If you won the lottery what would your dream pc be


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I'd pay a reputable company an attractive sum to build me the fastest and most silent computer possible. I wouldn't go myself through the never-ending chore of reading reviews of components and doing extensive overclock tests. It was fun when I built my computer myself but it was really just a way of saving money. If money was no objection I wouldn't be building it myself.

I would go to intel , get a couple of nehalem cpus and the new D5xxx skulltrail -- pop in 16 Gb of RAM DDR3, of course...

have Falcon Northwest put one of those $1,000 paint jobs - throw in 5 TB of disk space -- get the new Level 6 Samsung TOC 50" Plasma -- or maybe the 100" Krell Plasma @ $99,000... throw in 4 of the fastest cards in nVidia's R&D lab - as for speakers ???

well I guess I'd have to go with some McIntosh XRT2K speakers all around ($40,000 each)

Assuming of course it was the powerball lottery - otherwise I just blew all of it...

Oh yeah, I would have colorwarepc.com hand-paint the keyboard and mouse

then right before having to write out the check for my $250,000 computer -- I'd come to my senses and buy a

40' Sea Ray and stay off shore for about 3 months

I don't think I could get myself to drop more than 2000 on components really, the gains are just not great enough to offset the cost in my mind.

Q9650 for the multi for the overclocking of course. Quad because even though I don't need the extra cores, I like the idea of having them there in case I do.

Ideally I'd go with DFI's P45..but they only have a mATX option ><. Probably leaning towards Gigabyte and Asus if the DFI board has blatant issues...but I really want the tweaking options offered by DFI's BIOSes.

2?2GB of DDR2-1000 because 500 FSB would be quite a feat, so I wouldn't go higher than that and only 4GB because I'd rather avoid filling all four DIMMs as it may affect overclockability. DDR3 may be affordable, but I don't think paying a price premium for hardly any real world increase is something I want to do.

GTX280 because it's the fastest single GPU card out, these seem to oc better than ATI's cards, and I want to avoid possibly having microstutter issues.

Areca ARC-1220 and if I can do it...RAID0 two WD6400AAKSes with eight 1TB F1 Spinpoints in RAID5. Not very much knowledge in this area.

SG850 for the complete solidness of the regulation, system wouldn't require a kW unit anyway.

Where I would go nuts would be on the cooling, one loop for NB and processor. Fuzion v2, PA120.3, MCP655, and three San Ace 1011's. GTX280 gets it's own loop consisting of the same components (D-Tek Fuzion GFX2 or something..not really sure which GPU block performs best yet) and may throw on one of those RAM waterblockish things, although just slapping a 120mm over them would be an easier way of doing it, putting it in the loop just looks nicer. I guess this really isn't even going "nuts" on the cooling...

Dual 3007WFP's, GPU might not be able to hold up completely, but I think I can do without eye candy as the extra space would probably help more with productivity.

It would all go in some Lian Li...V2000 or whatever. Haven't looked into cases recently.

Yeah I'd have a rather tame build..

edit: okay that's going to cost more than 2000, I guess I meant 2000 for the processor, RAM, board, GPU, and PSU.:pp

Edited by gwai lo

Well if were talking current hardware, and im being realistic:

Asus top of the range X48 mobo

Q9650

16GB RAM

Dual 4870X2 CF

Asus Xonar DX2 sound

Blu-Ray RW/HDDVD ROM DVDRW

Samsung DVDRW

Hauppauge Dual tuner TV card

1KW Coolermaster PSU

6x640GB WD HDD RAID 0

Some sort of Giant case :)

Hawker

next gen skulltrail

dual 3.2GHZ i7 extreme

OCZ 8X4 GB of DDR3 1600

3X 4870 X2 of ATI ever support more then dual CF

2X 256GB samsung SSD

30" LCD

1500watt psu

u3er case ;P

best wireless KB & mouse logitch has

and logitch Z-5500 surround

I'd probably also have someone else build a few for me... I'll use them to run BOINC apps and folding at home and see those points rocketing sky high!

While the computers will do their work.. I'll be busy touring Europe with my Nissan GT-R :D

An iMac for myself, as apposed to using the family one every now and then, a newer Black MacBook, my PC is already fast enough so I wouldn't upgrade that, and of course A Mac Pro, the fastest consumer PC in the world :D

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