$100000000000 Budget, Please give me your thoughts!

Average people don't want to spend more than $1500 on a gaming rig but there are some people out there that money is not an issue.

btw is that speedtest photoshopped? or are you on a godlike gonnection

33MB/s?! Holy crap, I thought my 6MBps Time Warner was fast.

Buy Holland.

Hmmm, with the extreme editions cpus from intel and $600 videocards and $800+ LCD HD screens, I would say anything beyond $4000-$5000 is a waste.

No, its real.. and yeah its my apartment at school, the apartments and the dorms get these connections for $60/Semester.

The school has top of the line equipment and an OC12 Backbone, one of the nice things about being here

During peak hours it slows down to around 15mb but that's still plenty fast.

I can download my favorate IPTV Show episodes fast

DL.TV Highly recommended if you dont already watch it.

Oh, and my internet was just upgraded from 3meg to 8meg at no extra cost I'd normally be pretty excited but I don't download much anymore, and the 3meg suited me just fine before, but you can't argue with free.

Perhaps 2 x Quad Core Xeon's with 2 x 8800 Ultra's for that overkill-brag-o-right goodness, something like that V8 system intel displayed

for a more sane rig, the Q6800 with 4gb and an 8800GTX

Most Expensive Computer in the World

Personally, I would rather spend $2000 every year on a new computer IF I had that kind of money. At most, I could only really spend $1,500 on a new system and that would include a new 24" monitor.

And here's the $1 Million laptop.
http://www.gizmag.com/go/7030/

But you know, there's always someone who's willing to spend that much money.

Perhaps 2 x Quad Core Xeon's with 2 x 8800 Ultra's for that overkill-brag-o-right goodness, something like that V8 system intel displayed

for a more sane rig, the Q6800 with 4gb and an 8800GTX
Intel V8 can't use SLI and FB-dimms suck for gaming
AMD 4x4 is better or 2-4 AMD Opteron cpus with ecc ram is better.

man, you must be some lucky mofo to get fiber optic in your area

Try a 1Gb/s fibre optic connection.

Unfortunately I can't use it now though since I'm back in Australia

1gb/s Optical carrier? Not sure there's such a thing.

OC 3 is 155mbit/s

OC 12 is 622mbit/s

OC 48 2.48gb/s

(this is my major)

I remember when we thought 14Kbs was fast...

You kids, although I never thought it was fast, I used a 300 baud acoustic for the first year I had a computer. Forget if the phone was a rotary dial

Hmmm, with the extreme editions cpus from intel and $600 videocards and $800+ LCD HD screens, I would say anything beyond $4000-$5000 is a waste.

if one doesn't want to overclock, i agree
but if you overclock the just-not ultra high end stuff, you get the same (or better) performance
8800 ultra anyone?

No, I forgot where I heard that... probably from a friend.

That's a super computer. Doesn't really count. If I took every single computer in the building I'm in and networked them together with all the high-end network equipment here and had them all work on some distributed task I could call it "a computer" in the same sense that the japanese super computer is "a computer" (only mine would be more like "a crappy computer" comparatively) and easily come up with some ridiculously large dollar value.

The $1million dollar laptop doesn't really count either. It has diamonds glued on to it for no reason. If I glue a diamond to a can of coke it doesn't make it a $1million can of coke. It makes it a can of coke with a diamond glued on to it.

@taco boy
FYI: If you're the least bit picky about weight and battery runtime you're looking at $1000 minimum for a laptop. I'm about to lay down $1.5k for a laptop for my girlfriend (and it only comes with 512mb RAM and no diamonds). She wanted <5lb <14.1" wide screen >4 hour runtime. Of course I wanted a threesome and that doesn't cost anything but she still won't give it to me... I'm just very nice I guess

@ OP

hehe, good call on the topic. I don't even look at the ridiculous "$10K build" "$15k build - help" threads. Even if they were serious about spending that kind of money on a 'puter why the hell would they ask for advice here??? CompUSA would be more then happy to set them up and someone who thinks the amount of money they spend on a device is the determining factor of bragging rights deserves whatever the sales guy at CompUSA sells them xD

I still remember in the movie "Hackers" where the dude was drooling over Jolie's laptop because it had 256MB of RAM and a 28.8K modem.

Also, I have to agree with taco. I posted this in that 15K as well:

If you're going to spend that kind of money, pay someone to build it for you. Don't come to a forum and expect FREE help.

i posted:
get laid

i mean who would need a computer with that much money, flight sim, just buy a real plane, same with racing games. fps or rts, just start a small war, wh needs pr0n when you can own a movie company, sports games, just buy the team and make yourself a player.

lol, genious plan ya got there, except not even Bill Gates has $100b to drain without borrowing a few billion

Bah, go take your crap to amdzone if you are going to clog up the forums here with even more crap. It's okay to joke around, but drugs and sex is pushing it a bit, and the forums here already have a lot of spammers/flammers that the mods are trying to cope with