What Would You Do With $10K?

[Quadrum]

If you had a spare $10K to spend on computer parts? What would you do? I’m curious.

[Herman Mcpootis]

spend 2-3k on parts and save everything else for something that's actually important. 

[fuzz0r]

I'd get me one of them there ultrawides. And a beefy-ass graphics card to power it.

Seriously though it's too much money for me to just spend on computer parts.

[NoccoAddict]

6 minutes ago, Quadrum said:

If you had a spare $10K to spend on computer parts? What would you do? I’m curious.

2x 2080ti connected via SLI(? If that'll still be a thing with the 20xx series) and a ultrawide 4k monitor

[Tech22]

I would buy a single Quadro RTX 8000 for $10,000 (estimated price but whatever). I want 48GB of V-Ram for playing crysis at 5 FPS. 

[NoccoAddict]

3 minutes ago, Tech22 said:

I would buy a single Quadro RTX 8000 for $10,000 (estimated price but whatever). I want 48GB of V-Ram for playing crysis at 5 FPS. 

That's one hellofa plan

[SolarNova]

I would take my current planned £6000 build, and enhance it by about another £1500 ($10k = ~£7500), which would allow me to add a beast sound system to it.

 

So it would be.

 

SLI GPU

Highend but not Extreme series Intel CPU, With delid

32Gb RAM

1TB SSD

Top end Subzero oreintated motherboard

Modifed watercooling parts, brazed water blocks and/or aftermarket orings. Including Monoblock or seperate VRM block, and GPU blocks.

Glass or copper tubing.

Custom Thick walled Acrylic air tight case.

Dry Air environment inside case

Dragonskin conformal coating + other anti moisture protection

Custom scratch built liquid chilling system. -40c target. (not a AC conversion)

~40" OLED or MicroLED High density FALD display (waiting on release)

Mid range 5.1 or 7.1 sound system. ~ £1500

 

Primary tripping point for this planed system is the VDU, I run a 1080p plasma atm, i cant stand LCD, and 55" OLED is to big, so gotta wait for somthing else to arrive. No point building SLi system for a 1080p screen.

[Beef Boss]

Save it like I do with all my other money

[Dredgy]

So my last computer build was in excess of 10k, it didn’t go very far. I ended up with a very high specced, but nothing incredible on paper. I paid more for reliability and to ensure compatibility (eg not enough USB headers on motherboard so that every USB port/card reader could be connected so I put in a bunch of USB header cards so that I could connect everything). The result was a machine that would do everything without effort, whether it be programming, gaming, accounting, offloading huge amounts of data. I even bought a DAC just so that I could easily switch between two sets of headphones and two sets of speakers just by pressing a mouse button rather than having to physically plug in my headphones.)

 

Prices in AUD, which has similar purchasing power to the USD.

$1000 on RAM (64GB ECC Kit) 

$1000 on each graphics card (2)

$700 on CPU

$500 on Mobo

$1500 on main monitors (x3)

$300 on cheaper monitors

$1000 on random crap - USB hubs, cables of exact length, pci-extenders, USB add on cards etc, sleeved cables (my only luxury),

$500 on peripherals - mouse, keyboard, accounting numpad

 

$500 on speakers

$120 on Noctua Cooler

$450 on case

$2000 on storage

$400 on PSU

 

Easily another $3000 in getting desks, chairs of exact height, wiring, a TV so that I could effortlessly toggle between working at my desk and gaming in bed with one button press

 

Since I bought parts in multiple lots as I painstakingly researched each part to ensure compatibility (e.g my RAM kit would only work on one specific motherboard at full speed) I also probably spent $1000 or so in shipping.

[airdeano]

sorry mate, but this thread is for those what would you build threads: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/101587-ultimate-dream-build-for-free-hypothetical/