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$5000.00 to blow!!!!

You have 5K to "blow", and you are worried about value? I would build my own, and with that sort of money you
could build a few killer systems.
 
for $5000 you could build a really kickass system, but of course if you want the best you should build it yourself, and pick and choose on the components. you certainly can afford to do so.
 
If i had that much money to blow on something that would improve my computing experience, i would get the FASTEST internet connection i possibly could
 
if i had to spend it on computer related things, i'd buy a kickass PC and a kickass Laptop (it should be just enough for both). But honestly, if I had 5K to blow, i'd spend max 2K on a desktop and buy 36" Sony WEGA for ~1500 and a nice DVD Player for ~$300 and save the rest for PC upgrades as I need them.
 
Get a couple 18 Gig of 15K rpm scsi drives a GTS with a coppermine P3 ~800 Mhz or so. Save the rest for the next upgrade 6 months down the line 😉
 
spend 2K on a kick ass computer- and save the other 3K- invest it into stocks if you want. <cross fingers for fall recovery>
 
Build your own system. Use a buyer's guide (Anand's is my personal favourite, but there are lots of good ones out there) and follow it as a guide, change what you like. Save the rest for upgrades if you have any left.

Personnally I'd get something on the order of a Thunderbird 750 with Asus A7V or ABit KT7, 256MB of RAM, a pair of 30 or 45Gig IBM 75GXPs in RAID0, Pioneer 16x DVD (w/ hardware decoder, but that is 100% personal preference, a 700 would have enough juice for software playback), Plextor 12/10/32A, a GeForce2 and an SBLive (any flavour). This won't be $5000 but it will be more than enough power and won't waste any cash, and put into a really nice monitor (21&quot; sony flat screen) so you won't have to upgrade that for a while. And what you have left save for upgrades. Oh yeah, and Video Logic Sirocco Crossfire speakers.

Edit: There is nothing wrong with the P3 as a choice either, but the thunderbird has better price/performance, and even if I had $5000 sitting in my pocket, I still wouldn't want to waste money. If I could get the same performance for cheaper.


If you just want a massive system or can't save it, get something like a P3 933 with an i815, 512MB of RAM, GeForce 2, a couple of SCSI hard drives in RAID, an SBLive! Platinum, Video Logic Desktop Theatre DTS speakers, a 21&quot; or 24&quot; monitor, a SCSI CDRW and DVD...

Either way, build your own, don't buy a prebuilt system from anyone.
 
Red Dawn, prolly most gamers round here would prefer a stripe because data security takes a back seat to overall speed. Redundancy offers better security @ the cost of raw read/write speeds...
 
Perfomance would be minimal if any during game play. Big difference that I notice is in installing apps or games to HDD's &amp; load times for OS and apps. Increased 35% or so on my setup. (Win2K software stripe of enterprise 10K U160's has sped up my sustained transfer rates from 27 to about 42m/ps)

Besides Red Dawn, I am merely answering the question that was asked why a stripe 0 instead of redundant 1. Gamers are (granted, my assumption) more concerned w/speed; not security...wasn't that what you were getting @? It sounded to me like you were wondering why anyone would setup a stripe when data could be compromised.
 
Yeah, for 5k u gotta buy scsi right down to your floppy drive! I'd raid a couple of 15,000 rpm drives, damn that'd be fast!
 
Why not red dawn? He obviously wants good gaming performance or he woudln't be looking to Game PC. If you get an ABit K7T-RAID, all it costs you is a 2nd hard drive. Obviously not that much if he has $5,000. A hardcore gamer isn't going to care about redundancy. IDE drives don't fail that often, and if they do, he has to reinstal windows.
Oh no.
Get a CDRW, anything that's really important, put it on CD.
We aren't running a corporate enterprise server, or even a workstation. We want a gaming machine. Getting into RAID5 is getting a little silly.
*shrugs* Why use a piddly RAID5? An ASP on an IBM AS/400 stripes (or mirrors for the main system ASP) across RAID5 blocks. How's that for speed/redundancy? My theme was high performance without wasting a pile of money for no good reason.

IDE RAID0 isn't the most effective speed increase, but especially with the RAID controller built into the mobo, it will cost next to nothing.

Edit: forgive my bad typing, I have bandages on my fingers today.
 
$5000 is an very expensive computer indeed by today's standards. I know that PCs in 1983 could cost that much but things have really come down!
Trouble is when you get to that price point nobody else can really put together a package to suit a variety of people. I mean how do they decide whether to use a $400 speaker set, expensive multiprocessing, or a $1000 TFT for example? You've gone beyond basic PC broad functionality into specialist territory with this money. Far too many options you see. Build it yourself, you really have to.
 
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