Ultimate PC

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If money was no object whatwould be your dream PC?? Remember nothing is too crazy
 
this gets old. use the search function. everyone's needs/wants are different.
 
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770
Asus Rampage Extreme
CORSAIR 4GB(2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
Nvidia GeForce 9800GX2
Water Cooling Kit


those alone may hit $4000

the funny thing this rig:
Q6600
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
2GB DDR2 800
Nvidia GeForce 9800GX2

wouldnt hit $1000
and wouldn’t offer less computing/gaming experience

the Ultimate PC is a PC that can offer you 500GB+ of pr0n, 200GB+ of PC Games, 500GB+ of music, 100GB+ of music, 100GB+ of PC sofware :)
 
Intel 486dx 66mhz
4mb ram
500mb hdd
windows 3.1

pfft.
 
I don't know what my computer would be, but this would be my monitor setup. Maybe I could order 2 for good measure.

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Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 overclock to 4.5ghz if possible
Asus Rampage Extreme
CORSAIR 4GB DOMINATER (4 x 1GB) DDR3
2x Nvidia GeForce 9800GX2 sli
liquid nitrogen Cooling Kit
enermax galaxy 1kw PSU
Lian LI PC P80
2x 1Tb drives RAID
Auzen prelude sound card
 
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 overclock to 4.5ghz if possible
Asus Rampage Extreme
CORSAIR 4GB DOMINATER (4 x 1GB) DDR3
2x Nvidia GeForce 9800GX2 sli
liquid nitrogen Cooling Kit
enermax galaxy 1kw PSU
Lian LI PC P80
2x 1Tb drives RAID
Auzen prelude sound card

you can't add 2 Nvidia cards to an Intel X48 based board

but..... add this baby: ASUS StrikerII Extreme
then add 3 Nvidia cards :D
 
Intel 486dx 66mhz
4mb ram
500mb hdd
windows 3.1

pfft.

Thirded. I'd throw in a brand-spanking new Sound Blaster AWE 32 card and a pair of white, desktop Altec Lansing speakers to have a kick ass multi-media system. Hurray for 7th Guest!
 
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 overclock to 4.5ghz if possible
Asus Rampage Extreme
CORSAIR 4GB DOMINATER (4 x 1GB) DDR3
2x Nvidia GeForce 9800GX2 sli
liquid nitrogen Cooling Kit
enermax galaxy 1kw PSU
Lian LI PC P80
2x 1Tb drives RAID
Auzen prelude sound card


Same as that (perhaps getting the high-end quad instead) but with tri-SLi, only one 1TB HDD and 4x64GB Samsung solid state drives raided, and 2 blu-ray odd's.

*drools*
 
I'd get two terrabytes of silent running "fast" SSD's. Harddrives have no place in any "ultimate" PC...

Skulltrail M/B (or similar).

Two of whatever happen to be the latest quads around.

Two of whatever happens to be the best GPU around, in SLI.

8 Gigs RAM minimum.

Either three 30" monitors (connected together like you see on trading floors) or three 65" Pioneer Kuros 1080p screens. The second setup is better for games, but resolution is not as good. I still prefer the 30" monitors...

One of those LG dual format Blu Ray/HD-DVD writers (although I already have one :)

Everything watercooled. (Liquid nitro is too noisy for me.)

Custom made wood case (i,e. like the Suissa Junna but better) or go for one of those customized glass/alloy cases.

Whole thing would be around $20000+ (unless SSD prices have dropped). Add a few thousand more if you go for the custom glass and alloy case or if your carpenter is one of the "designer furniture" chaps who charges a lot for wood work...

(and this isn't including the sound system, and don't get me started on the sound system. Let's put it this way, a "good" sound system would cost a lot more than the ultimate PC).
 
I'd get two terrabytes of silent running "fast" SSD's. Harddrives have no place in any "ultimate" PC...

I'd agree, but where would you be getting 2 TB of SSD's? The ones in production I know are 64GB Samsungs, and to get 2TB's you'd be needing... like 32 of them? :p
 
blah blah blah... I'd build a system that could play all of my games on a 19" monitor and then spend the rest of the money on something better.
 
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Originally Posted by echn111
I'd get two terrabytes of silent running "fast" SSD's. Harddrives have no place in any "ultimate" PC...

but dont SSD's suffer from poor write speeds??
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by echn111
I'd get two terrabytes of silent running "fast" SSD's. Harddrives have no place in any "ultimate" PC...

but dont SSD's suffer from poor write speeds??

Thats why you put them in RAID0. ;)
 
How does that help the write speeds?? and dont you have more of a chance of a system failure plus no motherboard i know of has 60-70 sata ports
 
blah blah blah... I'd build a system that could play all of my games on a 19" monitor and then spend the rest of the money on something better.

If "money was no object" and someone really did this is "real life", that would be quite sad...

I know that there are some rather sad billionaires who do all sorts of things to save the odd million here and there. But I simply cannot imagine any "reasonably normal" person who is loaded to the extent that "money is no object" actually trying to save money on their computer.

But ok, whatever works for you.
 
I'd agree, but where would you be getting 2 TB of SSD's? The ones in production I know are 64GB Samsungs, and to get 2TB's you'd be needing... like 32 of them? :p

but dont SSD's suffer from poor write speeds??

The SSD's you're going to be looking at are typically aimed at the military/defense industry rather than the consumer market. And they are fast.

But there are still some of the lower end products (i.e. under $15,000) that consumers can get reasonably easily. Look at the STECZeus products for examples. HyperOS as well. However, some of these require cooling fans that make some noise...

However, thinking about it, they are rather expensive for a home PC... Then again, the last time I looked at SSD's was 6 months ago - I would imagine that they have improved since then.

Google for "RAID0" and read. ;)

... or do as enginurd says. Check out the Vadim Xiphias with it's "four" 32Gig SSD's in Raid0.

Although I'd prefer to go SSD all the way, currently the most realistic scenario for an ultimate home PC that contains huge amounts of storage is a combination of raid0 SSD's for normal use combined with traditional hard drives for mass storage.
 
Dell XPS

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lol, you just made my day.

i would love to get something made by voodoopc actually, i know its overpriced (MONEYS NO OBJECT REMEMBER?) and i love their cases, cooling and cabling.
 
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