jprestonnaidoo
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If you're gonna spend that much rather get him a nice 42 inch-er (=D) with a cheaper (yet still high-performing) rig ...
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Problem with just getting prices and putting them together is that the system usually ends up slower than it would be for half the budget.
* The P6T7 WS motherboard has lots of PCI-Express slots, but is limited to 3-way SLI and 4-way crossfire much like the RE2 board. The WS board is also not faster, doesn't support the ROG station, doesn't have 16 phase power (or 12+4) and reference RAM settings seem slower than those of the RE2 board. Power delivery is also inferior as there are not Fujitsu Caps like the RE2 has, also has inferior on board sound. - The P6T7 is an inferior board to the RE2 in every conceivable way save for additional PCI-Express slots...
*Quad SLI/4-way crossfire doesn't work so well in fact its often slower than three way crossfire/sli in games, only pulling ahead in synthetic benchmrks. With that said no modern day CPU is powerful enough to push any 4-way configuration properly, hence the very poor performance. -once agian you can spend far less for better performance
*2GHz Patriot memory is meaningless with the CPU running stock speeds as the RAM will be at 1333MHz. Sure you can increase RAM multiplier, but that means increasing Uncore speed to at least 4GHz, which the P6T7 board will not be able to do with stock Vdimm/Vtt/NB voltage, In essence the system will need overclocking to run 2GHz RAM.
*Odin Pro 1200 is a good PSU, but only supports 4xpci-e, so even if said buyer opted for 3x5870s or 285's (which would be cheaper and faster) he couldn't use them because Odin can't power 3 VGAs.
Anyway, just slapping together prices does not the ultimate machine make :/
Problem with just getting prices and putting them together is that the system usually ends up slower than it would be for half the budget.
* The P6T7 WS motherboard has lots of PCI-Express slots, but is limited to 3-way SLI and 4-way crossfire much like the RE2 board. The WS board is also not faster, doesn't support the ROG station, doesn't have 16 phase power (or 12+4) and reference RAM settings seem slower than those of the RE2 board. Power delivery is also inferior as there are not Fujitsu Caps like the RE2 has, also has inferior on board sound. - The P6T7 is an inferior board to the RE2 in every conceivable way save for additional PCI-Express slots...
*Quad SLI/4-way crossfire doesn't work so well in fact its often slower than three way crossfire/sli in games, only pulling ahead in synthetic benchmrks. With that said no modern day CPU is powerful enough to push any 4-way configuration properly, hence the very poor performance. -once agian you can spend far less for better performance
*2GHz Patriot memory is meaningless with the CPU running stock speeds as the RAM will be at 1333MHz. Sure you can increase RAM multiplier, but that means increasing Uncore speed to at least 4GHz, which the P6T7 board will not be able to do with stock Vdimm/Vtt/NB voltage, In essence the system will need overclocking to run 2GHz RAM.
*Odin Pro 1200 is a good PSU, but only supports 4xpci-e, so even if said buyer opted for 3x5870s or 285's (which would be cheaper and faster) he couldn't use them because Odin can't power 3 VGAs.
Anyway, just slapping together prices does not the ultimate machine make :/
LOL
YOU GO BOY!
wpswart006
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Problem with just getting prices and putting them together is that the system usually ends up slower than it would be for half the budget.
* The P6T7 WS motherboard has lots of PCI-Express slots, but is limited to 3-way SLI and 4-way crossfire much like the RE2 board. The WS board is also not faster, doesn't support the ROG station, doesn't have 16 phase power (or 12+4) and reference RAM settings seem slower than those of the RE2 board. Power delivery is also inferior as there are not Fujitsu Caps like the RE2 has, also has inferior on board sound. - The P6T7 is an inferior board to the RE2 in every conceivable way save for additional PCI-Express slots...
*Quad SLI/4-way crossfire doesn't work so well in fact its often slower than three way crossfire/sli in games, only pulling ahead in synthetic benchmrks. With that said no modern day CPU is powerful enough to push any 4-way configuration properly, hence the very poor performance. -once agian you can spend far less for better performance
*2GHz Patriot memory is meaningless with the CPU running stock speeds as the RAM will be at 1333MHz. Sure you can increase RAM multiplier, but that means increasing Uncore speed to at least 4GHz, which the P6T7 board will not be able to do with stock Vdimm/Vtt/NB voltage, In essence the system will need overclocking to run 2GHz RAM.
*Odin Pro 1200 is a good PSU, but only supports 4xpci-e, so even if said buyer opted for 3x5870s or 285's (which would be cheaper and faster) he couldn't use them because Odin can't power 3 VGAs.
Anyway, just slapping together prices does not the ultimate machine make :/
Ok, point taken, but it was fun.
auriga1000
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isn't alienware being sold locally now? just a thought.