Mine:

-AMD K62-450
-PCChips Mobo

oops this is supposed to be what I want, and not what I have, right?


-T-Bird 1.2 (C)
-Iwill KK266
-512 MB PC133
-45 GB 75GXP
-Pioneer 16x slot DVD
-SB Live Pt. rev.2
-Klipsch Promedia 400w
-GF2 Ultra 64MB
-21" Sony Trinitron
-32 track digital MIDI sequencer/recorder
-How about a Leer jet and billion bucks, too?

Please come soon, Santa

Dream system huh...will i'd go exotic i think

Let's start with the visual side...
I think a Geforce3 128meg DDR with digital out(Standards are a lil undecided at the moment)
Piping the Eye candy out to a Runco Projector (i had the 996 8 inch lense version in mind since it copes with 2000 x 2500 x 32 bit @ 100hz) also includes inbuilt line doubling (with provision for inbuilt line quadroupler I think)


CPU...The upcoming Foster chip is soon to be realeased with core speeds up to 2gighz(prolly above)
and Just yesterday i saw a sweet board with 4 of the puppies on it (in a server case)
I'd look at AMD but they haven't given us as much as a peep at their SMP chips..
Since were Quad Processing, It's going to have to run with Win2k or XP(which i'm not sure has SMP support, but if it does i'll take it thanks)
As for HD's, I think That a Nice big case would hold 21 HDs without any trouble...They'd prolly be best off with 16 of them in a Raid 5 setup(with 1 as a online spare)
2 with the OS core and the remaining 2 as Swapfile ETC space

the first 16 would be the small 80 gig SCSI HD's (7400rpm) deliberatly not over the top as to bring down the noise and heat levels
(deliberatly
But the remaining 4 drives need to be as quick as possible for normal system operations so Some of the extremly expensive 22krpm fibre drives(hehe never heard of em huh?? they are in big ...BIG mainframes)

okay internal done..
For CD-ROM i think that a few nice 72x Kenwood drives (multihead) will do fine
Burner..Just whatever is around..16x12x10x is ok with me

RAM...160MHZ DDR(OC'd of course)...an how much....whatever I can damn FIT!!(6 gig would probably fit)

sound..the hercules XP soundcard got a excellent review so i'd go for that

External speakers..Well i usually use headphones..(electrostatics) but if they were externals i'd make my own(I've already made 8 x 500w amps so it's a matter of time)

Case..okay this is the fun 1...only reciently i learned about immersion cooling, So i think this is definatly the way, so the basic idea is cover most of the non moving parts (CPU, HDs, RAM, MB etc) with a liquid , then run the liquid through a radiator and wallah, very quiet cooling with previously unseen overclocking results.
again, this isn't widely available so i'm up to making my own here, Using a car radiator with a 30" cooling fan is probably the most efficient idea(and quietest)
this case will be heavy, so some wheels to roll allong as i pull it round would be ideal(preferably as shock absorbing as possible)

NIC..definatly Multiple ported gigabit fibre NICS..(maybe a 10/100 compatible one as well for old networks)

PSU..Server boxes regularly come with multiple power supplies...how the hell else do u power an insane number of drives..!!
It would probably be worth getting 4 PSU's built into the case..

hmm, don't think i missed anything...

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Dream system huh...??


Dual Palminos @ 2.1Ghz (175 FSB!)
4 Gb DDR cas2 @ 175 FSB (PC2800)
ATI Radeon II 128MB DDR MAXX (hey I am dreaming !!)
MoBo (Tyan or MSI) Dual Proc with on board Ultra 160 SCSI, Firewire, USB 2.0, PCI-X

i'm pretty close to affording my dream machine.

athlon 1.2ghz
512meg ram
gonna use my geforce ddr dvi
you know my dream machine sucks compaired to all of yours

i'm sad now i have to think up a new one.

well i'd have to say that my dream machine was a

1.2 amd t-bird
with 512meg ram and dual 40gig hard drives with a gefore 2 for video...

so i built a
1.2(over clocked to 1.4) amd on a msi turbo board with 768meg of pc133 dual 40gig wd drives a MSI geforce 2 card and a SB x-gamer card all in a s-500 case, dang sweet system


well off to dream about what my wife will kill me for next(this is a joke all)
she got a 900 amd on a turbo board with 512meg of pc133 and a 40 gig hard drive, with all of my old parts from my last system, she loves and thats all that matters,

if mamma ain't happy, ain't no one happy

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if you have to stop and wonder then you have already lost

this is what i have built so far




Amd 1.4@1.5 mhz with Swiftech MFC462 REV1
Enermax 431 WATT
Lian-Li L68 case
Shuttle Ak 31 Rev. 2
Windows Me,Windows 2000
Crucial PC2100 DDR 1024 MB
2(150GB) Ibm deskstar 75GXP 75 gig (7200rpm)
Radeon 64MB vivo retail
Matrox2500 DV editing card
Hercules Xp Game Theater
Klipsch Promedia 400 watts
Kenwood 52x cd room
pioneer 16x10 Dvd
Plextor 16x10x40A
NewQ Platinum Equalizer
4 Sanyo High Speed 80mm fans (the one it came with SwiftechMFC 462)
Earthlink 1.5Mb Dsl
Netgear Nic
Sony 21" G500PS
Lian Li 68 Aluminum (www.colorcase.com)
Wingman Geforce Wheel
Microsoft gamepad pro
Microsoft Intelli mouse
Microsoft Natural Keyboard
Hp 1100se printer
HP 5200 scanner
WITH ROUND CABLES

i owed credit card about $4800.00


the only thing i need to change is R200 ati. Right now I dont think i can.

Wow....how do you tolerate the noise of the swiftech? Are you consoled by the fact that you basically have a bitchin' fast machine?

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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems -- P. Erdos

its not loud...see those fans are not delta. its from sanyo, and i love those fans. think about it, 2 montster fan intaking air from front, and one on the cpu and one is taking air out at the back.


delta fans make noise because its 68 cfm. sanyo ones are only 53 cfm.


I am having problems cause Klipsch just release 5.1 and if i buy it my stinkin NEWQ PLATINUM is gonna be waste. Its only support for 4.1.


YOU JUST CAN'T KEEP UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess all I can say is...."wow". That rig puts to shame anything I could ever dream of affording!

I think my "dream rig," if I am limited to that which can actually be purchased, might be quite similar to the setup you have right now, minus some of the expensive peripherals....

Oh yeah, I personally would stay away from those IBM drives, as they've been notorious for failuer

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paul@pleaseohpleasedontspamme.slcentral.com
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems -- P. Erdos

freaking ametures. You guys need to learn how to do dream! jeez!

Mind you, I'm keeping this realistic here (could actually be done for under 5,000,000$)

Case:
ColdForge AA-15 not *quite* out yet, but If I really begged, I could probably get one sometime. www.faraday-cases.com

Dualie AMD board with Athlon 1.4MP

2GB DDR PC 2400 cas2

GeForce 3 ==> Sony Trinitron 24" beast

PCI ATI Radeon Dual Monitor ==> Dualie 19" LCD Displays plus 42" Phillips Plasma flat panel TV

Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1 ==> beastly Onkyo reciever, surround sounded with kick ass Polk Speakers, hooked to a full home theater setup (all optical of course)
(note: LiveDrive will be refitted with an anodized aluminium faceplate)

Dualie Gigabit autoswitching Ethernet card (thats 2 gigabit cards in one, not 2 cards)

Firewire & USB 2 card in one

Phillips Slot Loading DVD Drive Retrofitted with an aluminium faceplate

TDK 24x12x60 CD-RW Alu faceplate

Kenwood 72x TrueX CD-ROM

Quad IBM 60GB Deskstars RAID 0+1 setup

Microsoft Natural Elite Pro + Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Trackball

All devices watercooled, video card & CPU's peltiered, and everything inside the beautiful coldForge.

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HAHAHA, Work's fun.
Then you put in 65 hours in 5 days. What the hell was I thinking?

well I know a guy at work that bought a sun server just for kicks... I'm not sure what model but he paid 8k for it I think...

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2 Pentium III 1 Ghz 2 Alpha HeatSinks with 38 CFM Delta Fan | Abit VP6 | 512 MB PC-166 | Antec SX1030B with 4 High Output 80mm Sunon Fans | 2 30 GB IBm 75 Drives in RAID 0 | Plextor PlexWriter 16/10/40A | Mitsumi 40x CD-ROM | Generic 3.5" Floppy Drive | VisionTek Geforce 2 GTS 32 MB | Sound Blaster Live! Value | 3com NIC | Diamond Supra Modem | 19" Sony Monitor | Klipsch Promedia V.2-400 Speakers | PcMods.com Sound Sensitive Blue

"No more yankie my wankie. The Donger need food!"

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

Heh, the reason why my "dream box" would stay as an x86 box is because of the software base. Sun machines are nice and all (wll, actually they're not that fast per processor, just that they have incredible scalability), but Sun machines don't have the kinda software I'd run....at least, not yet.

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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems -- P. Erdos

Dream Machine:

1.4GHz Athlon 266 FSB (switching over from Craptel) $144
KA266-R IWILL motherboard w/raid and DDR support (easy to
read user manual on installation) $127
A1 Electronics brand 400Watt ATX Leadman: LP6100D power
supply case $76
Antec Jet Cool Premium $29
Nanya 512MB DDR ECC PC2100 266FSB 64X64 184PIN [3]$174
Western Digital WD800AB 80.0GB EIDE [2]$172
Pioneer DVD116 16X Internal EIDE/ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM Drive $48
Plextor 24x10x40 CD-RW (everyone needs one of these!) $229
Nec LS-120 Superdisk 120MB (bigger and faster than floppy) $65
Lynx Network card (for DSL internet) $20
Visiontek GEFORCE3 AGP 4X/2X 64MB DDR $299
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1 $87
Elite natural PRO $34
Intellimouse Explorer Mouse $35
Panasonic PT-37P1 PLASMA DISPLAY (this is a killer) $6895
Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 2000Cxi Printer $437

Total price comes to: $8871!!!! Sheesh, I can get a car for that price! Guess this will just stay as my Dream Machine!

Hmmm...

New Tyan Dual Athlon board with 1.2 clocked to 1.5
1 Gig PC2100 DDR
GEFORCE 3
Dual Netgear gigabit copper cards
Creative X-Gamer 5.1 sound
Dual Toshiba DVD-RAM
52" Pioneer PLasma display
21" NEC FE2150
Altec Lansing 5.1
Vapochill cryogen case (-18 degree cpu )
3d googles
Adaptec 29160
Seagate Cheetah X15 (4*18GB)


...and a mortgage to pay for it.

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Does that tyan board come with dual ethernet?