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Techie · Nov 09, 2005, 09:06 PM // 21:06

What would be your dream computer? You could either build one or buy one from a manufacturer. I of course would build one. Money is not an issue, get as creative as you want.

Case: Custom steel molded case w/ allure brushing, and a bunch of skate stickers

Cooling: Either phase change, or my current dry ice

PSU: PC Power and Cooling 510W SLI Express PSU

Motherboard: Tyan Sever Motherboard Dual Opteron Socket 940

Processors: Dual (2x) AMD Opteron 280 Italy 1ghz FSB Socker 940

Video Card: Well since Tyan doesn't really use PCI-E, I had to pick a AGP video card, so I would choose the 6800GT and OC the hell out of it.

RAM: 2GB G. Skill Extreme Series Samsung TCCD PC4800 RAM

Hard Drives: 2x74GB 10k Raptors in RAID 1

CD/DVD Drive: Plextor Black IDE DVD Burner

Sound Card: Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2ZS Gamer Edition

Speakers: Logitech Z-5500 5.1

Monitor: Samsung 46" LCD Monitor

Mouse: Diamondback Razer 1600dpi, the Copperhead is wayyy too much dpi for me

Keyboard: Logitech G15

Vorkronor · Nov 10, 2005, 11:59 AM // 11:59

I would swap the mobo for a nice SLI piece with an nVidia chipset (maybe A8N-SLI) and dual 7800GTX

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If you limit yourself on the GPU power then the dual Opterons would be wasted. Some really high clocked AMD X2 CPU would be much better.

Of course this applies to a gaming PC

Old Dood · Nov 10, 2005, 12:08 PM // 12:08

My dream computer would be anything I could buy for about $5000.00.

Heck with that building stuff anymore....I am too lazy now for that.

Vorkronor · Nov 10, 2005, 12:12 PM // 12:12

On a second thought ... I'd say replace that mobo powered RAID array with a dedicated PCI RAID controller and add about 4-6 hard drives in RAID 5.

Better to mount that lot in a rack then. So there goes your custom brushed case

Techie · Nov 10, 2005, 07:43 PM // 19:43

I didn't say it had to be a gaming PC, I meant in general.

The 2 opterons are dual core, and if overclocked properly could smoke anything that has been out 2x over.

kawaii_bat · Dec 07, 2005, 02:18 AM // 02:18

I posted something along these lines around September-October.

Can anyone give me accurate specs for a gamming computer that would be around 1200-1500$ CDN

Without these things:
Screen, keyboard, mouse, Ati Radeon XL800 video card, 250Mb RAM card and Windows XP and all basic programs.

Keep in mind that the board has to accept Ati Radeon cards.

I would appreciate any and/or all help offered on this.
A compilation and/or list would be nice.

Detis Zan · Dec 07, 2005, 10:25 AM // 10:25

I just bought compy parts just under 1200$ US monies.

Look at my thread.

But my stuff was WITH keyboard, mouse, 1gb of ram. (No Windows I have someone that I can take the cd from. =P)

But... a mobo for a ATI Card shouldn't be that expensive, give or take 200 bucks. The most expensive thing was my v-card. Geforce 7800GT PCI Express x16.

Erm would the mobo have to be AMD or Intel btw?