What is your Dream Rig and How Much To Build It?

[d032sh]

E-mu are creative labs' "pro" division... sadly they have the same respect for drivers as their consumer level division. For a dream rig how about a handful of Pro Tools HD 2 Accel PCIe cards (circa. £8k each). woooooooo hooooooo

[dave87]

The Plextor DVD drive would have to be second hand, as Plextor have pulled out of the consumer market...

[Nox]

Why stop at Raptors - get enterprise level 15k SCSI drives

Why stop at 15k SCSI when you can get 24 irams each with 8GB on

thats probably just used up your 15k budget by itself!

Nox

[nvening]

Phase is noisy, id rather water cooling

I would want a dual xeon X5355 system with 64GB RAM

Thats £11,455.92 on ram lol

That should make vista speedy LOL

TBH though i would proably go for a top apple

[silentvoice]

My dream computer would be a Dell XPS system...

lol. Only joking.

I'm with Fabula though. Even if I win the lottery I wouldn't put together something that runs into the thousands (i.e. £4000+). I wouldn't feel I would be getting much more for the money.

Anyway, I would be quite happy with the following:

Case: Silverstone Temjin SST-TJ09 Black
Power Supply: Seasonic S12-HT 650W
Motherboard: Asus P5W DH Deluxe 975X (I would prefer something rock solid; the 680i seems a bit too buggy still...)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 (2.66 GHz)
Cooling: Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler
Memory: 2GB Corsair XMS2 Dominator DDR2-1066 EPP TwinX Pack
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB (x2)
Floppy Drive: Mitsumi 7-in-1 Memory Reader / Floppy Drive Black
DVD-RW: Pioneer DVR-112BK
Video Card: 768MB eVGA GeForce 8800 GTX KO
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS Edition
Speakers: Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Digital
Keyboard: Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Mouse: Logitech G5 Laser Gaming Mouse

So, since this all comes to a modest price, anyone willing to help out?

[dave87]

Why stop at 15k SCSI when you can get 24 irams each with 8GB on

thats probably just used up your 15k budget by itself!

Nox

And where exactly would they be powered from?

My understanding was that was why they used the PCI slots...

Oh and 15k SAS drives (if you have enough of them) are going to be quick... 64 off one controller anyone?

[No.72]

A case made of gold with diamonds in. One of thoes weird GFX cards that support 4000x3000 res lol!
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=434412
in octo crossfire lol.
a monitor that can support that res.
8gb of RAM 1300mhz with the best quad cpu oc'ed at 5.5ghz, with the best water cooling.
To start it you will need one of those weird things to start F1 cars
2000watt psu.
uber expensive sound system.
and the table has to be made out of gold too. oh and chair

[dave87]

So a few 30" Apple Cinema displays?

Why not go for platinum over gold, or perhaps titanium?

[No.72]

which ever is more expensive, unless I could use the titanium as a reactor to use the power of uranium. Humm how do you make a hydrogen bomb, and what do you need...?

[DanceswithUnix]

No-one with whacky wish list then, like an 8 cpu board?

I think my dad would want one of these or similar so he could run 4 dual head 8800GTX graphics cards. Then he could surround himself with LCD panels in a mock plane cockpit and play flight sims

[dave87]

Or go the cheaper route, and get a light aircraft

[Oobie-]

Anything with water cooling or some sort of freezing ability....stupid components run too hot.

[Madafwo]

Dual Xeon Quad Cores with each core having 2 GB of Ram.

Watercooled and overclocked 8800GTX.

Two Raid 5 arrays, one with Raptors (Programs), One with 750GB Seagates (Storage). For the OS I would have 2 of the 16GB Supertalent Solid State hard drives in a Raid Array so you get 32GB Of space.

OS would naturally be Vista Ultimate 64Bit.

Would all be housed in a Silverstone Temjin TJ09 with some custom DD/EK watercooling.

Logitech 5.1 Speakers along with G5/G15 combination (unless of course I can source one of those Optimus keyboards).

Blu-Ray burner, 1100W Tagan PSU and A Hauppage TV tuner.

The monitor, it would have to be a Dell 30" or possibly as the graphics would be a slightly limiting factor, 2 x 24.1" Eizo widescreens.

All in should set you back £12,000.

[Azza]

My dream PC would be:

Case: Mountain Mods U2-UFO custom paint job or powder coat by ChilledPC
CPU: QX6700
Mobo: best 680i, atm probabilly Asus Striker Extreme
RAM: 4Gb of the most overclocking RAM
Graphics: 2 x 8800GTX
Hard drive: 2 x 150Gb Raptor X RAID 0 and 2 x 750gb hard drives in RAID 1 or some form of Solid State hard drives.
Optical drives: 2 x Pioneer BDR-101ABK (blu-ray)
Sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
Monitor: Dell Ultrasharp 3007WFP 30"
Power: 2 x 1000W Enermax Galaxys
Speakers: Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Digital
Keyboard: Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Mouse: Logitech MX Revolution

And now for the best part the cooling.

Everything a part form the CPU and GPUS will be watercooled that includes RAM, hard drives everything.

CPU cooler: I will get one of these from Tom.

Chilled PC Chilly1 Xtreme Edition

http://www.chilledpc.co.uk/shop/prod...products_id=69

GPU cooler: I would get piotres to build me one of these.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=134852

Both phase changers will be the same colour of the case done by ChilledPC

Oh yeah I would have a water chiller to chill the water in the water cooling.

And that should do me.

[Metier9]

Holographic HD RAID Array ... price = hell of a lot lol

[DevilMayCry42]

Core 2 extreme quad core (2.67Ghz per core)
Asus Striker Extreme
2x EVGA 8800GTX KO AS3 in SLI
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
2x Corsiar TWIN2X2048-10000C5DF (2x 2gigs of fastest ram around)
5x WD raptors in RAID 5
2x WD caviar 750GB in RAID 0
1kW PSU
Gigabyte 3D aurora 570 (cant think of any other BIG case)
2x 32" Monitor - some stupidly high resolution
Liquid Nitrogen cooling
HD-DVD drive
Blu-Ray drive

erm i think that would be it for me