Your "Dream PC/MAC" - What's In It?

Yeah, I know this The Tech Lounge, but I had no other place to put this post.
Anyway, what I mean by "Dream PC/MAC" is what PC/MAC you would want within the capabilities of you wallet, savings, and/or checking account.
Sure, I'd love a Cray Supercomputer, but that's not going to happen unless I sold my soul or something. :D

Here's what I'd want (actually, this is what I might get this summer :D)

• 1.2 GHz AMD Athlon w/266 FSB
  ABit KT7A-RAID Mobo
  512 MB PC133 SDRAM
  IBM 60 GB HDD 7200 RPM
  Toshiba 16x DVD/48x CDROM Drive
  Plextor 16x/10x/40x CD-RW Drive
  nVIDIA GeForce2 Pro
  SBLive! X-Gamer 5.1
  Cambridge SoundWorks DT3500 Speakers
  Viewsonic or Princeton 19" Monitor (don't remember what model #)

Can't seem to remember anything else...oh well. What's yours? :cool:

• Dual AMD Athlon 4 1.4Ghx
• Tyan Dual Athlon MoBo
• 2Gb DDR2100 SDRAM
• Promise ATA100 RAID Controller
• 4 x IBM GXP 75Gb 7200rpm ATA100 HDD's in RAID 0+1
• IBM GXP 75Gb 7200rpm ATA100 HDD boot drive
• Plextor 16x10x40 CDRW
• Toshiba DVD-ROM
• ATI Radeon 64Mb DDR ViVo
• Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! Platinum
• 18" TFT Flat Panel

Thats what I would like to have soon, but in reality, it will probably be completely different by the time I get round to upgrading again :D

Dual Athlon 4 1.4ghz
1gig DDRam
4 x 80gb 7200RPM ATA100 Drives in a RAID array
64meg Geforce Deluxe, video in/video out
Sony LCD Projector and a 12' projection screen (check out pc gamer fer this one guys)
16x pioneer dvd
12x8x32 Plextor Burner
Sound Blaster Platinum with live drive II
10/100 Dlink or 3Com NIC Card

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Originally posted by Darren Wilson:

• Dual AMD Athlon 4 1.4Ghx
• Tyan Dual Athlon MoBo
• 2Gb DDR2100 SDRAM
• Promise ATA100 RAID Controller
• 4 x IBM GXP 75Gb 7200rpm ATA100 HDD's in RAID 0+1
• IBM GXP 75Gb 7200rpm ATA100 HDD boot drive
• Plextor 16x10x40 CDRW
• Toshiba DVD-ROM
• ATI Radeon 64Mb DDR ViVo
• Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! Platinum
• 18" TFT Flat Panel

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Great minds think alike, I guess, DW's isn't too far from what I'd build. Except I'd probably scratch that Radeon and go with an Elsa Geforce 3. :D :D :D

For a PC:
Dual 1.7 Ghz Pentium 4
2GB RDRAM
3 80 GB 7200 RPM hard drives (240 gigs!)
nVIDIA GeForce3
Velo CDRW (rips @ 24x)
12x DVD
21" TFT flat panel

For a Mac:
Dual 733MHz PowerPC G4
256K L2 & 1MB L3 cache
2 GB SDRAM memory
4 x 80GB Ultra ATA drives
Super Drive (DVD+CDRW)
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
Gigabit Ethernet

So everybody can really afford this?

If so, tell me where I can find all this for cheap! :D

Anyway, yea, I could get dual, but I am really screwed on cash. With college coming up and all...yeah, I think everybody can understand. :(

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Originally posted by Paco_L_250:
So everybody can really afford this?

If so, tell me where I can find all this for cheap! :D

Anyway, yea, I could get dual, but I am really screwed on cash. With college coming up and all...yeah, I think everybody can understand. :(

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I can't afford to buy a stick of RAM let alone buy a new system. But you asked for 'Dream' PC's. If we could afford to buy new PC's they wouldn't be a dream as we would already have them!!!! :)

Well if you want my DREAM DREAM system, that's another story...

4300 Ghz (yes, Ghz) Athlon
15 TB RAM, 45Ghz bus
700 TB, 1000000rpm hard drive
4 GB video memory
4096-bit graphics card
900x900x900 CDRW
900x DVD
27" TFT
built in cable modem with -343 ping time (don't ask)

Windows 2000 as the main OS, but with a dual-boot of Windows 3.1 just for fun :p .

But of course, that's a "dream system"... :D

I think every body missed this part in my post:

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Anyway, what I mean by "Dream PC/MAC" is what PC/MAC you would want within the capabilities of your wallet, savings, and/or checking account.

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Now it may not be a "Dream PC/MAC" if your money constrains you, but I think what I should have said was what is the best can you get with the money you now have.

Sorry about that! :p

• Amstrad PC6512
• Dual 5.25" 1.2Mhz Floppies
• 20Mb Hard Disk
• 14" EGA Monitor

I may even get change from my £2.50 as well!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by Darren Wilson:

• Amstrad PC6512
• Dual 5.25" 1.2Mhz Floppies
• 20Mb Hard Disk
• 14" EGA Monitor

I may even get change from my £2.50 as well!!!!!!!

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Darren, don't get too extravagant, but if you have spare change throw on 640K of RAM and one of those 65 millsecond hard drives...your system will really be cooking! :cool:

I would like a solid state hard drive, theay cost out the @$$ though.

My Dream PC would have to be.......what I have now + A Geforce3, 15,000 HDD, and the full tower that I have been drooling over........or yeah and a uninteruptable power supply

I built the best my wallet could stand. Ill be adding little bits here and there along the way till it gets to where I wanted it to be. For details look on my web site, detailed specs of my hardware/software are there.

I'll just take a fully loaded Imac with OS-X preinstalled. ;)

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Originally posted by Paco_L_250:
Yeah, I know this The Tech Lounge, but I had no other place to put this post.
Anyway, what I mean by "Dream PC/MAC" is what PC/MAC you would want within the capabilities of you wallet, savings, and/or checking account.
Sure, I'd love a Cray Supercomputer, but that's not going to happen unless I sold my soul or something. :D

Here's what I'd want (actually, this is what I might get this summer :D)

• 1.2 GHz AMD Athlon w/266 FSB
  ABit KT7A-RAID Mobo
  512 MB PC133 SDRAM
  IBM 60 GB HDD 7200 RPM
  Toshiba 16x DVD/48x CDROM Drive
  Plextor 16x/10x/40x CD-RW Drive
  nVIDIA GeForce2 Pro
  SBLive! X-Gamer 5.1
  Cambridge SoundWorks DT3500 Speakers
  Viewsonic or Princeton 19" Monitor (don't remember what model #)

Can't seem to remember anything else...oh well. What's yours? :cool:

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Pretty much exactly like yours, only with a voodoo 3 5500, and two 60gb hdds...ohh yeah and maybe a amd 1.333ghz