]
I couldn't agree more. This build taught nothing about how to spend $2K wisely. If anything it showed how trying to focus the budget for a productivity machine more on gaming really hurts the productivity benchmarks. If you're building a GPGPU-based productivity beast, the CPU can be cut back even more, as can the SSD and perhaps the case in order to fit the third graphics card. If you're building for CPU-based productivity tasks, cut the graphics down to a single HD7750 (so you can still play some games during down time), go down to a 400W-450W PSU, a much cheaper mobo, then splurge on a monster CPU; then blow out everything else on the productivity benchmarks. Back in the real world, take the additional money the productivity beast earns, and then go build the gamer.