{"id":53,"date":"2007-05-08T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-09T12:37:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T17:37:46","slug":"who-wants-a-12000-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Who Wants a $12,000 PC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My computer is getting old and I was curious how much it would cost to replace it (although realistically, I probably won’t buy a new computer for a while). So I went to HP.com to check out their computers, because I’ve heard some pretty good things lately about their hardware. Off their main computer sales site, they have a link to their high-end systems, VoodooPC Gaming PCs<\/a>. Curious, I decided to check it out since this computer would be for 3D graphics, which has a lot of the same requirements as high-end gaming stations.<\/p>\n

They have different options you can select to tweak your system for different uses. One option is for “Graphics \/ Animation”, so I set that to its highest level. Then I went through their options for this setting and tuned down a few things (I probably shaved off about $4,000, most of which was in their high-end SCSI hard drives they were trying to include).<\/p>\n

After customization, the price of this new workstation was $12,638.07. That’s after<\/span> I took out $4,000. I couldn’t believe it! Who is buying these things? Are they really worth it? Does it even make sense to buy one $12,000 when you could buy four excellent workstations at $3,000, or six good machines at $2,000 (or 24 basic machines at $500, if you want to set up a render farm)?<\/p>\n

If I had $12K to spend on technology, you can bet I’d have a lot more than one really fast computer at my desk. Especially since in two years, that same computer will be an outdated, slow POS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My computer is getting old and I was curious how much it would cost to replace it (although realistically, I probably won’t buy a new computer for a while). So I went to HP.com to check out their computers, because I’ve heard some pretty good things lately about their hardware. Off their main computer sales […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}