What's your dream system

[Mtnmike]

If you were going to put together the dream system from scratch what would that be? Just looking for ideas from those who know in case I may come into money some day. I am talking the MAX here mother board, CPU, RAM, Drives, Video, Sound, Speakers, ETC In other words the works. The best of the Best!!!!!

 

[bozo1]

It's on my rigs page.

 

[boyRacer]

Dual... Tyan Thunder K7...or Thunder i840!
...then a couple of 15k rpm Segates... i'm happy with that.

 

[SpecialEd]

Why get a P4 1.8 when you can go for a 2.0?

If money was absolutely no object at all... why not go for a server system the has like 6 pentium processors and more memory that you can chew... not sure what the specs would be... but you can break the 10,000 dollar mark easily on an extremely high end server system.

 

[Viper GTS]

Motherboard: Tiger MP
CPUs: 2 x Athlon MP 2000+ (soon to be available)
RAM: 3 x 1 GB Corsair Registered DDR DIMM
Video: GeForce3 Ti500

Toss in a 64-bit PCI SCSI RAID card + four X15's in a RAID5 array, an Intel NIC, Audigy sound card, & the usual assortment of CDRW/DVD/etc.

Viper GTS

 

[Beau]

Pricing it now actually:

Cooler Master ATC-210 with blue face
<a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.corsairmicro.com" target=blank>Tyan Tiger MP
Dual Athlon XP 1900+'s
2 gb Corsair PC-2100</A>
4x Cheetah 15k 36.7 GB hdd
Adaptec 3410S Ultra160 SCS RAID controller
<a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.visiontek.com/6964.shtml" target=blank>SB Audigy Platinum
VisionTek Geforce 3 Ti 500</A>
Pioneer DVD-305 Slot load DVD rom drive
<a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.tdk.com/velocd-new/24index.html" target=blank>TDK veloCD 24x10x40 CD-RW
LinkSys NIC
Klipsch Promedia 5.1 speakers
ViewSonic VP230MB</A>

 

[SpecialEd]

<< not an empty illusion of 'six pentiums' and all the stuff >>



that's why they're dreams...



i'd probably go dual AMD anyway....

 

[t4t3r]

vipergts: you stole my reply. that is almost identical to what i would say. dual 2000+'s would be sweet. probably add a server case along with water cooling. dont know which monitor i would choose. probably a 21 or 23 inch lcd.


t4t3r

 

[Budman]

My Dream Computer would be a Star Trek Hollowdeck.

 

[Yoshi64]

Quantum computer all the way !!!

But I guess that will remain a dream for a very long time ...

 

[dullard]

I'll be getting this next fall and will need lots of your help setting it up:

8 dual 2.5 GHz Xeons
768 MB RDRAM on seven, 2 GB RDRAM on the last
40 GB IDE on seven, quad 73 GB SCSI on the last
cheapest video card on seven, Wildcat II 5110 on the last
fastest ethernet hookup between them
8 computer (2 user) KVM
22" Cornerstone P1750 (for dual monitor use with my P1600)
integrated sound on all (no speakers)

Basically I'm looking at 7x$3000 (1st seven computers) + $7500 (last computer)+ $700 (monitor) + $800 (KVM) = $30,000 total.

Nothing is set in stone yet. Of course I could save a little bit by converting my current dual 1.7 GHz into one of those computers.

Edit: If Intel releases their quad Xeon server before then, that would simplify my purchase a lot.

 

[apoppin]

My "dream" system is the ship's computer from Star Trek's Voyager.

EDIT: My more realistic dream system I will build next year . . . either a Northwood 533FSB system or a Thoroughbred system.

 

[rip22]

<< My "dream" system is the ship's computer from Star Trek's Voyager. >>

LOL

 

[Daovonnaex]

<< If you were going to put together the dream system from scratch what would that be? Just looking for ideas from those who know in case I may come into money some day. I am talking the MAX here mother board, CPU, RAM, Drives, Video, Sound, Speakers, ETC In other words the works. The best of the Best!!!!! >>


CASE: Coldforge AA-15
PSU: Dual 430w Top Powers functioning as one
Mainboard: Asus A7N266-E
CPU: Unlocked 1.6GHz Athlon Palomino
Graphics: Gainward 128mb GF3 Ti200 (far overclocked, of course)
RAID: Adaptec U320 (can't remember card name) w/ 128mb RAM
Firewire: Lucent 1394 Firewire
Modem: USRobotics v.90 PCI
MPEG Decoder: Sigma Designs Hollywood plus
Memory: 2x Corsair DDR 300MHz XMS2400 512mb DIMMs
Hard Disks: 6x 18.6GB Seagate X15 drives in RAID 0
DVD: Pioneer DVD-RW/CD-RW x3
Removable storage: Orb 2.2 gb internal
--80gb Tape Drive internal
--Zip 250 internal
--Imation SuperDisk internal
Other:
--2x Digital Doc5 fan bays
--5.25" hard drive cooling fan
Speakers: Klipsch ProMedia 5.1 system
Cooling:
--CPU: Unit taken from VapoChill case
--Northbridge: Peltier with watercooling
--Southbridge: Passive heatsink
--RAM: RAM sinks with watercooling if possible, if not, then fans
--GPU: Same as northbridge
--Hard disks: hard drive water coolers taken from Koolance case
--Graphics RAM: water-cooling
--PCI cards: PCI fan
--Case: 4 120mm intake fans, 4 120mm exhaust fans, 3 120mm side fans, 4 120mm blowhole fans for radiator with 4 more under radiator, and peltiers for water chillers
Monitor: LaCie Electron22 Blue iii

I'm sure I left something out, but that seems it would be an outstanding system for all purposes and could be insanely overclocked.

 

[DieHardware]

Well 2001 is almost over and still no HAL.

 

[bozo1]

<< Well 2001 is almost over and still no HAL >>


That they're telling us about.

 

[gritnugget]

I hear Deep Blues up for sale

 

[CraigRT]

Pretty much just top of the line desktop PC... nothing SGI or any crazy stuff...

Dual Athlons - the highest speed that works in SMP
1 gig or 2 of PC2400 DDR
GeForce3 Ti500
a couple 15K RPM U160 drives, 36 GB Seagates
nice soundcard... nothing like SUPER MAJOR high end worth millions... what would this thing not do anyways? it would rule most of south-western Ontario PC's anyways... ahh how sweet it would be...

 

[pallander]

well,,,

Athlon xp 1800+
Soyo Dragon
512 ram
80x2 Gigabyte Maxtor ata 133
Soundblaster Platinum
Geforce 3 Ti500.Cretive labs
24X writer
dvd of course..
best screen ,,some Nokia 19"
they it willdo

 

[Priit]

Dream system? Silicon Graphics Octane2 with maxed hardware maybe. Some SUN's and Alphas are nice, also. Screw da x86

 

[Hulk]

Well, I want the power to edit video and play games, as well as watch TV.

Motherboard - ASUS P4S333

CPU - Pentium 4 2.2 GHz (or fastest available)

RAM - 1GB PC2100 DDR

Video Card - ATI 8500DV

Soundcard - M-Audio, Audiophile 2496 - I don't care about multichannel and 3D I want QUALITY 2 channel

Hard drives - Primary WDC 40 GIG Secondary the new 80Gig SE version.

Monitor - I don't know, the best 18" lcd out there.

 

[EyeOfThe]

<< My "dream" system is the ship's computer from Star Trek's Voyager. >>

Let me borrow the 7of9 holo-program ay?

 

[arcenite]

definately a Sun Microsystems Rig

edit: with liquid nitrogen cooling

 

[jteef]

If I had billions of dollars I would probably buy something similar to the following for my desktop. It is really easy to spend millions of dollars on a computer with solid state drives, multi million dollar A/V setups, SGI's, Suns, etc...

2x 2.0Ghz P4 Xeon processors $1500
1x Supermicro P4DC6+ $625
1x Some type of big cube like case with plenty of power supply. Painted Dakar Yellow. $1200
1x Viewsonic p225f 22" monitor $800
4x mushkin 256MB 800Mhz ECC RDRAM $ 636 (4x512mb would cost nearly 2k dollars)
2x Seagate Cheetah X15-36LP 36GB drives $1070
2x WD 100GB SE drives $540
1x Digital Audio Labs CardDeluxe Sound Card $400
1x Hercules 3d Prophet III GeForce 3 Ti 500 $340
1x Pioneer 305S SCSI Slot feed DVD Drive $100
1x Sanyo BP5 24x SCSI burner $189
1x Netgear GA622T Gigabit ethernet NIC $120
1x Netgear GS516T 10/100/1000 copper Gigabit switch. $1300
1x Krell KAV-300i Integrated Amplifier $1500
1Pair Martin Logan Aeon ESL's. $2000
1x Sennheiser hd600 headphones $350
1x IBM keyboard w/ big backspace key and "\" key located above the "enter" key. $30
1x MS intellimouse Explorer 3.0 $40
1x Herman Miller Aeron Chair $700

Total: $13,441.00 + Tax/Shipping. Knock off about 1500 if AMD processors/mobos are desired.
Add about $1000 for a scsi raid controller. The Krell integrated amp and the ESL's are a little much, but they are entry level HiFi.
I dont think the big Suns, Silicon Graphics etc type computers would have much entertainment value.

jt

 

[steelthorn]

ASUS MB
INTEL P4 478 2 gig
512 meg rdram
100 gig special edition WD hard drive with 8 meg cache
ASUS GEFORCE 3 TI 500
SB AUDIGY
Pioneer DVD
Plextor CDRW 32X10X40
Sony GDMF520 21 inch monitor