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The Dream Computer (pg. 4)
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| jonsimmonds |
| quote: | Originally posted by El~ZaPo
and hire a butler to prepare us food. Then we would never have to get up! |
Why not get one of them robots they are making and have one of them instead, 24/7 drink and food service!!!!!!:D
Jon |
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| SmellsExcellent |
ive been savng up and heres what im ordering (www.pricewatch.com) in general.. brands not specified.. im findin deals.
Athlon XP 2ghz (ok fine, one brand)
~700mb 266mhz DDR ram
3 or 4 80g HDD 7200RPM (depends on $$$$$$)
24X burner
DVD-Rom or Ram (also dependant on $$$, but something DVD)
GeForce something card.. whatever is best when I decide to purchase
some good sound card.. another "when I buy it" thing
+ all the basic like monitor, keyboard, mouse, network card, I/O, USB, whatever.. but its gonna be so great, i cant wait much longer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Marc |
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| Tranzmit |
| quote: | Originally posted by SmellsExcellent
ive been savng up and heres what im ordering (www.pricewatch.com) in general.. brands not specified.. im findin deals.
Athlon XP 2ghz (ok fine, one brand)
~700mb 266mhz DDR ram
3 or 4 80g HDD 7200RPM (depends on $$$$$$)
24X burner
DVD-Rom or Ram (also dependant on $$$, but something DVD)
GeForce something card.. whatever is best when I decide to purchase
some good sound card.. another "when I buy it" thing
+ all the basic like monitor, keyboard, mouse, network card, I/O, USB, whatever.. but its gonna be so great, i cant wait much longer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Marc |
Sounds nice mate! Dontcha just love the smell of new silicon in the morning (LOL). Yeah i'm building a new system at the moment too so should be sweet |
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| Blake613 |
I just build my dream computer three months ago. Now I feel outdated.
Athlon XP 1700+
Asus A7V266 266MHz Bus
Corsair 512 MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM Non ECC
Plexwriter PL-241040 IDE 4MB 24/10/40
IBM 40.0 GB Ultra DMA/100 2MB 7200 (C: OS/Games)
100.0 GB Ultra DMA/100 2MB 7200 (D: Music Storage)
Bay-Cool III from pcpowerandcooling.com
3COM 3C980B-TX 10/100
Sound Blaster 5.1 Platnium
64MB Asus GeForce 3
Windows XP Pro
786/128kbps ADSL Interent Connection (I have Linux on my old P2-350 that serves as my ADSL gateway for my LAN)
I need to clean the dust off the Bay-Cool
Here she is in all her glory! A 300 Watt Server tower with 3 fans blowing air out. Right now my CPU is at 58C/126F and my motherboard is at 26C/78F (I am burning a cd and downloading at 80k/s). The floppy drive isn't connected. The floppy connector on the MB is at the bottom and the floppy cable isn't long enough to reach. I haven't had to use a floppy... yet.
Would you people like some pics of the guts? |
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| jonsimmonds |
| quote: | Originally posted by Blake613
I just build my dream computer three months ago. Now I feel outdated.
Athlon XP 1700+
Asus A7V266 266MHz Bus
Corsair 512 MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM Non ECC
Plexwriter PL-241040 IDE 4MB 24/10/40
IBM 40.0 GB Ultra DMA/100 2MB 7200 (C: OS/Games)
100.0 GB Ultra DMA/100 2MB 7200 (D: Music Storage)
Bay-Cool III from pcpowerandcooling.com
3COM 3C980B-TX 10/100
Sound Blaster 5.1 Platnium
64MB Asus GeForce 3
Windows XP Pro
786/128kbps ADSL Interent Connection (I have Linux on my old P2-350 that serves as my ADSL gateway for my LAN)
I need to clean the dust off the Bay-Cool
Here she is in all her glory! A 300 Watt Server tower with 3 fans blowing air out. Right now my CPU is at 58C/126F and my motherboard is at 26C/78F (I am burning a cd and downloading at 80k/s). The floppy drive isn't connected. The floppy connector on the MB is at the bottom and the floppy cable isn't long enough to reach. I haven't had to use a floppy... yet.
Would you people like some pics of the guts? |
I want one!!!! |
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| dj_mdma |
| quote: | Originally posted by Laun19
well if you guys what the ultimate internet connection then i would have to say that you should go with the OC-48 that little bastard gets 2.5 Gigabites a sec transfer rate, but the price tag on it is also quite high, it is only $472,000 a month, US. :) but you sill get 2.5 gig a sec.
Johnny :) |
hehe I remember about 6 months ago there was an article on an OC -12 connection of 622MBPS. NOw its quadrupled!! :eyes:
BTW UI'm sure that the OC-48 connection is 2.5 gigaBITS per second, not gigaBYTES. But still 2.5 Gigabits is 312500000 bytes per sec = 312500 Kilobytes per second = 312.5 Megs per second. But no harddrive can write that fast (I think), so even if u had a oc-48 connnection and were downloading off an oc48 server, u would only get the rate at which your hard drive can write at so, only 100MB per sec! ;) |
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| Blake613 |
| OC-48 (2488 Mbps)does 311MB/sec (311 Megabytes/sec). Your hard drive can't access that fast. That's why OC (Optical Connection) is a backbone technology. |
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| SgtFoo |
that huge tower is awesome!!! put up some pix of the insides for sure!!!
Another thing... it would be better to have those new nitrogen collant systems rather than old/outdated fans.... u should look into it.
As for writing faster than 100MB/s.... it should be possible on a server machine....i think.. with SCSI drives, at something over 7200 rpm, i think you can also buy a type of RAM PCI card that acts as a buffer for data being written to a HD faster than capable.
For anyone who's dreaming... check out ..uh... www.alienware.com
They'll let you get the USD$ price of any custom config!!! my best was about $12000 for a machine....but that was last year!! LOL:eyes: :eek: |
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| Blake613 |
It's a mess inside! Furure plans include rounded IDE cables, a window to the case, and a interior neon light. Yeah, I am going to college to be a computer engineer.
The from top to bottom:
64MB Asus GeForce 3
Sound Blaster 5.1 Platnium
NIC
Two extra USB connections (Standard on all Asus MBs)
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| TiestoInTheMix |
hold on. if you had helium for cpu cooling, wouldn't you be able to overclock those to like... 3ghz?
btw, one of my friends is gonna get a liquid cooling system and he plans on overclocking his 900mhz (i think) chip, dunno which brand it is though. we'll see how that goes. |
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| TiestoInTheMix |
| uh, just wondering, what kind of computers do the military use? |
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