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Posted by SuperCobra on Tue Feb 15th at 9:01pm 2005

This is the ulitmate but I may be wrong:

AMD FX-55 @ 2.6ghz
4 gigs of ram
X850 XT 256mb
Neo K8n mobo
Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Platnuim
7.1 Audio speaker System

Any more things u would like to add?
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Posted by fishy on Tue Feb 15th at 9:09pm 2005

a big sticker for the side of it, that says in all the major languages, "i've got more money than sense" [addsig]



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Posted by SuperCobra on Tue Feb 15th at 9:10pm 2005

I am not saying I have it jesus I was just saying and where is glasgow in RUSSIA?
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Posted by fishy on Tue Feb 15th at 9:23pm 2005

whether you have it or not (though it does look a lot like specs you posted before), it would still merit the big sticker.

jesus had nothing to do with it (afaik)

glasgow is in scotland. (over the hill where the sun comes from, and far far away)

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Posted by $loth on Tue Feb 15th at 9:32pm 2005

4 gig of ram? LOL. The ultimate PC would have more than one CPU.

Although I usually favour ATI the 6*** series seems to be kicking the x800 series arses, I think a 6800GT would be about the same as the x850xt
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Posted by Joe-Bob on Tue Feb 15th at 9:47pm 2005

You'd probably need a 42" plasma display.
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?DEPA=0&description=24-002-256&CMP=OTC-pr1c3watch&ATT=Monitors
And for the motherboard/processor, I don't think you could get by with anything less than dual Xeons.
http://www.neqx.com/product.asp?pf_id=MO1203-7200




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Posted by SuperCobra on Tue Feb 15th at 9:52pm 2005

Yeah forget intel I will just wait for AMD to finish on their dual CPU stuff.
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Posted by Pegs on Tue Feb 15th at 10:11pm 2005

2.6 ghz isnt much for a dream PC (i basicaly have that) a terrahertz maybe

You have no space - 400 or 800GB Hardrive
And the uberest case you have ever seen with inbuilt cooling system of extreem coldness!!!
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Posted by Joe-Bob on Tue Feb 15th at 10:13pm 2005

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Yeah forget intel I will just wait for AMD to finish on their dual CPU stuff.


Lets not get caught up in the trap of brand loyalty, now. Since cost is no object, why not get the superior hardware?




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Posted by Oski on Tue Feb 15th at 10:29pm 2005

Soundblaster? pff. my dreamcomputer would have an Audiotrak or ESI. But I already have an audiotrak. too bad the other parts in the my computer dont match with the ones in my dream computer. [addsig]



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Posted by Nickelplate on Tue Feb 15th at 10:38pm 2005

I have an "uberest case" that has a bunch of cooling components. I cannot even leave it on at night because it makes so much noise. I covered the buggered thing with chair cussions and it STILL didn't help the noise at all. go for the QUIETEST case you can find, and get that one. seriously, I cannot even leave KaZaA on at night because the comp is so damn noisy!

/me likes intel best cause of HT.

I have 200GB of storage and i went to do a DEFRAG and i had 3 GB of free space, There is such a thing as too little hard drive space. lol

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Posted by omegaslayer on Tue Feb 15th at 11:15pm 2005

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2.6 ghz isnt much for a dream PC (i basicaly have that) a terrahertz maybe

2.6 Ghz in AMD terms is very different in Intel terms. I have a 2.6 AMD 64 bit processor, and it is fatser than my older PC (P4 2.8 Ghz processor). AMD is the way to go, its large L2 cache is meant for the gaming. But its really useless unless you have fast RAM (not a lot of it), and a good mother board.
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Posted by Bewbies on Wed Feb 16th at 12:28am 2005

dream cpu? how about an industrial server case/mobo with 2 or 4 of the beefy xeons.. (or maybe those new dual-core CPUs intel is developing). sorry, but i cant figure AMD into any dream PC.. their only advantages are price in comparison to speed.. and at this point, price isnt much of a problem.

as for harddrives, get one of those drive columns.. you know.. the 1.5tb+ ones used for security camera footage. dunno if they have pci-e boards with good raid controllers, but have 2(10k-rpm SCSIs) for your virtual operating system drive.

..oye, i could go on forever

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Posted by $loth on Wed Feb 16th at 8:32am 2005

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2.6 ghz isnt much for a dream PC (i basicaly have that) a terrahertz maybe

You have no space - 400 or 800GB Hardrive
And the uberest case you have ever seen with inbuilt cooling system of extreem coldness!!!


Thase change would be sweet, but that would require sealing of the case from anything else I've heard as it causes condensation around the plates.
Cases? A CM stacker and some dangerden or other quality watercooling
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Posted by Pegs on Wed Feb 16th at 9:27am 2005

personaly if a was that mad i would leave all the pieces scatterd about (not in the hallway so people step on it) but that way they wont oberheat
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Posted by RaPtoR on Wed Feb 16th at 10:16am 2005

No "dreamcomputer" beats mine!
http://www.cray.com/products/xd1/index.html
  • 130 GhZ total of AMD cpus,
  • 96 GB of ram
  • 1.5 TB (1500GB) hd
I don't think HL2 will lag on this one.....
Probably cost 1000000 $ to, better start saving....
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Posted by Myrk- on Wed Feb 16th at 8:11pm 2005

Pffft, you and your crappy CPU's... Assuming Windows XP supports it, get the IBM business CPU's... They made terhertz ones, though there were rather huge I believe. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Wed Feb 16th at 8:15pm 2005

You'd be a god damned moron if you think you'd use a cray for personal computing. You wouldn't need that much power to run everything that's out now ... or in the next few years. Not to mention, that computer is made for cooperations to house their databases and such. In which case, they get screwed anyway, because about 20 years down the line they still have the same (now slow) machine which is difficult to use and a pain in the ass, but they can't upgrade because it would cost WAY too much money. I believe when you buy these types of computers you have to sign agreements as well. Contracts that cost about $1mil to break (*cough*IBM*cough*).

Not to mention, most "super computers" don't exactly have accelerated video cards. (some don't have video cards at all, since they're made to all work together and automatically. They have to be "connected to" and such. Not sure about that specific one of course.)

Something a little more "reachable" in the next few years are some of the new Vector chips. Especially the cell. That one's really nice because it can interact on a hardware level. That means it's compatible with pretty much any hardware that's out or ever will be out (at least that's the idea). It eliminates the CPU cache. Since the ram it uses is faster (and somehow has a fast bus). I'm not sure on the specifics, mainly because the thing is in development. But, it seems they took out a big chunk of the bottleneck in a systems: the bus.
It seems the cell will be powerful because it isn't really it's own class or anything like that. It's made to use existing architecture and software and adapt that to a faster processing system (as in the whole computer, not just the CPU).

And in my dream computer, there'd be no BUS and a flash drive would replace the HDD. Other then that everything else is negotiable. I'd imagine it'd have some quantum computing going on too... not sure I'd need it though. [addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Wed Feb 16th at 8:19pm 2005

Aren't the cell and other cpu's used in other consoles like the GC made by IBM?
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Posted by Bewbies on Wed Feb 16th at 9:02pm 2005

http://www.sun.com/servers/highend/sunfire_e25k/specs.xml

::drool::

few years ago, i used a compaq proliant ml370 for my home computer.. 2x(1.3ghz) processors with 512k cache.. 1024ddr propriatary memory.. the raid5 SCSI controller... god i miss that beauty. didnt leave room for upgrading, though. no agp slot, couldnt go passed intel celerons, and was HUGE.

my baby..

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