What is your dream comp?

[Trivium Nate]

Mine would be


[1] Area-51® ALX

Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme QX6700 2.66GHz 8MB Cache 1066MHz FSB - Overclocked to 3.2GHz!
Includes Liquid Cooling! - Free Supreme Commander!
Operating System (Office software not included): Genuine Windows Vista™ Ultimate - With Media Center Remote Control and Digital/Analog Combo TV Tuner
Chassis: Alienware® P2 ALX Chassis with AlienIce™ 3.0 Video Cooling - Space Black
Chassis Customization : Alienware® AlienFX™ System Lighting - Fusion Red
High-Performance Liquid Cooling: Alienware® ALX High-Performance Liquid Cooling
Acoustic Dampening: Alienware® Acoustic Dampening
Motherboard: Alienware® Approved NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard
Memory: 4GB Low Latency DDR2 Performance SDRAM at 1066MHz - 4 x 1024MB
System Drive: Extreme Performance (RAID 0) - 2TB (2 x 1TB) Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ 2 x 32MB Cache
Storage Drive: Additional Storage Drive - 2TB (2 x 1TB) Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ 32MB Cache
Primary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 20X Dual Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Writer w/ LightScribe Technology & Nero Software Suite
Secondary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 18X Dual Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Writer
Graphics Processor: Dual 768MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8800 Ultra - SLI Enabled
Power Supply: Alienware® 1000 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply
Monitor: 30'' Dell 2560 x 1600 UltraSharp Widescreen Flat Panel - Supports Blu-Ray!
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer High Definition 7.1 Audio
Speakers: Logitech® Z-5300e 5.1 280-Watt Speakers
Keyboard: Saitek II Backlit Keyboard
Mouse : Logitech® G5 Laser Gaming Mouse
Exclusive ALX Extras: AlienInspection - Exclusive Integration and Inspection - $100 Value - FREE!
Exclusive ALX Extras: AlienWiring - Exclusive Internal Wire Management - $100 Value - FREE!
Exclusive ALX Extras: Exclusive Alienware® ALX Items
Exclusive ALX Extras: Alienware® ALX Mousepad
Exclusive ALX Extras: Alienware® Mesh Cap
Warranty: 3-Year AlienCare Toll-Free 24/7 Phone Support with Onsite Service
AlienRespawn: AlienRespawn v2.0 Recovery DVD – Windows Vista Edition
Games: Battlefield 2142
Games: F.E.A.R. Extraction Point
Games: Need For Speed Carbon Collector's Edition
Games: World of Warcraft
Benchmark Software: 3DMark®06
Microsoft Office Suites: Microsoft® Office 2007 Professional - Factory Installed!
Includes Small Business + Access!
Digital Editing Software: Adobe® Photoshop® CS3
External Storage: 400GB Seagate Pushbutton Backup External Hard Drive
Wireless Routers: Netgear WPN824 RangeMaxTM Wireless MIMO Router
Removable Storage: Alienware® 28-in-1 Digital Media Reader / Writer
Power: UPS Protection - Opti-UPS PS1500B (1050W Capacity)
Game Controllers: Saitek X52 Pro Flight Control System
Headphones: Alienware® Ozma 5™ Headphones

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[Teck]

One that just turns on everytime....

[CoffeeShark]

I'd like a computer array, so I can hook up my old computer to my new one, and they would conglomerate their power, or hook up 12 old computers and get one really fast one.

//i understand distributed computing, this would be much more basic. or more complex, actually. you know what i mean.

[DJ_Wheels]

Quote:

Originally Posted by CoffeeShark

I'd like a computer array, so I can hook up my old computer to my new one, and they would conglomerate their power, or hook up 12 old computers and get one really fast one.

//i understand distributed computing, this would be much more basic. or more complex, actually. you know what i mean.

Last summer I played around with a Linux distribution called Cluster Knoppix. It's a live cd that you just boot up and then set the other computers on the network to boot from the network. It automagically sets up a computing cluster for you. It was fun running an entire computer lab from a single cd-rom drive, but we didn't have any distributed processes to run on it.

[VincentVega]

Coffee, IBM is years into this development (the CELL Processor found in the PS3 is part of that). Programming "jobs" (work that needs to be done) are whored around a network. Any hardware thread that is not busy will take it up. This means that adding power is as easy as jacking in another box

Anyway, here's mine:

Barcelona or Penryn @ 3ghz (4 threads FTW)
8900 GTX Ultra O/C (I don't even think that exists, but you know what i'm getting at)
4 GB dual channel
15K RPM SCSI x 2 (RAID 1, at least 140 gb)
26" widescreen
The ability to outsnipe Hunter (not happening but I can wish)

[Dukefrukem]

Quote:

Originally Posted by VincentVega

The ability to outsnipe Hunter (not happening but I can wish)

[K_Dog]

Quote:

Originally Posted by CoffeeShark

I'd like a computer array, so I can hook up my old computer to my new one, and they would conglomerate their power, or hook up 12 old computers and get one really fast one.

//i understand distributed computing, this would be much more basic. or more complex, actually. you know what i mean.

Coffee what you want is an SGI
scalable ftw

[CoffeeShark]

Quote:

Originally Posted by VincentVega

Coffee, IBM is years into this development (the CELL Processor found in the PS3 is part of that). Programming "jobs" (work that needs to be done) are whored around a network. Any hardware thread that is not busy will take it up. This means that adding power is as easy as jacking in another box

Anyway, here's mine:

Barcelona or Penryn @ 3ghz (4 threads FTW)
8900 GTX Ultra O/C (I don't even think that exists, but you know what i'm getting at)
4 GB dual channel
15K RPM SCSI x 2 (RAID 1, at least 140 gb)
26" widescreen
The ability to outsnipe Hunter (not happening but I can wish)

you can get 8gb RAM now on a nice desktop board, stingy.

I don't mean shared processing, I mean adding processing power on top of processing power.

doesn't matter - the whole thing is limited by the buses, anyway.

Throttled FTL

[VincentVega]

Busses is an Intel only limitation these days.. HyperTransport FTW