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Kirin_gaming on 03 December 2015
OdinHades said:

Just for the fun of it, I threw together basically the most expensive parts I could possibly find, totally ignoring if they are worth it or not. Prices are in € because I'm from germany, sorry about that. But they shouldn't be much different from US$, especially since taxes are included:

CPU: Intel Core i7-5960X € 1.229
MB: MSI X99A Godlike Gaming  € 559
RAM: Corsair 128 GB DDR4-2666 Octa-Kit € 1.379
SSD: Samsung MZ-75E2T0B (2TB)  € 704
GPU: 2x EVGA GeForce Titan X Hydro Cooper € 2.798
PSU: be quiet! Dark Power Pro P11 1000W  € 244,90
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 € 89,90
Case: Lian Li PC-A76X Big Tower  € 209,90
Optical Drive: LG BH16NS40 Blu-Ray € 69,90
Monitor: Philips 288P6LJEB/00 (4K)  € 424
OS: Windows 10 Home     € 104,90
Overall:  € 7.812,50

 

That build is ridiculous in every way imaginable. You will never need the power of the CPU. A 6700K isn't that much slower, but very much cheaper! You will also not need two Titan GPUs. Two GTX 980 would be perfectly fine, but yeah, if I would have chosen parts that would make actually sense, I wouldn't come near your price range. The monitor is a little less expensive, since you mentioned "it doesn't need to be made out of gold". So I picked something cheaper there. But you can also spend more than 2.000 € on a monitor if you really want to, which will bring you up to 5K with insane image quality. 

 

I wouldn't recommend such a PC for anyone, frankly. But if your only goal is to build a ridiculously expensive PC and you don't care about the money, go for it and have fun!

Wow you Europeans really have it rough when it comes to PC hardware.First you have to pay the "import"tax, and then the sale tax(which is really high compared to many states here).In the U.S we obviously have lower prices, but we also have Newegg so no sale tax.I'm actually surprised of how big PC gaming is in some places there specifically Germany for example.



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20pdemau on 03 December 2015

Hearing you critisize me and my life is surprisingly fun thank you



Mummelmann on 03 December 2015
CGI-Quality said:
garretslarrity said:
Get 2 Titan Xs.
Intel's 1.3TB PCIe SSD
Watercool both graphics cards and the CPU.
Get a top of the line monitor (get once that is at least 120fps if you have a budget like this)

With that said, you should be good.

He doesn't really need to watercool the GPUs, so long as he's got a case with plenty of air flow (something that should be a top priority when building rigs of this nature). CPU watercooling is another matter and, overall, much easier to manage.


I agree with this, I bought a tower with amazing airflow and it works wonders for the GPU; my CPU doesn't really need OC for gaming.



Random_Matt on 03 December 2015
Kirin_gaming said:
OdinHades said:

Just for the fun of it, I threw together basically the most expensive parts I could possibly find, totally ignoring if they are worth it or not. Prices are in € because I'm from germany, sorry about that. But they shouldn't be much different from US$, especially since taxes are included:

CPU: Intel Core i7-5960X € 1.229
MB: MSI X99A Godlike Gaming  € 559
RAM: Corsair 128 GB DDR4-2666 Octa-Kit € 1.379
SSD: Samsung MZ-75E2T0B (2TB)  € 704
GPU: 2x EVGA GeForce Titan X Hydro Cooper € 2.798
PSU: be quiet! Dark Power Pro P11 1000W  € 244,90
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 € 89,90
Case: Lian Li PC-A76X Big Tower  € 209,90
Optical Drive: LG BH16NS40 Blu-Ray € 69,90
Monitor: Philips 288P6LJEB/00 (4K)  € 424
OS: Windows 10 Home     € 104,90
Overall:  € 7.812,50

 

That build is ridiculous in every way imaginable. You will never need the power of the CPU. A 6700K isn't that much slower, but very much cheaper! You will also not need two Titan GPUs. Two GTX 980 would be perfectly fine, but yeah, if I would have chosen parts that would make actually sense, I wouldn't come near your price range. The monitor is a little less expensive, since you mentioned "it doesn't need to be made out of gold". So I picked something cheaper there. But you can also spend more than 2.000 € on a monitor if you really want to, which will bring you up to 5K with insane image quality. 

 

I wouldn't recommend such a PC for anyone, frankly. But if your only goal is to build a ridiculously expensive PC and you don't care about the money, go for it and have fun!

Wow you Europeans really have it rough when it comes to PC hardware.First you have to pay the "import"tax, and then the sale tax(which is really high compared to many states here).In the U.S we obviously have lower prices, but we also have Newegg so no sale tax.I'm actually surprised of how big PC gaming is in some places there specifically Germany for example.


Here in the UK we have VAT and the tax on electonics applied by the government. It also doesn't help that distributors/retailers have to pay hefty import fee's getting the products into the shop. One example is EVGA EU gets their products straight from the states, one reason the prices are so much higher.



Chazore on 03 December 2015
Random_Matt said:


Here in the UK we have VAT and the tax on electonics applied by the government. It also doesn't help that distributors/retailers have to pay hefty import fee's getting the products into the shop. One example is EVGA EU gets their products straight from the states, one reason the prices are so much higher.

Yeah it's getting pretty insane and I live on the IoM, I tried grabbing a cheap 16gb RAM kit over on Newegg for £50, after the import costs and VAT charge it went up to a whopping £95-115 (oddly the standard delivery costs more than the 2 day which makes no sense), instead I held off buying it and opted for a different kit over on Amazon for nearly £70. It's annoying as hell when it comes to VAT and import charges, feels like we're almost entering Russian levels of import costs which is making me choose and shop extremely wisely for new hardware.



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Ganoncrotch on 06 December 2015
20pdemau said:
Hearing you critisize me and my life is surprisingly fun thank you


Welcome to peoples opinions!

Could I ask where you live btw? Just wondering if English isn't your first language or you're if you're just typing a bit on the hasty side.



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20pdemau on 06 December 2015

English is my third language

behind spanish and french

i live in south america

and i always type to fast



garretslarrity on 06 December 2015
20pdemau said:

English is my third language

behind spanish and french

i live in south america

and i always type to fast


Consider me impressed.



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hershel_layton on 06 December 2015

I know this is out of topic, but I love how Windows computers are so good and inexpensive, while Apple products are so underpowered and expensive.

I'm currently using a $900 PC that has a 23 in. monitor(runs 2k smoothly, 4k decently) and intel i5 processor( 2.9 GHz), while a $1,500 Apple computer will be like 1.3 GHz processor with 1080p only.

Back on topic though, that's a lot of money to spend on a PC. If you really want to spend that much, then make it where you can easily upgrade it for future use. I would recommend the newest Skylake processors. They're amazingly efficient, and they only get more efficient with top-notch Nvidia graphics.



 

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Ganoncrotch on 06 December 2015
hershel_layton said:
I know this is out of topic, but I love how Windows computers are so good and inexpensive, while Apple products are so underpowered and expensive.

I'm currently using a $900 PC that has a 23 in. monitor(runs 2k smoothly, 4k decently) and intel i5 processor( 2.9 GHz), while a $1,500 Apple computer will be like 1.3 GHz processor with 1080p only.

Back on topic though, that's a lot of money to spend on a PC. If you really want to spend that much, then make it where you can easily upgrade it for future use. I would recommend the newest Skylake processors. They're amazingly efficient, and they only get more efficient with top-notch Nvidia graphics.

A lot of the Apple price tag sadly is the Brand name, much the same as a pair of shoes increase in cost by $50-100 when you add a Nike logo on them, people have become loyal to the brand and are willing to pay that extra bit to fit in while sitting at starbucks, sadly you can't see the extra resolution a windows laptop offers from the other side of a cafe, but you can see a glowing Apple!



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