totally insane overkill PC, Maximum PC Dream Machine 2017 is $18,220

[steve2470]

Last edited Fri Aug 25, 2017, 08:26 AM - Edit history (1)

They do this every year in the dead-tree magazine Maximum PC. Current issue September 2017.

This price includes all the usual stuff and 4k monitor, special chair, headphones, microphone, etc.

Insane. What to give your favorite billionaire gamer from his billionaire buddy lol

Parts List

CPU: Intel I9-7900X

Motherboard: Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 9

GPU's: 2 Nvidia Titan XP graphics cards

Asus PG27UQ monitor 27 inch

RAM: 128 GB Crucial Ballistix Elite DDR4-3200

SSD's: Samsung 960 Pro ( 2-512 GB and 1-2 TB) and Samsung 850 Pro (2-2 TB)

Hard drives: 2-HGST Ultrastar HE10 10 TB

PSU: Corsair HX1200i and CableMod Cable kit

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Elite Super Tower Case

Cooling: EKWB Cooling Suite, 8x Corsair ML120 Pro, 3x Corsair ML140 Pro

Mouse: Mionix Castor

Keyboard: Logitech G413 Pro

Headphones: Beyerdynamic DT 1770 Pro

Microphone: Razer Seiren Pro

Nvidia HB SLI Bridge

Rode PSA1 Boom Arm

Noblechairs EPIC Series chair

Windows 10 Home OEM (why not Pro if you're going to spend all this money ? I dunno)

[DetlefK]

1. But does it have a mouse with 17 buttons?

[steve2470]

3. hmmm let's see

Mionix Castor $53 not sure total number of buttons but i think less than 17 lol

[klook]

2. I dunno, i think I'll stick with what I've got

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunway_TaihuLight

[steve2470]

4. haha! nt

[exboyfil]

5. When I bought my first PC

in the late 1980s, I had to have all the bells and whistles. I remember the tab coming close to $3K for my Gateway 386 (my company covered 1/3rd of it). That would be over $6K in today's money. I had weird priorities then it seems. It did come with a printer.

I won't consider spending more than $300 to $400 for a laptop today. I am still nursing along my daughter's $250 six year old Celeron laptop, and my $400 four and half year old I5 laptop.

[JayhawkSD]

6. My first pc cost about $1800, but... And I do mean but...

It had 32Kb of RAM.
It had two 5.5" floppy disk drives.
It had no hard disk.
It had no inherent operating system.
It had a 15 Watt power supply.
It was 27" wide, 18" deep and 7" high (or thereabouts).
It used IBM PC-DOS, no version stated because it was the first disk operating system ever released into the wild.

Note that it was not MS-DOS because Microsoft had not yet stolen it from IBM.

[Egnever]

7. Pro adds network support for domain connected computers

there is really nothing desirable in a gaming machine added in the higher versions of 10.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

8. Not sure about v10 but in older iterations...

...the pro version allowed 2 things I use a lot:
>Backup to a LAN share,
>Remote desktop.

[Egnever]

9. not that there arent usefull features

just not really for a gaming situation.

you certainly wouldn't game on a remote connection, and backing up over the Lan could use bandwidth at inopportune moments.


Not saying they aren't useful in certain situations but if gaming is the purpose of the machine neither of those improve gaming performance.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

10. Maybe not for WOW or call of duty but...

...I have now and then used remote desktop to play chess on a pc at home from my pc at work that didn't have the game installed.

The backup to a LAN share is more useful, at least to me.

[csziggy]

11. I don't know about Windows 10 but Windows 7 Home cannot handle even 32 GB RAM

I would expect that they would need Pro to run 128 GB RAM!

When I had my current computer built, the shop ordered Windows 7 Home but then had to change that to Pro (64 bit) because I have 32GB of RAM - that's the only reason I know about it.

Whenever I am planning a new computer, I check Maximum PC for their most recent graphics computer builds, then consult with the local shop for what they recommend, order the parts, and pay the shop to assemble the computer for me. That may have to change - the shop I have used for the last four builds is gone - the owner decided to retire. A friend's son has a computer business so I may see how well we work together. Or I may have to go back to building my own machines again.

[matt819]

12. What if I skip the chair? (nt)