Hi, my name is Matt Blancarte and I’m filling in for David today. I’m excited to be able to write a few tech posts this week because my blog is more business/entrepreneurship related material. Alright, let’s get on with it, shall we?

Falcon Fantasies
I’ve been a hardware junky for about five years now. Alongside that, I am a hardcore pc gamer. So when you add those two things up, you have yourself what Nvidia calls an “Extreme Gamer, Technology Enthusiast.” Like all extreme gamers, I like to believe that someday I will be able to reason myself into buying a rig at $10000+ dollars. If you are into pc gaming, and you haven’t seen what kind of bill “pricey” hardware can run up, prepare to have your eyeballs fly out of their sockets.

There are a lot of choices out there if you want to build yourself a custom rig. You can pay companies like Falcon Northwest, AlienWare, Vadim… you could even put one together yourself if you could do the handy work. I have personally built many computers, and it is almost always the cheapest way to get the performance you are looking for. This article isn’t about cheap, though. This article is about spending the most amount of money possible to build the craziest rig I can think of. I have seen some rigs get pricey, but not too many come close to the extravagance, or ridiculousness, of a Falcon Northwest tower.

Once you get through the impressive flash intro and homepage, you can choose to build your rig. They have options for three chassis; the Mach V, Talon, and FragBox. The Talon and FragBox options are clearly the lesser of the three options, so we are going to go with the Mach V. These towers can be configured for Gamers, Business, or Multimedia Production. Let’s go ahead and configure our tower for gaming.

Once you’ve chosen to exercise your rights to brag, you’re on to the system builder page. The first thing I notice is the price tag. This computer is a mere $17,780.74 in it’s current configuration. That’s borderline insane, you’re saying. I agree with you, but for the heck of it let’s just see if we can spend more money. ^_^ Right, let’s upgrade to the air-brushed U.S. flag on the chassis… throw in a PhysX card… beef up the sound card… upgrade to Vista Ultimate 64 Bit… add some peripherals… no need to upgrade the screens, we’ve got two 30″ Samsungs…

Well, there you have it. Almost $19,000 for that amazing symbol of freedom. I am pretty sure that we have just put together the most expensive gaming rig possible. Now, the question is how bad do you want to sell your kidney for it? If you can come up with something more expensive or more ludacris, by all means, contact me at my blog. I will be surprised if you can!

Editor’s Note: Hellbent on outdoing Matt, I managed to throw together a $35,000 PC at Vadim. Sorry Matt! Red/Blue UV Lighting, FULL (meaning every component in the PC) water cooling, a 1000w PSU, 3Ghz Quad Core Intel Core 2 Overclocked to 4Ghz+, 4GB of Corsair Ultra-Low-Latency Dominator RAM, two Nividia 8800Ultras overclocked by 50%, a PhysX card to add some more power, $13,000 worth of hard drives (2.15TB and a few of the cards have a 100MB/second read speed), Blu-ray drive, XP Pro/Vista Ultimate Dual boot, etc. Check it out at the Vadim website!