New Workstation Build v2015

[Justin]

$4k for the top end mac pro. that is more than you spent on yours, so unless it is buy one get one free day at Apple...

And I'm sure that Mac Pro comes with 9.4TB of total storage...

 

[Short Round]

 

[wct097]

yeah ASUS GTX 970 STRIX OC 4GB

Ahh... not sure how I missed that. Either way, still curious what you intend to do with it. Not saying someone has to have a legitimate need to have something excessive, just curious.

 

[John in MA]

If my calculations are correct... you spent $3693.11 on a workstation? to do what? MS Word?

I could have bought (2+) "overpriced" high end Macs that will run circles around that thing and actually boot up.

I'm trying to figure out what's more gay. A grown man spending $700 on blue plastic tubes and a motherboard that actually has "Republic of Gamers" in the name, or a someone suggesting a Mac in its place.

 

[BrandonM7]

Apple has used liquid cooling for years.. I was just mocking his home build..

I figured they had to be with some of the tiny machines they make, but I didn't want to assume.

Biggest mistake in this build is the Seagate drives. Literally every drive failure I've had in the last 10 years has been a Seagate drive. Will never purchase from them again. We're talking at least 5 laptop drives alone, not even considering 3.5" stuff. Absolute garbage.

Their enterprise level stuff is still outstanding.

well that's not very discrete...

 

[wct097]

Their enterprise level stuff is still outstanding.

Maybe so, but I'll never know because I've had so many of their drives shit the bed that I could never bring myself to buy something with that brand name again.

 

[BrandonM7]

Maybe so, but I'll never know because I've had so many of their drives shit the bed that I could never bring myself to buy something with that brand name again.

That's fair. I had a similar relationship with WD for a long time, just the other way around -- we had so many fail in servers and NAS that I wasn't buying SHIT with their name on it.

 

[kthrash]

Pretty sure, every Hard Drive I have in every Server/NAS is a Seagate of some sort..

 

[wct097]

Pretty sure, every Hard Drive I have in every Server/NAS is a Seagate of some sort..

I know for a fact that every bad drive I have on the shelf in my office and in my desk at home is a Seagate.

 

[abqtj]

You really should consult the Geek Squad at Best Buy for technical stuff like this, ya know.

 

[Justin]

I know for a fact that every bad drive I have on the shelf in my office and in my desk at home is a Seagate.

Maybe you're just rough on your equipment.

 

[Justin]

You really should consult the Geek Squad at Best Buy for technical stuff like this, ya know.

I DID AND THOSE ASSHOLES TRIED TO SELL ME A ****ING APPLE WATCH!

 

[kthrash]

I DID AND THOSE ASSHOLES TRIED TO SELL ME A ****ING APPLE WATCH!

I didnt know Best Buy sold Apple Watches..

 

[John in MA]

I DID AND THOSE ASSHOLES TRIED TO SELL ME A ****ING APPLE WATCH!

Well it's less than $3600 and does anything you're gonna be using this computer for. Maybe they were right.

I didnt know Best Buy sold Apple Watches..

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/apple-apple-watch-38mm-milanese-loop/4275000.p?id=1219733908770&skuId=4275000&ref=06&loc=01&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=4275000&extensionType=pla_multichannel:g&s_kwcid=PTC!pla!!!74631750339!g!!75796418895&kpid=4275000&k_clickid=248ba9ea-0e8e-4e63-8fda-b6e423e763de&lsft=ref:212,loc:1&ksid=248ba9ea-0e8e-4e63-8fda-b6e423e763de&ksprof_id=10&ksaffcode=pg19395&ksdevice=c&kpid=4275000

 

[Justin]

I didnt know Best Buy sold Apple Watches..

well they sure aren't going to sell themselves...

 

[themonk]

You should just build yourself a high end server, stuff a video card in it, and call it good. If it has less than 192GB of RAM and 2 8 core Xeon processors, it's just an entry level toy.

 

[John in MA]

You should just build yourself a high end server, stuff a video card in it, and call it good. If it has less than 192GB of RAM and 2 8 core Xeon processors, it's just an entry level toy.

Why stop there?

 

[themonk]

An excellent point. I say go for it.

 

[Justin]

Cray parts ordered...

 

[abqtj]

But does it play mp3s