Ultimate Gaming system?

[Gabb]

Often my mind starts to think outside the box a little bit, and I wondered, as of today..what would be the ultimate gaming system specifications right now? ( minus any crazy IBM super computer stuff )

Maybe a ridiculous overclocked core 2 duo QX6800 with 4 gigs of ddr3 ram with 2 Sli GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB and some ridiculous intricate watercooling + air cooling system?

 

[peterhuang913]

once the build is done, it wont be 'ultimate' anymore
but the idea intrigues me too! :d

 

[psp_crazy1]

lol, wait for penryn.

 

[TheEnd187]

a pentium pro,with 16mb ram

 

[Gabb]

Wow a whole 16 mb of ram? I only have 2 mb right now...8x that I just cannot fathom...

 

[b1gapl]

As of today, probably:

CPU - Overclocked QX6800
Motherboard - ASUS P5K3 Deluxe
RAM - 4GB of DDR3-1333
Graphics - Overclocked 8800 Ultras or GTXs in SLI
Power supply - PC P&C 750W
Hard drives - Two Raptor 150GB HDDs in RAID 0, and a Samsung Spinpoint 500GB or two, for backup and storage
Optical - DVD or BL DVD burner or both
Sound card - X-Fi Elite w/ Logitech Z5500 sound system
OS - Windows XP Pro for the Vista haters or Vista Ultimate
Monitor - Two Dell or Apple 30" LCDs (Three for ultimate surround gaming on 7680 x 1600 resolution)
Case - Silverstone TJ-09 or Cooler Master Stacker 830
All watercooled...and a plethora of miscellaneous crap.

AMD route would just be the same, except the motherboard would be a dual socket ASUS L1N64-SLI WS, with two FX-74s. The ram would be 4GB of DDR2-800 G. Skill HZs...heh..

 

[Sora]

Actually DDR2 is probably still faster than DDR3 in most benchmarks...but that's what I am thinking.

 

[macdawg]

anandtech also said today low timing ddr2 is faster than ddr3, so according to what i've read your correct sora

 

[Jumping_Bean514]

Double post, sorry, look down.

 

[Jumping_Bean514]

anandtech also said today low timing ddr2 is faster than ddr3, so according to what i've read your correct sora

What? I just read that article and they said

P35 supports either DDR2 or DDR3, and we found no real difference in current performance of DDR2 and DDR3 on the P35 platform. Both were equally faster than the same DDR2 on the P965 chipset.

AnandTech: DDR3 vs. DDR2

This was also with stock 1066 CPU speeds so I'm guessing that with the new 1333FSB CPU's overclocked it will have an advantage over DDR2 but thats a complete guess.

Anyways, my dream machine as of right now would be...

Case/Power

Case Thermaltake MozartTx VE1000SWA Silver $249.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811133027
Power PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 1KW $519.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817703007

Components

Motherboard Asus P5k3 $249.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131181
CPU Core 2 Extreme QX6700 $968.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115011
Ram 1 CORSAIR 2GB DDR3 1333 $493.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145182
Ram 2 CORSAIR 2GB DDR3 1333 $493.99

Graphics 1 Evga GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB $669.99
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10005129
Graphics 2 Evga GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB $669.99

Sound Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite 7.1 $259.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102191
Lan LINKSYS WMP54GX $99.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833124178

Drives
Hard Drive 1 Western Digital Raptor X $204.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136011
Hard Drive 2 Western Digital Raptor X $204.99

Optical 1 Light-ON Blu-Ray $499.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106037
Optical 2 Light-ON Blu-Ray $499.99

Cooling

Pump Swiftech MCP655 $76.99
http://www.crazypc.com/products/9336.html
Reservoir Thermaltake AquaBay Res $29.99
http://www.crazypc.com/products/9331.html
Radiator Thermaltake Aqua TMG2 $64.99
http://www.crazypc.com/products/93111.html
CPU Cooling Prometeia Mach II GT Cooler Unit $899.99
http://www.crazypc.com/products/9290GT.html
HD Cooler HD-55-L06 $49.99
http://www.koolance.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=29_45&products_id=231
Ram Cooling 1 RAM-30-V06 $49.99 [/i]
http://www.koolance.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=29_56&products_id=251
Ram Cooling 2 RAM-30-V06 $49.99
Graphics Block 1 DD-8800GTX $134.99
http://www.dangerden.com/store/product.php?productid=257&cat=89&page=1
Graphics Block 2 DD-8800GTX $134.99

Accessories

Monitor Samsung 305T SyncMaster 30in $1,800.00
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=233602
Mouse Logitech G7 $69.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16826104203
Pad iCEMAT 2nd Edition $29.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817114205
Keyboard Logitech G15 2-Tone 104 $71.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16823126179
Speakers Creative GigaWorks G550W $335.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16836116013

Total - $9,885.74