The Best PC Money Can Buy

In our previous roundups, we have spoken of PCs that were assembled on a budget. While these setups will normally get very good performance, there are enthusiasts out there for who being "adequate" is not enough! A true enthusiast will go to any length and spend ungodly amounts of cash on building his system. If you are one of those for whom money is not an objection, this roundup will help you on achieving your dream of 'The Ultimate Computing Nirvana'.

CPU: Intel Core2duo Extreme Q6700 (Rs. 44,000)
In the last few months, Intel’s Core2Duo range of processors have completely annihilated AMD in the performance game. Intel not content with just holding the performance crown has continued to build on its Core2Duo range and has released a Quad-core processor. The new Quad-core processor runs at a clock speed of 2.66 GHz, has an L2 cache of 8 MB, and is currently the fastest consumer chip in existence, leaving no doubt about its presence in our roundup.

Motherboard: Asus P5W DH Deluxe Intel 975 Chip-set (Rs. 18,000)
Though Nvidia has recently released its 680i chipset, we have chosen not to include it here at this time due to lack of commercial products being available yet. The Intel 975 chipset we have chosen here, is not a slug either. Products based on this chipset are still among the fastest performers out there.

Asus in keeping with its sterling reputation, has produced another winner here. The Asus P5W DH Deluxe motherboard is among a select group of motherboards, that are compatible with the new Kentsfield processors. Other staple standards such as eSATA, dual SLI slots and DDR-II 800 MHz are present. The board also packs in advanced O.C. features and Wi-Fi support.

RAM: Corsair Dominator TWIN2X8500C5 (Rs. 25,500)
RAM is one of the most important constituents of any PC system. Slow RAM can cause bottlenecks and actually reduce performance of a fast system. Therefore, it is understood a screaming system also requires great quality ram. To derive full value out of the Asus board, which is DDR 2 capable we decided to go for are twin sticks of the well known Corsair DDR-2 PC8500 Ram memory sticks. Run these rams at a tight timing of 5-5-5-15 and watch your machine make a mockery of any benchmark you will ever run.