Ultimate Home Computer System

Howard

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The Real Beater

AMD Thunderbird 1330MHz at 1729MHz 266MHz FSB
ASUS A7V266
(3) 512MB Crucial PC2100 DDR-SDRAM

(2) Tekram DC-922 Intelligent RAID (128MB SDRAM)
(16) Quantum Rushmore Ultra RU5320 3.2GB SSD (RAID 10)
(16) Seagate Barracuda 180GB (RAID 10)

3com Etherlink Server 10/100 PCI w/ 3XP

Plextor UltraMax 40X SCSI CD-ROM
Sanyo 24x10x40x SCSI CD-RW
Pioneer 16X SCSI DVD-ROM

Philips AcousticEdge 5.1
Boston Acoustics DPS5.1

Antec SX1440B Server
3x8 Hard Drive Rack above motherboard
(2) PC P&C Turbo-Cool 600 Sun Ultra Axmp 600W PSU

ASUS V8200 GeForce 3 Deluxe 64MB
Sony GDM-FW900
ATi All-In-Wonder 32MB DDR PCI
Sony GDM-FW900
ATi All-In-Wonder 32MB DDR PCI
Sony GDM-FW900

Hewlett-Packard 8550MFP
Epson Stylus Photo 2000P

Razer Boomslang 2000
RatPad

Logitech Cordless iTouch

Logitech Wingman Formula Force GP Wheel
Logitech Wingman Force Joystick
Logitech Wingman RumblePad
Gravis Gamepad Pro USB (bleem!)

Logitech 7-Port USB Hub

Windows 2000 Professional
Windows 2000 Server
BeOS
Linux

Submerged in 0C mineral oil
 

Pariah

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With no intention of starting an Intel vs AMD debate, no ultimate system contains an AMD platform, especially not with that kind of RAID setup. 64bit/66mhz PCI bus is imperative to avoid crippling a RAID array like that, and this eliminates AMD all together. Gbit ethernet would be nice too which also requires faster than 32bit PCI. Also, dream machines don't factor in O/C'ing. A quad Xeon with 4GB's+ of RAM would be a lot more impressive than a 1330 TBird.
 

Kitros

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...someone should do a check on pricewatch...

Any guesses? I'll start the bidding at $20,000!
 

DarkManX

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<< Any guesses? I'll start the bidding at $20,000! >>



that woudnt even cover the SSD drives.
 

Pariah

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&quot;Ultimate Home Computer System.&quot;

And the point of RAID'ing 16 solid state drives and having almost 2 terabytes of disk space in a home system would be....? Whether or not it is a home system, you are still wasting the vast majority of the RAID arrays performance using 32bit PCI slots. It's one thing to pick the most expensive stuff you can find and call it an ultimate system, it's another thing to actually understand how to utilize the equipment and pair it with other equipment to get the most peformance out of it.

&quot;And what will be the point of the gigabit Ethernet card?&quot;

Fastethernet is only around 8-9MB/s realworld, which is very slow for large transfers over a home network. Gigabit on a server MB would turn a single hard drive into a bottleneck instead of the network. It is also much closer to mass market than a lot of the parts in your system. It's already included in the new top of line Apple G4 systems.
 

Sugadaddy

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May 12, 2000
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SSD=solid state drive

It's basically a bunch of ram taped together to make a really fast hard drive:)
 

Verygreedy

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Im telling you.. this will give you cancer. Yeah.. solid state drives are expensive.. uh.. Id have to see this to believe it.
 

jaybert

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LOL, most of the stuff you listed arent even made yet, such as the crucial pc2100 memory. The largest size they sold was 128mb and that was before they pulled it. Crucial no longer carries pc2100 at this point :)
 

RiceDiGiZ

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Feb 23, 2001
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that computer gonna take forever to boot up... and if its on win2k advanced server it probably take EVEN LONGER@!@!@!@!
 

Conroy9

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Jan 28, 2000
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you do realize that the soundcard you chose will consistently crash windows 2000 pro and server and not work at all in your other operating systems, right?
 

Conroy9

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whether or not it's being built, isn't it a discussion of an &quot;ultimate home computer system&quot;?