The most OTT rig I've ever seen

[CuervoJoe]

This rig is the most endearingly mental that I've ever seen. The specs are:

4.6GHz i7 CPU
16GB DDR3 RAM
850W PSU
AMD Radeon HD 6990 Dual GPU 4GB VRAM

You can upgrade it, what to, deep thought?

[Althea]

But can it play The Witcher 2 with Ubersampling?

[Kamikaze-X]

You can't have seen many high end rigs then.

http://www.scan.co.uk/3xs-overclocked-bundles

go to the very bottom of that page.

2x6 Core processors running @ 3.8Ghz with multithreading (giving 12 logical and 12 theoretical processing cores... 24 cores of task-manager-stretching-goodness)

48GB of Ram, support for up to 8 PCI-E 16X graphics cards.

and its only £2757!

I've had an 850Watt PSU in my rig for about 3 years now, needed it for when I was overclocking on my HD2900Pro (RIP little card).

[Mohorovicic]

I can accept stuff like two high-end video cards at once or putting C: on a dedicated SSD but this kind of thing is just stupid.

[QuantaCat]

Youve never worked in video editing then.

[Mohorovicic]

I would assume that if you're serious enough to spend 2k+GBP on a video editing PC, there is a small market who specializes in it. So you go there and not just to a normal shop who just threw a lot of CPUs together resulting in questionable efficiency.

[QuantaCat]

Since you can also buy the Flint/Flame/Inferno systems with a dongle since a couple of years, you can also build your own rig, any way you wish. as long as it runs UNIX.

They used to use missile guidance systems.

[Snargelfargen]

That's impressive, but don't forget to add 4 of http://ncix.com/products/?sku=60948&...Z%20Technology
in a RAID-0 array! I suppose you could also add a soundcard, but why bother when you can get another HD 6990 for audio only.

[AdamK117]

Thats nearly as rediculous as that 8 HHD RAID array tomshardware tried out some time ago, I wonder if anyones tried something similar with a bunch of supercharged SSDs, CPU limited boots anyone?