[Ranger]

What's the best gaming PC for NextGen games?

Cost is not a problem,
but I don't want to spend $8000 on a PC that doesn't meet my expectations.


Alienware... anything better?
I heard of Widowpc, is there anything else?
I'm kinda lookin' for liquid cooling too

[powerzord]

alienware is uh, over priced brah . its best to build your own.
my builds were around $400-500
not sure about next generation games, brah there are no games better than quake,
you don't really need liquid cooling brah

[the_f0qer]

It's best to build your own. I can throw togeather a list of good parts if you want.

[mhquake]

Diminishing returns set in real quick when you start going high-end, but you probably already know that. To my mind reliability is an important factor here; you don't want to be spending that kind of money and having shoddy (but ultra fast) components that are really fragile and need nursemaiding. With that in mind I'd recommend a rugged workstation class machine as a baseline.

[Dreadlorde]

Blue Gene/P.

[Ranger]

Originally Posted by the_f0qer

It's best to build your own. I can throw togeather a list of good parts if you want.

That'd be great



mhquake, when you said as a baseline, you meant for use in building your own?

[Disco Rockstar]

core i7
X58 Motherboard
16GB RAM @ 1600mhz (24 if u can afford it)
2 ATI HD 5870's in sli
2 OCZ Vertex SLC Solid State Drives (60GB each) in Raid 0
Windows 7 64 bit on the above RAID0 only
Buy an additional 1TB-2TB drive for all programs/storage/etc.

I would keep the windows7 as the only thing on your main drive except for whatever game you want to play at the time. I would install it on the SSDs then remove when done.

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the above is probably around 5K.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Originally Posted by Disco Rockstar

core i7
X58 Motherboard
16GB RAM @ 1600mhz (24 if u can afford it)
2 ATI HD 5870's in sli
2 OCZ Vertex SLC Solid State Drives (60GB each) in Raid 0
Windows 7 64 bit on the above RAID0 only
Buy an additional 1TB-2TB drive for all programs/storage/etc.

I would keep the windows7 as the only thing on your main drive except for whatever game you want to play at the time. I would install it on the SSDs then remove when done.

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the above is probably around 5K.

Nice computer Disco, and the RAID config is a nice touch too,only a bit pricey for myself though.

[Disco Rockstar]

thats not mine i was just suggesting it for him if money was not an issue... mine is pretty good but not top of the line like that.

[mhquake]

Don't do RAID 0 - it's dangerous. You're effectively doubling the chance of a HD failure wiping out everything. Take it from someone who does this stuff for a living.