$6,000 seems like overkill or perhaps Japan is more expensive than Northern Europe when it comes to hardware :)

$6000, damn. The case must be gold-plated

Oh, I just checked back on the topic.

Originally it included the following:

CPU: Intel Core i7 975 3.33 GHz

Motherboard: ASUSTeK P6T

RAM: Corsair TR3X6G1333C9 G (DDR3 @ 666.5 MHz) × 6 (12 GBs)

HDD: SEAGATE ST32000542AS (2 TB)

GPU: ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 × 2 (CrossFire)

Sound 1: Creative PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series (with front panel)

Sound 2: ESI Juli@ Professional Audio

Drives: PINOEER DVR-217JBK

Case: COOLER MASTER HAF 922

Power: AQTIS G-PowerX 1250W

Monitor: LG W2253V-PF

Speaker: Bose Computer MusicMonitor

Keyboard: Microsoft Sidewinder X6 Gaming Keyboard

Mouse: Microsoft Comfort Mouse 6000

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

These totaled about $4,700. All of these were new at the time so today it might be cheaper.

But the constant crashes caused a few things to happen.

#1: The worst-possible timing for a crash, mixed with alcohol, caused me to go into a fit of rage that lead to the destruction of my keyboard. I replaced it with a Microsoft SideWinder X4 anti-ghosting gaming keyboard ($60).

#2: The hard drive failed completely after a crash. I replaced it with a Hitachi GST Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723020BLA642 2TB (~$266).

#3: In an attempt to fix the crashes I upgraded my GPU to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 (~$700).

#4: Crashes remained, so I finally replaced the CPU and motherboard to Intel Core i7 4771 3.5 GHz (~$306) and ASRock LGA1150/Intel Z87/DDR3/Quad CrossFireX and Quad SLI/SATA3 and USB 3.0/A&2GbE/ATX Motherboard Z87 PROFESSIONAL (~$270).

I will soon have to upgrade my RAM as well because this motherboard only has 4 slots, so I have 2 useless RAM chips laying around and only 8 GBs.

Prior to #4, it was almost at $6,000 and was meant to be a gaming machine, yet it was unable even to watch YouTube videos. How fricking pathetic.

Now that I’ve fixed it, I’ve been enjoying Battlefield 3, Crysis 2, and Crysis 3 the way I was always meant to be able.

L. Spiro

Now that I’ve fixed it, I’ve been enjoying Battlefield 3, Crysis 2, and Crysis 3 the way I was always meant to be able.

L. Spiro

The way its meant to be played you mean :D