If you had a $50,000 budget what system would you build and what would you use it for?

If you had a $50,000 budget what system would you build and what would you use it for?

That depends.
Can I keep the leftover?

I would save the money because I'm not a computer nigger.

If you have to rely on hardware to get shit done, it means you're writing shit code.

Build some servers and start a web hosting company or sell vps's or something

How am I suppose to execute code if there is no hardware for it to be executed to?

A $1000 machine with $49k left over for other things

Mining rig

Or some sort of server that could run multiple Windows vms for lan gaming, popular games, and emulators (depending on the legality) for a PC gaming cafe or whatever it's called

>Top tier 32 core AMD EPYC x2
>512GB RAM
>Samsung 960 Pro 2 TB x2
>Some decent 10 TB HDD x2
>Quadro P6000
>Tesla P100
>spend the rest on 4K DELL screens

I would use it to shitpost faster.

or maybe you're compiling kernels with a lot of packages so you'll need some good hardware for faster devellopement

I would invest in property.

>Here are the rules
>FUCK THE RULES LOLOLOLO
You people are morons.

In Bumfuck, Nowhere? My one bedroom condo cost almost 4 times that much.

No one said you can't keep the remainder. That's why I specifically asked and received no reply.

Even if you can't keep the remainder I would probably buy a decent PC and then blow the rest on whatever component keeps the most value on the second hand market as new and then sell them off.

So more about my business idea...

It could work in any commercial property with high speed fiber and ample parking.
A variety of easily prepared victuals will be served, $5 instant pizzas as a loss leader, fridge full of energy drinks yada yada yada
Comfy chairs. Ac. Dark furniture with soft lighting.
Little gaming cubicles with monitor, keyboard and mouse, wired controller.
A simple ui to navigate the games and media library, internet browser. Good WiFi for tweeting and whatnot.
All the machines are safely locked up in the back. Computing power is adjusted to meet demand for power savings.
Special events, parties, tournaments, all nighters (snack sales $$$)
Qt grills to keep them coming back.

Your thoughts?

At $50,000, a lot of it would be going into the peripherals and the room instead of the system itself. I'd mock up a desk in Sketchup and have a carpenter build it for me so I can lay everything out exactly the way I want.
I'd have a 7900X, not because I need the cores, but because the 44 PCI-E lanes would give me more to play around with. In particular, the ASRock X99 Gaming K6 would take SLI 1080Tis at full x16 bandwidth on both of them, while allowing me to run a sound card in the bottom slot and 3 M.2 drives (2TB Samsung 960 Pros) without affecting the bandwidth for the GPUs.
It would be water cooled, but I wouldn't spring for a CaseLabs case because the black monolith aesthetic has never really appealed to me. Cheaper cases, while not as solid, tend to have more shape to them.
I'd run a 3x2 monitor setup comprised of 27" 2560x1440 144+ Hz IPS G-Sync panels. They'd be flanked by some nice powered monitors, supplemented by some nice cans for when I want more immersion. I'd use an HDMI splitter to connect a cable box to the monitors' secondary input and let me choose which monitor I want to use if I want to put some TV on in the background.
Last, I'd finish it off with a 12-bay NAS filled with the largest hard drives my remaining budget could get me, plus a couple of extras as spares.

7740x, sli titan xp, shitload of 960 pros, gorillion GB of fastest ram there is, noctua fans everywhere, some overkill psu and a fancy ricer case.

These exist sort of already, really just depends on location and quality I feel.

unironically this
i hate video games

I'd get a $200 thinkpad and invest the rest in ethereum

your sense of honor, humility and social participation has been utterly overwhelmed by your lust for money. stop ignoring the spirit of the game.

i'd build fiber internet connection infrastructure for some rural town that doesn't yet have it, then take their money and use it to build more infrastructure for other loser towns until i reached the 1%

Stop making a shitty game where I have loads of money I can't use how I want.

An intel 10 core processor and nvidia graphics card and spend the leftover on a Burger King meal

Yet they fail.
I think the problem is with the marketing.
You have to find a good market.
Make it a cool place to hang out. Regular events. "Esports".
Computer people want to stay home, they already have a PC.
We offer people to play with on a stable, local connection. Online gaming with good speed. Games you might not have and would like to play with friends.
Did I mention the $nacks?
Oh and vr rooms.
And a big screen and couches for showing off.
Sponsor a LoL team or whatever's trendy.
They practice there.

I think that by doing this with vms you have all the power you need for peak demand and the ability to scale as your business grows, reducing the cost of buying individual machines that sit idle.

Virtual reality-powered super-realistic loli fuckdoll.

Ryzen ThreadRipper and RX Vega with 500TB of RAID 1 storage for my linux distros

>RAID 1

An online casino, mostly marketed as a casino for the phone.

Or maybe some marketplace for cs go skins (except maybe a newer meme if it's already a bit late for it).
I'd never have a big market share but it would be relatively cheap to start it and I could steal a small part of the profits from the big early ones.

2x gtx 550 ti (sli thos bbys)
Intel core i5 3 quad core (overclock that shit)
1tb hdd (gotta stay humble
10" asus screen (connect via vga)

Invest rest in ddr3 ram sticks

So, to answer OP's question.
I would use the $50,000 to build a gaming server, and develop a solution that makes it work at scale.
I would then use my working concept to attract investment or a business partner who would focus on the physical aspects of the business, leaving my team to continue to develop the product for expansion into new markets.
And if the business fails, hey, I got a badass video game system and all my friends can come play!

macbook pro with a bag of dongles
feelsgudman

If I had $50k I wouldn't be spending it (all) on a computer, but if I absolutely had to then I'd take 20k and use that to build myself a 60 drive storage server.
I'd then take 3k and use that to colo it someplace nice while I move somewhere with gigabit fibre.
Then I'd start offering access to my new library of chinese cartoons, tv shows, movies, warez, etc for a donation to offset hosting/power costs

I'd also upgrade from my current kimsufi 500gb dedi to a larger one with a faster connection, maybe a soyoustart 6TB, and also consolidate my many vps onto one single rented dedi.

as for the rest of the money, fuck if I know.

>512GB of RAM
>not 4T-
oh wait, forgot that 128GB dimms are extremely expensive, go on

a mint-condition librebooted T420 with 4c cpu, 16G ram and a decent SSD.
a docking station for it
expresscard egpu setup on that passively cooled amd r something with a nice enclosure
a decent display
reproduction model m because the original doesn't have super key
and that nip trackball i forgot what the brandname was.

In France we call this a "Cybercafé". It exists since 1990-1995...

Used to be common where I am - Miami- but both places that were gayming dedicated closed like 5-6 years ago.

>4K
>not 8K
fucking pleb

i would build an half house and then the rest pay it with my 1000$ job over 20 years