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Betzalel
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07 Mar 2008, 12:13 pm

So am I the only one here that likes non PC hardware? seems like it.

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07 Mar 2008, 12:22 pm

PC:
Dual AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon 2.8s
Tyan Nvidia nForce Professional or Intel server board
4GB of DDR RAM
1 Seagate SAS drive for system boot, 4 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 1TB drives in RAID 5
Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS graphics
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi sound
DVD-RW drive
750W PC Power & Cooling or Seasonic PSU
Lian-Li case, painted by me

Mac:
either a Mac Pro with 2 2.8 GHz Xeons and 4GB of RAM with Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS graphics or a 17" MacBook Pro.

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07 Mar 2008, 12:25 pm

Cray XT4

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07 Mar 2008, 1:35 pm

Betzalel wrote:

So am I the only one here that likes non PC hardware? seems like it.

I would love to get something different in my possession to tinker with it. I said that my dream computer would need a RISC-processor... (and modern PCs use CISC)

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07 Mar 2008, 3:40 pm

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1000w+ psu
intel quad core with 12mb cache
some SLI motherboard that will overclock
two 8800 ultra in sli
four western digtal raptor hard drives 150gb 10000rpm

I am saving up the $$$$$$$$$

That machine doesnt need that wattage. Why so much?

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07 Mar 2008, 7:54 pm

Fuzzy wrote:

-Main wrote:

I want to build one of these.

Except replace the 2 gig / dual core / 250GB with 4 gig / quad core / 1TB. On each motherboard.

Games would need to be designed to benefit from that.

there is one out there: Crysis

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07 Mar 2008, 8:53 pm

darkstone100 wrote:

Fuzzy wrote:

-Main wrote:

I want to build one of these.

Except replace the 2 gig / dual core / 250GB with 4 gig / quad core / 1TB. On each motherboard.

Games would need to be designed to benefit from that.

there is one out there: Crysis

I'm sorry but i dont see any indication that Crysis will run on distributed computing networks, nor linux of any flavour. Its purely a Windows game. The Miniwulf is Ubuntu Linux based and makes use of Gigabit lan cards to join the processors. You would need a specially designed game to make use of a lan in that fashion.

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09 Mar 2008, 6:50 pm

A computer that makes little to no sound. No moving parts, no fans. a system on a chip. A combo cpu,sound,video,network, memory in one chip. A mother chip heeh grin...

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10 Mar 2008, 4:13 pm

I don't have a dream PC, but yeah a perfect operating system would be a start.

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11 Mar 2008, 12:29 pm

Hmmm... Dream computer? Would be something like the following:

Motherboard: Something with 4 (or more) sockets for processors.
Processor: 3.0GHz Quad core processor (4 of them to popultate the motherboard)
RAM: I can make do with 2 GB, but for a dream system, I'd have to say 8GB or more.
Hard drives: 9 1TB drives in a RAID5 array.

Think that covers everything...

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13 Mar 2008, 2:11 am

I never said I wanted it for gaming, and almost all recent games only run on windows.

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13 Mar 2008, 2:13 am

-Main wrote:

I never said I wanted it for gaming, and almost all recent games only run on windows.

No you didnt, But I felt it wise to add a disclaimer for people who wouldnt know.

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13 Mar 2008, 3:27 pm

I don't have a dream computer, coolblue here (taps case) hasn't let me down and does what I need it to do

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13 Mar 2008, 9:32 pm

A brand new Mac that could run System 6 or 7 plus MS-DOS and Win95.

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14 Mar 2008, 1:28 am

CaptainMac wrote:

A brand new Mac that could run System 6 or 7 plus MS-DOS and Win95.

have you ever tried DosBox?

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21 Mar 2008, 11:56 pm

A super-computer I can do some sweet CGI on.

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