compile your dream computer

what would be the specs of your dream computer?


ram? cpu? motherboard? monitor? etc etc

the laptop BT brought with him to Two Tribes was mint, the monitor was like 20inch big and it was a widescreen I believe making viewing DVDs a pleasure!

I guess I gotta put a lot of RAM in it, so it'll make playing games a better experience and also GForce graphics card

Specifying ram/cpu/motherboard seems a bit silly - everone wants the current fastest, and as much ram as possible. I think other things are more important now:

- doesn't crash
- software problems take care of itselfa
- virus free
- no security problems

Apart from that a nice, clear, large LCD (not wide screen for me), dvd writer, and good cpu/ram/gpu specs. Low weight isn't so important for me, I barely ever move mine, but it'd be a bonus.

Maybe if I save my pennies I can buy this one...

http://www.cray.com/products/systems/x1/

athlon 64 fx-53
asus SK8V
2 sticks of this ram ---> http://www.corsairmicro.com/corsair/products/specs/twinx1024-3200c2pro.pdf
monitor would be the new samsung synchmaster 19" lcd with <20 ms
radeon 9800xt 256mb
4 x seagate Seagate ST3200822A 200 gig drives

but im so over pc's now...

why radeon... you're always plugging nvidia

Mine would be a dual intel whatever (huge specs) with 3x 52" Plasma screens.

when have i ever plugged nvidia ?

i'd like to try out the matrox parheila vid cards - anyone tried them?

shit for games. good imagage quality like all matrox cards though

sounds like a mac.

*recalls how easy it is to make macs crash in a heap with incomprehensible errors messages*

Computer Science labs at Auckland uni eh harvey?

That and the fact that I have actually used macs in a work environment as well (IT administrator of an organisation that used macs in the design studio and PCs in the admin side).

This would do the trick for me

http://www.nfc.co.nz/Desktop.asp?ID=10

running OS9 or OSX? - OS 9 used to lock up on me but i work on OSX all day - pushing it hardout with video and graphic work - have not rebooted in over 3 months...and its never crashed in OS X (10.2)

Sounds like me and XP

how much would this cost?? without all the extras like screens, dvd writers etc


CPU Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz skt 478 CPU ( .13¢Gg 800MHz FSB 512KB L2 cache) Hyper-Threading technology

Motherboard Asus P4C800-E Deluxe Socket478 Intel 875PE/ICH5R 5PCI 1AGP Dual channel 4DDR 400 , onboard audio,1394,SATA RAID 0+1,Intel GB lan

Memory PC3200 1GB DDR 400 SDRAM - Samsung orignal chip(Consisting 2x 512MB DDR400 RAM for enhanced TwinBank Technology speed)


Graphic Asus A9800XT ATI Radeon 9800XT 256MB Video-Out Video-In DVI

Exactly!
10.2 has been working a charm for me

This is just from glancing at pricespy:

P4 - $800+
mobo - $450+
ram - $300 , more if its dual channel
gpu - $1000

all up about $2500+

im liking that...



except maybe the hard-drives...

i would go for:

P4 3.4Ghz EE CPU(800Mhz FSB, HT, 2MB L3 Cache!!!)
Albatron PX865PE Motherboard
4 x 1024MB DDR400 Synchronized chips
Lets say 8 x 250GB SATA HardDrives
Sony Blue-laser DVD Writer
Creative Gigawork 7.1 Speaker System
Ummm wat else?
20" LCD Sony Display
Umm sure theres some cool little gadgets i could chuck in there
and how about a virus free stable os while ur at it????

oh yea and a GeForce FX5950 with 256MB Ram

I must, you guys have pretty mundane dreams :p All those desktop PCs you suggest are well within anyones grasp.

well why dont we make it a sun server wit say 32 cpus?
how about 50gb of ram??
hell why dont we go to fibre optic cabling through the computers internals???

Thats more like it. Much more interesting than a boring old PC

heh lets have it instead of a screen project a 3d holographic image up into space which is fully interactive meaning no physical mouse or keyboard? u have a 3d holographic keyboard for when u do need one though

Id like a dual cpu comp at some stage with a couple of gigs of ram and a nice gpu.
raid0 10,000rpm work disk array and network storage for media etc and the grand canyon lcd screen http://www.go-l.com/monitors/grand_canyon/architecture/

well the last bit is overkill but we are dreaming

25x VGA resolution at 6400x1200 pixels

havin a fuckoff big screen would be cool

this is what i would get if i had the $$$

CPU: Pentium 4 3.4 GHZ 800MHZ FSB 2MB cache Extreme Edition $2000
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte GA-8KNXP Ultra Intel Socket 478, Canterwood (875P)/ICH5R, ATX, FSB: 800/533, AGP Pro*1, PCI: 5, Dual Channel, DDR400/333, 8*USB2.0/1.1 (4 by cable), 2*Serial ATA, 4*PATA,Adaptec SCSI Ultra320, RAID0, 1, 6-Channel Sound, LAN: (Gigabit) $699
RAM: Geil PC3500 1GB , 4.5ns GL2000 Chip CAS 2, Dual Channel ( 512MBx2 ) $425
HDD: Calypso Quiet 250GB, 8MB Buffer, SATA/150 $405
VIDEO: ATI Original 9800XT , 256bit, w TV/DVI $879

Now thats a kick ass system

2 fuckoff big screens would be better

How about a doughnut shaped desk where you sit in the middle that is completely surrounded by multiple screens.

thats kinda what it was like when I flew the Air NZ flight simulator a few years back - well quite a few actually
the pod you sat in effectively had three screens - one in front and one on each side

lots of the guys here at work have got two monitors hooked up to their pc's giving them lots of acreage....

I used to run 2 screens but now i prefer just one, a friend of mine convinced his boss to give him 3 screens (hes a sys admin for a number of servers so always has 10+ windows open) so i guess for a situation like that a grand canyon would be the shit. Cant see my boss forking out for one of those anytime tho.

well i was keeping this within the realms of reality..... if not, then.....

i would have a pc with a processor and video card for each pixel on the screen and a trillion gig hard drive with a billion gigs of ram and imax for my screen

I wasn't referring to what was outside of reality. Just thought some people might put more interesting stuff besides desktop PCs (like the Cray X1 I want or trance_ra's 32 processor Sun box).

bet ya one billion squids that my current pc would get more frames in most games than those

http://www.flightadventures.com/misc/pix/jonahbird_rig3.jpg

http://www.flightadventures.com/misc/mel3.jpg