My Ult1mate Dream Machine.

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Dell 3007 Monitor
AMD64 FX60 o'c to 3.0Ghz
Asus/Sapphire Motherboard with Ati's New RD580 Chipset.
X1900 Crossfire Sapphire Brand.
Corsair Xpert Ram 2GB
1xRaptor X with Window for OS.
3xMaxtor DiamondMax11 500GB for games,movies etc etc.
Thermaltake Purepower 600Watt PSU.
Swiftech Watercooling Kit.

What you think of that?
 
I would get an opty instead of a FX60

opteron more or less FX-60s in a new package and ovverclock well

new one going to be out soon 185



 
Try this.

Note: This excludes the possibility of a workstation class system, PC only.

AMD Athlon 64 FX60 Toledo OC'd to 3.4+Ghz $1,100
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103608

VapoChill LightSpeed (200W) $900
http://www.asetek.com/main/page.asp?sideid=465

SLI MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D512E GeForce 7800 GTX PCI Express 512MB 2x699 = $1398
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=321974

DFI LANPARTY UT NF4 SLI-DR $290
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136008

2x OCZ Platinum Edition 2GB (2 x 1GB) 280x2 = $560
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227225

6x Western Digital Raptor X WD1500AHFD 150GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache 349x6 = $2094
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136011

PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 1KW $489
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817703003

Lian Li V PC-V2100A $320
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811112093

DELL UltraSharp 3007WFP $2,199.00
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=3007WY3&category_id=4009

4x HP Black Lightscribe Burner 89x4 = $356
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827140014

Microsoft Optical Desktop Elite for Bluetooth $115
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16823109136

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite $385
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102191

Sennheiser HD 650 Headphones $499
http://www.headphone.com/guide/by-application/our-10-best-headphones/sennheiser-hd-650.php

Total Cost: $10,705

I hate speakers and I think they're stupid and rude.

Also, is it possible to run two 3007s on the same system?

Is it possible to watercool the vid card, chipset, and HD with water, with the phase change cooling the proc at the same time? Anyone ever done that?

Any improvements I could make?

I actually have been planning on building a "dream system" like this, but not until spring of 2007 when AM2 socket is mainstream and Vista is out.
 
Wow. That rig is a little too "bling" for me, if you know what I mean. :eek:

The only things I would ever spend that much money on are a house and a car.
 
mpegripper said:
shit, if i could get a house for 10k...
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I meant at least that much, not exactly that much, LOL. I was more talking about cars anyway.
 
PWMK2 said:
I meant at least that much, not exactly that much, LOL. I was more talking about cars anyway.
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It's hard to even find a used car these days for 10k that isn't a POS.
 
My car was $1,500, had it for two years, works great. Hasn't failed on me once. I think the key here is shopping around and not just running off to the closest used car dealership in your area.

ANYWAY! What I was trying to say was that $10,000 is a ludicrously large amount of money to spend on a computer.
 
ASUS P5WDG2-WS Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 975X ATX Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131591

i975 W/ PCI-X SCSI FTW!

Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 Presler 1066MHz FSB LGA 775 Processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116246

(total of 4gb's) Kingston HyperX 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model KHX6400D2K2/2G
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820134012
I'd get 2 GB modules if they were availible for a total of 8GB

HIS Hightech H190CF512 Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814161170

HIS Hightech H190XT512DVN Radeon X1900XT 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814161168

Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 PCI Interface Video Recorder, TV/FM Tuner Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815116609

SAMSUNG 244t-Silver 24" 6ms LCD Monitor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824001223

(2 of these) LSI Logic 320X2128 PCI-X MegaRAID SCSI Dual-channel Ultra320 RAID Storage Adapter
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816118021
One for a striped array for os and main apps, the second for a another array for games.

(12 of these) Fujitsu MAU3147NP 147GB 15,000 RPM SCSI Ultra320 68pin Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822116153
Raptors aint got nothing on SCSI

(2 of these) Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000KS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136014
For longterm misc storage, mp3's, pr0n, ect. ect.

(2 of these) PLEXTOR Beige SATA DVD Burner Model PX-716SA/SW
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827131351
Matching DVD Burners for ultimate burning pleasure.

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite 7.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102191

Logitech Z-5450 970181-0403 315 Watts 5.1 Speaker
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16836121133
THX certified for ultimate clarity.

PC Power & Cooling TURBO-COOL 850 SSI T85SSI SLI, EPS12V, SSI 850W Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817703002

Lian Li V PC-V2100B PLUS Black Computer Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811112094
Has enough room for all the hardware.

Razer Copperhead Tempest RZ01-050100-R1M1 Blue 7 Buttons 1x Wheel Gold plated USB 2000 DPI Laser Engine Gaming Mouse
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16826153105

Microsoft Natural 4000 B2M-00012 Black USB Wired Ergonomics Keyboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16823109148



That would be my dream newegg system...

Edit $20K before OS, cables, other misc stuff that I missed...
 
FreedomFGHTR, Raptors are faster in games than SCSI and are not very usefull to people not photo editing or using them as servers. And 12 of them? I could say I could have a hundred of them and top you I guess. :rolleyes:

And the rest of your system is just retarded.
 
JLGatsby said:
FreedomFGHTR, Raptors are faster in games than SCSI and are not very usefull to people not photo editing or using them as servers. And 12 of them? I could say I could have a hundred of them and top you I guess. :rolleyes:

And the rest of your system is just retarded.
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Here's the newest raptors specs...

Capacity 150GB
Cache 16MB
RPM 10,000 RPM
Average Seek Time 4.6ms
Average Write Time 5.2ms
Average Latency 2.99ms
Interface Serial ATA150

Now lets see the specs on the SCSI drives I posted

Capacity 147GB
Cache 8MB
RPM 15,000 RPM
Average Seek Time 3.3ms
Average Write Time 3.8ms
Average Latency 2ms
Interface SCSI Ultra320 68pin

Wow the SCSI drive beats the Raptor in every statistic except for cache size (SCSI doesnt need the cache its that fast).
hmm... SCSI Ultra320 is faster than SATA 150 especially with a dedicated controller card that takes work away from the cpu to allow it to do other thing.
but lets check out a scsi drive with the same performance stats as the raptor you posted...

Capacity 300GB
Cache 8MB
RPM 10,000 RPM
Average Seek Time 4.5ms
Average Write Time 5.0ms
Average Latency 2.99ms
Interface SCSI Ultra320 68pin

Still beats the raptor and has double the capacity. FYI the raptors are basically older scsi drives w/a SATA interface.

And why 12? Simple because I wouldn't have any more room in the case. Also that system would be pushing almost 3TB of storage. 1.7 of that with the fastest drives on the market.
Actually I do A LOT of video production so thats why it would be MY dream system and not YOURS...
 
JLGatsby said:
Um yeah, time to start reading some actual tests rather than the "specs" seen on newegg.

http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200601/WD1500ADFD_4.html
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200601/WD1500ADFD_5.html

I contend that your build is still retarded.
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Ok my drives have a faster random access time, and sequential transfer rate. A higher synthetic benchmark score for multi command queues A better score on Farcry, and WoW.

Your drive has a higher synthetic benchmark score for single user application, a better score on the sims :rolleyes: , a lower power consumption and amount of noise.

Its funny that your review didn't include any RAID performance nor does it mention which controller was used. The controller varible alone could easily skew the results of the test. But however if you want to break it down to gaming, I don't play the sims, I do play FPS games a lot however. And the games which are more complex clearly did better on the SCSI drive.
 
JLGatsby said:
FreedomFGHTR, Raptors are faster in games than SCSI and are not very usefull to people not photo editing or using them as servers. And 12 of them? I could say I could have a hundred of them and top you I guess. :rolleyes:

And the rest of your system is just retarded.
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Raptors are not faster than the drives he mentioned in any scenario.
 
ribs1 said:
Raptors are not faster than the drives he mentioned in any scenario.
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Right, but they are mopre feasable than taking up a PCI slot with a SCSI card

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bLaCktIGErs91 said:
Right, but they are mopre feasable than taking up a PCI slot with a SCSI card

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Do you normally use all of your pci slots?
 
My dream machine could not be built with parts sold at newegg. My dream machine would be built with parts that don't exist but are technically possible: a Free processor.
 
bLaCktIGErs91 said:
Sure do :/

1) Video Card Cooler
2) Sound Card
3) Ethernet
4) USB
5) Firewire

:/
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Wouldn't the mobo in a dream machine have enough usb and firewire ports onboard? Also 2 gigabit lan onboard?
 
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