This monstrous PC can run seven games on seven monitors at once, and costs a cool R475, 000

Even if everything we do is on a budget, we can’t help but dream, dream of monster gaming rigs and absurd PC specifications.

It’s clear we love ourselves an expensive, dream build, having reported on several R100K PCs – the 18-core Tiki, the 10 TFlop ultra-small PC, Maingear’s AIO Alpha 34 and even a theoretical 12K capable gaming PC, to name a few.

But this latest build, put together by LinusTechTips, dwarfs everything else, and by a huge margin too.

Welcome everybody, to the $30, 000 PC. That’s more than R475, 000 to you and me.

Undoubtedly constructed from black magic and Borg technology, LinusTechTips put together a PC capable of supporting seven gamers at once, each of whom would be able to play any game at 1440p at maximum settings.

To do so required seven VMs (virtual machines), a number of hardware and software hiccups, rattled nerves and bios tweaks aplenty – and hardware bordering on R500, 000.

So what went into this beast?

The only GPU that was going to cut it is AMD’s Radeon R9 Nano, seven of them in fact. They’re compact and power efficient enough to allow for seven to fit in the chassis of choice, while offering fantastic grunt – each card being able to very nearly match a GTX 980 in performance.

Still, even with the R9 Nano’s at play, the rig drew upwards of 1500 watts; imagine what it’d draw with NVIDIA cards instead.

To provide the power necessary, an EVGA 1600W PSU was chosen. The T2 1600W is 80 Plus Titanium rated, which is about as good as it gets, if a little pricey.

You’re going to pay upwards of R6, 000 whether your preferred online shop is Rebeltech, Wootware or anyone else local.

Not that R6, 000 will even phase you if you’re willing to spend around R86, 000 for the GPUs alone.

For the CPU side of things, no single CPU is going to provide the performance necessary for what is essentially seven separate PCs.

To get around that, a R10, 000 dual-processor motherboard, namely the Asus Z10PE-D8 WS, and two 14-core/28-thread processors were chosen.

And while Intel’s Xeon E5-2697 server processors do not come cheap, they’re about the only CPUs that can handle what comes next.

With the hardware at hand, which also included seven 1TB SSDs and 32GB of Kingston DDR4 RAM per VM (for 256GB in total), you’re going to need a stellar chassis.

The customisable Mercury S8 chassis is one of the few cases capable of supporting the motherboard and all of its components, as well as all of the water cooling components necessary for this build not to melt the moment it’s started up. It also looks pretty badass.

And just by the way, with regards to those water cooling components we mentioned, there’s a couple bespoke water cooling components in this build, so don’t expect to find the tools necessary to do this build at your local retailer.

It also used two pumps as well as two massive radiators.

The result is an exquisite, completely pointless PC that we want more than anything else, desperately.

For a rig that can handle six Unigine benchmarks as well as Crysis 3 60fps running in unison, can you blame us?