What is your dream machine?

[Maniac9127]

Athlon or Pentium? Duron or Celeron?
V5 6k or GF Ultra?

Post the specs for the computer you'd make if you 'had a billion dollars'. Don't hold back at all, go money happy!

 

[Rectalfier]

Dual Athlon 1.33Ghz 266FSB with PC2100 and a GF2 Ultra.

 

[HotDealFinder.com]

Don't forget a gig or two of RAM

 

[Darksamie]

I wouldnt forget a decent ASUS motherboard (perhaps the GX shipset if you want to go the server way) or the CUSL2 or CUV4X......so many possibilities. A Sony 23" would be nice too

 

[GladiatorMaximus]

HMM my dream machine
Dual Athlon T-Bird 1.1Ghz
3x75 Gb Ibm Hard drive
Dual Geforce 2 Quadro
22"TfT Screen
T1 connection

 

[Argo]

T1 connection? Dude, you've got weird dreams. Now OC256 (not even sure it's available to end users) is more like it

 

[RSI]

What the hell? T1 is nowhere near "dream speed", nowhere near it! Maybe MULTIPLE T3s would be SLIGHTLY closer, but that still wouldn't cut it. Like he said, maybe an OC256 .. He said DREAM MACHINE, not "top of the line".

Me I'd take at least several to dozens of gigs of RAM with, hmm.. some quad-CPU setup and and at least four 70+GB high speed HDs.

-RSI

 

[noxipoo]

does OC256 even exist? fastest i heard anyone have is OC12 and thats already backbone.

 

[KarsinTheHutt]

Pentium 60 with FPU bug, 4 MB of RAM, windows 3.1, and a 400 MB hard drive.
Edit: Forgot the ATI Mach32 PCI video card with 2 MB of RAM

 

[Maniac9127]

What? 'Only' a T1?! Why not an OC38?!!!

HAHA, with a gig of ram, you could install a game directly into the ram! Too bad there's no software suport for something like that.

A nice big screen would be nice too, a 23" tft would be awsome!

Oh yeah, and two IBM 75 gig 75gxb setup with RAID 0. None of this parity crap .

 

[The Stigenator]

This dream will become a reality in teh near future..

Dual 1.0Ghz + Athlon Thunderbird (damn 760 chipset better come out fast)
256 MB of RAM Minimum
Geforce GTS2 Ultra - for 2 monitors or two proffesional video cards
SB Live Platinum
5.1 speakers
Quantum Atlas 10K SCSI drive 18.GB (4) - not raided but possible
Medea 300 - 600 Gb rack mountable SCSI-3 drive
FireWire Cards
24" Wide SONY GW900 Monitors (x2)
MD2 Tape Backup - SCSI

 

[Warrenton]

No software support for 1GB of memory? You must be kidding. I have 512MB and still have to use the swap file when I use photoshop and premiere.

I have a 64MB cache in UT/Unreal/Wheel of Time. Just so it uses more ram.

Not to mention with memory leaks it gets taken up faster, and with more ram, it means you don't have to reboot as soon because of those leaks.

 

[bigshooter]

What would you guys do with anythign faster than a t-1 or t-3? Multiple t-3's? Any website you go to will most likely max out at 1.5 megabits or 2 megabits (maybe 500k/sec) download speeds, with most sites giving you about 60-90k. Any OC line, someone said OC-38 or OC-192, would be a major internet backbone, remember that OC-192 that got cut in california? That caused slowdowns and/or outages for thousands of customers. Why not just go for high speed dsl like the 2-4 megabit range. Just curious. And nobody is asking for deep blue or whatever the new IBM supercomputer being developed is. Something liek 13 teraflops (maybe I'm off by an order of magnitude) of processing power. I would take that thing and throw RC5 on it, jsut so I could end the damn thing and start somehing new. I'm getting tired fo teh little cow sitting down there, and not even mooing like in the old days. Bring on the flames please. I want to be entertained for a while.

 

[GT1999]

<< does OC256 even exist? fastest i heard anyone have is OC12 and thats already backbone. >>




OC3, OC12, and OC192 are the most common backbones. And when you're talking OC192-256, it's almost for sure data/voice combined. That's one hell of a lot of bandwidth there. You don't really hear about 'em much until they get cut down my lame construction workers. OC256 for a house? Dream on. Yeah, a dream machine, but no where near real. I guess that's the point though, right? In that case I'll take a 4x 1.5GHz T-Bird with 2GB of DDR RAM, 4x 80GB Ultra160 IBM SCSI HDDs RAID 5, GF2 Ultra, SB Live! Plat, redundant 450W power supplies, dual plasma displays, etc etc.



For all you bandwidth loveres out there, this chart underlines the pure speed of OC-192:

56K Modem--------------------56Kbps
ISDN64-----------------------128Kbps
T1/DS1/ADSL------------------1.544Mbps
Fractional T3/DS3/VDSL/HDSL3-45Mbps
T3/DS3/OC-1/VDSL-------------45Mbps
OC-3-------------------------155.52Mbps
OC-12------------------------622.08Mbps
OC-24------------------------1.244Gbps
OC-48------------------------2.488Gbps
OC-96------------------------4.976Gbps
OC-192-----------------------9.953Gbps


:Q

 

[utopia]

There is always T13

 

[SUOrangeman]

AMD **760MP Dual** Socket-A Motherboard
2 x Thunderbird 800 Socket-A
2 x Socket-A Silver Chrome Orb Cooler
2 x 256MB PC133 SDRAM
2 x IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB
2 x Coolmaster 4002 Hard Drive Cooler
Promise Fasttrak ATA-100 RAID PCI
Ricoh 8x/12x/10x/32x DVD/CDRW Combo Drive
Iomega Zip 250MB ATAPI Internal Drive
Imation LS-120 2x Drive
Hercules 3D Prophet MX TwinView 4x AGP
2 x 19&quot; SVGA Displays
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI Sound Card
Klipsch Promedia Speakers
Telex USB Digital Stereo Headset
3com 10/100MB PCI NIC
Microsoft Natural Pro Keyboard
Microsoft Intellimouse Optical **2.0**
Antec Full Tower ATX case, 300+ W power supply

Hovering around $3K without mouse and motherboard.

-SUO

 

[Maniac9127]

Hey Warrenton, what I ment was there is no sorfware to use a gig of ram as a hard drive.

I can't wait for the 760, that's gonna rule, quad t-birds? Geez!

 

[Goi]

My dream machine doesn't exist, and when it does, I'll have a new one that won't exist then either

 

[Comp625]

Based on today's affordable technology. By affordable, I mean someone rich (not Donald Trump) but someone who has a big wallet and can blow money easily.

Here's my dream machine:

* Athlon 1ghz T-Bird
* Abit KT133 Mobo
* 512mb pc200 (or 133 ) sdram
* GeForce 2 Pro (or Ultra 64mb)
* SBLive Platnium
* 24&quot; Sony Monitor
* Kenwood True 72x CD-Rom Drive
* Any good DVD drive
* 768/768 DSL line
* 60gb 7200rpm HDD
* 8x8x32 CD-RW drive
* Windows 98 2nd Edi. (I dont see a need for ME after that article I pointed out yesterday)
* Logitech Cordless I-Touch Keyboard
* Logitech First Mouse + w/ scroll wheel (I love this mouse so much I don't wanna settle for anything else)
* Hewlett Packard HP932C Printer
* A Dolby Surround Sound supported digital 4 satelite 1 subwoofer speaker setup

 

[fkloster]

Addtronics WTX 8500 Dual hot swappable 300 watters
Intel 0R 840 mobo
512 megs PC-800 rambus (2-256 meggers striped)
Twin P3 1Ghz procs
Twin 36gig Seagate 15K U160 screamers striped on a IDP 128 meg 2 channel raid array
(the rest I already have)

 

[AMB]

My dream machine would defintly be athlon based, a GF2 Ultra on a 50&quot; plasma screen

 

[Rigoletto]

Huh! That's just the kind of question a kid would ask!
I am more interested in what I put a computer to, rather than the specs in themselves.
I would like the computer to do some intelligent work itself on compositions such as doing permutations in harmony in music. This would be quite easy to do so long as we deal with MIDI.
I want a computer that is QUIET. Special large, slower diameter fans a must. I wish the computer would look cool and I am painting mine silver.
I want a SB live! breakout model at least instead of my older live!
I want a computer that is stable and can do work overnight on combinations or chess positions without me sitting over it, with lots of screen area and probably a subsidiary monitor. Calls for Windows 2000 I think, and I'll do the programming. I do not need arcane Linux.

AMD thunderbird e.g. 1GHz
any MATROX card for 2D quality
2x SONY trinitron monitor at least 17&quot; primary and 15&quot; secondary
cordless mouse and keyboard
SB Live! platinum or better
Tower case with quiet, big fans
Burnproof CDROM
any quality speakers with separate subwoofer (surround sound not important to me)
MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO (eek! the M- word!) to program certain things.
Scanner to scan in scores. Buggered if I know of any score scanning software.

Basically I think we have it really good right now. Power without the price.

 

[Howard]

Hey Maniac9127, don't you remember RAMDrive? I think it comes with DOS...

Here's mine (cut-and-pasted)

AMD Thunderbird 1.1GHz
MSI K7T Master
Tennmax Detonator (chipset)
(3) 512MB PC133 Enhanced HSDRAM

Adaptec 39160
Quantum Rushmore Ultra RU5320 3.2GB SSD

Adaptec SCSI RAID 3400S
(2) Quantum Atlas 10K II 73.4GB paired in RAID 0
(2) GlobalWin King Kong HD cooler

D-Link DGE-500SX 1Gb Ethernet NIC
D-Link 10/100Mb Ethernet NIC

Kenwood 72X TrueX CD-ROM
Plextor 12x10x32x EIDE CD-RW
Pioneer 16X DVD-ROM
Panasonic LF-D103U DVD-RAM
Iomega Zip250 SCSI Internal
Iomega Jaz 2GB SCSI External
Imation SuperDisk 120

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Videologic DigiTheatre DTS

Supermicro SC-830W
(2) PC P&amp;C Turbo-Cool 600 Sun Ultra Axmp 600W PSU
(2) 120mm and (4) 92mm fans

Elsa Gloria III Quadro2 Pro 64MB
Wingfin heatsink (45mmx45mm)
50mm fan
(4) Wingfin RAM heatsinks
Card Cooler
Sony GDM-FW900

Hewlett-Packard 8550MFP

Razer Boomslang 2000
RatPad

Logitech Cordless iTouch

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

Logitech 7-Port USB Hub

APC 10-Plug UPS

Windows 98SE
Windows ME
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows 2000 Server
Linux

For cooling:

(5) 50' coiled copper tubing in liquid helium
(5) Silver nitrogenblock
(5) 500GPH pump
(5) Reservoir of liquid helium

 

[Doomsday]

Dream machine?

8 AMD T-Birds 1.3 GHz. (on one board somehow)
4 Gigs of ram would be nice.
Definatly the Geforce2 Ultra.
A OS that can use all 8 of my processors, and run games too.
A 36&quot; LCD display.
I'd need some kind of a huge case.
Am I missing anything?

Current
1 AMD Duron 600MHz
64 MB Ram (I know I need more)
MSI K7T Pro Mobo
Geforce2 MX (overclocked)
I think I've got an NEC case
And a great Acer monitor 14&quot;, speakers onboard.

 

[GT1999]

:Q It's Phil and his infamous 14&quot; Acer monitor!!