Gigantabox
About 9 months ago a friend of mine asked me for help specing up a new gaming PC with about £1500 to spend. So having been out of the hardware loop for a while I spent a couple of days reading up on the newest and shinyest do-dahs from Intel, AMD, Nvidia & co.

Then I went and priced up the following for him:

Intel Core2Quad 2.5GHz
A nice ASUS motherboard
2 Nvidia 9800GX2 graphics cards
8GB RAM
3 X Western Digital Raptor 150GB HDDs
Razer AC1 Sound Card
DVDRW
1200W Power Supply
Big Coolermaster case to hold everything.

Pricing this all up came to about £1450 at the time so this was what I suggested, unfortunately the day I sent the list to him he crashed his car and had to spend the money.

Finding this out I was rather disappointed, I had been looking forward to seeing what this machine would be up to.

So I did what any sensible person would do, I checked my credit card balance.

Hmmm, thinks I. It'll leave me with no credit left but fuck it, they keep extending my limit so that's a problem for another day*.

So I ummed, and I ahhed, and I clicked add to basket. Gigantabox is now happily purring along in my room downloading away as I type this.

*I.E. Today when they've stopped doing that and I'm flat broke
(bill, Thu 21 May 2009, 13:38, 2 replies)

Surely a better solution...
1. Remove one of the graphics cards
2. Remove 4GB of the RAM
3. Eat for the rest of the month, and still play everything on ludicrously high
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Thu 21 May 2009, 15:41, closed)

8GB?
Unless you're running a 64 bit version of Windows then 4GB of your RAM is sitting there doing sweet FA...
(SarcasticBarSteward wants to be good at Photoshop when he grows up, Mon 25 May 2009, 1:25, closed)