What is your current/dream gaming rig?

[JEMC]

mornelithe said:

JEMC said:

@mornelithe: Man, you're fast!

Anyway, if you were a billionaire and money was no problem... would you really buy that PC? I mean, really?  It's good to have dreams and always think big, but there's a point where bigger doesn't mean better and those Dream PCs pass that mark by a lot.

At least that's my opinion.

For me, my Dream Machine would be an i7-4790K with 32 GB of the fastest DDR3 sticks I could find, two of the new TitanX GPU cards (although that would be put on hold after the 390X comes out), with all of those components and the motherboard watercooled by 2 separate loops (1-CPU+Mobo+RAM and 2-GPUs), and then a 1TB SSD and a 4TB Caviar Black HDD, as well as a separate NAS box with 16TB of storage for Backup and also Media files.

And as a monitor, one of the 34" 21:9 screens from LG, Dell or Samsung.

That would cost me 3.5-4K (50% would be the GPUs and another ~1K for the monitor itself), and would last me until the end of this console generation if not even more.

Well, I think it comes down to definition of a 'dream'...sort of like your 'Dream Car'...there are budget Dream Cars (My friends 1997 Mark IV Premiere Supra, for example), for those who realize it's unlikely they'll ever be able to spend 250K-1M+ for a vehicle...and then there are DREAM Cars...like a...1962 Ferrari 250 GTO which sold at auction for $38M (or, mine would be a McLaren F1...still absurdly expensive).

So, whenever I see the term 'dream' come up, it's usually going to be the pinnacle, as opposed to the one we sacrifice for...you catch my drift?  Now, if I were a millionaire, I'd probably spend a good deal of time researching the best possible parts/builds of todays day and age, or, even hire a team of architects to provide me some ideas.  And I would not be opposed to waiting a few months until AMD/Nvidia/Intel etc... came out with the next new line of whatever, which is something most people simply cannot afford (buying the brand new top of the line everything).

But, we can dream :D

A McLaren F1... pff, a Ferrari F40 is the car to get!

But I think we have derailed the thread too much, don't you think?