The $16,000 PC
March 4th, 2009
This has to be the craziest PC we have seen , built by the guys at Puget Systems in cost a massive $16,000 to build.
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So what exactly does spending $16,000 on a custom PC get you? This crazy PC features four quad core Opteron processors, 32GB of RAM and eight hard drives in various RAID configurations
As you can see from the photos, the $16,000 PC features a custom water cooling system, with a massive external radiator which features nine 120mm fans.
The massive external fans run at 5V which means they are almost silent, but they manage to keep the processors running at 45 degrees C under full load and at 36 degrees C at idle.
The $16,000 PC features two VelociRaptor hard drives in RAID 1 and six 1TB hard drives in Raid 5, that is a serious amount of hardware in one single PC.
Toms Hardware via Slash Gear and Geeky Gadgets
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Ok, it’s impressive, but what the heck is it used for?
This would be one big, badass server, that’s for sure. But I guess you could use it for checking your email.
They spend all that money on it and then only put AMD opterons in it.
Come on guys, at least put Intel XEONS in there!
On the upside, they could have saved themselves a lot of time and just an apple mac, it costs about the same but would have taken them a lot less time to build
meh, i got better.
My God! Who would spend $16,000 on a PC? A Mac maybe…but a PC?!?! ;D
That looks good, but you should have put AMD PHENOM X4′s in there, and it looks like you have enough open DIMM slots for 64 GB of ram, and also, you should put three XFX GEFORCE 9800 GTX’s in there in SLI, and get a couple Apple HD Cinema Displays 30″. by the way, i think 6 fan’s would have been fine for the cooling.
I have a 600 Watt power supply on my XFX Geforce 8200 board with a Triple Core Phenom 2.1 GHZ, 4 GB of Corsair ram, and Two 500 GB hard drives, and im getting the card i mentioned early. I think you have me beat.
im 15 yrs old.
bet that would run GTA 4 on highest settings, or CRYSIS
ur all such nerds who have no life
$16,000 for casual-tier processors.