Sinkhan Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Aside from a mainframe or supercomputer, if you had $20,000 and were to assemble the best computer possible for a single home user with parts from today's market, what would it have? This is what I have so far, but have no clue of anything beyond these parts: Intel Core 2 Duo 1 TB Hard Drive 2GB SDRAM ATI All-in-Wonder 9800 T1 Connection And when it comes out, Windows Vista Something to fill my sig with until I find a replacement.Also check out my blug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Most people would say the most expensive of everything on http://www.newegg.com or something :D . Here's mine anywase. Core 2 Duo X6800 Extreme Edition 4gb of Corsair Cas3 memory 2x 7950GX2 (in quad SLI) 4x 15k RPM 147gb hard drives in RAID0 Windows Vista Ultimate Edition Creative X-fi Elite edition The biggest LCD I can aford with the rest of the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Most people would say the most expensive of everything on http://www.newegg.com or something :D . Here's mine anywase. Core 2 Duo X6800 Extreme Edition 4gb of Corsair Cas3 memory 2x 7950GX2 (in quad SLI) 4x 15k RPM 147gb hard drives in RAID0 Windows Vista Ultimate Edition Creative X-fi Elite edition The biggest LCD I can aford with the rest of the money. What he said, but instead of the 4x 15k RPM drives in RAID 0 *shudder* I'd go for pure storage. 4 x 750GB Seagates. Notoriously Trollish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinkhan Posted July 19, 2006 Author Share Posted July 19, 2006 Well I guess I'll need to do some looking into and some researching... Something to fill my sig with until I find a replacement.Also check out my blug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Putter Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Intel Core 2 Duo 1 TB Hard Drive 2GB SDRAM ATI All-in-Wonder 9800 T1 Connection And when it comes out, Windows Vista LOL. All-in-Wonder 9800? Where the hell did that come from. Here's probably the best: -Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme x6800 (not actually out yet, but whatever). -ATI Radeon x1900XTX, or a pair of the highest end nVidia cards in SLI (I don't know enough about nVidia, and I know Crossfire can cause problems, so I'll just leave it like that). Also, this will improve with the highest end DX10 card. -4GB of RAM (highly unnecessay right now, but they still sell it) with high MHz (is 667 the highest? maybe it's higher now, 800 maybe?) -Connection...Well, that doesn't have much to do with the actual computer... -Vista won't really improve performance (based on some tests, such as framerates in F.E.A.R. there isn't much noticable difference...in some other games, it slows it down). Vista will be nice, exclusive games to play, but unless you have a DX10 card it won't really do much for performance (and it might also have a significant amount of bugs). -And HD...I don't know anything about Harddrives except that you need high capacity, high RPM, SATA...Ask someone smart about this. Apparently it's good to have 2 harddrives, one for booting, one for storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinkhan Posted July 19, 2006 Author Share Posted July 19, 2006 Oh so it's the ATI Radeon X1900 All-in-Wonder... #-o Something to fill my sig with until I find a replacement.Also check out my blug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tunaboy692004 Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 i would spend 5000 on the comp, and the other 15,000 for a 72inch plasma for the screen ;) Current Goals80/80 Fletching60/75 Woodcutting97/100 Combat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frizoid Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 man you guys are only going dual sli? go for quad ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 man you guys are only going dual sli? go for quad ;) My pick was quad SLI. The 7950GX2 card is 2 7900GTs, so 2 of the 7950GX2s is quad SLI :wink: . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinkhan Posted July 21, 2006 Author Share Posted July 21, 2006 i would spend 5000 on the comp, and the other 15,000 for a 72inch plasma for the screen ;) Lol that'd be so incredibly fun to play FPSs like Doom, CounterStrike, or CoD :D :thumbsup: And could someone quickly tell me what dual and quad SLI and CAS2/CAS3 means? Something to fill my sig with until I find a replacement.Also check out my blug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 And could someone quickly tell me what dual and quad SLI and CAS2/CAS3 means? Quad SLI means you have 4 video cards running at once working together to do the graphics work. Same with SLI but only with 2 cards. CAS2/3 means the speed on the memory, the lower the better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diminished2b Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 And could someone quickly tell me what dual and quad SLI and CAS2/CAS3 means? Quad SLI means you have 4 video cards running at once working together to do the graphics work. Same with SLI but only with 2 cards. CAS2/3 means the speed on the memory, the lower the better. Wrong. Quad SLI can be defined as four cores (GPU) (Two 7950GX2).. Doesn't have to be four video card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruiser Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 And could someone quickly tell me what dual and quad SLI and CAS2/CAS3 means? Quad SLI means you have 4 video cards running at once working together to do the graphics work. Same with SLI but only with 2 cards. CAS2/3 means the speed on the memory, the lower the better. Wrong. Quad SLI can be defined as four cores (GPU) (Two 7950GX2).. Doesn't have to be four video card. He was still correct. You just twisted it to fit the latest and greatest hardware. http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/10/04/one_gigabyte_motherboard/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diminished2b Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 Umm, I don't want to start a flame war but: If I say it needs four GPU's then it can be four video cards. If he says it needs four video cards, then it can't *JUST* be four GPUs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruiser Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 I was refering to your "wrong" comment. Both descriptions of Quad SLI can be correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 I was refering to your "wrong" comment. Both descriptions of Quad SLI can be correct. Thank you for backing me up Cruiser. I found the monitor I want for this Ultimate computer. :D :D :D :D http://www.infosyncworld.com/us/display ... ma_tv.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeebe Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 lol in 5 years if you see this topic you're gonna be laughing so hard :P Jeebe's RuneScape Tools Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatsilverwyrm Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 And could someone quickly tell me what dual and quad SLI and CAS2/CAS3 means? Quad SLI means you have 4 video cards running at once working together to do the graphics work. Same with SLI but only with 2 cards. CAS2/3 means the speed on the memory, the lower the better. Except that you have to have software designed to take advantage of the 4 GPUs, of which little exists to my knowledge. What you can have though is one GPU dedicated to different processes/displays, which is why it's primarily good for people in the media industry. Unless you have a game capable of splitting itself up among the GPUs, most home-users wouldn't see the difference between 4 and 2 or maybe even 1 GPU. Of course that's saying nothing about the bragging rights involved.. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinkhan Posted July 30, 2006 Author Share Posted July 30, 2006 I was refering to your "wrong" comment. Both descriptions of Quad SLI can be correct. Thank you for backing me up Cruiser. I found the monitor I want for this Ultimate computer. :D :D :D :D http://www.infosyncworld.com/us/display ... ma_tv.html 103"??????? Imagine playing CoD or Doom on that... Something to fill my sig with until I find a replacement.Also check out my blug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Quad SLI would probbily struggle trying to display images on the 103" for sure :D . Going to have to go for octoSLI :wink: . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aftershock Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 You can customize some pretty good computers here: http://www.alienware.com http://www.viciouspc.com You never know what you've got till it's gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username388 Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 If I had $20,000 for a computer, I wouldn't build a computer. I probably make a cluster. Just get a few quad, dual-core opteron systems. I'd probably get 8Gb per core. I wouldn't use this setup for games because that would be retarted. The only other important thing is a good network. Definitely gigabit, or even 10 gbps. That reminds me of one of the stupidest pieces of hardware I've seen. A 10 Gbps PCI NIC. Lol, the PCI bus can't even support a Gigabit NIC at anywhere close to full speed, let alone a 10 Gbps. NIC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faux Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 About the 2 GB thing, is it true that that is all you need for now? And anything more than that is just showing off? :: Guess the Movie Contest Champion: pfilc23 :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 About the 2 GB thing, is it true that that is all you need for now? And anything more than that is just showing off? 2gb is more than enough for todays apps and games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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