I know everyone has a dream computer, tell me yours.
Mine is:


1.5 Ghz P4
512 MB Ram
16x/10x12 DVD/CD RW Drive
DVD RAM Drive
64 Mb Nvidea TNT 2 with the cool goggle things
5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound Sound Card
Kick Ass Speakers (I dont know anything about speakers or sound cards)
Choose BBetween Windows Me, 2000, and Red Hat 7.2 at bootup
3 80 GB Hard Drives
40" LCD Plasma TV connected to my computer
Palm 7x connected to my computer
Zip 250 internal
Floppy
56K Modem
10/100 Ethernet

And some more good stuff

BTW all the stuff HAS TO BE AVAILABLE

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I can imagine the P4 if you are really forward looking with your applications......but a TNT2?? Common'!

My dream machine:

3 * 17" LCD screens
PCI Matrox G400MAX w/dualhead to drive 2 LCD screens
Geforce Ultra (who cares what brand) for one LCD screen
ABIT KT7A-RAID
Athlon 1.2ghz (overclock it of course)
768Mb PC 150 2-2-2 DRAM (no, PC 150 isn't an industry standard, but there are DRAMS' tested for that speed).

4 * SEAGATE Barracuda, 181.6 GB, Ultra160 SCSI, 7200 RPM, 7.4 ms in RAID 1+0 (or 0 + 1......depends on my controller I guess) format (speed and data reduncy is good )

Adaptec 3400S, quad channel Ultra160 LVD SCSI-3 RAID card

Sound Blaster Live! Platinum PCI
Klipsch V.2 -400 Promedia Speaker System
Cordless iTouch Keyboard
3com Ethernet card
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer

Maybe some other crap too.

athlon 1.2ghz on abitKT7a-raid (overclocked)

full tower case fully customized with window and multiple fans/blowholes, 400watt power supply, all cables rounded of course

512mb PC-150 SDram

GeForce 2 Ultra 64mb DDR w/tv-out

Soundblaster Live! Platinum

4 x 75GB IBM Desktar75 (ata-100) Hard Drives in
Raid 0+1

21in Sony Triniton Monitor

Klipsch ProMedia Speakers

TDK VeloCD 12x10x32

Sony 16x DVD ROM

Im sure that i could think of some other goodies buts thats all from the top of my head for now.

I'm pretty close to you guys....

The computer sitting next to me has:

19" Viewsonic (using sony trinitron tube) monitor
athlon 1.1
2 ibm 30GB in raid
msi kt7
promise ultra 100 raid
plextor 12/10/32a cd-rw
pioneer dvd-115 16x dvd-rom
iomega zip 250
3dcool turbo 2000 case with 431w PS
hercules game theater xp soundcard
linksys ethernet
midiland 8200 sp speakers
3com 56k modem
elsa 64mb geforce 2 utlra video card

Pretty shweeet stuff

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ActiveTuning - Partner & Director Of Sales & Marketing

Well last month I sold my Dual PIII 700 @ 933 rig. I feel it’s only appropriate that I get something way better as my dream machine.

Dual Athlon 1.2GHz at 133MHz (VIA 266 Pro)
MSI K7T Master-XX Dual Athlon board w/ VIA 266Pro
256MB DDR SDRAM PC2100
IBM GXP 45GB HD 7200rpm
Hercules Geforce3 64MB
TDK CD-R
Pioneer DVD
SBLive Platinum
3Com NIC (for my ADSL)
Klipsch ProMedia
Antec SX1030B (Graphite color, I think this site gave it a 9 out of a possible 10?)

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Heatware

mine is ASCI Red.... either that IBM Deep Blue would do fine... *grin*

I just want to comment on emusictalk's dream comp first

1.5 Ghz P4 : Dunno why you'd want something that cost that much and that isn't all that good.
DVD RAM Drive : Is the standard decided on yet ?
64 Mb Nvidea TNT 2 with the cool goggle things : I'm sure you meant GF2
Choose BBetween Windows Me, 2000, and Red Hat 7.2 at bootup : ack WinME ... personal choice
40" LCD Plasma TV connected to my computer : Lack of high resolution I'd say

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As for me, a dream computer is something that I could actually afford if I really wanted to.

All I want to change/add to my current setup to be happy is :
- 512mb of great RAM
- Lots of HD space
- TBird 1.2gHz
- Mobo for the Tbird ... I'm waiting on that one for now

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Well I did say that I suck at all that shuit about Video + Sound Cards.

How that you mention it, I remember I saw something about a low (800x600) maximum resolution for those 40 inch things, but still, 40 inch flat, damn!

I know that the 1.5 P4 costs mad dough, but who gives, cause its me dream machine.

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--Daniel--
EMusicTalk.com

1.2 Ghz Athlon Overclocked to 1.5
512 MB DDR Ram
16x/10x12 DVD/CD RW Drive
16x DVD Drive
64 Mb Geforce 2 ultra with revelators(goggles)
Acustic Edge Sound Card
Klipsch Promedias
Win ME or 98 SE
3 80 GB Hard Drives
24'' Sony flat screen
Floppy(for boot disk only)
56K Modem (I cant get adsl or cable)
10/100 Ethernet (for Lan partys and to conect to my other computer)
"Alienware" case modded with 11 fans.

P.S. you can get the exact case that Alienware uses at www.directron.com They even have the pre modded kool max one. Black, White (not beige) or silver only.

Mmm, completely obscene amounts of money.

- AMD Athlon T-Bird 1.2 GHz (133 FSB, of course)
- ABIT KT7A-RAID
- 768 MB Crucial PC133 SDRAM
- 2 80GB Hard Drives
- Zip250 Internal Slaved to the HD that doesn't have Linux
- 64MB GeForce2 Ultra
- 3Com Fast Etherlink XL -> Maybe a Gigabit Etherlink XL
- 16x/10x/40x Plextor CD-RW
- Pioneer 16x DVD
- Hollywood Plus Decoder Card
- SoundBlaster Live!Platinum 5.1
- Diamond 56k (external hardware) modem
- a floppy drive
- All in a CDI Alaska (Awesome Color Scheme) with Cooling

- Monitor:
- Let's be honest. The only thing this baby deserves is a home theater

- Speakers:
- Once again, Dolby Surround sound in the home theater.

Oh yeah and its running either Linux (Made from Scratch by Me) by itself, or it will dual boot Win2K and Linux with 2K only getting 40GB on the first drive. (The other part is for MP3s)

Just my two cents.

My sig says it all, almost as good as emusictalk's except its Oc'd:

However it got it for free, so its a true dream system.

CHECK IT OUT:

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Rig:
Pentium 4 @ 1.76Ghz
Gigabyte GA-8TX Mobo
265 MB PC-800 RDRAM
GeForce 2 Ultra 64MB
SB Live!
25GB ATA/100 IBM Drive
***The Most Badass System On The SLBoards!***

You guys are a little behind, use your imagination here . Oh boy, I don't know where to begin hehe. Lets see here...

My dream Machine:

Dual p4 1.5ghz
1 Gig of DDR Ram
Full tower ATX 400 Watt Case
Visiontek Geforce2 Ultra 64 megs
(boot drive)18 GB 5.2 ms seek time 10,000 RPM, Ultra160 SCSI
(storage)80 GB UltraATA 100 7200 RPM RAID
19" sony trinatron monitor
Microsoft Intellimouse explorer
Microsoft Natural Keyboard
3m Precise Mouse pad
Mouse Bunjii
Kenwood 80X cdrom
SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Platinum
Iomega 200MB Zip drive
Kingston 10/100 NIC
PlexWriter 16X/10XWrite 40X Read CDR-W
Klipsch ProMedia 400-Watt THX Speaker & Subwoofer
Windows 2000 Pro

I'm feeling Funkey's system and idea <-- haha, sounds funny

I'm in lab right now working on a Art & Technology lab, but I'll post my dream system when I get back to the dorm.

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ActiveTuning - Partner & Director Of Sales & Marketing

Thanks hehehe, what I would do for a machine like that.

Well, I don't like Intel and I don't like microsoft. Hmm, I guess I'll just have to deal with a little slower and a lot cheaper.