Dream Computer?

[mikenune]

Case: Enlight EN-7255 ATX Tower w/ 1x5.25 3x3.5 bays
    Case Fan(s) - Front: Enermax UC-8FAB-B 80mm Dual Ball Bearingx2
    Case Fan(s) - Rear: Enermax UC-8FAB-B 80mm Dual Ball Bearingx1
    Power Supply: Generic 600Watt ATX w/ dual fans
    Motherboard: Asus SK8N nForce3 pro150 PC2700ECC AGP8x 5xPCI Audio LAN 6xUSB2.0
        Processor: AMD Athlon 64 FX 53
            Processor Heat Sink/Fan: Generic
        RAM: Crucial CT25672Y40B 2GB PC3200 Registered ECC
        Audio: Onboard Realtek ALC650 Codec
        Video: eVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB
            Video Heat Sink/Fan: None
        Networking: Onboard RealTek RTL8201BL PHY 10/100 NIC
    Hard Drive(s): Western Digital WD740GD 74GB 10000RPM ATA150 SATAx2 (RAID 0)
    CD-ROM Drive: Black Memorex 48x24x48x16x CD-RW/DVD
    Floppy Drive: Compaq 1.44MB
Monitor: Black ViewSonic G810B 21in. CRT Monitor w/ 2048x1536 max res.
Speakers: Black Logitech Z-680 500Watt 5.1 System THX Certified
Keyboard: Acer BenQ x750 Wireless Keyboard w/ Internet Hotkeys and Optical Mouse
Mouse: included with keyboard (wireless)

OK, what needs to be improved upon?

NOTE: No, this isn't my computer, I just want it to be. I need to know what else I should get before I start collecting parts.

[Charmy]

Hard Drive(s): Western Digital WD740GD 74GB 10000RPM ATA150 SATAx2 (RAID 0)
Audio: Onboard Realtek ALC650 Codec
CD-ROM Drive: Black Memorex 48x24x48x16x CD-RW/DVD
Monitor: Black ViewSonic G810B 21in. CRT Monitor w/ 2048x1536 max res.
Speakers: Black Logitech Z-680 500Watt 5.1 System THX Certified

[quote]Hard Drive(s): 146.8GB ULTRA 320 WIDE SCSI, 320MB/SEC 10000rpm SCA 80PIN CHEETAH, 8MB CACHE
Audio: Sound Blaster

[Jezebell]

nah, check this out http://go-l.com

[Charmy]

http://www.go-l.com/monitors/grand_c...ures/index.htm


I want to cry...

EDIT: Charmy is no longer alive after seeing the price tag of $17999, he sadly died, his final words for me to post this for him, thank you for your time.

[MrJag]

name on topic is "dream computer" C'mon cant you dream better then that lol ... i mean yeah that be a nice comp but if its a dream comp it could be a whole lot better ... i have a pretty nice and when i bought it i felt it was the nicest around but still wasnt a "dream car" lol ...

[KhaN]

Sorry but ... Dream Computer and AMD make me laught ... thanks for the fun

[Charmy]

Bah, you suck KhaN the new AMD 64 > anything pentium ever dreamed of making. so =P

[KhaN]

AMD always tryed to impose their standard, lie 3DNow! and such , since, its never worked, only Intel can impose standard. 64bits processor is just another cheat from AMD to bump their proc sales, like they done when XP Processors when out.
You will really see what a 64 proc is when "Nocona" chip will be out :p

[RexChaos]

As dream computers go, you all have the wrong idea...

Skip the desktop type model and go for something like one of the Dell quad Xeon poweredge servers with 32 gigs of ram or something. Of course I can dream bigger, but that's my start right now.

"I have 300 people in one zone on EQEmu now! Cool!" hehe

[gandar]

Being an AMD fan myself, I couldn't resist responding...

I prefer AMD over Intel and I have for years. Aside from the "Megahertz Myth" facts that make AMD generally (NOT always!) perform faster than Intel, AMD is cheaper - sometimes a lot cheaper.

For me, it has been simple experience. Your mileage will vary! :P I currently have 2 setups, almost identical - both with Radeon 8500 128mb cards (BTW, I hate this card), both with Asus boards, 1gb of RAM... 1 is an AMD 2600, running at approx 1.98 Ghz (Barton core). Why does this system routinely outperform my P4 2.8 Ghz? /shrug... OS is the same (WinXP Pro).

I am running a variety of chips in the rest of my network equip. My firewall is an Intel Pent 233, but my Web and Mail servers are AMD 300's. My PDC is an AMD Athlon 900, but my BDC is an Intel Pent2 333.

My EQEmu server is an AMD 2400, though! :P~

Personally, I have to salute AMD - they have come a long way in a market that was initially against them and are quite competitive with Intel. Aside from a rather serious timing issue years ago with Win95 and the AMD 350+ (anyone but me remember that?) every chip I have used from AMD has been rock solid.

In closing, this is all just IMHO... Your mileage may vary!

~Gandar

[mikenune]

First off. . .

HOLY CRAP THOSE ARE HUGE MONITORS!!!!!

OK, now with that out of the way. . .

Even though the subject is "Dream Computer," this will (eventually) actually be a real computer that I am going to build myself. And, since my job only pays $10.00/hr, I can't afford anything like that $18,000.00 monitor setup.

Now, with THAT being said. . .

HOLY CRAP THOSE ARE HUGE MONITORS!!!!!

[samandhi]

Hey it is good to check what could become someone's REAL computer, as opposed to a DREAM computer.. I did this... I was asking around and researching the best of the best (in my price range of about $7k) and I ended up with a very nice system. Below I will give you the specs, so you can see what I thought 7 or 8 months ago what the best I could get...

• Case - ThermalTake Xaser III 2000a Super Tower w/7 cooling fans w/digital CPU temp. readout in front panel windowed model.
• Power Supply - Antec True Power TRUE550 550 watt.
• MotherBoard - Gygabyte GA-7N400 Pro 2 w/4 IDE connectors, 2 Serial Connectors IDE and Serial are RAID.
• Processor - AMD Athlon XP 3200+
• CPU Cooler - ThermalTake Volcano 11+
• Hard Drives - 2- Maxtor 146 GB serial interface.
• CD/DVD - TDK 48x16x48 CD R/W burner, TDK IndiDVD DVD-R/W +R/W 16x2x4 burner
• Floppy - Samsung 3 1/2 Drive
• RAM - Corsair Matched Set 1 GB 400 MHZ
• Video - Asus V9950 Geforce FX 5900 Ultra w/ 256 MB RAM
• Sound - Creative Labs Audigy 2 EX w/ External Box
• Network - Blitzz Wireless Card
• Mouse - Logitech Cordless optical Trackman
• Keyboard - Micro Innovations wireless
• Game controller - Saitek P3000 Wirless rechargable
• Microphone - Logitech Cordless Freedom Headset/Mic
• Speakers - Megaworks THX 6.1 650 watt system
• Printer - HP 7100 series all in one printer/scanner/copier/fax
• Print Server - HP wireless Print server
• Monitor - Samsung Syncmaster 240T 24" LCD Widescreen native resolution of 1920x1200
• Accesories - Toshiba E755 Pocket PC w/ built in wireless network card. 128MB SD memory stick.
• Black lights for inside case, and UV reactive paint, and wire sleeves for all wires. Neon light footpegs for case.
• Desk - 2-Line Designs SP-200KR-K Legacy Computer desk All glass tops and Black iron supports.

Dont think this is still top of the line, but I wont complain about my PC for a while to come!

[dino0183]

dfljs

[Charmy]

Well.. while we are dreaming... lets dream


http://www.cray.com/products/systems/sv1/

Multi-Streaming Processor (MSP)
The Cray SV1ex combines four 2 GFLOPS processors to create one eight-vector pipe processor that delivers 8 GFLOPS peak performance. The system dynamically reconfigures the combination of MSP and standard processors based on the system workload.

With
ATM and gigabit Ethernet

Scalability
Cost-effective solution to scale capacity beyond the resources available within a single node. Scales to 32 nodes with over one teraflop of peak CPU capacity and more than one terabyte of memory.

For those who don't know what a FLOPS is. FLOPS are floating-point operations per second.
Floating-point is, according to IBM, "a method of encoding real numbers within the limits of finite precision available on computers." Using floating-point encoding, extremely long numbers can be handled relatively easily.

Basicly a gigaflop is approx a million GHZ of processing power, (the XD1 computers do not run million GHZ processers, they operate off of AMD 2.2GHZ processers, but due to the way the information is processed (the cray technology) they can process up to 53 GigaFlops off 12 processers (one computer). So really instead of the 12 2.2 GHZ processers, its more like running 12, one million GHZ processers.)

The Cray SV1 however is different, each SV1 runs 4 parallel 2 gigaflop processers, that have the ability to run in parallel with up to 31 other SV1's, thats 32 total machines, running 128, 2 gigaflop processers in a row, topping off at about one terabyte of information per second.

a terabyte if you didn't know, is 1000 gigabytes, which is 1000000MB which is 100000000kb. (i think i did that right).

and further more.

http://www.cray.com/temp/products/systems/xd1/

(Formatting was screwed up, but the first number is a single XD1 computer, and the second is a full rack of 12 computers)
Compute Processors
12 <---One Cray XD1
144 <---12 Cray XD1's

Performance
53 GFLOPS* <---One
633 GFLOPS* <---12 (you get it)

Aggregate Switching Capacity
96 GB/s
1152 GB/s

Interprocessor Latency
1.6

[MCG_3dMarDiv]

Soooon the wife will let me spend my money on an alienware from hell. (drool spills out)