If you had $3000 to build and mod what kind of system would you build and how will it look??

Come on guys be creative. Lists prices, Web links for products eveything.

lets see what you can do!!

I dont feel like finding links...so w/e
3K, oh baby...

Asus AK8N
Opteron 144
4 GB PC2700 ECC from Samsung
Radeon 9800 AIW
36GB 10K SATA drive from WD(?)

rest of the parts from my current case...
3K should cover that


With a system like that for high-end graphics...I would screw the mobo down into the corner of my desk and bulid a retainer to hold fans above it! This way it is on totaly display for everyone to envy..hehe

i put this together in about 5 minutes....the processor is an oem so i wouldnt get it personaly but just for comparison i chose it...
https://order.store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/wg-or...26d50789d9c6caa


all this for just over $1700

BTW Devil, the 144 opterons are like testers...u want the 244 opterons and also..that asus mobo is called the SK8N

EDIT: I Think they dont like it when people leave there shopping carts filled up for more than an hour and dont buy anything because i checked to see if that link worked after i posted it and it worked....now it just says "your shopping cart is empty" LOL

Umm, I ran out the 3K and didn't finish my system.... Hell I'll got 5K in the rig!!!

How many 300GB drives can I buy for 3k?

a maxtor maxline II ATA/133 2mb cache (300gb) costs $400 so you could get 7 hdd's and have $200 left over. LOL
sometimes i love to be a smartass hehe.

200 bucks left eh? Ok, throw a 200GB in, I think they about 200 bucks.

but u have to remeber...if u were to really do something like that, HDD's arent lightweight u know, its going to cost some money for shipping too.

OK, take back 200GB and use the 200 bucks for shipping.

Still not shure of the inside but it'll definitely be cooled by a prometeia system.
Hmmmmm!!! - 28 cpu temp hyper OC'ed
http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=ar...rometeia_2.html

Well if i was you i would just build the same computer that i have cause it is the best computer there ever was!! Well a better graphics card would be nice and a little more speed and a better graphics card and maybe a little more memory and you have the perfect computer!!

LOL you paid $1700 for a empty cart

LOL
Borgy

not to be an jerk, but honestly, you could do so much more than that system. Basically EVERYTHING YOU HAVE could be put up....a lot...and with 3k, you could do a lot.

p.s. i hope you were being sarcastic with your post

If I had that kind of money on hand I would upgrade my video card to an ATI Radeon9800-128mb, add 512more ram and a 19-21" monitor (with aperture grill, at least .23-24 dotpitch) to my current system. And build another system with the exact same hardware as my main system but with a A7N8X deluxe mobo with 2x100GB HDs, AthlonXP 3200+ proc,DVDrom,52XCDRW, 500-600WPSU and the best cooling I could afford(not water) some other stuff