Dream system

[Howard]

(4) Intel Coppermine 1GHz Slot-1
Supermicro SUPER S2QR6
Tennmax Detonator (chipset)
Memory Expansion Card
(16) Corsair 1GB PC133 ECC

Onboard Ultra160 SCSI
Quantum Rushmore Ultra RU5320 3.2GB SSD

Adaptec SCSI RAID 3400S
(4) Quantum Atlas 10K II 73.4GB striped in RAID 0+1
(4) GlobalWin King Kong HD cooler

D-Link DGE-500SX 1Gb Ethernet NIC
D-Link 10/100Mb Ethernet NIC

D-Link DFW-500 Firewire

Sigma Designs REALMagic DVR MPEG1/2 Encoder/Decoder
Sigma Designs REALMagic Hollywood Plus DVD Playback

Plextor UltraPlex 40max
Plextor 12x10x32x EIDE CD-RW
Pioneer 16X DVD-ROM
Panasonic LF-D103U DVD-RAM
Live! Drive II
Iomega Jaz 2GB SCSI External
Imation SuperDisk 120

SoundBlaster Live! Platinum
Satellites: Klipsch Quintets
Sub: Klipsch KPT-MWM 800W

Supermicro SC-830W
(2) PC P&C Turbo-Cool 600 Sun Ultra Axmp 600W PSU
(2) 120mm and (4) 92mm fans

Elsa Gloria III Quadro2 Pro 64MB
(See below)
(4) Wingfin RAM heatsinks
Card Cooler
Sony GDM-FW900

Hewlett-Packard 8550MFP

Razer Boomslang 2000
RatPad

Logitech Cordless iTouch

Logitech Wingman Formula Force GP Wheel
Logitech Wingman Force Joystick
Logitech Wingman RumblePad
Gravis Gamepad Pro USB (bleem!)

Logitech 7-Port USB Hub

Windows 98SE
Windows ME
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows 2000 Server
Linux
BeOS

Cooling the four Coppermines and Quadro2 Pro GPU:

(1) PC P&C Turbo-Cool 600 Sun Ultra Axmp 600W PSU outside case
5 78W TECs
5 custom waterblocks
5 radiators (25' of coiled copper tubing each) stuck in separate buckets of solid ice

Anything to add?

 

[Howard]

^

 

[RSI]

I don't think anybody has anything to add to that...

I would get the tbird higher than 1.1...

I don't know about the motherboard, but it's probably good. RAM is decent.. but is 3 slots all that mobo has? fill 'er up..

What's with the Quantum Rushmore? What IS it?

 

[snow patrol]

I'm salivating again. somebody stop me!

 

[Howard]

The K7T Master does have 4 slots, but it only supports 1.5GB. Don't ask me

The Quantum Rushmore is an ultra-fast hard drive, 100-200 times faster than today's. It's a SSD (solid-state device). Basically, this drive is an array of DIMMs powered by a battery which functions as a hard drive. Speeds of SDRAM, longetivity of a hard drive.

 

[Howard]

Yes, it's 1.5GB.

 

[NakaNaka]

If anyone could get a total price on that I would be really impressed.

And think that Bill Gates could buy about 20 of those with what he makes in a less than an hour.

 

[AMB]

I cannot think of anything to add, except maybe the SbLive! Platinum instead of that sonic fury, atlhough it is meant to be good, the Platinum would bump the price up just a tads

 

[jmcoreymv]

Why limit yourself to a single cpu and not like 8 way P3s? And how bout an Intel or 3com nic instead.

 

[RSI]

Or how about 64 Alpha CPUs?

 

[Howard]

For home users.

 

[jmcoreymv]

I could see using 8 way smp on win2k adv server for home, why not? Im sure it would help with those damn 3d max renderings.

 

[Marine06]

Get rid of that kenwood. It's the root of all problems. :|

 

[Howard]

The thing is, I don't know if the Platinum does 6 speakers...

 

[GroundOO]

2 more hard drives for RAID 0+1. Do those sound cards support Linux? Also you should add BeOS. What kind of A/V functions do Quadros have? Maybe a Hollywood, or something better. (The Radeon AiW looks sweet) And what're ya thinkin' on the speakers? Promedia's all the way! Oh yeah, this is a dream system, go with big home entertainment system speakers and a dual 12-14" sub. Does SuperDisk take 1.44MBs too? Gotta have 'em
Last of all, where's your 'dream cooling' for this dream system? Try 4 78Watt Peltiers topped with 2 and 2 daisy chained water blocks? Hell why not 4 independant ones.

Dream on,
Chris

 

[Xmech]

You've got enough power there to run a small town...unless money grows on trees

 

[Howard]

Umm...

The ProMedias take a backseat to the DigiTheatre DTS', IMO. A Quadro is a GeForce (video card) designed to enhance graphics and CAD work. Video cards don't do audio. The SuperDisk is backwards-compatible with 1.44MB floppies.

 

[AMB]

Yucky, the Sb Live supports DD 5.1 pass-thru from most applications, and that is the only use of all six speakers at the moment

 

[tcrosson]

I agree with Ground00 - we need at least double the drives in that RAID 0+1 array.

 

[downhiller80]

how much is that 3.2Gb solid state drive?

I want one . . .

Seb

 

[Howard]

EDITED

seb, I really don't know...