Ultimate Gamer/ Power user

The system for the ultimate gamer/ Power user system (£4000 - £5000)
Case - Xigmatek Elysium
CPU - Intel i7 3960X Extreme 
Mainboard - Gigabyte GA-X79-UD7
Memory - Corsair vengeance 1866MHz 16GB
SSD - 2X Kingston 120GB HyperX 
Graphics - 3X EVGA GTX 580 Hydro copper 2 3GB
Power Supply - Silverstone strider 1500W Modular


Water Cooling :
CPU block - EK Supreme HF 
Reservoir - Phobya 5.25" Dual Bay
Pump - Laing DDC 12V 18W
Radiator(s) - Phobya G-Changer 360mm, XSPC RX120mm
Fittings - assorted bitspower 3/8" fittings




The overall price is £4219. This system is really very high performance with intel's latest extreme X79 CPU, the 3960X. It's got 6 cores and 12 threads and it is highly overclockable. With 16GB of memory the machine has lots of memory for tasks such as rendering. The Three GTX 580 3GB cards in SLI are seriously powerful and can max every game on the market at excellent FPS, they can also be used for GPU computing with nVidia CUDA and would also make excellent cards for Folding at home. The water cooling is great for keeping the hardware nice and cool even with overclocks on the cards/CPU. The system is powered by a 1500W power supply. Finally there are two 120GB SSD's in RAID 0 making for insane performance of around 900 MB/s second and a total space of 240GBs.