HSH28 wrote:Rog wrote:HSH28 wrote:Rog wrote:Look at the PC they are using in the video. 6k is me being reserved. That actual Digital Storm build looks around £7.8k and just to get similar-ish specs in the UK without the crazy cooling they had going on you're looking at around £7.3k.
Like I said, I did a little tot up of the parts they showed and I think you could probably build something like that (or of a similar power) for around £5k. The graphics cards and the CPU are the main outlay after that the rest of the components aren't massively expensive, even if the water cooling system is similarly expensive you are still looking at well under £6k if you build it yourself.
To get it down to that price you would have to compromise so much that it doesn't come anywhere near close to being similar.
What do you think you'd have to compromise on. This is with the 4 Titan X's (4x£850) the i7-5960X (£835), Asus X99 Extreme motherboard (£350) and 16GB DDR4 RAM (£330) add in a PSU and case for a few hundred then you've only got the cooling system and a HDD to purchase for presumably another few hundred. That's a similar spec'd PC for somewhere in the £5.5k range without really compromising on anything unless you can point out what I'm missing.
I don't think they ran with 64gb of ram for fun. They might not be using all of it but I would say with 16 you are lowballing too much. That bumps the cost right up. You're going to want a beefy PSU there too, 4 Titan Xs and an overclocked 5960x, you're going to need at least 1500w. At least one SSD will be needed, you can't really afford a bottleneck anywhere or the 4 way is going to waste. Case has to be good as cooling is important with all those cards.
That is that done cheap but if you are spending that and aiming to emulate what they had it would cost a lot more as you would want the 64GB ram, probably another SSD in raid, the workstation version of the mobo, superclocked versions of the cards, much better sound and to improve the cooling.