Ok so I as fooling about on Newegg and frozenCPU.com and put together a no-holds-barred, money is no object, recession be damned dream machine. Feel fre to comment. Better yet. post your own specs.

Case: Lian-Li PC-343 Modular Aluminum Cube Case modded with three A.C. ryan two-way mirrored windows.

Cooling: Customdesigned 4 pump/4 loop system. 1 for the CPU andRAM. 1 each for the 2 video cards and 1 for the northbridge/southbridge and voltage regulators. (That's why the BIG case!)

PSU: 2 SILVERSTONE ZM1200M 1200W ATX 12V 2.3 & EPS 12V Power Supplys (4 pumps and everything else will draw a LOT of juice!)

CPU: Intel Core2 Extreme QX9775 3.2GHz

Motherboard: ASUS P5Q Premium LGA 775 Intel P45

RAM: mushkin 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066

Hard drives: 3 x OCZ Core series 128Gb SATA IIsolid state drives in RAID 0 for OS ans apps. 10 x Western Digital Caviar Black 1Tb drives for internal storage.

Other storage: 2 5 bay external NAS boxes each with 5 x Western Digital Caviar Black 1Tb drives for external backups and media storage.

CD/DVD: SONY 4X Blu-ray DVD Burner Black & Gray SATA 

Input: RAZER Lycosa gaming keyboard and RAZER Copperhead Blue 7 Buttons gaming mouse

Video cards: SAPPHIRE 100243L Radeon HD 4870 512MB 256-bit GDDR5 (This will of course change to 4870 x2's when they are available)

Sound: ASUS Xonar D2X 7.1 Channels PCI Express Interface Sound Card (After reading too many horror stories about creative drivers and Vista I decided to give this a whirl)

Speakers/Headset: Logitech Z-5500 505 Watts 5.1 Speaker and SENNHEISER PC166 USB 3.5mm/ USB Circumaural Headset

Monitors: 2 x NEC Display Solutions LCD3090WQXi-BK Black 30" 6ms Widescreen LCD Monitor

OS: Dual boot WinXP Pro and Vista ultimate. Both 64 bit.

Cost: Newegg. (everything except case and cooling $17877.22 including tax and overnight shipping. (Can't wait! Tax. :( Another reason to hate being in NJ!)

FrozenCPU.com: Case and 4 cooling systems 4237.66. Total cost: 22114.88. Geek cred: PRICELESS!

Well I hope you like it. I know i am drooling over it. Please just one request. If you disagree with a choice lets not let this turn into a fanboy war!

i would go for a rebublic of gamer mobo, with ddr3 ram

DDR3 crossed my mind but although it's a money is no object system, I wanted it to make sense as well and configure it as is I was actually going to buy it.  I can overclock the bejesus out of that DDR2 and get better performance, so if I was to buy this system, that's ewhat I would buy,

BTW. If anyone is interested, I can post the specs of the 4 loop cooling system I designed for it.

Are you actually in the market for a system like that?

If so, money must really be no object for you in which case I hope you don't win the rig!!! ;P

I have as much chance at buying that rig as I have of getting a date with Paris Hilton AND Britney Spears in the same week. ( A fate I wish on no man mind you.) Oh AND winning the lottery 7 days in a row as well.

nECrO1967:

DDR3 crossed my mind but although it's a money is no object system, I wanted it to make sense as well and configure it as is I was actually going to buy it.  I can overclock the bejesus out of that DDR2 and get better performance, so if I was to buy this system, that's ewhat I would buy,

BTW. If anyone is interested, I can post the specs of the 4 loop cooling system I designed for it.

It is already a lot of money. Spending a few hundred more to get DDR3 should be not big deal.

Sure, post the specs on the 4 loop cooling system. I hope you stuck a peltier in that kit. :P

I don't think you need dual 1200W power supplies. People usually buy a higher wattage to compensate for future upgrades (like adding a second gpu and more hard drives). But you wouldn't really have to really worry about that. lol

It really wasn't the money Ryu. I wanted raw speed and I think I can get better performance out of the DDR2.

4 pumps, 10 hard drives, countless fans and two power hungry video cards, I thought to err on the side of caution for the PSU's.

I thought about peltier but the pain in the butt factor made me rethink it. I'll post the specs for the cooling tomorrow when I feel like typing more.