Stalker_Zero Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 (edited) Ok if you had the biggest budget imaginable and you had access to all the latest parts.... what kind of dream machine pc would you build. I'm not talking budget pc here. I'm talking the absolute latest parts out there. What parts would you pick and why? Let us know about your dream configurations. This isn't just for fun...I want to get an idea how powerful a system one can build. Edited September 16, 2004 by Stalker_Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Anything with an Athlon FX-53 and a 6800UEE/XT-PE, and the rest of the pieces would fall into place. I believe the 55 is going to be out in a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pz3 Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 (edited) i was thinking a FX53 too with a Asus A8V possibly? maybe not... and a 6800ultra too With This Case Edited September 16, 2004 by Prozac360 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swartsz Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 i would go with the toprange models from go-l.com, of course with the 3 tft screens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR6 Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Anything with an Athlon FX-53 and a 6800UEE/XT-PE, and the rest of the pieces would fall into place. I believe the 55 is going to be out in a bit. I was surprised why the latest Maximum PC mag didn't pick the Athlon FX for their Dream Machine 2004, but their explanation was that Athlon mobos still don't support PCI Express so will not be upgradable in the near future ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blistr Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 My dream machine: AMD Athlon FX-53 Asus SK8N Zalman 7000 B-Cu 1GB Corsair TWINX1024-3200XLPRO 2x WD Raptor 74GB HDD's Antec TruePower 550w WinFast A400 Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro Logitech Z-680 speakers Sony DRU-710A Samsung 16x DVD-ROM Antec P160 case MS wireless desktop pack 17" Samsung 172x Panasonic PT-AE500U Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowFella Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Stuff that! Give me something with Dual Xeon processors and a nice beefy Nvidia Quadro FX3000G card Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 (edited) Well I guess I`ll try and balance things off a bit here, and I`m gonna go with Intel...: CPU: Intel® Pentium® 4 -570, 3.8-GHz @ 800Mhz w/ 1Mb (Socket 775) Mobo: Abit® AG8-3rd eye, Socket 775, Intel®915P Chipset w/ PCI Express x16 (ATX) *OR: Asus® P5AD2-PREMIUM/WLOM, Socket 775, Intel® i925X Chipset w/ PCI Express x16 (ATX) Vid Card: Asus® Extreme AX800XT/2DT w/256Mb DDR & PCI-Express Memory: Corsair 1Gb PC/5400 XMS2 DDR2 PRO TwinX 675Mhz Platinum Series (2 x 512Mb) [TWIN2X1024-5400C4PRO] AS u can see, I like Asus...Quality stuff. Why ATi based vid u might ask? Because from what I red in couple of reviews, ATi`s got native PCI Express, compared to nVidia who has only an emulation (chip). Plus benchmarks clearly show that both ATi and nVidia cards are pretty equal, some benches giving slight edge to ATi...(those I`ve seen...) This is in no way intended to start a flame war, just my opinion...We all have our favorites Cheers all, Edited September 17, 2004 by T.E.C.-Leader Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 I think nVidia has been the driving source behind the PCIx step... well, them and Intel. ATi is trying to down play SLI at the moment... they will deeply regret that. @Snow - You plan on spending the rest of your life in PhotoShop and 3DSM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR6 Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 I think nVidia has been the driving source behind the PCIx step... well, them and Intel. ATi is trying to down play SLI at the moment... they will deeply regret that. Actually, it's mainly Intel that's been the major driving force behind things like AGP, and now PCI Express. However, they do form working groups with other companies like Nvidia and ATI. Intel's PCI Express initiative beat out the PCI-X initiative that has showed up on Apple hardware but will likely go the way of the dodo ... Both ATI and Nvidia adopted differing strategies to tranfer over to PCI Express technology. Here's a very simplified explanation of the diff between ATI and Nvidia's approaches as I understand it: Nvidia developed a "bridge chip" which they believe is more flexible and will save money: they can make all their board designs the same, and use the chip to turn the board into either an AGP 8x or PCI Express card. ATI has gone with the more labor intensive process of making two designs of a board supporting the same graphics chip, so that way their PCI Express boards have native support for PCI Express, and AGP boards have native support for AGP. Some say ATI's implementation should be faster if you have a PCI Express mobo, but to be honest, there is unlikely any game to be released in the next 1-2 years that will take full advantage of the PCI Express bandwidth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalker_Zero Posted September 17, 2004 Author Share Posted September 17, 2004 Excellent stuff people. But I must note that I too was surprised at MaximumPC's choice for their latest dream machine. They picked the Asus P5AD2 Platinum LGA755 motherboard. It supports DDR2 pc4200 memory running at 533mhz. They put 1 gig of that memory in there. Along with a P4 3.6prescott overclocked to 4 ghz. Their opinion was that since athlon 64's have the memory controller embedded into the cpu a user would not be able to take advantage of DDR2 memory. You would have to buy a new cpu and motherboard. Now I don't get that. Would anybody care to debate about that? Benchmarks have socket 939 amd systems beating the LGA775 systems running DDR2. Am I correct? Is MaximumPC going retarded? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snared_gambit Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Stuff that! Give me something with Dual Xeon processors and a nice beefy Nvidia Quadro FX3000G card That sounds nice Snow. My friend's brother just spent $5000 on a machine to render 3d animations with. My friend, his brother, and several other people (perhaps someday myself) have a little company that do small advertisements for local companies. Jordy told me that the machine renders 37% faster then a dual Xeon, I was impressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly2442 Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 1 gig RAM? How about 4 gig? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalker_Zero Posted September 19, 2004 Author Share Posted September 19, 2004 Well my dream machine would have the main hard drive as a flash drive solid state one. The one like from go-l .com. Now THAT would be a system. Boot time....1.5 secs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WytchDokta Posted September 19, 2004 Share Posted September 19, 2004 Well, with my new rig, they'll bundle Doom3 in with my GeForce FX 6800 LE for free so there!! I'll also be getting a mouse with a blue LED scroll wheel, and a keyboard with blue LED keys, among loadsa other cool stuff. Woot! They don't call my house La Casa Del Woot for nothing you know.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Slaughter Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 .:Nightmare:.,Sep 19 2004, 05:24 ] I'll also be getting a mouse with a blue LED scroll wheel, and a keyboard with blue LED keys, among loadsa other cool stuff. Woot! They don't call my house La Casa Del Woot for nothing you know.... My nephew loves blue LED lights, he would be very envious! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WytchDokta Posted September 24, 2004 Share Posted September 24, 2004 I even got pics of the keyboard and mouse with blue LED stuff for those of you who don't believe me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan243 Posted September 24, 2004 Share Posted September 24, 2004 (edited) I even got pics of the keyboard and mouse with blue LED stuff for those of you who don't believe me.I believe you. I just don't care. And Stalker, no budget at all with this dream machine? Are you a government employee? Edited September 24, 2004 by Ryan243 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Splash Posted September 24, 2004 Share Posted September 24, 2004 For gaming I'm still not convinced with LCD monitors. CRT's are still the way to go, despite their weight and size. Sony's top 21" would do. I'm still an Intel man to, because errrrrrrr.they have nice TV adverts DS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.W.A.T-Hondo Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 (edited) If you want to talk about dream machines, try SAVROW UK. SAVROW and look at their Diamond system. I also like the look of their Deuterium system. Edited October 22, 2004 by S.W.A.T-Hondo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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