Money help: What is the best computer gaming system available today that would be best for the money for an ambitious 12 year old boy? - Help.com

According to Cnet test labs, the Falcon Northwest Mach V is the fastest PC on the planet, beating the Alienware Area-51 ALX. How fast you ask? How about being the first PC ever to hit 60 frames per second running Crysis on the highest graphics preset? Yes. That fast.

Cnet says that the Falcon Northwest Mach V has the latest and bestest combination of components there is, which is what makes it the fastest thing on chips:

• 3.79GHz Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition.
• An Intel X58 chipset.
• 12GB of 1,066MHz DDR3 SDRAM.
• 2 x 1GB ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
• 1TB 7,200RPM Hitachi hard drive.
• 80GB Intel X-25M solid-state drive.

All this for only $8,028 price tag, including the Ferrari red paint job

Hope this helps :-)

PS3 or xbox360

It really depends on the price. I wouldn’t spent more than $3k on a computer, not counting the monitor. $8k is a load of BS seeing as I can get a personal supercomputer for about $10k. Most big name places like dell & gateway will charge a lot more than smaller places like www.ibuypower.com for the ’same’ computer. The cheapest option is to do all your research and build it yourself.

Personally I would go with the Intel Core i7 940 Nehalem 2.93GHz as far as the processor goes. The Extreme editions are all ways overkill on what it can do for the price. 3-4GB’s of RAM should be enough, again 12 is overkill unless he plans on setting up a small server.

Heck no I would use all of the memory doing my animation and just having fun. The chip cost $1099.00 for the extreme edition. I’m going to wait until it comes down to 500 and then order a board that will hold two of them. I currently have a dual core and core 2 duo and I’m not impressed with the performance with either. I complained to Intel 2 years ago about the two processors working independently of each other and that they don’t even come close to the performance that I get from my 3.6 HT. Now they finally come out with the new i7 HT processor. That is why I want one. Some times I will span 3 or 4 monitors with a animation program and need the speed that I get with the HT processor. Just need to win the lottery and the 3 42inch monitors will also go with that package. LOL :-)

Well I don’t think a 12 year old would be doing any rendering or compiling in my case that would need 12GB. If you used all 12 for some reason, your bottle neck wouldn’t be paging due to the RAM, it would be i/o of the the processor. While I agree that the core i7 is the best in that area for the price it still doesn’t fully fix that bottle neck. While the core i7 extreme is just over $1k you would also be paying for Falcon Northwest to over clock it to 3.79GHz seeing as normally it’s only a 3.2GHz. While the core i7 940 is 2.93GHz at a price point of about $570. An extra 0.27GHz that ends up costing you $500+ seems like raw deal if you know what I mean.

Heck right now I’m on this site and surfing the net, recording music and watching a movie. Plus I have my desktop icons and other programs running. Little jittery on my 3.6 at 90%+ but with a dual quad core i7 it would barely be using 30 to 40% right now and that is what I need and really want. LOL As for over clocking I would have them overclocked at 4g each in theory that would be 32g’s of processing power and would us the parker pumped liquid multiphase cooling loop (PLMC) which uses refrigerant instead of water. (Let her buck!!) I do agree that it is a little pricey but I can wait until it comes down. I would probably not use all of the memory but if the board can hold it, why not max it out.

Lol, if you’re looking for power, don’t wast your money.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal…
I’m sorry, but not even the Falcon Northwest Mach V can compare to any comps in the Tesla series.

Just went to the site. Now that is a nice pc with unlimited power to do anything that I want it to do. For ten grand not a bad price either. Just downloaded Cuda and going to see how it works. Don’t have the money but would like to learn the programing anyway. Thanks for the link. :-)