Ultima PC: Issue 1 (Page 14/14) Posted: July 29, 2000
Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen Wrapping It All Together There you have it folks. This is the most insane system available. And it doesn’t waste a single component. So how does this system cost exactly?

Cost:

- PC Power & Cooling Deluxe Chrome Tower $ 429.00
- PC Power & Cooling TwinPower 850 ATX $ 769.00
- Tyan Thunder 2400 (S2257) Motherboard $ 624.00
- 4 PC Power & Cooling Bay Cool $ 46.00
- 2 Intel Pentium III 1GHz $ 1,952.00
- 1GB 64x64 PC133 Micron SDRAM DIMM $ 1,112.00
- ASUS V7700 32MB $ 259.00
- Sony GDM-W900 $ 2,235.00
- Adaptec DPT Century Ultra160 RAID SCSI $ 869.00
- 4 Seagate Cheetah 73GB Ultra160 $ 4,512.00
- Plextor PlexWriter 12x4x32 Ultra Wide OEM $ 299.00
- Plextor UltraPlex 40X CDROM Ultra Wide $ 93.00
- Pioneer DVD-105S 16x/40x DVD Slot $ 117.00
- SoundBlaster Live! Platinum $ 155.00
- Klipsch ProMedias v2. 400 Speakers $ 249.00
- Iomega Zip 250 SCSI $ 159.00
- Sigma Designs REALMagic Hollywood+ $ 42.00
- KeyTronic LifeTime Designer Keyboard $ 38.00
- Microsoft IntelliMouse USB $ 20.00
- APC Smart-UPS 2200 $ 797.00
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Total: $ 14,776 (tax/shipping not included)

Conclusion Everyone has their own ideas of what an ultimate PC is to them. This is just my rendition of the all around ultimate PC. It seems to be able to suit everyone’s needs. If you think about it, it’s not really an overkill system. From an unearthly system comes an unearthly price. The final price reaching about $20,000 isn’t something that the majority of people would spend on a computer system. But it illustrates what is possible with the components that currently are available.

Thanks to those who left comments and who e-mailed me on what their dream systems are and what their current setups are. I read every single comment and e-mail and one of you came close to matching this system I have put together. You know who you are (I said so in the Comments).

Even if you can’t build this system, it’s fun dreaming up of components to see how crazy you can go. This system isn’t really crazy at all. It doesn’t contain any useless gimmick components. In fact, I’m so proud of this system, I’m putting my signature on it.



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