i was laughing the other day when my wife said your going to have to take a mortgage out for this new computer and it got me to thinking , lets say you didnt have to worry about that up and coming mortgage payment and you could buy your dream pc what would you buy what would the system you always dreamed of consist of
Not much to be honest. I'd be happy with a reasonable gaming system with a seperate fileserver with loads of RAID goodness. Nice big screen and decent audio.
A HD projector is top of my list. Then the most up-to-date parts based on the current hot streaks. Can't really say more than that.
Dual Everything, Nice Big 30" Widescreen LCD, All The Trimmings hardware wise, best peripherals and a 'proper' 7.1 Theater setup (AV reciever, big floorstanders, quality sub) Apart from that i'd probably buy a nice glass desk for it
a MAH-OOOOOOOO-sive storage PC, a system for gaming (read 'top o-line') and a nice and quiet HTPC. Of course all with silly large HD screens and audio. That 3 monitor desktop idea appeals to me
A holiday around the world and a £500 machine. Then I'd clock the crap out of it. Part of the whole experience is buying cheaper bits that are gonna clock like crazy.
3 monitors are ok but mine will look even better if i can get this lift sytem working cos 3 screens rising out of the desk will look even cooler
well you could spend upwards of £50k on just a decent projector, then £400-500k on a decent surround system to go with. Then start on the pc
Runco and Faroujda (sp?) make some top spec projectors that run in to 6 figures, though I'd probably still pick the Sony Qualia Projector, as its phenomenal for the price (~$25k) Wouldn't change much on my system given a limitless budget, probably just replace the drives in my array with 8x 150GB raptors for a giggle. Would really splash out on a gen3 LTO drive and a few carts though (~3k or around there) Would be tempted to replace my main screen with a 24" and throw in SLI 7900s to actually play games in its native res, but I hardly play games anyway. Wouldnt change much on the hi-fi either tbh, probably just pick up a consonance droplet CD player. Would go a little bit silly on a home cinema setup though, probably ~£70k /drool
I would go for that new intel motherboard. Looks good. Smack it full off the nicest RAM out there. Load it up with a RAID 5 15,000 rpm hard drive array. x1900xt Crossfire. Nicest conroe when it comes out. Plenty of heat pipes, just, everywhere. Then you just grab the nicest monitor you can find.
Im building my dream pc. Well its not exactly the "best" but it will be top of the line in most parts, definately enough to play all the games.
well my dream pc would be as follows, but id get an experianced person to put it all together for me because i am no good at that lol Case Silverstone "TEMJIN" TJ07S (Silver) Motherboard DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-DR Expert nForce4 SLI PCIe Skt939 CPU AMD Athlon FX60 Memory OCZ® Gold Series Gamer Extreme 2GB DDR PC4000 *2 HDD Seagate 750GB 7200RMP SATAII *2 GFX card XFX 7900GTX XXX PCI-E 512MB DDR3 DUAL DVI *2 PSU 580W Tagan 2Force T580-U22 SLi U-Quiet 21db Monitor Samsung 244T Keyboard Saitek Eclipse Keyboard PZ-30AX Mouse Logitech G5 Laser Mouse USB Sound Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum DVD Drive Plextor PX-755SA SATA Black Cooling Danger Den TDX Athlon64 Block 1/2" Danger Den 1/2" Maze4 DFI Expert Danger Den NV - 7800 Sli Water Block Danger Den 1/2" ID ClearFlex Hose 1.59 Alphacool Laing DDC- 1 Plus 12volt Pump Black Ice Extreme III Radiator (1/2" Hi-Flow Fittings) Cape Bullseye Blue Anodised reservoir Bullseye bay mount 120x120x25 Papst Case Fan x7 Extras Alphacool LCD-Display 240x128 Pixel Blue i think thats everything, comes to around 4 grand so i dont think i could afford it anytime soon
Given a limitless budget you'd get a tagan PSU? If you can only make it to 4 grand, you need a bigger imagination Tyan NF-Pro dual 940 board 2x opteron 280 4x 1GB ecc reg'd 2x 7900GTX Areca 1280 12x 150GB raptor hotswap bays for the above couple 24" screens emu 1820 LTO2/3 backup physx 1/2" water on gfx and cpus 10mm water on the NB, physx and areca a case that will fit it all getting into 5 digits there
Only five digits? That doesn't show much imagination. Here's a short list compiled in a short amount of time. Thunder K8QE w/M4881 Processor Expansion board 8x Opteron 885 2x Nvidia 7900GTX 512MB in SLi 128 GB of 4GB ECC Registered PC3200 RAM, CAS2 (it exists, I believe) Areca 1260 16x 150GB raptor Hotswap bays for the above Four 30" LCD's LTO2/3 backup (possibly better) Emu 1820 ASuS physx card (shares PCI with Emu via splitter) Custom phase on all CPUs Chiller-powered water cooled GPUs 10mm water on the NBs, physx, VRMs, and areca A case that will fit it all And that's just the central machine. We aren't talking about the offsite NAS, nor the clone of this computer running the 360degree simulator in your office.
