Your dream machine- Please share

[Mike_J.M]

If you had all the money you could use, what specs would you buy?
For an Intel machine and AMD.

[reyals]

pah! a R160K mac pro...
Two 2.93GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon Westmere (12 cores)
32gb ddr3
1x 512GB solid-state drive
3x 2tb sata
2x ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
2x Apple LED Cinema Display (27" flat panel)
bring your pc, this baby aint afraid of nothing!

[Mike_J.M]

Why 2x 5770? Not that its bad..

[RuadRauFlessa]

Why 2x 5770? Not that its bad..

Because that is what the mac pro comes with.

[Sojourn]

pah! a R160K mac pro...
Two 2.93GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon Westmere (12 cores)
32gb ddr3
1x 512GB solid-state drive
3x 2tb sata
2x ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
2x Apple LED Cinema Display (27" flat panel)
bring your pc, this baby aint afraid of nothing!

Welcome to MACFormat.
Your post could be seen as an off-topic hijack.

As for my reply to mike:
Just open the hardware price list of most reputable dealers and get the most expensive components available.
9/10 times that will be what I would get.

[Mike_J.M]

Haha ja I was just keen to see your responses. Anything interesting besides mac?

[RuadRauFlessa]

As I already have all of the computing power I need in my home workstation I would probably get myself something like

[Snapa]

i Wants the alienware m17x *Drool*

[reyals]

Your post could be seen as an off-topic hijack.

not exactly... you can run windows on it(needless to say, not the greatest idea, but its a possibility) and his post was for an intel/amd machine, and that is an intel machine...

the mod is right, thats the gfx cards what the mac pro comes with(at least its one of the options)

[Mike_J.M]

Ok guys.. Forget about pre built systems. What parts would you buy?

[DAE_JA_VOO]

I have my dream machine right now, actually. I bought it almost a year ago, and it was a BEAST when I got it. It still plays everything I want at full res/max settings, so I'm totally happy.

i7 965XE
Rampage II Extreme
GTX295
12GB Corsair Dominators

The rest isn't important.

These days, I really don't care about hardware that much. As long as it LOOKS good, I'm happy.

[ryanrich]

Just open the hardware price list of most reputable dealers and get the most expensive components available.
9/10 times that will be what I would get.

Same here. i7 980, 3x GTX 480's and then the highest end components you get for everything else and that's more or less my dream machine...

My current PC is pretty much my dream machine though. Cost me a fortune now but worth every penny...

[SykomantiS]

My dream machine would set me back only R12k, give or take. Not much, I know. At this stage of the fight I'm more interested in my bike. I'd settle for:
MSi 890FXA-GD70
4GB OCZ Reaper DDR1600 7-7-7-24 (or 8-8-8-24, Sybaritic are apparently posting two different sets of timing)
Gigabyte Odin 585
Radeon 5870 (pick one, I really don't care)
Samsung XL2370 (Unless there's a 27" version, then I want that one)
Coolermaster CM 690

I already have the Phenom2 X4 965, Z2300's and Creative GD580 speakers.
I don't really play games anymore, It's just that when I do attend the odd lan once every three months, I don't want to sukkel.

[StarBound]

I'd go for:
Intel i7 985 Xtreme (the one with 6 cores)
X58 MSI board
12gb ddr3 2000 memory
6x OCZ 256gb vertex 2 limited editions
2x Asus Aris
1200W cooler master PSU
Cooler Master HAF932 case
Xonar DX sounds card
Z5500 Logitech Speakers
Natural MS keyboard
G7 Logitech mouse
40" Samsung LED HDTV with 120hz refresh

...from my specs I am almost there

[RuadRauFlessa]

I'd go for:
Intel i7 985 Xtreme (the one with 6 cores)
X58 MSI board
12gb ddr3 2000 memory
6x OCZ 256gb vertex 2 limited editions
2x Asus Aris
1200W cooler master PSU
Cooler Master HAF932 case
Xonar DX sounds card
Z5500 Logitech Speakers
Natural MS keyboard
G7 Logitech mouse
40" Samsung LED HDTV with 120hz refresh

...from my specs I am almost there

Damn I love those speakers. My sets control unit was stolen. So now I have to buy a complete set.

[Sojourn]

MSi 890FXA-GD70

I won't touch MSI with a 10ft pole.

[SykomantiS]

That's nice. I on the other hand don't have a problem with them.

[Mike_J.M]

Go for Asus

[SykomantiS]

Why?
As far as I'm aware (and I'm aware I might be totally wrong here) there is no Asus board that has what this board offers. Small things like the dual gigabit, which my current board has, that the new boards doesn't have.

Also, I don't like Asus

[GDI_Lord]

For the bedroom PC, the fastest components can can be passively cooled (yeah, water cooling with a big fanless radiator would work too - I guess) and the best, most reliable passively cooled PSU. I wouldn't mind a case fan or two that would spin QUIETLY at, say 60RPM. 12GB RAM(Hey DJV, have you modded a PSU to be cooled passively yet?)

Gaming PC - Eyefinity 9, who cares about noise!!! Intel or AMD: the upper echelons of gaming are GPU bound, not CPU bound. 12GB RAM

Development PC 0 - Silent PC with an exception made for Eyefinity 6 with a dual or quad socket motherboard, Intel CPUs with HT. Mechanical keyboard. Maximum supported RAM on the board.
Development PC 1 - Silent PC with an exception made for Eyefinity 6 with a dual or quad socket motherboard, AMD Bulldozer CPUs with "Strong" Multithreading. Mechanical keyboard. Maximum supported RAM on the board.

HTPC - the puniest, tiniest, quietest, nicest looking case that DJV can make right now. Passively cooled AMD card. CPU? Dunno. Guess a passively cooled i5 untill Bobcat is released. Maximum supported RAM on the board.

All have 2TB SSDs etc.

[ryanrich]

Why would you want 12GB of RAM unless you're into hardcore graphic or 3D design or serious encoding/compiling that would utilise it all? On current games (and those to come for at least another few years) using 12GB of RAM has no positive impact, and in fact scores lower than rigs with 6GB...

[SykomantiS]

Because it's about bragging rights
Which is why I'm sticking to
I know that I don't use my pc to it's potential as it is currently.

[StarBound]

The thing is when money is no object you go for things you would never have considered simply because you can. Why hunt doves with a BB gun when your allowed to use a .50?

[SykomantiS]

Starbound, well said. Can I put that in my sig?

[GDI_Lord]

So that I don't have to upgrade it later.

How does that saying go again, "Anything above 60FPS one won't be able to see a difference?" Although with 120/200Hz screens, it might be, "Anything over 120/200FPS..."