Your dream pc

[LittleLizard]

This thread is for all those who dream with have a pc that will never have like me and want to share it.

Mine one is: Cpu - PII 955 OC @ 3.8
Mobo - Asus M4A79T Deluxe
GFX - 3x XFX 4850 1GB in trifire
HDD - Barracuda .12 1TB
Case - HAF 922
Ram - Corsair Dominator
Cooler - V8

Hope you like it and share your dream pc.

EDIT 10/23/09: Its time to revive the thread :D

[FordGT90Concept]

I have my dream PC. ;)

Intel Core i7 920 w/ SCYTHE Mugen-2 HSF
NVIDIA 8800 GT
3 x 2 GiB OCZ Platinum DDR3-1600
2 x Seagate Barracuda 250 GB 7200.7 (RAID0)
DFI Lanparty DK X58
Creative Audigy 2 ZS
Pioneer DVR-109 DVD+/-RW DL
Samsung DVD-ROM x16
NZXT Zero 2
Enermax Liberty 620w


...at least until my CRT goes to the big tube in the sky. :(

[Wile E]

Why would you skimp like that if you were building a dream PC? A dream PC is supposed to be no limits.

Now this is a proper dream PC :D lol

http://img.techpowerup.org/090724/Untitled.jpg

[FordGT90Concept]

Because I don't need it. The most demanding task I do is game and at the resolution I play, it's all great.


...but, let's say I were making a computer for Gates himself (no restrictions beyond running on Windows)...

hmm...

$9,596.00 - 4 x Intel Xeon E7450 Dunnington 2.4GHz Hexa-Core
$1,000.00 - 1 x SuperMicro X7QCE (http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon7000/7300/X7QCE.cfm) Motherboard
$2,159.88 - 12 x Kingston DDR2-667 FB-DIMM 2 x 4 GiB Kits
$7,679.76 - 24 x Hitachi Ultrastar 300GB 15k RPM (RAID 50)
$1,299.99 - 1 x Areca ARC-1680IX-24-2G SAS Controller
$175.99 - 1 x Kingston DDR2-800 4 GiB (to upgrade the memory on the SAS controller)
$499.99 - 1 x EVGA GTX 295
$132.99 - 1 x Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 Media Center Kit Dual TV Tuner
$3,399.99 - 1 x Server 2008 Enterprise Edition
$1,199.94 - 6 x Pioneer Black 8X Blu-Ray DVD Burner
$2,571.98 - 2 x iStarUSA 2000w Redundant PSU (rackmount)
$2,199.98 - 2 x HP LP3065 30" LCD Monitor (2560 x 1600 res)
$3,359.99 - 1 x TRIPP LITE SU6000RT3U 6000 VA 4200 Watts Expandable Rack UPS

$35,276.48 + custom case w/ phase change cooling


Final stats would be...
-4000w redundant power potential
-5120 x 1600 desktop resolution
-burn up to 6 Blu-Rays simutaneously
-watch and record two channels at once
-96 GiB of system RAM
-6.6 TB of storage
-24 cores @ 2.4 GHz

[Wile E]

Because I don't need it. The most demanding task I do is game and at the resolution I play, it's all great.


...but, let's say I were making a computer for Gates himself (no restrictions beyond running on Windows)...

hmm...

$9,596.00 - 4 x Intel Xeon E7450 Dunnington 2.4GHz Hexa-Core
$1,000.00 - 1 x SuperMicro X7QCE (http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon7000/7300/X7QCE.cfm) Motherboard
$2,159.88 - 12 x Kingston DDR2-667 FB-DIMM 2 x 4 GiB Kits
$7,679.76 - 24 x Hitachi Ultrastar 300GB 15k RPM (RAID 50)
$1,299.99 - 1 x Areca ARC-1680IX-24-2G SAS Controller
$175.99 - 1 x Kingston DDR2-800 4 GiB (to upgrade the memory on the SAS controller)
$499.99 - 1 x EVGA GTX 295
$132.99 - 1 x Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 Media Center Kit Dual TV Tuner
$3,399.99 - 1 x Server 2008 Enterprise Edition
$1,199.94 - 6 x Pioneer Black 8X Blu-Ray DVD Burner
$2,571.98 - 2 x iStarUSA 2000w Redundant PSU (rackmount)
$2,199.98 - 2 x HP LP3065 30" LCD Monitor (2560 x 1600 res)
$3,359.99 - 1 x TRIPP LITE SU6000RT3U 6000 VA 4200 Watts Expandable Rack UPS

$35,276.48 + custom case w/ phase change cooling


Final stats would be...
-4000w redundant power potential
-5120 x 1600 desktop resolution
-burn up to 6 Blu-Rays simutaneously
-watch and record two channels at once
-96 GiB of system RAM
-6.6 TB of storage
-24 cores @ 2.4 GHz

When you are talking dreams, "I don't need it" doesn't really exist. lol

I didn't count the price of the OS, as who the hell would buy 08 Enterprise? Just buy Technet for $350, and settle for normal 08.

But good idea on the hexacores. Forgot about those. lol. Although I hate FB-DIMMS that the platform requires.

I would also skip straight past any kind of SAS, and go with a dual array setup with RAID0 SLC SSDs for programs and booting, and a RAID6 with the 22 2TB drives I chose for a total of 40TB of storage.

And as far as BD, I wouldn't need to do 6 at once, but I debated 2 drives at least.

And I actually prefer the 24" monitors over the 30" monitors. Tho I did debate 3 of them with a TripleHead2Go, but decided that I would ultimately be annoyed by the gaps in the screens.

The TV tuners are useless for me as well.

As far as video card, I debated a 295 as well, but figured that 2 4870X2's would do better. But, if newegg had the monster Asus 295 with the full 512bit bus and 1GB ram per gpu, I would've grabbed that instead.

Also, I was trying not to go full rack mount, cause I looked at the monster redundant rack mount supplies as well. lol. I was thinking more like a Mountain Mods Ascension.

[FordGT90Concept]

I didn't count the price of the OS, as who the hell would buy 08 Enterprise? Just buy Technet for $350, and settle for normal 08.
I didn't think Standard supported 4 processors but, apparently it does. No reason for Enteprise then (at least used as a workstation).


But good idea on the hexacores. Forgot about those. lol. Although I hate FB-DIMMS that the platform requires.
You need ECC when you're taking 96 GiBs of memory. FB-DIMM is much better than ECC regular DIMMs. Nevermind the 24 DIMM slots which is impossible unless you have multiple pools (one per processor) like AMD does.


I would also skip straight past any kind of SAS, and go with a dual array setup with RAID0 SLC SSDs for programs and booting, and a RAID6 with the 22 2TB drives I chose for a total of 40TB of storage.

And as far as BD, I wouldn't need to do 6 at once, but I debated 2 drives at least.
SAS is the only way you are going to get speed and reliability (15K platters). I considered putting 4 SSDs through the onboard SATA but decided against it. 6.6 TB pushing 1000+ MB/s sequential is more than enough. It would also have faster sustained write performance to boot.

Deciding that SSD just ain't worth it, I decided that the ability to burn many disks at once would be a nice bonus.

Hell, 24 drives is conservative. Using expanders, I was thinking 96 drives but, because it would threaten to overlord that PCI Express x8 slot, I decided against it.


Also, I was trying not to go full rack mount, cause I looked at the monster redundant rack mount supplies as well. lol. I was thinking more like a Mountain Mods Ascension.
The motherboard is SSI CEB based but is is not standard. You need to either make your own case or buy a SuperMicro 2U or 4U case (1U is available but the processors are too hot for it). Because there's no way that giant battery and PSUs would fit in anything they provide, I'd make a custom case for it.

The custom case would have four compartments:
-Motherboard
-Hard Drives
-Power Supplies & UPS
-Cooling Equipment

[Wile E]

I didn't think Standard supported 4 processors but, apparently it does. No reason for Enteprise then (at least used as a workstation).



You need ECC when you're taking 96 GiBs of memory. FB-DIMM is much better than ECC regular DIMMs. Nevermind the 24 DIMM slots which is impossible unless you have multiple pools (one per processor) like AMD does.



SAS is the only way you are going to get speed and reliability (15K platters). I considered putting 4 SSDs through the onboard SATA but decided against it. 6.6 TB pushing 1000+ MB/s sequential is more than enough. It would also have faster sustained write performance to boot.

Deciding that SSD just ain't worth it, I decided that the ability to burn many disks at once would be a nice bonus.

Hell, 24 drives is conservative. Using expanders, I was thinking 96 drives but, because it would threaten to overlord that PCI Express x8 slot, I decided against it.



The motherboard is SSI CEB based but is is not standard. You need to either make your own case or buy a SuperMicro 2U or 4U case (1U is available but the processors are too hot for it). Because there's no way that giant battery and PSUs would fit in anything they provide, I'd make a custom case for it.

The custom case would have four compartments:
-Motherboard
-Hard Drives
-Power Supplies & UPS
-Cooling Equipment

The SSD's would still be faster. The random access advantage make a huge difference. I planned on 6 on the controller card, just for OS and progs. That's the only things that can really use the speed anyway. The rest is just storage. Best of both worlds that way, imo. Speed on the SSD array, and huge (but still actually very quick) storage on the 22 drive RAID6 array. I figure that is more than the 8x slot could likely handle anyway. lol.

And FB-DIMMs are better than regular DIMMs in what manner? Definitely not performance. Perhaps capacity, but that's about all. I certainly couldn't use 96GB of mem, so capacity is not a concern for me. Their bandwidth is terrible. I'd take ECC DDR3 (or even DDR2) over them any day, if I had the option. But, as the Hexa cores are only available on a platform with FB-DIMMs as the only option, I guess the choice wouldn't be mine anyway. Tylersburg does have multiple pools of memory, btw.

By the way, I wasn't arguing with you, just pointing out what I would do differently.

[FordGT90Concept]

The SSD's would still be faster. The random access advantage make a huge difference. I planned on 6 on the controller card, just for OS and progs. That's the only things that can really use the speed anyway. The rest is just storage. Best of both worlds that way, imo. Speed on the SSD array, and huge (but still actually very quick) storage on the 22 drive RAID6 array. I figure that is more than the 8x slot could likely handle anyway. lol.
Drives are still about long term storage and long term storage means reliability. Hard drive life spans are measured in years, not read/write cycles.


And FB-DIMMs are better than regular DIMMs in what manner? Definitely not performance. Perhaps capacity, but that's about all. I certainly couldn't use 96GB of mem, so capacity is not a concern for me. Their bandwidth is terrible. I'd take ECC DDR3 (or even DDR2) over them any day, if I had the option. But, as the Hexa cores are only available on a platform with FB-DIMMs as the only option, I guess the choice wouldn't be mine anyway. Tylersburg does have multiple pools of memory, btw.
Fewer physical links to the memory controller allowing for a single, massive pool of memory for all processors to share, craploads more bandwidth, the memory can be physically farther away from the processor(s), and higher sequential write performance. Yes, they are higher latency but, the stuff you do with FB-DIMMs usually benefits more from high bandwidth than low latency.

FB-DIMM sucks at gaming but kicks major ass at just about everything else. Come to think of it, DDR3 is higher latency than DDR2. Maybe these DDR2 FB-DIMMs are not only higher bandwidth (not that Nehalem cares) but also lower latency than those DDR3 DIMMs? We also can't forget quad-channel vs tri-channel.

96 GiB/24 cores = 4 GiB per core. That is perfect. :D


Tylersburg is DIMM, not FB-DIMM. It takes a page out of the AMD textbook in that every processor has its own pool of memory. The two processors can make memory requests via QuickPath just like AMD processors can make memory requests via HyperTransport.


By the way, I wasn't arguing with you, just pointing out what I would do differently.
And I am explaining why I did what I did. ;)

[LittleLizard]

remember, it has to be sexy and i dont think that 30 hdd are sexy but 3 XFX 4850 really are :D

[FordGT90Concept]

Heh, order up a custom motherboard too with room for about 6 GTX 295 cards. XD That serverboard in my list only has 20 PCI Express lanes available. :(

[CDdude56]

I don't want to think about it, im having a hard time just trying to afford a new video card.:(

[FordGT90Concept]

Then think about the way I did: it is for someone with a lot of money to burn. :D

[Craigleberry]

I would just get the best of everything and get a nice custom case jam it all in there with love of course and voila.

[btarunr]

Mine:

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/roadrunner_supercomputer.jpg

It's a little big for my house though. And yes, it can be made to run Crysis. :D

[Craigleberry]

nice

[Wile E]

Drives are still about long term storage and long term storage means reliability. Hard drive life spans are measured in years, not read/write cycles.



Fewer physical links to the memory controller allowing for a single, massive pool of memory for all processors to share, craploads more bandwidth, the memory can be physically farther away from the processor(s), and higher sequential write performance. Yes, they are higher latency but, the stuff you do with FB-DIMMs usually benefits more from high bandwidth than low latency.

FB-DIMM sucks at gaming but kicks major ass at just about everything else. Come to think of it, DDR3 is higher latency than DDR2. Maybe these DDR2 FB-DIMMs are not only higher bandwidth (not that Nehalem cares) but also lower latency than those DDR3 DIMMs? We also can't forget quad-channel vs tri-channel.

96 GiB/24 cores = 4 GiB per core. That is perfect. :D


Tylersburg is DIMM, not FB-DIMM. It takes a page out of the AMD textbook in that every processor has its own pool of memory. The two processors can make memory requests via QuickPath just like AMD processors can make memory requests via HyperTransport.



And I am explaining why I did what I did. ;)Yeah, and my hard drive setup stores more than yours just as reliably. The only thing I may have to worry about is the OS, and with 40TB on the storage array, I have plenty of space for a clone of it in an emergency. All the while, my setup is still faster.

As far as FB-DIMM, while they may have benefits, they certainly do not for desktop usage. They are easily outperformed by both DDR2 and DDR3 in workstation and desktop tasks. Ask Danthebanjoman.

As far as Tylersburg, I never said it was FB-DIMM, just that it uses separate pools, like AMD. I know what it is. It's i7, which only uses DDR3.

[FordGT90Concept]

I have a server with 8 x 1 GiB FB-DIMM sticks (same processors as Dan, his are just the lower power version). Obviously, you can tell its not as fast when you benchmark it. Other than that, there's no way to tell.

Xeon: http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/123984
Core i7: http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/124295

Regardless, if you want only one pool of memory, FB-DIMM is the only way to get more than 6 modules. DIMM will allows be faster (in terms of latency) because there isn't an advanced memory buffer.


Come to think of it, I think DDR is coming to its end. It is about the only technology in a modern computer that still uses parrallel communication.

[Wile E]

There's a difference between "you can't tell", and "there is no difference."

I agree that we need to move to something better than the current DDR standards, but FB-DIMM isn't the answer.

[FordGT90Concept]

FB-DIMM is fine in my book. I like my 8 GiB pool of memory and quad-channel memory. :p


FB-DIMM is the answer to DIMM's greatest weaknesses (physical connections to and distance from the memory controller). Both suck but only Rambus is putting effort into something new and you know them--greedy bastards. We need ODR or QDR with a serial connection to the memory controller (the sole reason why FB-DIMM exists).

[Wile E]

FB-DIMM is fine in my book. I like my 8 GiB pool of memory and quad-channel memory. :p


FB-DIMM is the answer to DIMM's greatest weaknesses (physical connections to and distance from the memory controller). Both suck but only Rambus is putting effort into something new and you know them--greedy bastards. We need ODR or QDR with a serial connection to the memory controller (the sole reason why FB-DIMM exists).

Yeah, but FB-DIMM is horribly inefficient at it. It's essentially parallel converted to serial, not true serial. Defeats the purpose. It would be like taking an AGP graphics card, and using a switch chip to convert it to PCIe. It's still only going to perform as good as AGP at best, but most likely less than AGP, due to the latency losses incurred from converting the signal.

Other than being in a single pool, FB-DIMM serves no real benefit. It needed quad channel just to try to make up for it's losses, and even quad channel ended up not helping it enough to catch back up to regular DDR2 and 3.

Both ECC DDR2 and DDR3 outperform it in every way, except where 1 large pool of memory is needed.

So, what will you do that benefits from the single large pool of memory?

Like I said, we may need a different mem technology, but FB-DIMM isn't it.

[FordGT90Concept]

FB-DIMM is a bandage, not a permanent solution. I'm surprised Intel didn't push for something other than DDR3 for Tylersberg.

Quad-channel is another means to increase bandwidth. It doesn't help latencies (which is where FB-DIMM takes a beating). I see quad-channel as Intel's way to keep the bandwidth as high as if it were multiple pools of memory. That is, instead of one stick for each of four processors, you have four sticks in quad channel serving the same four processors. There is no cumulative bandwidth lost that way (e.g. 4 x 4300 MB/s for both).


So, what will you do that benefits from the single large pool of memory?.
Any work that requires the >1 processor to work on the same task. For instance, if I made an app that created and stored every possible solution to a problem in the memory that had all eight cores working on different solutions, it most likely would benefit from a single pool. I'm not about to code something like that just to make sure it is faster. :p

[Wile E]

FB-DIMM is a bandage, not a permanent solution. I'm surprised Intel didn't push for something other than DDR3 for Tylersberg.

Quad-channel is another means to increase bandwidth. It doesn't help latencies (which is where FB-DIMM takes a beating). I see quad-channel as Intel's way to keep the bandwidth as high as if it were multiple pools of memory. That is, instead of one stick for each of four processors, you have four sticks in quad channel serving the same four processors. There is no cumulative bandwidth lost that way (e.g. 4 x 4300 MB/s for both).



Any work that requires the >1 processor to work on the same task. For instance, if I made an app that created and stored every possible solution to a problem in the memory that had all eight cores working on different solutions, it most likely would benefit from a single pool. I'm not about to code something like that just to make sure it is faster. :pYou missed the point of my question. This is about our dream rigs. So, what are you going to do with your dream rig that requires that single large pool of memory? Nothing that I can think of.

And personally, I thing MS should've given the option for regular ECC DDR2 for 771 and 604.

[FordGT90Concept]

It's Bill Gate's computer so that's his problem, not mine. :D

If that 24-core beast was mine, I would do as replied--an app that spans all 24 cores working on different solutions to the same problem. Nothing ever requires a single pool of memory but knowing that all 24-cores are going to work on the same task at the almost exact same rate is helpful (not waiting for data to be queued across processors). It makes it easier to determine which solution processed the fastest. It eliminates a variable that would be almost impossible to effectively eliminate if you used multiple pools of memory (without running the same task across all cores).

Outside of experimental work/research, it really doesn't matter. Your typical user won't have workloads that need that much memory or a single pool. In most cases, it is the cores that count. As long as there is enough memory to satisfy the cores' needs, how the memory is connected is quite irrelevant.

[DanTheBanjoman]

You missed the point of my question. This is about our dream rigs. So, what are you going to do with your dream rig that requires that single large pool of memory? Nothing that I can think of.

And personally, I thing MS should've given the option for regular ECC DDR2 for 771 and 604.

Assuming you mean Intel and not MS you're wrong. 604 in DP configurations doesn't exist with FB-DIMMs at all and Intel 5100 uses the good old reg and/or ECC with 771.

Also, FB DIMM's don't suck at gaming, you can game perfectly fine with them. They do perform worse in benchmarks. Horribly inefficient describes it well, you get about 20-30% of the theoretical bandwidth. The thing that they do better are memory capacity (ranks per channel), ease to implement due to serial nature (little wiring on the PCB) and reliability, they produce nearly no errors.


I have a server with 8 x 1 GiB FB-DIMM sticks (same processors as Dan, his are just the lower power version). Obviously, you can tell its not as fast when you benchmark it. Other than that, there's no way to tell.


I use 5506's in my primary system nowadays :) Still have the L5310's (and a E5310 and 2 5110's) though, in some CPU bound benchmarks they do show their mussles, memory bandwidth is the weak spot. Perhaps I should get a 5100 board for fun, see if it makes any difference.

[Wile E]

Assuming you mean Intel and not MS you're wrong. 604 in DP configurations doesn't exist with FB-DIMMs at all and Intel 5100 uses the good old reg and/or ECC with 771.

Also, FB DIMM's don't suck at gaming, you can game perfectly fine with them. They do perform worse in benchmarks. Horribly inefficient describes it well, you get about 20-30% of the theoretical bandwidth. The thing that they do better are memory capacity (ranks per channel), ease to implement due to serial nature (little wiring on the PCB) and reliability, they produce nearly no errors.




I use 5506's in my primary system nowadays :) Still have the L5310's (and a E5310 and 2 5110's) though, in some CPU bound benchmarks they do show their mussles, memory bandwidth is the weak spot. Perhaps I should get a 5100 board for fun, see if it makes any difference.Yeah, I meant Intel. lol. Bit of a Freudian slip.

And we were focusing on Quad socket boards. I was just looking at the 7300 chipset 604 boards, and they take FB-DIMMs. But I don't know a whole lot about 604, so I figured that was just normal.

And I missed the 5100 series 771 board completely. Thanks for that. Makes me wonder why they used FB-DIMMs on Skulltrail even more now.

[FordGT90Concept]

Only the recent generation of 604 motherboards have FB-DIMM. 604 was revived for Dunnington. XD


Skulltrail, like QuadFX, was a quick throw-together. Basically, both aimed for dual-processor and 4 x PCI Express x16 slots. Both were pathetic for what they were supposed to be about (gaming).

LGA1366/Tylserburg does it right. That is, dual-processor without all the drawbacks of dual processor (ECC/FB-DIMM) seen in the previous generation of Skulltrail/QuadFX. I suspected LGA1366 was to reinvent Skulltrail and I was right. :D

Mention Skulltrail (http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1406412&postcount=23)
Chart it (http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1406432&postcount=27)
Skulltrail again (http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1407976&postcount=100)
All the way back to Februrary (http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1198340&postcount=3) - LGA-1155 got scratched.

[DanTheBanjoman]

It's nothing new though. Up to s370 the UP and DP markets mostly shared hardware. And there are some boards to run dual Prestonia/Nocona using standard DDR and other standard desktop components. (i875 based) after that Intel removed support for DP setups from desktop chipsets.
Compared to those solutions Skulltrail and QuadFX indeed are jokes. then again, both exist for the sole purpose of marketing anyway.

[FordGT90Concept]

DP back then didn't have 8-24 cores. That was back in the day when DDR was a godsend because memory was so freakin slow. After DDR, it became pretty clear that something different had to be done about the RAM. Multi-core processors now complicate matters. :(

[DanTheBanjoman]

They have 24 cores now then?:) And I'm pretty sure you can get Paxville working on those i875 boards, which still means 4 cores/8 threads on a dual channel DDR system.

Memory bandwidth indeed matters more when you're feeding so many cores,.

[FordGT90Concept]

Heh, true. Oops. It is coming though. ;)

I wonder how much slower they would run. :confused:

[FordGT90Concept]

I like BSODs as it helps you get to the cause of the problem. It sucks to see them ("Surprise!") but once it is fixed, it is fixed.

[btarunr]

You've never seen a Linux kernel panic:

http://amizya.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/forced-linux-kernel-panic-under-qemu.jpg

during a presentation:

http://www.miguelcarrasco.net/miguelcarrasco/WindowsLiveWriter/LinuxCrashTop10Images_A04C/linux_crash_127_1.jpg

inflight entertainment fail due to "software problem" (linux kernel panic):

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ERfU6taLabY/R3Owi8el6eI/AAAAAAAAAlE/OhafQWo9Kv4/s400/linux_cu.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ERfU6taLabY/R3Ov8sel6bI/AAAAAAAAAks/uBkL0lN0-PA/s1600/linux_cs.jpg

A smart phone (old definition) going kaput:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ERfU6taLabY/R3Owjcel6iI/AAAAAAAAAlk/h7p22qJHtmA/s1600/linux_cx.jpg

[mlee49]

Roadrunner anyone?

[DaMulta]

http://distorttheinfo.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/2001_a_space_odyssey_2.jpg

http://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/243321.jpg

He came out 8 years ago in 2001, and I still can't buy one:(.

[mlee49]

Ha! HAL, nice DaMulta!

[momentomoir]

well at this point a computer i can use for quakecon=D
lol I start building my first pc this week
so does that make me a pc virgin? lol

[FordGT90Concept]

Naw, it makes you a n00b. :)

[Wile E]

Roadrunner anyone?

No, he's already dead.

LyEgxyH2LJk

[DaMulta]

96dWOEa4Djs

[momentomoir]

Naw, it makes you a n00b. :)

i think i would like to think of my self as a pc virgin:p

[mlee49]

No, he's already dead.


You Bastard! :p

96dWOEa4Djs

Awesomeness to the MAX!

[Wile E]

You Bastard! :p

He was quite tasty. :p

[DaMulta]

You Bastard! :p



Awesomeness to the MAX!

FUCK YEA you get to jump up and down on a mini trampoline with a hand full of hard drives!

[mtosev]

i7 920
Asus RAmpage II Extreme
WD Velociraptor 300Gb
next gen Ati/nvidia DX11 GFX
CM HAF 932
6g DDR3 ram
CM V8
---
total is about about 2000Eur :D


and thats not a dream im getting one in the next 2 months.

[momentomoir]

my pc is coming alive as we speak pp is playing god a creating life right now it was decided it was not best for me to start building this one that i should build a crappy one lol first

oh wait its its its alive now

[LittleLizard]

Its's been a while since i have been here so its time to revive this thread and build your dream rig with the new hardware that has came out. :D

mine one

I7 975 XE (D0 Stepping)
6gb of elpida hyper chips (kingston hyperX)
DFI UT X58
Single 5850
Thermalright Ultra 120 RT
5 Caviar black 1TB in raid 0 (YEP 5TB of STORAGE)
2 Caviar black 2TB in raid 1 (running on the jmicron controller)
TT Element S
Asus Xonar D2
XP 64 Bit SP3 (DX9 FTW)

[Laurijan]

My dream PC is my current one!

[LittleLizard]

dream pII pc

Asus M4A79T Deluxe
3 Asus 5850
PII 965
Corsair Dominator (8GB)
Antec 300
4 hdd in Raid 0+1
Corsair hx750

[Frick]

I want a maxed out Mac Pro with a whoopass SSD raid setup. And a monitor with multi touch.

And a 13 inch laptop with decent graphics.

[LittleLizard]

I want a maxed out Mac Pro with a whoopass SSD raid setup. And a monitor with multi touch.

And a 13 inch laptop with decent graphics.

i would add sdd to my dream rig but that requires adapters and that destroy the perfection. I want a chipset with a 2GHZ hypertransport like the old ones from nvidia for AMD 939 cpus (so it doesnt botlleneck) and 8 or even 10 satas.

if i had 10 satas i would do 9 Raid 0 Array using the spare sata for dvd drive and an additional controller for backup (raid one)

[LittleLizard]

BUMP, no one has dream pc to share :(

[General__Cohen*****]

Obviously it would be of the fastest for me.(r)


If want spec sheet heere goes the number run



Core i9 1024geek 4GHz
256GB useable in Windows RAM any speco brand is Good.
Matrix case like Mozart, but called MATRIXX
fans filling case at 4000rpM
Like 12 PCIEX 16.0 @ x512 XFX GefOrese 10,000RPM 1024TB GPUS
1,000 10000TB SSD COncoction
I dunno like dat I thinkso.(nutlick)

[Black Panther]

This. (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/29/content_12356478.htm):D

And only if it can run Crysis... (u)

[General__Cohen*****]

Holy Shit Man dat no Windows compatible need only less dan 16GB terriotrial