J-SMITH69

those cards are about 400 a peice. so its not quite 3k. the mother board is a few hundred dollars.

and you are right, no game would require that much, but no game will be able to slow those cards down for years and years.

IF four gefore 2 video cards could work together and had two cpus on each card you could easily play any game today... its been what damn near 10 years...

jinxy

400 a pop for the cards, 200 for the MB, probably 5 for the CPU, 200-300 for the power supply, 200 on ram, 30 on a heat sink for the cpu, 50 on a case, 100-200 on a HDD, probably easily 3k.

J-SMITH69

hard drives are cheap, you can get a 300gig hd for under 100. and power supplies aren't 100 bucks.

but you are close. but thats on an enitre system. if you want to count everything, count the thousands of dollars you have to spend on a quality tv to see the great performance out of your ps3 or xbox and the couch you have to sit on, hundreds of cases of mountain dew etc...

jinxy

Yeah, I still think consoles are worthless except ---- like Wii, which is just fun to play with a bunch of people. But playing FPS games or RTS on a console just sucks.

J-SMITH69

true, nothing beats keyboard and mouse for fps

klyph

HA! that's like building a top fuel dragster, when all you have is crude oil :1

Jorsher

yes, you can get a 300gb drive for under $100. But if you are building something with this much money, you will need SATA drives and most likely will want to have some fast ones, which easily go over $100

Power supplies don't cost over 100? For a computer with 4 video cards, yes it will. Do you realize how much power they consume? The current cards use 130-300w, each. When you're talking about powering 4, you'll need at least 520w, then more for processor, ram, etc....easily surpassing 1kilowatt.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817814002 <- 1100w cheapest one, $270
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817189016 <- 1000w enough?, only $209

Ram and processor and harddrive all need to be "performance" to get the full potential out of this setup, 3k might be a bit high but I don't see a adequate system being built for under $2500.

I can agree that keyboard + mouse > console gamepad. But both consoles you can use a keyboard/mouse, so it's not really a valid argument. You don't "need" an expensive tv to play these...you can deal with a black and white tv if you're really desperate. I'd rather play 1-2k for a large high def flat panel and have a big tv to watch movies, play games, and watch television on...than a $300-500+ decent monitor (high res to make use of having 4 cards). You gonna sit around the monitor and watch tv/movies with your girlfriend/wife/friends/kids? ---- no, you need a big tv anyway.

I enjoy pc gaming (rts and fps like you two mentioned), but will never agree they're the better value for gaming.

Bone1

will that fix my lagging issue on D2 LOD?

TorganFM

Fyi the top computers on Futuremark use 1300watt psus. I dropped out of the overclocking "scene" a few years ago and haven't built a computer since, but I remember when a 300watt psu was the ----. My how the times have changed.

USS

D2 LOD ftw!