AMD Athlon 64 FX-74 & Quad FX Platform

high end aircooling will do fine

Hey, once you get above $2k what's $8k more? lol

You forgot to include the cost of the watercooling hardware for that rig... Hm, guess ya better double the watercooling hardware needed for one of those.

Make that about $500 for that motherboard and about $1000 for four sticks of some serious ram

And WTF : only $200 for a case

Alienware - beware

CPU's: $999
MOBO: $399
RAM: $700
VGA: $1200
PSU: $550
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$3848

CASE: $200
HDDs: $500
BR-DRIVE: $1100
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$5648

2x 30" Monitor: $4000
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$9648

hey it's still cheaper than that $10.000 Alienware machine

here's the Anandtech linkie http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=2879

12 SATA II ports and 20 USB ports, anyone?

Good grief, I use maybe 4 USB ports at the most... lol

Have to give credit to Anandtech for catching that little latency issue with 1P vs 2P setups, I was wondering about something like that occuring.

Quote from Anand lol :

AMD hopes to sell more Quad FX processors than any FX processor in the past, which to us means that either AMD sees much more opportunity in this platform than we do, or that the previous FX processors simply didn't sell very well. Either way you slice it, there's only one AMD CPU we're really interested in and we won't get it until the middle of next year. Luckily for AMD, Intel doesn't appear to be doing anything huge between now and then either, so it looks like the CPU wars will cool down for a while after a heated few months.

friggin hell!
what a motherload!

I was curious about the power thing, and it didn't disappoint

That big and expensive 1.1kW PSU will serve its need at last

OMFG, I can't believe they're actually daring to sell this

that's a unholy load and idle power consumption of 500 and 400 Watts