This should get ya all Hot & Bothered. MaximumPC Dream Machine 2010

MaximumPC Dream Machine 2010
Posted 08/04/10 at 03:33:02 PM by The Maximum PC Staff

Dream Machine 2010 was an exercise in PC building, overclocking, cooling—and patience

So, the desktop PC will become nothing more than a truck? Well, here’s your Mack truck, Mr. Jobs, filling your rear-view mirror on Interstate 80 as you try to get that tablet-sized, Flash-less-powered toy out of the fast lane. Oops, sorry about running you over.
Our take? If the future of the desktop PC is as a truck, it might as well be one hell of a fast and powerful truck. In building Dream Machine 2010, we embraced the notion of raw, wanton power. The result is a power rig capable of hauling a heavily threaded load uphill in top gear while other single- and dual-processor machines are barely chugging along in the slow lane with their hazard lights on.

The Power Cube: Three turned out to be the magic number for this year's Dream: three GPUs, three radiators, three grills--even the 12 cores (and 24 threads) are divisible by three.

At the onset of our Dream Machine project, we were concerned. 24 threads. Three videocards. 24GB of RAM. 4.4 terabytes of storage. Could we get it all to work together? And could we overclock the CPU and GPU enough to qualify as the fastest PC in the world? It took some wrangling, but we’re happy to reply with an emphatic YES. Even better, all this power has some astounding real-world benefits in multithreaded applications.
The simple paint job and tough-looking grills and fans on this year’s system complete the theme. This is not a system for the faint of heart. Read and enjoy.

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Here's the full monty



Power Exposed
Want to know what's inside Dream Machine 2010?



Motherboard: EVGA Classified SR-2
This is the biggest motherboard we’ve ever seen



Graphics: EVGA GeForce GTX 480 SuperClocked
Water-cooling = overclocked tri-SLI



CPUs: Dual 3.3GHz Xeon X5680s Overclocked to 4GHz
Why Xeons? They give us 12 cores—and 24 threads



Soundcard: Auzentech X-Fi Forte 7.1
This fully loaded card takes PC audio to places previously unheard of



Speakers: Bowers and Wilkins MM-1 Speakers and PV1 Subwoofer
Awesome speakers + ingenuity = dreamy audio



Displays: Three HP ZR30w 30-inch LCDs
Screen real estate as far as the eye can see



Here is a parts and price list total for the build! I got a couple kidneys I could sell...

HELL YEAH!!!! :

Awesome. :fireworks:

To bad no one here can afford something like this LOL, or anyone else for that matter you would have to be some kind of special to buy it, very nice rig though.

I think NewEgg had it on sale for $499.00.

LOL I wish the case it self is 500US.

smduff wrote:LOL I wish the case it self is 500US.

Ya it is only $600.00.

Have a look at the original post as i added the build and price list.

bob2701 wrote:I think NewEgg had it on sale for $499.00.

Maybe you forgot an extra 9 on the end there Bob? :D: