Regardless of price or power consumption, I'm talking about full speed performance here.

I guess the processor would be:

Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition 3.33GHz 12 MB L3 Cache LGA1366 ($999.99)

And the graphics card would be:

EVGA GeForce GTX480 1536 MB DDR5 PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card ($499.99) I know there are different models, which one would be best?

Of course the ultimate PC would have 8GB of RAM and a nice SSD drive, what else do you think it should have?

You need to SLI those 480s or it won't be doing too wel vs the 5970. Also that is false, the ultimate PC would have 6 gigs of ram, or 12, since it would be triple channel. Also USB 3.0.

Yeah, definitely needs Crossfire or SLI.

Hell even 4 of the top of the range graphics cards. It's possible.

Ati 5970 or w/e

and dont they have octo-core's now or somthing ( or at least next year or 2 will)

anyways ATI has done ALOT better than Nvidia for price/performance and this year better in overall performance

check this out

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/3304/msi_radeon_5870_four_way_turbo_charged_with_ln2_by_deanzo/index.html

and weep.

I agree on USB 3.0

So you're saying that the 5970 is much better than the GTX480, alright...

So it's better to have 6GB of RAM than 8? Also I haven't seen a PC with 12GB of RAM yet, are they making those already?

x58 motherboards can take up to 24 GB typically, I believe - 6x4 GB.

It would definitely not be an i7, it would be a multi-CPU motherboard with 4 Xeons, 8 Opterons or something like that.

Oh, and the X5680 seems to have slightly better performance than the i7 980x.

Perhaps, though that would have absolutely no value for gaming - and in the case of certain multi-CPU systems, namely AMD's latest octo and dodeca-core Opterons, it'd be worse than most desktop CPUs since they've got low clocks but over 9 000 cores, where as games prefer high clocks and fewer cores.