Dream Computer?
 

What would be your dream computer, keeping budget and stability and other things in mind? I have been looking into this, just need a LOT of cash, but oh well it's nice to dream:

CASE : HOT NEW! Xplorer Mid-Tower Case 420W W/ WINDOW & LCD Temperature Display (Black Case w/Green Face)

CPU : (939-pin) AMD ATHLON64 X2 4400 CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology

MOTHERBOARD : (Sckt939)EVGA nForce4 SLI Chipset SATA RAID Dual PCI-E Mainboard w/GbLAN, USB2.0, &7.1Audio

MEMORY : 1024 MB (512MBx2) PC3200 400MHz Dual Channel DDR MEMORY (Corsair Value Select)

VIDEO CARD : NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GT 256MB 16X PCI Express Video Card

HARD DRIVE : 200GB Hard Drive (SATA150 - Maxtor 200GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache Hard Drive)

That would be a pretty sweet system, I would get SLLI video cards and water cooling. They are actually developing SLI with 4 cards now, but that might be overkill. Anyways, Im sure you could run anything you want on that computer, lol.

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I am currently building my 'dream' computer with a friend. It has so much space and it's about 3-4 months away from being done. =)

Maybe it will get done earlier and I can test it out. SHould be pretty fast. I think we took apart 26 of the schools computers (broken) and took the good parts and manipulated them. =)

lol...26 pc....wat good parts hav u found?

My dream comp would have to be like 10GB RAM, 10.0GHz and 1000GB Hard Drive, with all the software i need and all of the games ever made(good ones only).

Why not get those quad or dual motherboards for Athlon from Tyan? :D

10GB of ram... pricey but doable with the new 64-bit processors (can handle approx 16GB), though there aren't any mobo that can support that kind of memory lol.
As for your comp it's pretty sweet, but i would likely go ATI on the video card, linking a the new crossfire card to an X800-series card combining the graphics processor to act like a single card instead. ATI has had the ability to join GPUs since the 9700 came out testing cards with as many as 64 chips on a single card. Their new design on hardware for the crossfire allows it to act as a master card (similar to the master hard drive) and control the GPU needed. Instead of nVidia's GPU-to-GPU communication.
Both would be a great addition, guess i'm just a little bias to ATI

I'm not sure about crossfire being better than SLI. But what I do know is that there are plenty of computers that can handle 16 gb of memory, of course talking about servers. You can find one here.

ok, well a server is a completely different story, they utilize memory differently then a home computer. The amount of memory accesable is related to the bit power of the processor (eg 2^64 in the case of a 64-bit processor, or 16GB).
Your right, the crossfire isn't nessecarily better, nVidia's SLI technology is definatly better, but i do like the idea of the GPUs acting as a single unit in ATI's model, instead of controlling different aspects of your view.
Nvidia will have the upper hand on expansions from here on out though, the number of cards that can be connected is essentially limitless. As proved by Dell with their new XPS system connecting 4 of nVidia's bad boys linked together: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...105153500.html

Yeah for the graphics I would pick ATI as well... mainly for the reasons that William has suggested...
But what about the monitor to completely utilize what the GPU has to offer? For me I think it would be something like the Apple 30 inch or perhaps the Dell 30 inch LCD. Or may be get both and create a dual view set up ;) (you'll need a wireless keyboard and mouse as well, so that you can see what's happening on both of them without turning heads...). Okay this is not realistic (especially with the money you are spending on this this you can probably get a car for it :D ) but it's cool to dream about it anyways...
And may be some Raptor hard drives (even though they might make some extra noise, it's all right I guess). Oh yeah btw, I hear that the LCD temperature display doesn't work that well... oh well but it looks cool so I guess it's good to have in any dream computer.