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I just got a $3500 system from my customer for FREE !!!

It was the best about 8yrs ago...

Tyan Dual Pentium Pro 200mhz w/ 1mb cache and 512mb of ram.......

I'm going to frame the mobo & processors. The processors alone cost $1400 each brand new when we bought them..

Regards,
Jose

 
GAIM is actually running on that old sony vaio laptop (suse 9.2 pro) but the main box with the 2005fpw is running AIM 4.8 with AIM+. I can not stand the newer versions of IM.

 
I would believe that THIS guy would have the best rig going right now...check out some of the pics of it....Dual Opteron with 6800U's in SLI, 16 gb of ram...etc. 🙂 Dream system? Overkill?
 
Athlon 64 3500+ Winchester
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum
ATI (Connect3D) Radeon X850 XT PE
2x 512MB of Crucial Ballistix PC4000
Sound Blaster Audigy
NEC FE991SB CRT
Stupid old Alienware case, mouse, and keyboard.
Western Digital 74.5GB HD
2x Optical Drives: Sony DRU500A DVD-RW and some old CD-RW drive.
1x 3.5" floppy drive
OCZ Modstream 450
3 old Chieftec case fans.

Everything in bold is what I upgraded since I bought my Alienware system 2 years ago. Which I wouldn't have bought if I knew that building my own PC was even possible. 😱

I have the X850 and Neo4 right now, I just haven't put them in yet. Got them today.
 
Originally posted by: thegimp03
I would believe that THIS guy would have the best rig going right now...check out some of the pics of it....Dual Opteron with 6800U's in SLI, 16 gb of ram...etc. 🙂 Dream system? Overkill?
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More of a monster machine.

I don't think there could be enough hardware in a box and be called overkill, in the computer industry. or is there?

 
thegimp03, my rig would waste his in loading times. And game framerates. And 16gb of ram in anyone's pc is a waste. A single 32-bit application can't address more than 4gb.
 
Tell that to him yourself then. 😀 I'm just pointing out that's a freakin monster machine..."Best rig" can be considered in a variety of ways is all. Spending $5,000 on ecc registered ram is a huge waste though imo.
 
Everyday worksatan:

SuperMicro X6DAE-G2
(2) Intel Xeon 3.6GHz
4GB PC3200 ECC DDR2
nVidia Quadro 4400FX 16x PCI-E
Creamware Luna II PCI Audio on 32/33 PCI
Audigy 2NX on USB 2.0 for games
Intel SRCU42X U320 SCSI RAID on 133MHz PCI-X This HBA has 512MB ECC DDR Cache and Li Ion Backup Battery System onboard
(11) 73.1GB Fujitsu MAS 15k disks configured with multiple logical drives
Logitech MX1000 Mouse (PS/2)
Logitech "Ultraflat" Y-SX49 Keyboard (PS/2)
Apple 30" 2560x1600 display
Toshiba SDM-1612 with customised firmware for true 16x DVD ripping
NEC ND-3500-AG DVD-RW drive mounted externally connected via 1394
Mitsumi 7in1 floppy/card reader combo

Verious case modifications for quiet (sub 30dBA) operation at the desktop.
Lian Li PC70 case (highly modified)
SuperMicro 650W ATX-EPS triple redundant power supply (modified to reduce fan noise - WAS about as loud as a woman screaming for a taxi in Manhattan!)

Using right now:

Dell Inspiron XPS notebook
3.4GHz NW CPU HT Enabled. Flies for a lappie but power hungry.
2048MB RAM
ATi MR9800 256MB Video
60GB 7200RPM HDD
8X Dual Layer DVD Burner
Bluetooth card
80211.a/b/g 1450 TM WLAN
Broadcom 10/100/1000 Mbps LAN
1920x1200 WUXGA display (Sharp)
Logitech 2.4GHz Travel Mouse (this thing rocks!)
1.44MB floppy - fits in DVD-RW bay
Spare 165 W/h Li Ion pack and two adapters
SB Audigy2 PCMCIA adapter
4GB USB 2.0 "Thumb" drive, waterproof.

Cheers!
 
amd 3200+ @ 2.5ghz stock. havent tried higher like round numbers
asus a8v rev 2
2x 512 corsair value 5:3 divider
6800gt at 420/1140 havent tried higher
audigy 2 zs
ultra xconnect 500w
mge sidewinder (hey it works)
lite on dvdrom
nec 3500a 16x burner oced to 17x 🙂
logitech mx510
74gb raptors
160gb seagate storage
buying this weekend z-5500's and nec fp2141sb

upgraded from a 800 mhz tbird oced to 1.1 IM FLYING
 
VOGONS;

Processor: Z80A rated at 3.5 Mhz.
BIOS: By Amstrad, 32K
RAM: 128 K
Mass Storage: A recently developed system, called "tape".
Video Card: 256*192 pixels at 50Hz (interlaced), 16 colors. RGB, Composite Video and RF out connectors.
Sound Card: Yamaha FM chip.
Two joysticks ports, 1 RS232 port and 1 parallel port.

Yes, it's a Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2A
 
I'd just like to address a few things:

What *kind* of rig are we considering? It's obvious there is no one rig that is the best at everything, so we should have several categories! If we are talking gaming then those dual Opteron rigs with 16 GB ECC ram aren't going to hold a candle to a nForce4 chipset with 1 GB ram in with a FX-55 even though they will run Maya much faster!

Also someone mentioned SCSI... I used to be a big SCSI fan (my last machine had 4 Cheetah X15s in RAID0 on a cached Mylex controller.) From my own tests, two Raptor WD740 drives in RAID0 absolutely SMOKE two Cheetah X15 drives in RAID0. And I dont have to cram 7 feet of LVD cable into my case anymore either!

To be fair, the Raptors are, for all intents and purposes, SCSI drives with an SATA interface...

I'm looking forward to see what SAS brings to the table though 🙂
 
Well, my system is kinda "average" now but it still games at max res and runs everything else wonderfully fast.

AthlonXP 2500+ @ 2.2ghz (3200+ effective)
Abit NF7-S 2.0
2x512 PC3200 Geil Ultra Value
BFG 6800GT @ 420/1100
Seagate 200GB 7200.7
Maxtor 250GB DM 9
On-Board Soundstorm Audio
NEC 2510a (8x+/- 2.4x DL)
Lite-On 48x12x48
TT Silent Purepower 480watt
Antec Super Lanboy w/ speed controller
Dell 2005FPW 20.1" widescreen
Nokia 445xpro 21" (20" viewable) CRT
Logitech Z-560 400watt RMS 4.1
Random logitech keyboard and MS intellimouse

There you go, my not super hot but still decent setup

-spike
 
a64 winchester @ 2.6 (and rising 🙂) with a soon to be added xp-90 🙂
epox 9NDA3
2x512 OCZ 3500 2.5-3-3-7 running 2-3-2-10@215 🙂
9800 nonpro 🙁
onboard sound 🙁
antec trueblue 480w
Cheitec dragon
liteon cd-rw
sony dvd-rom (free 🙂)
160gb samsung IDE
120gb WD external
Veiwsonic a91f+ 19in CRT
logitech wireless keyboard/mouse
logitech z-640 5.1 speakers
 
By no means a speed demon. But its faster than anything I'd ever need.

A64 3000+ (s754 nc)
512mb Corsair Valueselect ddr400
Shuttle SK83G
-Via K8M800 mobo
-240W PS
Elsa 9600XT VIVO 128mb
NEC 2510A
80gb Segate SATA (7200.7)
MX510 Logitech mouse
MS Natural Pro keyboard
Small yellow rubber ducky sitting on top of case (this adds +5% to cpu mhz, +10 mb ram, and +15 defence and +25% critical hit)
 
P III 650,
Compaq
80gig HDD
256MB 133mhz
32MB Matrox G400
DVD/CDRW generic
BTC optical mouse
MS key

Shoots the sh i t off any Dual Opteron 2gig PC4000 RAID0 2 Terrabyte systems you have running
 
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