What kind of PC would cost $10,000

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I just randomly asked this one time, and somebody said maybe a high end gaming machine. Well guys? Satiate my curiosity.

The Alienware Area 51 ALX with everything.

A fully specced up Mac Pro.

My very high gaming PC was under $2K.

$3,750 - 3 ati crossfire HD 5970 or the equivalent from nvidia.
480 - hyperdrive 5 sata2 ram drive with 64 gigs of mid grade ddr2. make sure you get the persistent power source for it too.
1904 - the above memory - you could go cheaper here as the just about any ram will saturate the sata2 cable. I spec'd low-mid grade stuff.

Thats already at 6000 or so. We still need a case, mobo, CPU, system memory, data storage drive, PSU, monitor, keboard/mouse and a blue ray RW dvd .

Get an awesome gamers mobo for 3000 dollars, drop 1000 on an excellent CPU, thats ~9000.

A thousand on ram(32 gigs), 300 on the PSU(1000 watts), 400 on the monitor(good 24 inch), 300 for good water cooling, and thats 11,000.

I'd get a thermaltake armor case. My brothers weighs a whopping 35 kilograms. You can get models with water cooling reservoirs built in($250).

blueray dvd(200? I have no need for one), dual 160 gig SSD hard disks($500 each) for data storage, and the rest you'd have a hard time spending too much on, but we are already over 12,500.

See? Its not so hard. Oh and I suppose you'll want windows 7, whichever is the most comprehensive package they offer. 300 bucks?

For the hyper drive 5, it has dual sata II connectors, so I would partition the 64 gigs into a 32 gig raid0. I would do the same with the dual SSD drives.

At that point I think you'd have a computer that is so fast, if you even thought about turning it on, it would say "Dont bother, I'm already at the desktop."

A workstation. They are not designed to run games, but they are designed to run really fast and do complex things like simulations and heavy database stuff. You could probably spend $20K-$30K on one if you had the money...

A games box you build yourself for $5K is prolly faster in every way for gaming than a $10K workstation. Purpose built stuff you know...

A workstation for running engineering applications. i used to use them when I was an engineer.

If you are venturing into workstation, a single NVIDIA Tesla can cost you more than $1500. The RAM drive Fuzzy mentioned is also an easy way to up the bill. Although SSD deliver almost all the benefits with higher capacity and so are becoming more popular. There are also stuffs like multi-sockets CPU, SAS RAID, TCP/IP Offload Engine, water cooling, or even phase change cooling if you like. And don't forget UPS or some nice professional grade displays. It's not really hard to push $10,000.

You know, the sad thing is I have access to a four-workstation Linux cluster this summer (each workstation is pretty high-end, and I wouldn't be surprised if they cost in the $10k ballpark) and I don't actually have a real use for them.

Something that you could get for less that 1000$ in a few years.

Server Computer.

Send one over to me if you want, I'll be happy to take it off your hands...

A Fully spec'ed out ruggedised portable Lunchbox system like this one would set you back $9,875. --But then again you could use it as a Gaming server for a LAN Party that youd host outside, in the pouring rain of the deepest parts of the Amazon jungle, provided that you supplied the 120/240 VAC.