Whats your perfect computer?

[dougal.s]

An A64 system for gaming (ANY, I miss having a proper gaming system at the moment).

A Powermac dual G5 with a 20" Apple cinema display. Just to get more room than the dual monitor 2048*768 system I have just now. Big work pieces need lots of screen room!!

Would keep my iBook cos me luvs it :D

Three 1U servers: A dual Opteron 252 running Linux; A dual Opteron 252 running Windows Server 2003; An Apple xServe with dual 2.3Ghz G5s. These would mostly be used for web development work on the different platforms, but they would get a good few Folding units in as well. ;)

Dougal.

[+dave164 Subscriber¹]

  Circaflex said:

Crossfire on a board that doesnt support it? Someone doesnt know their components

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I originally thought that but then i was told by neumorous people that noooo it should work on any board with 2 x pci-e slots lol

[Cloud Geek]

case: thermaltake armor

processor: dual core 12ghz intel chip

ram:4gb

MB: gigabyte, nforce 4 ,btx , sli

GPU: dual 7800

HDD: 1 tb flash

optical drive: dual layer dvd writer with with light scribe dvd writing speed like 100x with blue ray disk and HD-DVD technology

OS: longhorn

speakers: Logitech? Z-5500 Digital 7.1

psu: 800w enermax

mouse:logitech mx1000

sound card: sound blaster audigy 4 pro

[Brodel]

I imagine "the most expensive one" probably sums it up.

[Darkghost]

Basically I dream of a laptop looking like a powerbook,

with a macosx similar O.S. BUT fully PC apps compatible (no emulation etc. just running them as if on a pc...lets wait and see the next macos for x86), with the power of the dream machine of a 2007 hardcore gamer,

with a 12 hours capable battery (running at full speed, e.g running GTA s.andreas minimized while working with matlab and listening to MP3s) ,

no noise, no heat.

I'm ready to pay for such a baby, but I want a sort of leasing contract to change it with the new model (without having to sell/buy every time)

You see...I don't ask too much :-P

[Jayzee]

Dualcore x86 Mac with Tiger OSX and 4Gb or RAM!

[sn00pie]

20" Widescreen LCD PowerBook with;

2x G5 Processors

2x 1GB Stick(s) of RAM

1x 100GB Hard Drive

1x ATi Radeon 9600 Ultra(w/e is the best)

Oh and my name engraved on the lid. :cool:

[mikeboy]

I think they wont be able to reach such high speed as 12ghz with silicone based systems, silicome age is near the end, they are looking for ways, that instead of transfering electricity, to transfer light through the chips, I?d like to get one of those!

[Cyrilix]

  Sensayshun said:

Anyone got 7grand spare?

I was thinking liquid nitrogen and overclocking the dual opterons?

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I hope you know that liquid nitrogen is not to be used for cooling on a daily basis.

[Master Of Puppets]

My old PI Compaq Armada, I want it back :(

[zhangm Supervisor]

All the components of an Acer Ferrari 4000...crammed into the shell of a Dell Latitude X1 while maintaining its weight and battery life.

But I think I'll settle for the Asus V70 Refresh.

[Caleo Global Moderator]

I'd enjoy (all hardware currently available on the market..):

AMD 64 x2 4800+

Dual 7800 GTX's

DFI SLI-DR Mobo

2GB OCZ EL Platinum

A couple 74GB raptors, and 4 SATA 200GB Seagate drives

Lian Li v1000 case

[turkishdelight]

Antec P180 or Thermaltake Armor

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 (room to move up to dual-core once it's firmly established)

Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe

SLI'd 7800 GTX graphics

4 GB Corsair XMS Xpert

Four 74 GB Raptors in RAID 1+0

Four 300 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 drives in RAID 1+0 (may need a seperate controller)

Two seperate 300 GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 drives (for testing different OSes without risk)

PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 510 SLI

Saitek Eclipse

Logitech MX1000 and MX518

Logitech Z-5500 Digital

Two Plextor PX-716A/SW

Mitsumi 7-in-1 Floppy/memory card drive

Phase-change cooling over everything, including the hard drives (4 Raptors run hot!)

Apple 30-inch Cinema display and Dell UltraSharp 2001FP

Windows XP Pro SP2

Windows XP x64

Windows 2000 Pro

Ubuntu Linux

Xandros 3.0 Deluxe

Fedora Core (most recent release)

"OS X86" (if Apple ever decides to make OS X for any x86 system)

Oh, and throw in a case window, a couple of lights, noise dampening, and a couple backup UPSes.

All that = :D :happy: :woot: (Y) plus total envy from friends :D

[goodcase]

Apple Powermac, dual G5's, 4GB ram, 1TB hard drive, with apple xserve server, 3 30" ACD.

[eric zed]

Anything with AMD 64 on it. *Looks at thing I'm typing on* :cry:

[Sensayshun]

  Cyrilix said:

I hope you know that liquid nitrogen is not to be used for cooling on a daily basis.

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Sorry, I don't understand.

Could you elaborate at all, either that or it's just too early for me :sleep:

[funnyperson1]

Antec P180

PC Power&Cooling 510

Asus P4C800E Deluxe

Dothan 765 (2.1 GHZ) running at 3.4 GHZ

Asus adapter

Water cooled Peltier Device

Radeon X800XL

2GB of Mushkin Redline

DVDRW

2 74GB Raptors in Raid 0

[InternalStorm]

Let me point out to all you 7800 GTX SLI guys that two X850 XT PE's in Crossfire mode are better than the next gen nVidia SLIed cards... sad but true. Just wait until the R520 is out... heck, a heavily modded X800XT PE can beat a stock 7800 GTX easily, not to mention nVidia's drivers are set to Balanced at default and ATI's at High Quality.

[yert*]

I originally thought Deep Thought - the second greatest computer in the universe - but now, I want THE greatest computer in the Universe. I don't know what it's called but it can find out the answer to the ultimate answer of the universe which is 42.

[IK47]

Limitless, but not silly eh?

I would choose something like this...

A cluster of 25 Powermac G5's in my basement. This supercomputer will be connected to a central 'house' computer. This central machine will then be networked to every computer in the house (kitchen, media center, office, bedrooms). This system will allow for quick access to many terrabytes of information from any machine in the house, and total control of house utilities such as gas, water, climate control, lighting and security.

Each room in my house would have it's own specialized computer.

Kitchen

A system which provides cooks with recipies and ingredient inventory. The fridge would keep track of it's contained food, and automatically organize and prepare online grocery orders.

Lounge

Media Center machine connected to A/V equipment. Can access any Video or Audio from 'House' data store. Can also be used for conferencing and for Gaming.

Bedrooms

Every bedroom equiped with laptop docking station (for laptop of owner's choice), complete with display, mouse, keyboard, speakers, of users choice.

Office

Custom IBM machine capable of manipulating multiple media streams, recording up to several weeks of HiDef footage from multiple sources simultaneously. Can render photo-realistic images. Used mainly for Profession.

Safe Room

Security base. Monitors every area of the house, and of any other equiped properties. Meant for emergency use, but can also be used to monitor house occupancy to maximize heat / water efficiency.

Every system is governed by 'House' Machine, and can work in conjunction with a peer machine. Every peice of information come across by any machine at any time is recorded in the 'House' system. Every bit of information from keystrokes to temperture analysis logs.

And that's just the beginning.

[DigitalN.]

one that doesn't start threads like this.

[cold14]

  DigitalN. said:

one that doesn't start threads like this.

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:huh:

[Cyrilix]

  Sensayshun said:

Sorry, I don't understand.

Could you elaborate at all, either that or it's just too early for me  :sleep:

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It's a big hassle, uses up fast, and is a big expense.

[thebeachbum]

presumably he meant the nitrogen cooling came with a butler to take care of its daily needs :p it does say absurd after all

[evo0o]

one that can produce money to buy a real computer.