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| 177433 | 2003-09-23 22:11:00 | Hi All I am curious in what people on here would want as their PC dream Machine. If you could list your best system with todays components that would be awesome. (Including a case) P4 Vs AMD, ATI Vs Nvidia it will be interesting what people will choose. Price isn't a factor here so good all out on this :-) Looking forward to seeing what people come up with |
Buster (2415) | ||
| 177434 | 2003-09-23 22:33:00 | I am less worried about the components as much as what it can do for me my present PC has a older 1.3 Thunderbird cpu and 384 megs of sd133 ram and a Geforce 3 , 140 gigs of HDD space ,with a 6x dvd rom hollywood plus card and cdrw burner in it, this PC does about 80% of what is desirable. What it can't do is play my divx movies thru to my video and tv so a tv card in and out would be nice, especially one that can pick up Sky UHF , also software to run a TIVO like emulation would be nice ,set it and forget it to record all your fav programs onto HDD which of course means you will need at least a 180 gig HDD if not bigger to store all of this . |
kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 177435 | 2003-09-23 23:04:00 | I really liked that really expensuve one in PC World Magazine. But for some reason it didn't do as well as the second most expensive. I would like a cross between those two. With the silent stuff, and 3.2 Ghz of the first one, and the whatever made the other one go so well. | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 177436 | 2003-09-24 00:57:00 | i would like a tera-byte hard drive! No-more (Your disk is full) Chris |
ilikelinux (1418) | ||
| 177437 | 2003-09-24 01:18:00 | 1. Asus P4C800-E + P4 EE + sata raid 2. Asus PC-DL + Dual Xeon + sata raid, if someone is obsessed with dual cpu systems. that's the basic bare bone dream for me at the moment. |
yang11 (170) | ||
| 177438 | 2003-09-24 10:46:00 | I thought no-one would ask! For my Christmas present, I would really appreciate a programme that interacts in real time with windows registry in an intelligent manner.:D Such a diagnostic, running in the background would, for me, obviate the need for me ever having to upgrade as I don't bother much with multi-media, graphics, or other high-density megabyte stuff.:| This programme that I want would continuously and instantly self-correct any software or hardware conflict of any sort, simply by identifying the obstacles in the registry and safely removing them while allowing my programmes to run at the same time.;\ One example is that my internet 'slipstream xcelerator' provided to me by slingshot keeps turning itself off. :O What I need is for that to be controlled so that it stays on.;\ I've followed all the advice about re-installing the jolly thing but to no avail (as the South Africans love to say:^O). Am I asking too much? ?:| |
eef2 (1904) | ||
| 177439 | 2003-09-24 11:25:00 | Yes! Asus PC-DL + Dual Xeon cpus with 1MB of L3 cache Radeon 9800 Pro 256Mb ram. 2Gb+ DDR-333 ram (the only type the PC-DL can handle) Two 160Gb sata drives configured in raid-0 (+1more drive for error correction?) Couple of dvd -/+ rw drives Dual monitor Digital 21" LCD displays and a Projector for the dvd movies Some real expensive TV-capture card with sky digital hooked up to it. Wireless internet connection with high speed and no caps :) I think that would be one of the best setups out. |
kiki (762) | ||
| 177440 | 2003-09-24 12:09:00 | Antlon XP3200 or FX2500 (64-bit) 4GB DDR-400 or 8GB DDR-RAM nVidia FX5900 Ultra 256MB DDR TV-out and in 23" CRT Screen + Projector 250GB WD SATA 7200rpm Mboard with SATA, --[Dual AGP8x]--, 400MHz FSB, (enough dimm slots!) 7.1 Channel sound card Gigabit Ethernet card SATELLITE INTERNET 7.1 Channel Wharfdale or Creative Speaker system with 1000W Wireless Mouse, (Large and Small) Tablet, Keyboard, handheld mouse Firewire Custom made OS, stability of LINUX, usability of Windows (i.e. good parts of both) All the good 3D Games DVD Burner Fanbus, Fanbus, Fanbus Baybus, Baybus, Baybus Custom case *with all my own tweaks and controls *MAC Like (G4 cube novelties) *sensor operated buttons Desk designed ergonomically (thats NCEA in Computing thinking ;-)) Finally, ***NO PROBLEMS WITH IT*** |
hamstar (4) | ||
| 177441 | 2003-09-24 12:27:00 | I'm sorry, I have since found out that satellite internet is 'RUDE' and have decided on Fiberless Optics/Laser OC-3072. 20GB/second! :D | hamstar (4) | ||
| 177442 | 2003-09-24 12:48:00 | Im actually rather content with my current setup ATM. The processor is a little on the slow side when Im doing huge sessions of compiling applications (AMD 1700+ @ 1.46Ghz) so the latest 3200+ AMD CPU wouldnt go amiss. A nice shiney new nVidia GeForce FX 5900 would be absolutely brilliant, but I dont do enough gaming to justify purchasing one. The Ti 4600 would be great for me, give me that extra lil boost. RAM.. I fill up the current 512MB with Cache without a worry.. And Linux is good, its NEVER used my 256MB SWAP partition on my HDD (Poor HDD.. ;-)). A larger HDD wouldnt go amiss either, and while Im dreaming I might as well go SATA. 120GB should suffice for the time being.. Means I can throw that 40 Gig one in my X-Box ]:) Im getting a DVD-Writer soon, so no complaints there Floppy drive.. rarely gets used, and I wouldnt have put one in if I hadnt been playing with Ghost about 10 months back! I'd love a Gigabit Ethernet setup at home, that'd just be something awesome to brag about ;-) Im a pretty happy user though I s'pose. I read some statistic somewhere that said that 85% of PC users thought a faster PC would be nice every time they used their PC, and of that 85%, only 5% actually maxed out the CPU and RAM more than once a week!!!!! (Was taken on users with PC's over 1Ghz and 256MB or more RAM). Kinda intersting huh! |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
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