{"id":47736,"date":"2012-11-28T10:16:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T08:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=47736"},"modified":"2012-11-28T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T09:26:08","slug":"the-most-expensive-pc-ever-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/47736-the-most-expensive-pc-ever-created","title":{"rendered":"The most expensive PC ever created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the most expensive PC money can buy? I decided to find out.<\/p>\n<p>The rules were simple &#8211; pretty much any component counted, whether or not it would actually work with the other components. So basically just like building a regular desktop PC. To maintain the strictest, most rigorous scientific credibility, I cross-checked component prices across multiple online vendors and other reputable tech sources to obtain the most outrageously inflated and\/or misprinted prices.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Video &#8211; Nvidia Quadro Plex 7000<\/h3>\n<p>Technically, the Nvidia Quadro Plex isn&#8217;t a regular video card, it&#8217;s an external GPU system packing two 6 GB Quadro FX 6000s that connects to a host PC via a special PCI Express card, and supports up to eight displays. It also weighs about 10 kilos. Will it run Crysis? Probably <em>not<\/em>, because it&#8217;s designed for big enterprise 3D rendering, but that&#8217;s not the point. Besides, I&#8217;m sure enough complaints on HelloPeter will persuade Nvidia to release a software update to add support for Crysis. <em>Maybe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price: R127,500<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Nvidia-Quadro-Plex-7000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47741\" title=\"Nvidia Quadro Plex 7000\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Nvidia-Quadro-Plex-7000.jpg\" alt=\"Nvidia Quadro Plex 7000\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Nvidia-Quadro-Plex-7000.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Nvidia-Quadro-Plex-7000-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Nvidia-Quadro-Plex-7000-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">RAM &#8211; IBM 8 GB DDR3<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/IBM-240-pin-profile-PC3-10600-registered\/dp\/B002HU0KMY\/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1353588131&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">This is almost definitely a misprint<\/a>, but rules are rules, and this is the most expensive RAM I could find for sale. So it totally counts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price: R440,000<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47757\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IBM-RAM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47757\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47757\" title=\"IBM RAM\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IBM-RAM.jpg\" alt=\"IBM RAM\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IBM-RAM.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IBM-RAM-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IBM-RAM-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">According to the page info, these are actually also refurbished. But maybe these were refurbished with weapons-grade titanium and their own Bavarian castle.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">CPU &#8211; BAE Systems Electronic Solutions RAD750<\/h3>\n<p>Designed and built for high-radiation environments, the RAD750 was most recently added to the Mars Curiosity rover&#8217;s tech loadout. If it can process the unfathomable infinity of space, it can launch Steam. Or not, because it has a clock speed of just 200 MHz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price: R1.7 million<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47764\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Curiosity-rover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47764\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47764\" title=\"Curiosity rover\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Curiosity-rover.jpg\" alt=\"Curiosity rover\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Curiosity-rover.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Curiosity-rover-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Curiosity-rover-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Curiosity rover sold separately.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Motherboard &#8211; Asus M5A88-M EVO<\/h3>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Asus-M5A88-M-Motherboard-Integrated-CrossfireX\/dp\/B004Z5BYLA\/ref=sr_1_3?s=computers&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1354092370&amp;sr=1-3\" target=\"_blank\">way overpriced motherboard<\/a> is definitely not going to be compatible with our RAD750, so maybe factor in another couple of million for repairs and replacements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price: R60,000<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47924\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Asus-M5A88-M-EVO-motherboard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47924\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47924\" title=\"Asus M5A88-M EVO motherboard\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Asus-M5A88-M-EVO-motherboard.jpg\" alt=\"Asus M5A88-M EVO motherboard\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Asus-M5A88-M-EVO-motherboard.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Asus-M5A88-M-EVO-motherboard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Asus-M5A88-M-EVO-motherboard-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Try more solder &#8211; 0.02% of the time, it works every time.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Hard drive &#8211; HP 320GB IO MLC Accelerator<\/h3>\n<p>Unfortunately, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/2012\/07\/a-million-year-hard-disk.html?ref=hp\" target=\"_blank\">$30,000 ANDRA sapphire hard drive<\/a> was disqualified because you can&#8217;t actually buy one, which is rather a shame because it also has an estimated lifespan of 1 million years. <em>Fortunately<\/em>, this <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.prodview.net\/elogic\/Productview?partid=22137222&amp;productid=1019683721&amp;resellerid=6035&amp;isvarstreet=0\" target=\"_blank\">Hewlett-Packard 320 GB solid state drive four-pack bundle<\/a> was even more expensive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price: R408,000<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47759\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/HP-600281-B21-320-GB-Plug-in-Module-Solid-State-Drive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47759\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47759\" title=\"HP 600281-B21 320 GB Plug-in Module Solid State Drive\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/HP-600281-B21-320-GB-Plug-in-Module-Solid-State-Drive.jpg\" alt=\"HP 600281-B21 320 GB Plug-in Module Solid State Drive\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/HP-600281-B21-320-GB-Plug-in-Module-Solid-State-Drive.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/HP-600281-B21-320-GB-Plug-in-Module-Solid-State-Drive-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/HP-600281-B21-320-GB-Plug-in-Module-Solid-State-Drive-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You might want to double up on them, though &#8211; 2 TB is pretty much a minimum these days.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Monitor &#8211; NEC MultiSync LCD8205 82&#8243; display<\/h3>\n<p>Since our GPU system supports up to eight displays, it just makes sense to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Display-MultiSync-LCD8205-1920-x1080\/dp\/B001H3KLTE\/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1353653288&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">eight of these<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price: R4,248,000 (R531,000 x 8)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47765\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/NEC-MultiSync-LCD8205.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47765\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47765\" title=\"NEC MultiSync LCD8205\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/NEC-MultiSync-LCD8205.jpg\" alt=\"NEC MultiSync LCD8205\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/NEC-MultiSync-LCD8205.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/NEC-MultiSync-LCD8205-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/NEC-MultiSync-LCD8205-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmville is gonna look so epic.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Case &#8211;\u00a0Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II<\/h3>\n<p>Because, you know, why not? If you&#8217;re going to spend this much money on parts, I think it&#8217;s only appropriate to put them in a stealth jet. Anything less would be skimping. I mean, you could build you PC inside a R300 plastic case, or you could <em>fly<\/em> your PC over entire cities, dropping bombs and screaming bloody vengeance at every person who ever told you your old Genius sound card was crap. I&#8217;m sure we all know which is the more impressive option.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price: Approximately R8.5 trillion<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47756\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Lockheed-Martin-F-35-Lightning-II.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47756\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47756\" title=\"Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Lockheed-Martin-F-35-Lightning-II.jpg\" alt=\"Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Lockheed-Martin-F-35-Lightning-II.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Lockheed-Martin-F-35-Lightning-II-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Lockheed-Martin-F-35-Lightning-II-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There&#8217;s probably space for a beer fridge too.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/46810-5-great-budget-pc-cases.html\">5 great budget PC cases<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/47144-great-gaming-hardware-developments.html\">Great gaming hardware developments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/47174-pimp-your-laptop.html\">Pimp your laptop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/47047-hardware-gamers-do-need.html\">Hardware gamers do need<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/46816-technology-gamers-dont-need.html\">Technology gamers don\u2019t need<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No budget, no problem!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":47766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[6009,21,807,157],"class_list":["post-47736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-cool-stuff","tag-headline","tag-pc-gaming","tag-pc-master-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47920,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47736\/revisions\/47920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}