RussianSensation
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For gaming and for those who like to blow $$$.
FX57 (soon)
DFI SLI
2x6800Ultras
2 gigs of VX ram
SCSI drives or 2x74 gig raptors or 1 SCSI + 300gig HDD
24inch LCD? 2405FPW because it can natively display 1080i content....perhaps...or just a dell 2001 if you dont want the trouble of non-standard resolution in games.
For music M-Audio revolution 7.1 or for games Audigy 2 ZS (this is a gaming PC so the latter)
Separate speakers + receiver or if you are lazy to research Klipsch 5.1 Ultra/Logitech Z5500
OCZ Powerstream 600 PSU
I am sure you can get better this is just off the top of my head.
and to top off the package => Vapochill or nVentiv Mach II phase-change cooling system. Overclock that FX57 to 3.6ghz.
For heavy multitasking, get a dual opteron system instead. But I would personally take a phase-change cooling system with FX57 processor over any dual-cpu system simply because today you'll benefit more from a faster single-threaded processor.
From Anandtech:
"The vast majority of desktop application benchmarks will show the single core AMD CPU as a better buy than the dual core Intel CPU. Why? Because the vast majority of desktop applications are single threaded and thus, will gain no benefit from running on a dual core processor.
Generally speaking, the following types of applications are multi-threaded:
Video Encoding
3D Rendering
Photo/Video Editing
most types of "professional" workstation applications
However, the vast majority of other applications are single threaded (or offer no performance gain from dual core processors):
office suites
web browsers
email clients
media players
games, etc.
If you spend any of your time working with the first group of applications, then generally speaking, you'll want to go with the dual core CPU. For the rest of you, a faster single core CPU will be the better individual performance pick."
FX57 (soon)
DFI SLI
2x6800Ultras
2 gigs of VX ram
SCSI drives or 2x74 gig raptors or 1 SCSI + 300gig HDD
24inch LCD? 2405FPW because it can natively display 1080i content....perhaps...or just a dell 2001 if you dont want the trouble of non-standard resolution in games.
For music M-Audio revolution 7.1 or for games Audigy 2 ZS (this is a gaming PC so the latter)
Separate speakers + receiver or if you are lazy to research Klipsch 5.1 Ultra/Logitech Z5500
OCZ Powerstream 600 PSU
I am sure you can get better this is just off the top of my head.
and to top off the package => Vapochill or nVentiv Mach II phase-change cooling system. Overclock that FX57 to 3.6ghz.
For heavy multitasking, get a dual opteron system instead. But I would personally take a phase-change cooling system with FX57 processor over any dual-cpu system simply because today you'll benefit more from a faster single-threaded processor.
From Anandtech:
"The vast majority of desktop application benchmarks will show the single core AMD CPU as a better buy than the dual core Intel CPU. Why? Because the vast majority of desktop applications are single threaded and thus, will gain no benefit from running on a dual core processor.
Generally speaking, the following types of applications are multi-threaded:
Video Encoding
3D Rendering
Photo/Video Editing
most types of "professional" workstation applications
However, the vast majority of other applications are single threaded (or offer no performance gain from dual core processors):
office suites
web browsers
email clients
media players
games, etc.
If you spend any of your time working with the first group of applications, then generally speaking, you'll want to go with the dual core CPU. For the rest of you, a faster single core CPU will be the better individual performance pick."
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