What would you buy with $1.5 billion dollars? Probably a lot of things, but the first order would be a new gaming PC.
Powerball is a lottery drawing that’s done in nearly ever state in the US. Like most lotteries, it has hilariously low chances of winning, but big payouts if you do. Well, nobody won the $1.2 billion Powerball last night. That means the value has now grown to some $1.5 billion US dollars, or about half that if you take the cash option. The list of things you could do with one-and-a-half billion dollars is virtually endless, but we know the first thing we’d do with that kind of money: build an absolutely excessive gaming PC.
Now, the uneducated might start looking at server hardware, building a system with a massive 64-core EPYC processor and some NVIDIA A100 GPUs. That’s great, if you want to run Stable Diffusion to generate AI images, or perform tasks like computational fluid dynamics. For gaming, that kind of hardware isn’t going to get you very far for your money.
In fact, server hardware generally runs well behind consumer hardware for gaming. That’s why we we selected the Core i9-13900K as our CPU. Intel’s new Raptor Lake chips are the fastest around for gaming, and this processor’s 24 CPU cores make it pretty darn good at productivity tasks, too.
By our reckoning, the price for this machine comes out just under $11,500, which is an absurd price for a gaming PC, but hey, if you just won $1.5 BILLION dollars, live a little, eh? Besides, you’re gonna have to buy a lot of games to fill up those 8TB SSDs.
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Of course, the Core i9-13900K runs pretty warm, so we selected Lian Li’s refreshed Galahad 360-mm AIO liquid cooler to keep it frosty.For RAM, your choices right now are to go big or go fast. We reckon DDR5-6000 is plenty fast enough, especially with the low 30-cycle CAS latency of this G.
