Dell XPS600 Renagade to cost $10,000

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The new Dell XPS600 Renagade will go on sale starting at $9,930

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for this you get the 30inch flat widescreen monitor, a Intel(R) Pentium(R) 965 Extreme Edition processor up to 4.26 GHz, the the AGEIA(TM) PhysX(TM) processor and Nvidias Quad SLI.

Here are the full specs and info
 
And it doubles as a sandwich toaster! At 10,000 you could buy a car or something..

I want that screen though...
 
GTRacer4
And it doubles as a sandwich toaster! At 10,000 you could buy a car or something..

I want that screen though...
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lol yeh its very expensive for whay you get, but i guess if you want the latest stuff you gota pay through the nose, but still this is a silly price.
 
What a ripoff!!!

For 10k I'd expect at least two cpus, liquid cooling, SCSI disk drives, and quad PROFESSIONAL graphics cards.

I'd also expect multiple LCD screens.

Here's a game for anyone who has free time. Build the best possible computer you can build for 10k. I'll bet it stomps on the "renegade".
 
I always though that you are ripped off proportionnaly to how much high end your system is, when you buy a branded pc. This goes for CAD/CG/audio workstations, too.

Heck, when you manage to make an Alienware machine look like a great deal, I'd say that something is very wrong.

Cool paintjob, though.
 
Carl.
I always though that you are ripped off proportionnaly to how much high end your system is, when you buy a branded pc. This goes for CAD/CG/audio workstations, too.

Heck, when you manage to make an Alienware machine look like a great deal, I'd say that something is very wrong.

Cool paintjob, though.
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Yea, but this isn't even worth half of what they're charging.
 
Well on the retail market:

That Monitor: 2200$
Quad-SLI setup: around 1600$
Aegia: - not for retail yet, but estimates for the high-end cards at around 400$
Processor: a 3.46GHZ P955 retails for over 1000$, so I'll be conservative and put 1100$ for the 965, and that's without considering that you've still got a warranty on an overclocked processor, something you wouldn't get if you bought retail)

We're now at 5300$, and there's no motherboard, memory, cooling, case, hard disk, sound card, DVD drive, power supply and assembly yet.

I think you could shave off perhaps around 3-3.5K of that price if you build it yourself. (some components aren't availible yet though). So that's still a ripoff.
 
Carl.
Well on the retail market:

That Monitor: 2200$
Quad-SLI setup: around 1600$
Aegia: - not for retail yet, but estimates for the high-end cards at around 400$
Processor: a 3.46GHZ P955 retails for over 1000$, so I'll be conservative and put 1100$ for the 965, and that's without considering that you've still got a warranty on an overclocked processor, something you wouldn't get if you bought retail)

We're now at 5300$, and there's no motherboard, memory, cooling, case, hard disk, sound card, DVD drive, power supply and assembly yet.

I think you could shave off perhaps around 3-3.5K of that price if you build it yourself. (some components aren't availible yet though). So that's still a ripoff.
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Ok, you convinced me. I guess it is worth half of what they're charging. But that money is spent really badly. You'd definitely go AMD intead of intel, and you'd get a different graphics card (maybe more expensive though). Personally, I'd think 2x24" monitors would be better than 1 30", and it would cost $600 less.


Here's what I'd want for 10k:

Liquid Cooling
Quad CPU (2xDual Core AMD)
Quad Graphics (Professional cards if possible)
SCSI Raid (with 1TB storage)
Ram drive for the windows partition (with UPS).
2x30" monitors (I'd settle for 3x24" which is $2400)
Sweet Sound Card + Speakers + Remote

Maybe that's asking too much...
 
Indeed, there's not much incentive to spend that much on a system like that, besides that it's one of the 3 systems readily avilible with the aegia card. (the other ones are from Alienware and Falcon Northwest, and they have much lower starting prices)

I've found an actual price for this card, it's a 275$ option on Alienware, for the 128MB version.

I'm not sure what I'd pick for a whopping $10K, really.

Options for the screen would depend on what the pc is used for I'd pick one large screen over 2 smaller ones for gaming, for most games you'd need 3 screens most of the time to make it practical. For work I'd pick two screens.

Dual core/processor gains in performance also change a lot depending on what application you're running.
 
Even if I were like a millionaire I wouldn't even get that, building PCs is much better as we all know.
 
danoff
Here's what I'd want for 10k:

Liquid Cooling
Quad CPU (2xDual Core AMD)
Quad Graphics (Professional cards if possible)
SCSI Raid (with 1TB storage)
Ram drive for the windows partition (with UPS).
2x30" monitors (I'd settle for 3x24" which is $2400)
Sweet Sound Card + Speakers + Remote

Maybe that's asking too much...
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The problem here is that the pro quality video cards tend to be pretty weak for DirectX rendering since they're designed for OpenGL support - consumer cards still have the gaming niche. You're also assuming that opteron boards support quad sli configs

Same problem for the quad cpus. The Opterons are fantastic, but they're not gaming oriented. That said, i'd still be very tempted to put the 5-6k into a quad dual core Opteron setup :D

Also, how much would the SCSI hdd setup cost? The computer store I normally go to charges out the nose for even 75gb scsi drives.

Myself, I'd go with something similar - Athlon FX setup with quad video, 2tb of storage, Creative X-Fi sound, and all wrapped up in a very heavily sound-proofed case and cooled with a custom built passive water cooling setup (ie, zero fans)
 
emad
The problem here is that the pro quality video cards tend to be pretty weak for DirectX rendering since they're designed for OpenGL support - consumer cards still have the gaming niche.
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You got me there. I don't know all the particulars about graphics support - only that pro cards are super fast for 3D rendering.

Also, how much would the SCSI hdd setup cost? The computer store I normally go to charges out the nose for even 75gb scsi drives.
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I've got $125 for a Seagate Cheetah 73.4GB 15K RPM 3.6ms seek time drive. So to get me a terabyte, I would need...14 drives, which is $1750.

I'll bet I could figure out a more economical combination of drives.

Myself, I'd go with something similar - Athlon FX setup with quad
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That's what I was thinking.

and all wrapped up in a very heavily sound-proofed case and cooled with a custom built passive water cooling setup (ie, zero fans)
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Exactly.
 
Carl.
^^

I'd be willing to pay a premium price for a performing silent pc too.
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Believe it or not, it's very possible to efficiently air cool a pc while keeping it next to inaudible. I've got about $50 in my silent setup at the moment, 100 more and the only noise will be from the PSU which typically spins a touch faster than my other 120mm fans and the hard drives
 
the computer im going to build for myself is like 6K Its cooled with a Turbocharger...literally. 6 total hard drives and Dual Dell 2405FPW Monitors.
Why would you want more? expecially at that retarded price.
 
It seems Alienware also came up with their own Quad SLi pc.

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Liquid Cooling, AMD FX-60 processor, 4 GeForce 7900's, and Alienware® ALX 5.1 Home Theater System by Klipsch all come standard at $6,929.

Optional add-ons:

Up to 4 gigs of RAM for $480
Two hard drives in Raid0 setup for $773
Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi® Elite Pro High Definition 7.1 Audio with XRAM Technology for $409
Samsung SyncMaster 320P 32" 8ms HDCP Ready Wide LCD $1,503

Add these, and it adds up to $10,094

Of course, there are many other different options that you may want, but I made this for optimal set up and to come as close to the price of the Dell as possible.

Configure your own
 
Mesh and other companies are most likey to bring out cheaper yet just as good Quad SLI PC's as Dell.
 

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