Guilty Pleasures!

[Voices]

OK, OK, the title might be a bit OTT for what I have in mind here, but I got your attention, right?!

For the sake of this post, I will define a 'guilty pleasure' along the following lines: An item/feature of your build that you really can't afford or justify given your budget/other consideration, yet one that you really want to include in the final spec.

With 'other consideration', I a have in mind things such as, say, that a case is too big for your room but you still wnat it badly or that you will have to sit too close to that 3o" monitor that you've had your eyes on for the last six months etc.

An example to clarify this. I am saving up to a new computer that I hopefully will buy at the end of January. In total, I think I will spend £1300 and for that kind of money I need everything including OS, monitor, keyboard etc. As I see it, there is really no space within that budget to include a 150Gb SSD, yet THAT is exactly what I want! To be sure, a SSD will make the system faster in terms of load times etc., but I don't think I can justify the price tag given that I will likely have to dispense with something else...

I know, a rather innocent guilty pleasure, eh?


So guys, what are your guilty pleasures? I wanna know!

 

[Matt]

The fastest ATI card money can buy.

This

http://www.dabs.com/products/asus-a...l?utm_source=google&utm_medium=product+search

Looks like a beauty, probably not worth the price but a boy can dream.

 

[Phoenix]

That's still the faster than all of Nvidia's cards as well ^_^

 

[Sleinous]

Wait for the gen3 intel ssd, feb 2011, will cost similar to the gen2 80gb model out now.

 

[Gorman]

Oh wow.

where do i start?

The 800D which i had to spend a further £30 on a lanboard just to move it.

The £300+ watercooling loop

The G13 i hardly ever use

The ninja wire that costs £10 just to hold the GPU up

The BigNG fan controller, £60 ish for programmable fan curves.

The lighting, 4 ccfl and 10 led's etc

The HD webcam i dont use

I think just about everything in my rig fits in this, a whole load of money i couldnt afford to spend.

must has the shiny though, must has the shiny.

 

[PokerFace]

must has the shiny though, must has the shiny.

Aahaa!, now I see why I went a couple of hundred quid over my initial budget (doesn't everyone?). While Phoenix was giving me solid advise and a spec to match my needs, Gorman was just thinking "he must has the shiny!, he must has the shiny!!"

 

[Tom DWC]

If money was no object...

Case
COOLERMASTER COSMOS 1000 SILVER SILENT CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD PHENOM II X6 1090T (3.20GHz/9MB CACHE/AM3/) - (Special Offer)
Motherboard
ASUS® CROSSHAIR IV EXTREME: DDR3, USB 3.0, SATA 6.0Gb/s, R.O GAMERS
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (4 x 2GB KIT)
Graphics Card
2GB ATI RADEON™ HD 5970 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11, Eyefinity 3 Capable
2nd Graphics Card
2GB ATI RADEON™ HD 5970 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11, Eyefinity 3 Capable
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
240GB OCZ VERTEX 2 SATA II 2.5" SSD (upto 285MB/sR | 275MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
600GB WD VELOCIRAPTOR® SATA 6-Gb/s, 32MB CACHE (10,000rpm)
3rd Hard Disk
2TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD20EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
4th Hard Disk
2TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD20EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
RAID
RAID 0 (STRIPED VOLUME - 2 x same size & model HDD / SSD) (£9)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
10x BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW (£88)
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
10x BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW (£88)
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1200W PRO SERIES GOLD (AX1200) 80+ MODULAR PSU (£204)
Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO C240 A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER) (£102)
Sound Card
Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Titanium - Fatal1ty Champion Series (£149)
Network Facilities
Bigfoot Killer 2100 PCI-E Gigabit LAN Card - Max Performance Online Gaming (£69)
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£143)
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Platinum Warranty (3 Year Collect & Return, 3 Year Parts, 3 Year labour) (£135)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 13 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £3,428.00 including VAT and delivery.

Configure Here: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/computers/amd-extreme-pc/

And to complete the setup, a full Eyefinity workstation consisting of 6 50" plasmas.

A boy can dream...

 

[Gorman]

Aahaa!, now I see why I went a couple of hundred quid over my initial budget (doesn't everyone?). While Phoenix was giving me solid advise and a spec to match my needs, Gorman was just thinking "he must has the shiny!, he must has the shiny!!"

You might not agree, but its for greater good.

oOoo shiny.

 

[alastair]

i know i spent more than my budget, set it £880-1000. So of course i spec'ed to £1000 then spent another couple of hundred lol.
However i could have spent more, one evening my wife and i where messing about with a who can spend more on a computer. She loves Mac's so spec'ed a pro mac for around £17000 not wanting to lose i found a site that makes pointless monster pc's (for me anyway) total spend was around £50000. So whatever you spend here is a total bargain lol.

 

[Sleinous]

*chuckle chuckle* mac. Pahahaha

 

[PokerFace]

And to complete the setup, a full Eyefinity workstation consisting of 6 50" plasmas.

A boy can dream...

You could probably afford your dream, just use the money you'd save by not having to pay for holidays. You'd probably be able to get an all over tan by sitting butt naked in front of those 6 monitors (atleast, that's the excuse you could give to the missus!)

 

[Rakk]

must has the shiny though, must has the shiny.

oOoo shiny

I agree, oooooo, shiny

And, I even manage to play a game where getting shinies is good, these are some achievements I earned in game