SA’s ultimate gaming PC

Hardware

March 12, 2014

NZXT Phantom 820 Full Tower Professional Gaming Case

Have you ever dreamed about owning a PC that costs more than a second-hand VW Polo with low mileage? Then you are in the right place.

We decided to see what you can get if money is no object and the only limitation is the builder’s imagination (and parts list).

The kind folks at Evetech obliged, and put together their ultimate gaming PC for your viewing pleasure at our request.

At R103,999.00 – including VAT, but not a keyboard, mouse, or monitor – the spec list below is as close as most of us will ever get to a PC like this.

Here are the beast’s specs:

Intel Core i7-4960X (3.6GHz, 15M Cache, 12x Cores) Extreme Edition CPU – overclocked to 4.5GHz per core.
MSI Big Bang XPOWER II LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Motherboard.
3 x MSI Gaming Edition Twin Frozr IV GTX 780 Ti (3 x 3GB GDDR5; 384-bit bus) Overclocked Edition graphics cards in SLI.
Kingston Beast 64GB Quad Channel (8 x 8GB) DDR3 2,400MHz high performance gaming RAM with heat spreader.
Samsung 840 EVO 1TB SSD SATA3 in Raid 0 (OS Drive) – Read up to: 1,000MB/s; Write up to: 800MB/s.
4 x 4TB Western Digital BLACK 7,200RPM 64MB Cache SATA3 6.0Gb/s Hard Drive (Data Drives).
NZXT Phantom 820 Full Tower Professional Gaming Case.
Corsair Hydro Series H110 Extreme Liquid CPU Cooler in PUSH PULL Config with Noctua Ultra Quiet Fans.
ANTEC High Current PRO 1300W Platinum PSU.
LG 14X BLU-RAY Writer.
Creative Sound Blaster ZxR Sound Card.
Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit.
24 months warranty.

“With a machine like this using only the best components available, you can be sure that upgrading any time in the foreseeable future will be totally off the cards,” said Evetech’s head of operations, Kamran Sorathia.

“The top of the range i7 4960X is pushed to the limits with an over-clock of 4.5GHz, squeezing out every last drop of juice the processor has to offer; 64GB of Kingston Beast 2,400MHz memory; not one, but 3 GTX 780Ti graphics cards running in SLi with every setting pushed to the max; and the Creative Sound Blaster ZxR Sound Card delivering unmatched crystal-clear audio – this machine just screams: “I AM KING!”‘ said Sorathia.

“There won’t be anything standing in your way of supreme gaming bliss,”said Sorathia. Well, except the price tag, but we love the enthusiasm.

Sorathia added that they have built PCs similar to this before and delivered them to paying customers.