lunachick

Yeah, that is pretty darned nice.

Ok, ok, I want one of each! Everyone should have at least 3 super-power computers, anyway. You're just a poor ol' luddite if you don't have 3 kick-ass machines to work and play with.


Oh, god - I need a shower.

Dark Jedi

They make those able to run all my games now? Cool!

(Until games cease to sucketh on a Mac, I'm staying with a PC.)

echoes

My "dream" PC of before was just me trying to be realistic. But here's what my real PC might look like:

A number of these, in various RAID arrays, as well as for external backup purposes (Read: Images of my multiple TB system) Probably need a few U320 controllers for that.

Two Opteron 2 GHz and 4 of these Corsair ECC twin packs for 8 sticks (4 GB) total installed in this Tyan board.

An expensive video card that's overkill for my needs.

A soundcard with S/PDIF output into a 7.1 audio system worth at least $30,000; I really like the Klipsch reference series floorstanding speakers.

Video output would be into a similarly priced projector.

Kenwood 72x CD-ROM, which I believe is no longer being made. And of course a DVD-ROM and DVD+/-RW.

All housed in this heatsink of a case with included 300W PSU. The included 300W passively cooled PSU should be plenty right?

Oh yeah, and a floppy drive.

Ok, so I really just want a Cray supercomputer.

Amen-Moses

Buy an X-Box and be done with it.

I have 2 high end PCs, which are supposed to be for games networked with my iMac. The kids fight over the iMac every day, go figure!

Amen-Moses

Amen-Moses

Well if you want to get really silly I'll take a room full of IBM mega servers, Tb's of storage per box of super fast RAID array HDs (plug and play HDs - cool) combined with multi-processor G5 technology.

We have just one of them at work which stores ALL our debug data for a 400+ processor network in real time (it's an Air Traffic Control system), never misses a beat and never fails.

Doesn't play PC games but it will run Linux so anything ported ...

Amen-Moses

echoes

Why yes, yes I would.

But I was trying to still keep it within the realm of desktops.

Then again, why not just have a server room like you described in your basement and use a wireless keyboard and mouse, and long enough cables for video and audio...?

Amen-Moses

Reminds me of a time many years ago when a workmate wanted to work from home, DEC came and installed a mainframe in his basement so he could do so. In the winter he didn't need a boiler to heat the house the twin processor VAX did it for him.

Mind you at this time of year the Pentiums in my living room seem to do a similar job.

Amen-Moses

Megatron

Ok, I understand the Mac love in this thread...

...but what's up with the AMD slobbering? Bleh...

NonHomogenized

Probably has something to do with the Athlon 64's eating any pentium you care to name, as an after-dinner mint

The Other Michael

IBM 360s, VAX and PDP-11s - those were the days. Ummm, Hollerith cards, dropping off stacks of them at the "batch window" in the computing center, control cards, waiting to pick up the output for hours . . . .

cheers,
Michael