Computer World, of which I’m a registered member so I can heckle the various authors of various articles that I disagree with, sent me an email today about their latest PC giveaway. And I’m gonna win this sucker!
This thing’s an ungodly, horrendous, massively overpowered, power sucking monster! I have no idea what I’d possibly use it for but pounding up the electricity bill but man! What a way to do it! They even give you things you don’t need like both a Windows Vista Ultimate (64) OEM disk and a Windows XP SP2 (64) OEM disk although I’m sure Vista is installed by default. Wait…I bet they installed both just cause they could. Just think of all the hardware incompatibilities this PC from hell will have.
Take a look at the list of parts and tell me I couldn’t impress my neighbors with this gamer’s nightmare machine sitting on my computer de…oh wait–my computer desk isn’t nearly big enough nor sturdy enough for this thing and neither is the room where my current setup is located for that matter. Well, maybe if we move the bookshelves out it might fit but it would be a close one. I mean 3-24.1″ wide screen displays? Lord, I could have my blog editor on one screen, my email on another and have yet another to use for whatever I wanted–like monitoring my household power draw from the inline wireless power monitoring thing-a-ma-bob I’d have to hook up to the meter outside just to ensure I don’t go broke using this thing.
And they got all the components from Tiger Direct no less. So check out my new light dimming PC folks…
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System Components
• GIGABYTE 3D Mercury GZ-FW1CA-AJS Silver Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case – $399
• Custom Case Painting by Gary Berg – $1500
• Ultra X3 ULT40070 1600-Watt Power Supply – ATX, SATA-Ready, PCI-E Ready, Energy Efficient, Modular – $499.99
• 2 Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9775 Processors – $2600
• Intel D5400DX “Skulltrail” dual-CPU Motherboard – $500
• 4 2GB FB-DIMM – $500
• 2 EVGA GeForce 8800 Ultra Video Card – $1259.98
• 2 OCZ 64GB internal solid state disks (SSD) – $3,000.00
• Adaptec RAID 3405 adapter card – $390
• 4 Cheetah® 15K.5 SAS 3Gb/s 300-GB Hard Drives – ST3300655SS – $3,931.20
• 2 LG Super Multi GGW-H10NI BD burner HD DVD reader – $1,999.98
• Ultra Internal 3.5″ Floppy Drive w/Multi Card Reader Black – $29.99
• Cables Unlimited UV Reactive Mode Kit with Dual Tube UV CCFL Lights, Fans, Floppy Cable and ATA133 Cable – $26.99
• Vantec UV Reactive Motherboard Slot Protector – Green – $4.99 (PCIe)
• Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800 PCIe NTSC/ATSC/QAM tuner – $149
• Emu 1616M PCI Sound card and breakout box (studio quality inputs and A/D, D/A, surround via digital) – $599
Display
• 3 NEC LCD2490WUXi-BK 24.1″ Widescreen LCD Monitor – $3,866.97
• Three monitor mounting system from 9xmedia – $1000
External Peripherals and Components
• Iomega UltraMax Pro eSATA 1.5TB – $504
• APC Back-UPS RS 1500VA LCD – 249.95
• Logitech diNovo Edge Keyboard – $199.99
• Logitech MX AirTM Rechargeable Cordless Air Mouse – $149.99
• Logitech Z-5500 THX Certified 5.1 500-watt Dolby Digital & DTS Hardware Decoding Speaker System – 209.99
• Canon Pixma MP970 Printer – $299.99
• Icemat Siberia Headphones/mic – $79
• Saitek X2 Flight control system – $119.95
• Xbox 360 Gamepad controller – $39.95
Software
• Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 – $629.99
• Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64 – $379
• Microsoft Windows XP SP2 – $249.99
• Adobe Master Collection CS3 – $2,750.99
• EA Crysis – $49.99
• Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe – $59.99
• Call of Duty 4 – $59.99
• Half Life 2: Orange Box – $61.99
• Battlefield 2142 Deluxe Edition – $30.99
• Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 – 73.99
• System Commander 9 – $69.95
• Acronis True Image Home $49.95
Miscellaneous
• Labor for building and troubleshooting — 100 hrs at $50/hr – $5,000.
TOTAL ESTIMATED RETAIL VALUE: $31,918.77
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Now wait a doggone minute here. I just realized I’d have to buy another USB wireless adapter otherwise I’d have no Internet. Sheeesh! What cheapskates! Well okay, since they included that custom paint job I guess I can forgive the oversight. Of course you do realize that I probably won’t be able to afford the taxes I’ll end up paying for this thing in the long run. Maybe I can sell the pieces/parts I don’t need to somebody under the table so’s I can pay the tax man for my new, massively overpowered, current sucking, beastly beast of a PC.
Wish me luck!
I don’t see any mention of a 5 1/4″ Floppy drive?
Or even a 3 1/2″?
Useless heap of junk. How are you supposed to play all those decent old games?
Take another look. There’s a 3.5″ ultra floppy drive included. No 5-1/4″ though. Ya’ know, I just realized that just the box alone would draw more current than a portable electric heater turned on full blast never mind the 3 wide screen monitors and 500 watt speaker system. I figure I could use it just 4 days out of each month and still be able to buy groceries.
I am sure in a year you couldn’t sell it for 3k
@NIR:
I’m sure you’re right but that’s okay…I didn’t win it anyway.