Remember that article I briefly wrote about where I chose components to build the Ultimate Gaming Computer (UGC)? Well I didn't spill the beans until now - the full article is posted on ExtremeTech. If you want to build your own gaming computer, go there now, and follow our lead. You won't be disappointed.If you're one of the chosen vendors, then congratulations! Most of the choices seem obvious to me, though coming up with that list was pretty difficult. We were performing numerous tests on many different components and in doing so we ended up modifying our product line slightly. It was a great exercise for us because we ended up switching at least one of our key components in many of our machines.
In any case, check it out at ExtremeTech, link is above.
9 blogger comments:
that's a great article, thanks! I was just building a PC with a Gigabyte board, looks like I might change it.
I'm surprised you can run Media Center with SLI, that's great information thanks.
No liquid cooling? I am surprised!
Nope, we had to make it easy for people to build :)
That is a great PC. Now only if I wasn't in college and had 5 grand to blow. Also it was a great article. I agree with you on every component. I was also unaware that creative picked it up so much in the speaker side of things. I could write forever but you made me late for class. No hard feelings though, the class sucks anyway.
If it is made easiy does that make it the ultimate? Wouldn't the ultimate be very hard to put together?
Just wondering.
Well, ultimate would be to buy a prebuilt machine. I think this article was written to help those who can't afford prebuilt, the next best version of "ultimate" perhaps?
I thought heat pipes (as in on that Motherboard you chose) don't work upside-down (as in the Lian-Li 1100B)?
What gives?
Yeah, good question - I answered it at Extreme Tech forums too:
It's funny that you brought that up - I was discussing that very detail with Loyd just before we launched it. Originally I had chosen this Lian Li case, then made the last minute change just incase our testing didn't pass, I also spoke with the main FAE at ASUS about it to verify that our findings were indeed in order. Once it passed our tests I went ahead and switched back to the Lian Li case before publishing. It's most def my favorite chassis.
Keep in mind that even though the chipset is fanless, both the chipsets are connected via a heatpipe leading to the mosfets which has a small quiet fan that you clip on to keep things cool. It makes all the difference, and the fact that this heatpipe is very good quality it's able to be inverted with no big issues.
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