Article: CAPS Twenty | Part Two

[57gold]

Very cool!  

 

Realize this is a labor of love and not an attempt to economize.  

 

But, Chris mentions second choice CPU that might be equally good for HQPlayer at 60% of the cost, combining that with a lesser but still impressive GPU (though it looks like tis one might be available for $400 less?), and a more pedestrian case (like a Fractal) might get the costs down to a level a cheapskate like me would feel better about.  

 

Would need my son to come visit for a weekend to put it all together...

[57gold]

Attended a convention in February of this year in London before the world shut down, the ICE show on gaming - casino, internet and sports betting, for business reasons.  My firm arranges project financing for resort casinos, amongst other businesses.  

 

Was a large show, bigger than the one in LV and in one corner of the huge convention facility were displays of PCs like the huge and colorful ones above, actually took photos of them for my 30 year old son who has built a few PCs, as I had never seen anything like them.  They were in a section of the show dedicated to competitive computer gaming, like Starcraft for $ prizes in tournaments...I didn't even know this existed.  

 

Anyways, these things looked cooler than heck and I remember thinking that the ones with double video cards and liquid cooling systems would probably rock with HQ Player cranking DSD512.  Then I wondered about noise, not an issue with thousands milling around a convention...probably was an early super spreader event looking back.