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Phaelax
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 09:35
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I think it's kinda fun looking up new parts and designing a new desktop. So if money wasn't a concern, what would your "practical" dream build be? I say practical because I know someone will say a Cray or a nasa satellite...

Asus Rampage IV Extreme - $450
Intel i7-3960X Extreme - $1,050
OCZ Agility 3 240GB sata6 SSD - $300
G.Skill 4x4GB DDR3 1866 - $130
(2) EVGA GeForce GTX 580 3GB Hydro Copper - $1,460 ($730ea)
(2) WD caviar black 2TB sata6 - $500 ($250ea, raid 1)
Asus Xonar Essence STX - $170
SeaSonic 850w PSU - $210
Lite-On 12X Blu-ray burner - $100
Corsair Obsidian Series 800D full tower - $250

Total price on Newegg: $4,623.88

I would still need to add the water cooling system for the graphics cards, but that would be a beast of a machine. And I think I could actually build something very close to it for about half the price by making small changes. For instance, using the slower CPU (100mhz difference) at about half the price. Skip water cooling and get regular 580's, that'd save almost $500 on the two.

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The Zoq2
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 10:12
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Get a gaming PC that's about average 3 years from now but have it today
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Neuro Fuzzy
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 17:41
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I've always wanted to build a personal supercomputing rig. I haven't done much research on it (because I don't have the money or programming skills to get it or do anything with it yet). Definitely GPU-based (so not 32 cpu cores, like 16 gpu processors ), with a crapton of computational power. Of course this would cost $3,000-$5,000 so unless I win the lottery, I won't be building it any time soon.

For a dev computer? I dunno. Big solid state drive that I could store everything on, with an online (amazon cloud?) backup service so I would never lose anything. Plus, three monitors and a gigantic desk for working space. It'd have to have multiple tiny graphics cards so that A) I wouldn't be tempted to play video games 24/7 but B) I'd be able to test games and C) I'd be able to test said GPU supercomputer applications

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 18:20
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Dream PC? If money's no object, like if I won the lottery, I don't think I'd spare any expenses.

Mine would be a MacPro with:

MasOSX + Windows 7 Ultimate
2x 2.93ghz 6 Core Intel Xeon 'Westmere'
64gb RAM
Raid Card
4x1 TB Drives
ATI Radeon HD5870 1gb
1x 18x Super Drive
2x 27" Apple Display
Magic Mouse + Trackpad
Wireless Keyboard
Quad-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel PCI Express card


Total: £10,536.01
Purpose: To beat minesweeper


Some of it I can justify, 3D rendering requires RAM, so a big 64gb RAM should see to that, 2 displays is good for spreading out my work and yes I realise they're £800 a piece. The graphics card will suffice for gaming. Justifying 4 Terabytes is perhaps a little difficult here, but it seems with every hard drive size jump I do I still manage to finish it. I'm sure back in the day when I had 3gb of storage my 250gb HDD + 250gb external would have seemed excessive. Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad are both fairly cool and could see them being used in different purposes.

However, if I were to be more realistic, I mean I'm not going to spend over £10k on a system.

If I had a £2k budget, I'd go for a MacPro again, but 1 Quad Core 2.8ghz Intel Xeon, 3gb RAM, 1tb HDD, ATI Radeon HD 5770 1gb and my current HDTV TV.

But I will probably settle on a Mac Mini as my next computer or maybe a Lenovo Thinkstation.

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 18:28 Edited at: 3rd Jan 2012 18:29
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I think everybody would want the best PC ever made or at least something that cost over $5,000 (USD) Lol

For me, I'm not even going to lie. I fall right into that easily but I do say to myself this:

"Besides future proofing the PC. Why in the world would I need that much power ?"

For what I do on the PC. My current one is enough. Of course, getting more is always better but not by too much. I'd say around this:

Intel Core i7 3930X
Any ATX LGA 2011 Motherboard as of now (Since there all pretty extreme)
16GBs of DDR3 1600MHz+
Nvidia Gefocre GTX 590 3GB+
250GB+ SSD
4TB+ HDD Space
Blu-Ray Burner

That's somewhere around my perfect PC. Of course my dream is much, much more than that Lol. Pretty much what has been posted by Phaelax (or higher than that) is anybodies dream PC...

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650, Nvidia Gefocre GTX 560 OC 1024MB, 8192MB RAM, Nforce 780i, Windows 7 Home Premium x64
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 18:30
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Quote: "Purpose: To beat minesweeper"

You need at least 2 GTX580s to run that on mid settings!

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 18:48
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Hmm, my only wish would be to have 2 GTX 590's with crossfire, and maybe an i7. I'm ranked as a very high-end PC user, so I'm satisfied with what I have

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Quote: "2 GTX 590's with crossfire"


Can't crossfire nVidia products.
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The Zoq2
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 19:24
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I changed my mind, I want the EVE server

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 19:38
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Quote: "Can't crossfire nVidia products."


Yeah, sad isn't it?

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Quote: "Quote: "Can't crossfire nVidia products."

Yeah, sad isn't it?"

*COUGH SLI COUGH*

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Yeah, but theres a scaling difference between those two.
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 20:40
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Minesweeper *chuckle*

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Quote: "Yeah, but theres a scaling difference between those two."

As in SLI is better? That's what I've always heard (purely because of drivers, never heard a thing about speed comparison), and seeing as how nvidia seems to be the choice for supercomputer GPUs, I'd imagine that they have dual graphics card stuff down pretty well. (what's two graphics cards working in unison when you've already managed a hundred?)

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 20:51
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Isn't the GTX 590 already two graphics cards by itself? They say they hooked up two GTX 580s in parallel and called it a GTX 590.

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 21:31
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Yeah, a 590 is pretty much 2 580s but with slower clock speeds.
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 21:31
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Quote: "Isn't the GTX 590 already two graphics cards by itself? They say they hooked up two GTX 580s in parallel and called it a GTX 590."


From what IIRC that is true but there under clocked.

The ASUS Marz II seems to really be Two GTX 580s in one. Hence it's called "GTX 580 x2".

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IIRC...?¿?
Please do explain...

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 22:49
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Simple, 2 Asus MarsII. That's all
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I would want to have one of those "Toasters" people are talking about. Apparently they can run Crysis on high settings with no lag at all and have a 16:12 aspect ratio and a 12 core processor and 3 nvidia gtx1000 in SLI-X.

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