Nvidia auctioning off tricked out PC for charity on ebay

[slngsht]

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One of the fastest, most tricked out PCs ever built has just been put up for auction on eBay. With a one of a kind NVIDIA themed paint job created by Smooth Creations, the system features two watercooled GeForce GTX 295 graphics cards in SLI, NVIDIA 3D Vision Glasses and Samsung 2233RZ 3D Vision Ready Display, an Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition CPU, 12GB of Crucial Ballistix DDR3 Memory, an ASUS Rampage II Gene X58 Motherboard, two 256GB Crucial SSD Hard Drives in Raid 0, two 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black Hard Drives, and more.

The system was hand built by world renowned case modder Richard “Darth Beavis” Surroz, and is valued at over $10,000. 100% of the proceeds from the auction are going directly to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. All of the services and parts used to create the system were donated by the 11 main sponsors of the project.

The eBay auction is currently live and will end Tuesday, November 24th 2009 at 8:03:56 Pacific Standard Time.

[jimmyz]

That is a sick system. I would have went differently but it has the right parts. nice of that many companies to help out like that.

[slngsht]

I was looking at that monitor. I'm seriously considering that for my next upgrade. I miss the old CRT refreshrates of 80hz and above. I really can feel the difference when gaming when I went from 100hz on my old crt to this 60hz monitor.

[skier]

tis too bad the case is fugly, but nice parts thats for damn sure

[djw746]

tis too bad the case is fugly, but nice parts thats for damn sure

too bad??? planning on putting in a bid??? Seriously the people getting this system are doing it for the bragging rights AND the donation. You want people to walk-in and say "WTH is that thing?" What better way to bring up your views on charity with others.

I hope that thing goes for more than 10 times it's value (much better than buying a $50,000 table to some charity) (since you get to game rather than sit at some event)

[jimmyz]

I took it more as Skier meant if it was less gaudy it would probably fetch more. And he may be right it topped out and sold for just over 5600. Was worth 10k in parts.