My dream machine what do you guys think?????

[DarkAssassin]

QUAD CORE QUAD-SLI GAMING COMPUTER AMD 4X4 PLATFORM DUAL FX-74 3.0GHz PROCESSORS AND 4-8800GTS-OC VIDEO CARDS RUNNING IN QUAD-SLI

2 -AMD Athlon 64 FX-74 Windsor 3.0GHz Socket F (1207 FX) DSDC
ASUS L1N64-SLI WS Dual L (1207FX) NVIDIA nForce 680a SLI MCP SSI CEB AMD Motherboard
2- CORSAIR XMS2 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 800 4-4-4-12 (PC2 6400) "8 GIG TOTAL"
4- EVGA 320-P2-N815-A3 GeForce 8800GTS 320MB 320-bit GDDR3 SLI Supported Video Card
6- Western Digital Raptor X 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive
1 -ABS Tagan BZ Series BZ1100 ATX12V / EPS12V 1100W Power Supply
1 -Creative 7.1 Channels Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series Sound Card
1 -LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA
1 -AeroCool CoolWatch-Silver Large LCD Display Control Panel with 20-in-1 Card Reader
1 -KOOLANCE EX2-750BK Liquid Cooling System
2 -KOOLANCE CPU-330 CPU Cooling block [no nozzles]
4 -KOOLANCE VID-280 GPU + RAM Cooler [no nozzles]
Thermaltake CL-W0032 Liquid Cooling System Level & Flow Indicator
Swiftech MCP350 12 VDC Pump
ZALMAN ZM-MFC1 Fan Controller Panel - Retail
Thermaltake Armor Series VA8000BWS Black Aluminum / Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case

[mboy67]

I think u need to re-think it.

[DarkAssassin]

why would you say re think it?.....this is an actual PC already built and working or is it cause its AMD?

[\m/ Rich \m/]

agreed, especially considering AMD just killed the QuadFX platform. Not to mention Quad Sli is a waste.

Otherwise, not bad if you've got the coin for it... id personally go with the new Intel quads (penryn i thinks?), and if you're gung ho on a 4 card solution, you might wanna look into throwing 4 Ati 3870's in CrossfireX.

Personally, id also pick 8800GT's over 320mb GTS's.

[Chako]

Yes, go Intel at the moment. AMD is behind the eight ball right now in terms of performance parts.

[filthy]

I'd take the Intel Core 2 Quad QX6850, and why four 320MB GTS's??? I'd rather have two 768MB 384 bit 8800 GTX's in SLI than four 320MB 320 bit 8800GTS in quad SLI. If I'm gonna think dream machine, I'd dream big...

[shadowjak]

Actually a dream machine can mean many things to many people.
To some it can mean the most expensive bleeding edge parts available.
To others it can mean the best mix of the parts from manufacturers that they like and the most money they can put out for it at the time.
If its already built then you can upgrade certain parts as you go along,I would upgrade the Video cards,Mobo and processor in the future.
I would also add more storage ,keeping the Raptor for your main drive.
If you built it yourself-good.
Keep researching ALL parts you ever think of using for a build.
Good luck on future builds

[Chako]

I read it as he wants 6 Raptors.

They are nice drives. I have a pair.

[Hans]

Hopefully you have enough money left to buy a monitor and speakers...

[Maryms]

I would change a few things for sure.

Get 2 or 4 500GB seagate HD's.

2 x 8800 GTX cards or wait for future Dual Gpu cards and get 2 of them instead.

Get 1 x Intel Quad-Core Yorkfield and OC it on stock air cooling to 3.6-4.0ghz which is plausible.

Also i would go with 2x4gb G.Skill PC2-8000 dual channel kit.

1 -LG DVDRW is all you need, lightscribe is a waste of money Black SATA.

1 -LG DVD-ROM unit Black of course and SATA if available.

1 -ABS Tagan BZ Series BZ1100 ATX12V / EPS12V 1100W Power Supply or Thermaltakes 850w to 1000w Version.

1 x DFI X38 (not released yet, but soon dec 20 so they say) Intel Motherboard or the P35 Version of it which has been out for sometime now, but the X38 many state it maybe better then the P35 mobo, so time will tell.

No need for the water cooling stuff for such a CPU and as for the cards, well they seem to be doing very well on stock cooling, but there is better air cooling in the aftermarket products which i would invest in if i thought it was worth while and it is much cheaper.

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So not only did i save you money from a few things in this setup i stated above. It would kick arse over the one you were dreaming about and cost you either the same price or cheaper or possibly a little more, all depends on the time you buy the parts at.

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So you would have this instead.

1 -DFI X38 (not released yet, but soon dec 20 so they say) Intel Motherboard or the P35 Version of it which has been out for sometime now, but the X38 many state it maybe better then the P35 mobo, so time will tell.

1 x 2x2GB = 4GB G.Skill PC2-8000 dual channel kit.

2 or 4 500GB seagate HD's and RAID them if 2 HD's i would raid 0 the drives (Make sure to have an extra 500GB HD (External) for Backup Purposes), if you bought 4 HD's then i would Stripe Them and again make sure to have an extra 500GB HD (External) for Backup Purposes.

2 x 8800 GTX cards or wait for future Dual Gpu cards and get 2 of them instead.

1 x Intel Quad-Core Yorkfield and OC it on stock air cooling to 3.6-4.0ghz which is plausible.

1 -ABS Tagan BZ Series BZ1100 ATX12V / EPS12V 1100W Power Supply or Thermaltakes 850w to 1000w Version.

1 -Creative 7.1 Channels Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series Sound Card

1 -LG DVDRW is all you need, lightscribe is a waste of money Black SATA.

1 -LG DVD-ROM unit Black of course and SATA if available.

1 -AeroCool CoolWatch-Silver Large LCD Display Control Panel with 20-in-1 Card Reader

1 -ZALMAN ZM-MFC1 Fan Controller Panel - Retail

1- Thermaltake Armor Series VA8000BWS Black Aluminum / Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case

As for the Case there is a few others that are made by Antec that i would look into as an option of buying.

[Hans]

It will be bypassed by a Dell in 6 months for now

[\m/ Rich \m/]

looks like HP is already on it... lol

http://h20435.www2.hp.com/

[Maryms]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: \m/ Rich \m/</div><div class="ubbcode-body">looks like HP is already on it... lol

http://h20435.www2.hp.com/</div></div>

Not even close to my dream machine in my above post and i doubt Dell will ever build such a machine let alone any other off the shelf manufacturers.

[DarkAssassin]

thanks guys that is what i was looking for that is why i posted it to see what others can come up with that would be better and the final price for the machine was about 4.000.00$ a little less actually.

[\m/ Rich \m/]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: NuGcAt-SiSyRc</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: \m/ Rich \m/</div><div class="ubbcode-body">looks like HP is already on it... lol

http://h20435.www2.hp.com/</div></div>

Not even close to my dream machine in my above post and i doubt Dell will ever build such a machine let alone any other off the shelf manufacturers.

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No, not quite a dream machine, but pretty badass for a out of the box.

[Ultra54]

I thought it was a pretty dreamy system though. I loved the case.

[shadowjak]

As far as what I have and what I would build well...

What I have-

Asus A8n32-sli deluxe mobo

4gb Kingston hyper-x

2x 400gb Western Digital raid edition 2 hds

2x EVGA 8800 ultra superclocked

AMD FX-60 processor

Seasonic 750 watt power supply

Soundblaster XFi-Elite pro

2x Plextor 760-A

ZALMAN ZM-MFC1 Fan Controller Panel

Zalman CNPS9700 led

Silverstone Temjin TJ09 case

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What I plan on building-
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Mobo will probably be Asus supporting PCI-Express 3.0/DDR3 1600 ram and Intels Yorkfield quad core processor or better(unless AMD comes up with something new and amazing)

8gb of ram probably OCZ either Flex XLC Series or ReaperX HPC Series

Intel Yorkfield QX-9650 or better

4x Seagate Cheetah® 15K.6 enterprise hard drive 450 GB SAS interface

Adaptec Serial Attached SCSI RAID 4805SAS----The Adaptec Serial Attached SCSI RAID 4805SAS PCI Express card is an eight-port controller that supports SAS, SATA or SATA II disk drives. It features the Adaptec RAID Code (ARC) with standard RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50, JBOD as well as the Adaptec Advanced Data Protection Suite with RAID 1E, 5EE, 6, 60, Copyback Hot Spare and optional Snapshot Backup. The card has 128 MB of ECC-protected DDR DRAM and a battery unit is optional.

2x EVGA 8800 ultra superclocked--Keep for now and upgrade later

Soundblaster XFi-Elite pro

2x Plextor 760-A Keeping these until the new Multi Burners drop in price--LGs Super Multi Blue GGW-H20LI is now $500.00-These drives are dropping fast

ZALMAN ZM-MFC1 Fan Controller Panel

Zalman 7700AlCu

Silverstone Temjin TJ09 case

PC Power & Cooling T12W ATX12V / EPS12V 1200W Power Supply

[Hans]

I am wondering what you do with your machine that requires such components?

[shadowjak]

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection
Adobe ColdFusion 8
Gaming
Game programming
Some online gaming
Programming

[Hans]

What kind of monitor do you use?