Comments on: The $16,000 Water Cooled PC

By: Kilner79

Kilner79 — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:50:00 +0000

depending on the speed of the pump at the rate at wich the water flows will depend how warm the water is on the 4th block with it having a very big rad with so many fans i expect it to be flowing very fast so that the water has hardly any heat in it by the time it gets to the 4th block

and the rad is so big due to the amount of water it has too cool at a fast rate

if its only using a stock pump then its FAIL
but if it works how i think it will then its an ok setup

By: jrewtaylor

jrewtaylor — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:07:00 +0000

I could make something with similar processing power today for 5000$ wow.

By: Jesse_rox_gym

Jesse_rox_gym — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:52:00 +0000

Yeah when i first saw the pic i thought the very same thing

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 23:25:00 +0000

Xatch read the date this was posted march 2009.

meaning it was probably built around early winter 2008.

You couldn’t have built a better PC at that point cause your option would have been putting in intel quad core’s which would have limited the capability severely.

By: xatch

xatch — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:22:14 +0000

for 16,000 I can build one better system with SSD pci express hard drives and 4 sli nvidia cards. opterons can’t handle video games like the last core i7 hexa cores cpus. so, don’t dream about play crysis and modern warfare 2 in this beast.

By: Jezgar the Red

Jezgar the Red — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:16:44 +0000

4 cpu’s in a row which will all run at different temps, each transfering heat to the next 1 running coolest, 4 hottest. Hasn’t thought it threw..

By: charles

charles — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:34:29 +0000

Is there a places on the internet it will take me that I can’t get to now?

By: chris

chris — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:40:03 +0000

I WANNT ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: danax

danax — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:59:49 +0000

whats the use of this monstrious pc???

By: Milander

Milander — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:02:02 +0000

Ummm…. crap is what this is. Poor design, poorly thought out and way, way over priced. Give me the 16k and my mates and I’ll build you something that can control satellites while you play Assassins Creed II at top end specs and check your facebook games while watching a film…. and f##k watercooled we’ll be using liquid nitrogen.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:40:19 +0000

you can build this setup for 8g’s max. trust me I have been looking into the hardware for something of this magnitude for over a year.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:41:06 +0000

Cooling system sucks big time. And I bet it’s in reverse (25°C that’s probably the room temperature). Also water flows from one CPU to another… so the last CPU is cooled with warm / hot water. Using 9 fans to cool the water is just stupid, and probably very noisy.

So it’s ugly, noisy, bad cooling… totally worth $16000 (stupid look of people staring at it – priceless).

By: mark

mark — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:21:50 +0000

is this going to be one of the give aways?

By: MaTaN

MaTaN — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:38:06 +0000

This comp is wicked… but what is that V.card? you should buy Sli x3/4 and put 3/4 GTX295′s dont you think guys? i think my comp is better and my comp have 4Gb ram 1250GB (2HDDs) GTX280 and Q9650 @3000
and what about the temp? with that cooling system and the air flew you shoud have like 5~15C… my cooling system is better…
If theres a thing that i will take from this comp.. is the mount of Ram’s and the Cpu’s (+the motherboard) thats all…
But still… its cool to see alot of Ram’s and Cpu’s
lower the price man… to $10,000

By: |Elijah|

|Elijah| — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:41:30 +0000

What the hell…? Why does somebody need a computer like that?! And what kind of Video Card does it have? If it doesn’t have a NVidia 9600 GT or better it won’t really be able to run anything….. xO

Other than that, I think that’s pretty ridiculous. I don’t have anything against it, it’s just crazy. I want one though. You would never have to get another PC in your life. Unless you look at too much porn. xO

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By: Nuniez

Nuniez — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:01:40 +0000

This thing is a monster. I would never buy it now. But when the parts for this thing start to have a decrease in price, I might purchase and build it myself. Haha, if only there was an application that could actually push this thing to it’s limits. That would be wonderful…

By: JH

JH — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:21:23 +0000

This is the dumbest I’ve seen yet. No consideration is given to the temperatures of the downstream processors. No consideration is given to the load on the 5V bus, not to mention a lower voltage on a fan does not mean it’s quieter. It just means it takes a lower voltage. RPM and fan blade pitch determine how many decibels will be produced. The 12V bus is better suited for higher wattage loads. (Remember ohm’s law and the ratings of each level of the power supply.)

Nice to see that die #4 has to deal with all the heat of the preceding dies. There are better designs out there. This one is definately NOT worth $16k, or even $1k.

By: mnalb

mnalb — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:55:30 +0000

My landlord will sell me this rental house for less than that. Can I live in this $16k computer?

By: crazy_driver_78

crazy_driver_78 — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:52:44 +0000

When is AMD releasing thier next faster core? What will that make this worth then?

By: DLH

DLH — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:18:55 +0000

Why?

By: Therian

Therian — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:27:41 +0000

Fans ? really ? what the point of water cooler other than quit working !

By: lance

lance — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:35:46 +0000

That is pretty useless since it will be outdated tomorrow with better technology. I want to meet the dumbass that put the money into something so useless. I have alot of things for that dumbass to buy.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:14:25 +0000

….now just install Ubuntu Linux….since the budget for OS Licensing has been seriously wiped out….

By: chris

chris — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:59:26 +0000

give it a year and it will be the 1600 dollar pc

By: Paolo

Paolo — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:49:07 +0000

Why not just buy a nice server hardware? less expensive and more reliable…

By: tgos

tgos — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:47:30 +0000

…and then I go and spoil it all by doing something stupid like installing windows..

By: shoaib2k2

shoaib2k2 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:35:04 +0000

Amazing PC … WTF

By: JimiJimi

JimiJimi — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:32:34 +0000

I don’t know who would be dumb enough to buy this.

It’s not a gaming computer, and anyone willing to drop 16k on a server wouldn’t be stupid enough to have it watercooled especially with unreliable crappy Koolance parts!

This just sucks ass.

By: JaMeS

JaMeS — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:30:14 +0000

Vagita, what do the scanners say about its power levels!?

they’re over 16,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what!? 16,000!!??

you know what I say?
so much more possibility, you could cut down the price by not using those Terabyte drives, and get yourself the sickest graphics card (or two).

play some crysis, watch some pron, and do it all on max quality.

By: failboat

failboat — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:02:59 +0000

I can make that for 5K and the WIRE MANAGEMENT will look sexier. I also will not use koolance… noobs.

By: TS

TS — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:44:57 +0000

It is called server grade PC. Call up Dell, and get a quote for their R900 with X7460s. 24 cores and 128GB ram runs you 16K too. Much faster than quad socket AMD bull shit.

Even better, wait for Nahelem-EP. Dual Socket Nehalem-EP will get you quad socket AMD performance for a few thousand dollars.

By: Redhawk

Redhawk — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:07:05 +0000

That is a monstrosity and pointless.

This guy knows what he is doing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7908141.stm

By: Bill Gates

Bill Gates — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:03:19 +0000

Hi Bill here..
Just to let you guys know, In order to run Vista on this Computer Smoothly you need to Disable Aero, and run in Basic Graphics (16bit), disable UAC and set your Graphics Settings to WORST PERFORMANCE , Also disable any unnecessary start up applications, And don’t forget to download the Drivers that are coming out for the FANS. otherwise Vista will give you the BSOD .

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By: victor

victor — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:56:15 +0000

waste

By: brian

brian — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:25:09 +0000

It doesn’t have SLI, how cheap is that.

By: Kinetix

Kinetix — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:02:28 +0000

Hah, I got a computer custom built for $800, its the size of a cardboard box, and it can play Crysis on highest settings.

By: Toz

Toz — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:15:12 +0000

You’re wrong Ranzear : there’s a graphic card (highest PCI Express slot). But … wait … only one graphic card ? This PC sucks
I hope the solitaire will run fast enough.

@Isaac : Sure we already knew that you can acquire a Mac computer as powerfull as my $1000 PC for $16000

By: jas

jas — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:54:33 +0000

HA HA!

my box fan still cools better than that!

By: swefse

swefse — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:53:55 +0000

In like 10 years all people have computers of this performance.
But I want it now!

By: Sleepless in Redmond

Sleepless in Redmond — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:45:38 +0000

Vista STILL won’t run correctly, even after throwing $16,000.00 at it!

By: Ugg.

Ugg. — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:37:10 +0000

Haha so unnecessary for what it’s used for. But some people have the money and SOMEONE had to stimulate the economy hahaha.

By: Ranzear

Ranzear — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:42:52 +0000

No video card.

$16,000 and such an epic fail that it probably won’t even run Crysis /at all/.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:18:16 +0000

Looks would not matter if it does the magic, remember jeeps work best without the fuss!!!and its not like a laptop u would carry around….this is something i’d showoff powerwise…its like a 70s Dodge Charger-raw power!its more of a sleeper computer heheee

By: Ddres0605

Ddres0605 — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:02:14 +0000

the only way you can this computer is if you sell your soul to the devil.

By: Graeme

Graeme — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:54:27 +0000

Some people have more money than brains….. utter waste of money…
my quad-core AMD with 4 gig of memory cost me 800 bucks to build… so you’re telling me this thing is 15,200.00 bucks faster and better??????? sure I don’t have all that storage, but c’mon people, lets be real….

By: tarek

tarek — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:49:21 +0000

its a car

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By: Isaac

Isaac — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:42:12 +0000

Spend the same money on a MacPro and get OS X, and a machine that looks good.

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By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:43:28 +0000

Really cool though I’d want to pretty it up a little (ie. putting some custom fan grilles on there) if I was spending $16k.

By: p0Pe

p0Pe — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:18:32 +0000

yeah…. looks alright.. but i like the looks of my case better:D

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?p=230160#post230160

my raddy also blends in a bit better;P

By: Miky Dunn

Miky Dunn — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:33:31 +0000

I bet it still wont run crysis on high

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:08:09 +0000

If you are going to spend 16000$ building it, why don’t you spend 1000$ more and make it beautiful??

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:37:38 +0000

But, will it boot Windows in less than 30 seconds?

By: tash

tash — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:44:36 +0000

Maybe they paid someone $7k to build it for them? I agree.. I could put a hell of a lot more in it than that for 16k.. I wonder what actually is in there(motherboard, cpu, ram, waterblocks, etc)

For that kind of money.. Why not spend a few hundred extra and get a separate radiator/pump for each cpu block?

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By: Greycat

Greycat — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:55:46 +0000

now all it needs is wheels! >^^<

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:08:45 +0000

But will it blend?