The $8630 rig

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Gomce

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Your System Price (excludes shipping): $8630


Case VX-Charcoal Case - Full Tower, 2 front USB

Power Supply 600 Watt Enermax® NoiseTaker Quiet Power Supply with Dual Smart Fans, user adjustable speed control knob

Case Lights Double Blue Cold Cathode Chassis Light Kit

Motherboard Asus® A8N SLI Deluxe - NVIDIA nForce ?4 SLI MCP, PCI Express Motherboard with DDR

AMD® Processor AMD® Athlon? 64 FX-55, 2.6GHz, 939-pin Processor*

CPU Cooling Zalman® Heatsink w/80mm Ultra Quiet Fan, Arctic Silver? 5 Compound

DDR Memory 1024MB Mushkin? PC3200 DDR400 Blue Series CL2 Low Latency Enhanced Memory with Heat Spreader(2x512)

PCX Video 2 x 256MB eVGA? nVidia® GeForce? 6800 Ultra Velocity Micro Edition in SLI*, with Far Cry & Battlefield 1942

Video Cooling VideoCool? Positive Pressure Airflow System - Speed adjustable, with light

Video Tuning Moderate 3D Video Performance Tuning & Optimization (Requires VideoCool? system) (+$35.00)

Monitor
23" Sharp® LCD widescreen monitor (IT23M1U), 1366 x 768 resolution, includes TV tuner with remote, speakers, HDTVready

Monitor 2
23" Sharp® LCD widescreen monitor (IT23M1U), 1366 x 768 resolution, includes TV tuner with remote, speakers, HDTVready

Audio SoundBlaster® Audigy 2 ZS with 1394 FireWire Port, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1 channel

Speakers Creative GigaWorks? S750 - 7.1 Channel, 700 watt, THX certified - Black

Hard Drive 1 74GB Western Digital Raptor 10,000rpm SATA, 8MB Cache

Hard Drive 2 400GB Hitachi 7200rpm SATA/150, 8MB Cache

Optical Drive 1 FREE Upgrade 16x Lite On® DVD+/-RW/CD-RW Dual Layer (SOHW-1633S) Black Bezel

Optical Drive 2 12x Plextor® DVD+/-RW (PX-712A), Black Bezel

Floppy Drive & Media Reader
1.44MB Floppy Drive, Black Bezel

Network Adapter Integrated 10/100/1000MBps Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter

Network Adapter 2 or WiFi: Asus® 802.11 B+G WiFi Wireless Adapter with remote antenna, 11MBps/54MBps

WiFi Router NetGear® WGR614 54Mbps Cable/DSL Wireless Router (Support by NetGear)

FireWire Integrated IEEE 1394 FireWire Port

Game Bundle FREE Far Cry on DVD, plus coupon for Half Life 2 and Counter-Strike?: Source (Quantities Limited!)
Productivity Software No Thanks
Software Bundle Ulead® Digital Creation Suite- PhotoImpact, VideoStudio, DVD MovieFactory, Burn.Now ($290 Value)
AntiVirus Software None
Recovery Disk Custom DVD Restore Disk, returns your system hard drive to the original factory installation
Internal Cables Rounded Silver Braided IDE and Floppy Cables (+$30.00)
Keyboard Genuine Microsoft® Multimedia Keyboard - Black
Mouse None (Or select a Cordless Keyboard/Mouse Combo) (-$20.00)
Network Cable 10ft Premium Ethernet Network Cable (+$15.00)
MP3 Player None
Printers Epson® Stylus® Photo 1280 - deluxe photo printer, 6 color ink system, 5760x770 dpi (USB printer cable required) (+$449.00) 10.00 lbs
Printer Cable Premium USB Printer Cable (+$19.00)


The prices of dream configurations dropped, it used to be $15k for a dream config few years ago.

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otispunkmeyer

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PCX video? never heard of that....im sure it was PCI-E, also id swap the zalman cpu cooler for the new Zalman CNPS7700Cu....140mm in diameter and all copper baby!

also id go for G-Skill ram

amd if u got the money why not have the Audigy 4pro? it is actually better than the 2 apparently
 
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imported_NoGodForMe

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I'm not impressed either, but thanks for the post, very entertaining.

No water cooling?
Eventually they'll have to figure out a way to put a Koolance Exos AL together, then ship it seperately. Only thing is, the end user would have to fill the system, and if something went wrong, it would be a mess to drain the system and send it back.

The big cost of that system is the two 23" monitors, that's probably 3k right there. 4k for the computer, and 1k of profit.
 
biostud

biostud

Lifer
Feb 27, 2003
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Needs Vapochill cooling for max performance or watercooling foor good cooling and little noise.
 
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Looney

Lifer
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Why TV monitors? I would rather get a single 23" monitor with 1920x1200 resolution or even the Apple 30" if they would work with those GPUs.

Or hell, at least get the 40" Sharp that does 1920x1080.
 
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Dubb

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Mar 25, 2003
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pfft. my dream system is well over $20K

dual dual core opterons
tyan s2895
2x quadro 4400s
8gb ram
2x IBM t221 3840x2400 lcds
apple 30" cinema display
solid state HDS....
 
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crimson117

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2x those LCD's = $2600 on froogle.

And why would you want dual widescreen with total res 2732x768. Anyone who's concerned with screen space enough to have a dual setup would rather have dual 2001FP's with total res 3200x1200. (or any 2 LCDs better than 2732x768).
Not to mention 2x 2001FP's = ~$1500
 
mrSHEiK124

mrSHEiK124

Lifer
Mar 6, 2004
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the hell with the Samsung and the Sharp, drive some Apple Cinema Displays off that monster
and only 1 GB of ram?
 
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fkloster

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Dec 16, 1999
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Originally posted by: SticknClutch
Toss those wimpy WD 10k rpm raptors and get something a little more substantial... like um...

A pair of these! UltraWide SCSI SolidState HDs!!
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Performance
Burst Read/Write rate (Ultra/Wide) 40.0 Mbytes/sec
Sustained Read Rate * 30.0 Mbytes/sec
Sustained Write Rate * 20.0 Mbytes/sec
* Ultra/Wide Mode, 256 Kbytes block transfers

huh?
 
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smthmlk

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Apr 19, 2003
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Originally posted by: Dubb
pfft. my dream system is well over $20K

dual dual core opterons
tyan s2895
2x quadro 4400s
8gb ram
2x IBM t221 3840x2400 lcds
apple 30" cinema display
solid state HDS....
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haha, solid state hd's haha... but yeah, that's a lot more impressive than the original posters'--nothing special at all about it.
 
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Matthias99

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Oct 7, 2003
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Originally posted by: fkloster
Originally posted by: SticknClutch
Toss those wimpy WD 10k rpm raptors and get something a little more substantial... like um...

A pair of these! UltraWide SCSI SolidState HDs!!
Click to expand...


Performance
Burst Read/Write rate (Ultra/Wide) 40.0 Mbytes/sec
Sustained Read Rate * 30.0 Mbytes/sec
Sustained Write Rate * 20.0 Mbytes/sec
* Ultra/Wide Mode, 256 Kbytes block transfers

huh?
Click to expand...

You missed this one:

Less than 20 µsec Access Time
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That's microseconds. As in, about, oh, five hundred to a thousand times faster than a regular desktop hard drive. The STR is not quite as good as a conventional drive (which would be 2-3 times that fast in STR), but unless you're doing video editing (or other tasks involving single huge files), access/seek time is much more important and tends to become the limiting factor in disk accesses.
 
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Dubb

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Mar 25, 2003
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so how much do those cost? I did a quick search and can't find anyplace to buy them.

3 of the 20-30G models in raid 5....drool...
 
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TerryMathews

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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That's a pathetic dream system. A single A64? Please. Any dream system should have at least two Opterons.

Plus, it just seems like some of the stuff is spending money just for the sake of spending money. Why two DVD-Rs?

Plus, WTH is this?
Video Tuning Moderate 3D Video Performance Tuning & Optimization (Requires VideoCool? system) (+$35.00)
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Gamingphreek

Gamingphreek

Lifer
Mar 31, 2003
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Sh!t if i had an unlimited budget this is what i would buy:

PSU: OCZ Powerstream 600Watt PSU or PC Power and Cooling 510XE (Unable to find a reseller for it.

Case: CM Stacker

M/B: Tyan Thunder K8W

CPU: 2x Dual Opteron 250

Video Card: 1x :)( no SLI on server based boards) Link (With Waterblock)

Sound Card: (Un)creative Audigy 4Pro

HDD Controller: Adaptec 64bit PCI-X Ultra 320 SCSI RAID

HDD: 5x Seagate 73 Gig 15,000RPM SCSI HDD (68Pin) in RAID 5
(Or if i really had an unlimited budget i would get one of those drives that accept a whole lot of sticks of RAM and keep them charged making a REALLY fast HDD)

RAM: 8x Corsair XMS Extreme Memory 2gig Registered ECC

Optical: 2x Plextor 16x Dual Layer DVD+-RW SATA

Cooling: Vapochill Water Cooled (Cant find a link right now)

Monitor: Dell Dual Display Monitor

Audio System: Unsure... either go with the Klipsch Speakers or a true high end system with dolby digital reciever and high end speaker and subs.

Mouse: MX1000 Laser Mouse

Keyboard: Logitech Elite

Of course i could always up the level again and go to a 4 or 8 CPU setup... but then that ventures into the realm of enterprise computing. So well keep it on the Consumer level (Barely)

Anyway to make this thing better? Anyone have any suggestions (God i wish i had a budget large enough to buy something like that)

I guess i would really need a true 64bit OS to address more than 4gig of RAM, i think i might have passed 4gig :p

-Kevin
 
Gamingphreek

Gamingphreek

Lifer
Mar 31, 2003
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Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
PCX video? never heard of that....im sure it was PCI-E, also id swap the zalman cpu cooler for the new Zalman CNPS7700Cu....140mm in diameter and all copper baby!

also id go for G-Skill ram

amd if u got the money why not have the Audigy 4pro? it is actually better than the 2 apparently
Click to expand...

PCX is the abbreviation for PCI-E. Not to be confused with PCI-X.

Originally posted by : Dubb
2x quadro 4400s
Click to expand...

Why quadros. They suck for gaming and consumer purposes they are only good for and CAD and what not.

-Kevin
 
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