What's in your dream PC?

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The first six months of this year have been a full-on techgasm. We've had the launches of a couple ultra-enthusiast, $1,000 graphics cards - in the Nvidia GTX Titan and AMD HD 7990 - a batch of new GTX 700 series cards and a whole new Intel platform to base our future gaming machines on.

What goes into your dream PC?

On the surface that question seems simple - surely it's the biggest, baddest CPU available to humanity and an array of the best graphics cards strapped together in an unforgiving multi-GPU setup.

But that all depends on what you want in a PC. Do you want a throbbing, noisy behemoth taking up an entire room, or would you rather have the best small form factor components making up the speediest mini-PC in the known world?

It's not all about straight performance either.

Some people's dream PC will sit in the attic running a host of different screens and networked machines around the house. It might also be running the lighting and communications systems as well as streaming top-end games to any mobile device they have in their hands.

And how are you going to keep your monster PC cool? Straight water-cooling throughout? An internal or external radiator? I once knew someone who'd plumbed their PC into the water supply of their house so the whole place acted as a radiator.

But water-cooling is so old hat now, isn't it time we moved on to non-conductive oil-submerged machines ?

So many, many choices...

So, what's in your dream PC?

Dave James
Dave James
Editor-in-Chief, Hardware

Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.