February 27, 201610 yr Clearly more money than sense - but thats not a bad thing if you have it to spend. A true enthusiast and hobbyist! Forget Linus' $30k+ Build ... I have NEVER seen ANYTHING like this before!! http://bestgamesetups.com/the-35000-00-dollar-setup/
February 27, 201610 yr Clearly that's a dedicated gamer => think of the "horsepower" that quad-SLI GTX-980TI's are "putting out" !! Along with a CPU with a PassMark of 15999 !! A single R9 Nano (used in the "7 Gamers, 1 PC system) scores 16850 on 3DMark; a single GTX-980TI (This system has 4 of them) scores 24190. FOUR GTX-980TI's will do much better ... not 4x as much, but as near as I can tell they should scale up to just under twice the performance of a single one -- so perhaps 45000 or so [The only test I could find showed that with 3-way SLI they scale to about 169%] So a gamer on this system will have 3 times the graphics "oomph" as a gamer on the $30,000 "7 Gamers, 1 PC" setup 8) In addition, the gamer will have the full 15,999 PassMarks of CPU performance available, instead of 1/7th of the 29861 PassMarks that a pair of E5-2697's provide (i.e. about 4265 PassMarks/gamer). Note also that this system provides about 2,000 PassMarks per core, compared to 1066 PassMarks per core on the 7-gamer's system. So ... with roughly 4 times the CPU power, 3 times the GPU power, and twice as much CPU power/core as a gamer on the 7 gamers system would have, this is indeed an amazing build !! Not sure my ears could handle the awesome sound system he's built into this, however
February 27, 201610 yr ... and since the only games I ever play on my PC are Bridge (online -- a LOT); an occasional game of Solitaire (typically Spider 2-suits) and on rare occasions one of the older Windows games (e.g. MineSweeper, Hearts, or FreeCell), I suspect I wouldn't get my money's worth from this system
February 28, 201610 yr What game would actually take advantage of all that power anyhow? I don't know which specific game(s), but I do know the serious gamers are always looking at the fps they can achieve on the "shooters" ... and will pay prodigious amounts of money to gain just a few more frames/second !!
February 28, 201610 yr Stupid. I would rather spend $35k on nice car. Agree -- but we all have own prejudices r.e. what we're willing to spend $$ on and what we're not. Clearly the guy who built that system wanted an absolutely crazy-top-of-the-line gaming system I once spent a small fortune on a car (Porsche 911) ... at a time when I really couldn't afford it -- and now that I could easily afford one I have no desire for it. Your perspective can definitely evolve (and change) over the years ...
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