lunachick

Ok, so I'm a geek (sort of).

I've been dreaming up a PC I'd like to build for myself. When I get the money. By which time, this will all have changed and become obsolete.

But anyway, here's what gave me panty moistening thoughts today...

I wanna -

Microstar K8T Neo motherboard with an Athlon64 3200+ (2.0Ghz) chip. A couple of 512Mb of DDR400 SDRAM thingies, and a Creative Platinum EX soundcard. And a great big fuck-off hard drive. And a nice new case.

The rest of the components can be taken from my current PC - the CDRW, the Zip Drive, the floppy drive, the video card (I don't play games, so what the hell), and maybe a DVD-RW Drive. Oh, and a TV/Tuner video capture card thingy.

And then I'm going to get me Creative GigaWorks speakers. And a Philips 200P4 LCD monitor.


Oh, such sweet dreaming - it's a good thing dreams are free.


So, what's your dream computer? (Assuming you dream about this kind of thing...)

kwigibo

There are cool things besides games you can do with a good video card, I really like keyhole . I could see my house if they'd only upload some australian cities already, how many towns in Iraq do i need to see from space?

lunachick

Wow! That'd be so rad if they had every town, every city, every liddle biddy village on there.

And yeah, talk about obsessed with Iraq. Nuts.

The Other Michael

I usually go through the reviews at tomshardware and pick out what seems to be a good 80-90th percentile machine, and then have that built for me.

My goal is to keep a PC for at least 5 years, so I'll spend more upfront to push off the replacement time.

cheers,
Michael

Amen-Moses

Twin G5.

But I won't be needing to change my underpants, I'm obviously not geeky enough!

Amen-Moses

scarmig

Whilel you're dreaming upgrade that rinky dink IDE harddrive to a mambo-fast SCSI III wide behemoth!

echoes

Oh that's sexy!

I would avoid a Creative sound card because as you said, you're not really a gamer. Creative cards are a good choice for serious gamers, but for music/DVD there are better options. M-Audio Revolution for example.

I'm going to build my dream PC this summer when I actually need a desktop again. My dream PC is cheap and quiet, I don't have a lot of heavy duty software to run. It'll have an external hard drive connected via firewire for backing up documents and imaging my system drive.

The only expensive part of it will be for audio, I expect to spend most of my money there. I don't know if I'll get a quality soundcard and run analog output into an amp, or just use a simple S/PDIF digital output into a receiver and use the receivers DACs.

BioBeing

I just built one of those. Not quite my dream, but it'll keep me going for another year or so. I got an Antec Sonata case - not the cheapest, but it is quiet. And it looks good.

AquaVita

Ahh yes. The dream pc. I managed to get mine down to 1200 dollars, to be bought soon.

http://secure.newegg.com/app/WishLis...VIEW&ID=568370

It will be mine soon enough. :P

NonHomogenized

Because I am a severe hardware geek, I'll chime in with my personal dream PC of the moment...

Case: Lian-li PC-75B (lined with sound absorbing materials, of course)

Memory: 2x 512mb sticks of Corsair PC4400 RAM

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP-940
Processor: Athlon 64 FX
Graphics Card: Radeon 9800 XT 256 MB
Hard drives: 4x Western Digital 250 GB SATA hard drives in a 0+1 Raid array; Secondary set of 2x 250 GB Western Digital Special Edition drives

CD/DVD Drives: 1x LG Electronics SUPER-MULTI DRIVE (DVD R+RAM+CD-RW+CD-R), 1 x LG Electronics 52x24x52 CD burner

Output: Sony - VPL-CX6 2000 Lumen Projector + Sony - GDM-FW900 (24" monitor, max res:2304X1440 80HZ ) + NEC 30" LCD monitor

Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 platinum pro

Speakers: Don't have time to look up the specs. Think "PA system"

Input: Logitech MX700 mouse, and matching wireless keyboard (which is what I'm using now)

Er... that's all I can think of, offhand. I know I'm forgetting some things