Your Dream/Ultimate PC?

superscaper

I'm having trouble deciding on components (most likely nvidia 790i Ultra chipset is about as definite as I've got and that's not really definite) for my next pc. So out of interest what would your dream PC be (be as specific as you want about components and then I'll plaguarise your ideas ). Water cooling, case modding, no money limit..... anything goes. I'm just interested in what people's preferences and ideas are. Be as fanciful as you like.

robtruscott

this is what i'm thinking of for my next PC


Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 GO 2.40GHz Quad Core CPU Overclocked too a minimum of 3.00GHz and beyond.
- Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Intel approved cooler
- Arctic Silver 5 Heatsink compound
- MSI P7N Platinum SLi (Socket LGA775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
- Award winning GeIL 4GB PC2-6400 CAS4 (2x2GB) Dual Channel Kit (Overclocked at 800MHz+)
- 500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 32MB Cache SATA-2 Hard Drive
- 2x NVIDIA 9600 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) DirectX 10 Graphics Card configured in SLI
- Samsung S223D 22x DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black)
- Corsair TX 650W Next Generation Power Supply

tomsolomon

Check out this board dude, its awsome, Cpu support is amazing..........

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Asus-Striker-II-Extreme-nForce-790i-Ultra-Skt-775_W0QQitemZ150276624147QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item150276624147&_trkparms=72%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14.l1318

And a couple of these should sort out the graphics.............:D

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?bfg-98gt5o

There you go lol best part of 500 quid gone already...................

And one of these..............

http://www.xsreviews.co.uk/reviews/power-supply-units/thermaltake-toughpower-1200w/

And a couple of these...............

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/index.asp?cat=2

superscaper

tomsolomon wrote: »

Check out this board dude, its awsome, Cpu support is amazing..........

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Asus-Striker-II-Extreme-nForce-790i-Ultra-Skt-775_W0QQitemZ150276624147QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item150276624147&_trkparms=72%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14.l1318

And a couple of these should sort out the graphics.............:D

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?bfg-98gt5o

There you go lol best part of 500 quid gone already...................

Yes the striker 2 extreme is actually one of my possible options :rotfl: . Still at saving up stage at the moment (obviously :rolleyes: ). I think the main thing is the motherboard choice really as I can always get lower spec cpu, ram, gpu etc and upgrade those in the future (whenever I don't feel like eating or living in a house for a month or so ).

I am seriously thinking of water cooling (not really that extravagant, I used to use liquid nitrogen for vacuum pumps in research so at least I'm not going down that route!!!) which I think should be easier with the Asus board. At least I'm not considering EVGA's options with inbuilt water blocks: http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=800998 (how's that for price!!!!).

tomsolomon

I've been looking at this settup for a good few months now, still out of my price range though

I'm always about 3 to 4 years behind when it comes to hardware, but you can still get good performance for the price. Also if you get the right kit you can upgrade and it should last untill the next generation of hardware comes out.........

Maybe if I win the lottery tonight eh.........:rolleyes:

superscaper

tomsolomon wrote: »

I've been looking at this settup for a good few months now, still out of my price range though

I'm always about 3 to 4 years behind when it comes to hardware, but you can still get good performance for the price. Also if you get the right kit you can upgrade and it should last untill the next generation of hardware comes out.........

Maybe if I win the lottery tonight eh.........:rolleyes:

Well my current pc is NForce 2 motherboard and Athlon XP 1800..... so I've really let things slip so it's definitely a build from scratch job. And I definitely want to go for the high end of things. It's embarrassing being a developer in a company and every other employee has a home PC about five years newer and five times more expensive than yours. We're all into games and while they're talking about difference in high frame rates between XP and Vista for Crysis, all I can say is I just about get Half Life 2 to run on low settings. :rolleyes: Think my current graphics card is about ready to give up and is slowly losing it's mental facalties (GeForce FX5700).

tomsolomon

This looks like a nice bit of kit keeping with the Asus theme....................

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.php?/cpu_mainboard/asus_crosshair_ii_am2_motherboard/1

Its got some good features, including onboard graphics, meaning you can still use it while you save up for 3 graphics cards..........:D

Not bad price either.

superscaper

tomsolomon wrote: »

This looks like a nice bit of kit keeping with the Asus theme....................

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.php?/cpu_mainboard/asus_crosshair_ii_am2_motherboard/1

Its got some good features, including onboard graphics, meaning you can still use it while you save up for 3 graphics cards..........:D

Not bad price either.

I did think about that a while ago, but I think I'm going to stick with Intel chips for this next PC. (I think AMD have kind of lost it a bit this last year or so).

tomsolomon

They do seem to be losing the race a little.

But in all honesty my system aint much better than yours,

I'm only running an Athlon 3000+ On an Abit Kv8 pro board..........

I will just about run the latest generation of games on low res.....

spakkker

With e8500 and q6600 under £120 its a tough call. I don't think many games can use 4 cores ... but I'm not a gamer.
E8500 will o/c 4ghz on air cooling -3.6 on standard volts in one test.
q6600 usually can do upto 3.6 ghz on air

Leopard

superscaper wrote: »

So out of interest what would your dream PC be (be as specific as you want about components and then I'll plaguarise your ideas ). Water cooling, case modding, no money limit..... anything goes. I'm just interested in what people's preferences and ideas are. Be as fanciful as you like. (sic)

Since you ask, one of THESE - with 2 quad-core Intel Zeon "Harpertown" 3.2 GHz processors, 32 GB of RAM, an nVidea Quadro FX 5600 graphics card and twin Apple 30" monitors.
:xmastree: :EasterBun :bdaycake:

(This does qualify as a PC because it can run Windows natively - some would say paganly - if, as Steve Jobs put it, you would actually want to. )

Well, you did ask.