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C'Mon tech-forum users, whats your Dream PC, Set up.. Are we talking X2 Systems or System if you had the Money and was no Object, you would Build bye it..
What is your Dream PC?
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tj_extreme
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Easy:
i7-3960x
Asus Rampage IV X79 2011
24gb Mushkin Enhanced Silverline (3x8gb)
4x XFX 7970 3gb
480gb REVOdrive
120gb Vertex 3
2x 1tb WD Caviar Black
Coolermaster Cosmos 2
Custom water loop
Thermaltake Toughpower 1475w PSU
Blu-Ray burner
i7-3960x
Asus Rampage IV X79 2011
24gb Mushkin Enhanced Silverline (3x8gb)
4x XFX 7970 3gb
480gb REVOdrive
120gb Vertex 3
2x 1tb WD Caviar Black
Coolermaster Cosmos 2
Custom water loop
Thermaltake Toughpower 1475w PSU
Blu-Ray burner
The top 3 physicists/silicon specialists/applicable science people at each of the following: MIT, Cambridge, Harvard, Intel, IBM, Nvidia, Imperial College to design a budgetless and totally custom computer that will be extraordinarily reliable, compatible with traditional x86,x64 software, immensely powerful.
The top 3 audio engineers from each of the following REL, B&W, NAIM, LYNN, Mission, Rotel to design a matching set of soundcard, amp and speakers. Again, totally budgetless.
Top 3 display scientists from Sharp, LG, Samsung to design a super high PPI OLED display with the best and most accurate color reproduction conceivable without compromising OLEDs famed vibrancy when wanted.
Apples Johnny Ive led design team to put the computer in the case and the display in the whole screen. The audio people can make their own case because it affects sound quality.
Why would you dream about getting something already obtainable?
The top 3 audio engineers from each of the following REL, B&W, NAIM, LYNN, Mission, Rotel to design a matching set of soundcard, amp and speakers. Again, totally budgetless.
Top 3 display scientists from Sharp, LG, Samsung to design a super high PPI OLED display with the best and most accurate color reproduction conceivable without compromising OLEDs famed vibrancy when wanted.
Apples Johnny Ive led design team to put the computer in the case and the display in the whole screen. The audio people can make their own case because it affects sound quality.
Why would you dream about getting something already obtainable?
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All the new technology from quality manufacturers, and don't have to pay for it.
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A large case with 12, 5.25in drive bays that I can fill with several 5in3 SATA1/2/3 back-planes for hot-swapping drives. A couple of REALLY nice SATA cards that support RAID and hot-swapping drives. Then have maybe 24GB of Crucial Ballistix Smart Tracers @ DDR3 1600, put 20, 7200RPM 2TB hard drives into the hot-swap bays.
One cage would house only the active hot spares, all other drives would be in a very large Raid5 array, as I don't understand how to mix arrays just yet, as I have never had good controllers and enough drives to play with.
I would also have either a 10Gigabit switch, and a 10Gigabit NIC for network capabilities, OR a 4x1Gigabit NIC, and load balancing setup so the server could easily provide the whole home with anything desired with out huge issues, though the Raid5 array will potentially cause a bottle neck.
Case would be a generic low end case, as long as it supports 12 drive bays, and decent cooling capabilities to help pull air from the hard drives and out of the case. Those bays I like to use tend to let drives get a bit toasty.
Now, if I could have TWO of these machines, I would have one machine employ multiple Raid 0 arrays, while another machine uses Raid5, the second machine would be the backup location for the machine that has no redundancy, this way I don't loose 40TB worth of data.
This machine would be my server, for the entire home, storing every video/music file I wanted, I would have PS3 Media Server, and PLEX Laika installed on it, to enable all rooms to pull full HD content.
One cage would house only the active hot spares, all other drives would be in a very large Raid5 array, as I don't understand how to mix arrays just yet, as I have never had good controllers and enough drives to play with.
I would also have either a 10Gigabit switch, and a 10Gigabit NIC for network capabilities, OR a 4x1Gigabit NIC, and load balancing setup so the server could easily provide the whole home with anything desired with out huge issues, though the Raid5 array will potentially cause a bottle neck.
Case would be a generic low end case, as long as it supports 12 drive bays, and decent cooling capabilities to help pull air from the hard drives and out of the case. Those bays I like to use tend to let drives get a bit toasty.
Now, if I could have TWO of these machines, I would have one machine employ multiple Raid 0 arrays, while another machine uses Raid5, the second machine would be the backup location for the machine that has no redundancy, this way I don't loose 40TB worth of data.
This machine would be my server, for the entire home, storing every video/music file I wanted, I would have PS3 Media Server, and PLEX Laika installed on it, to enable all rooms to pull full HD content.
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I already have HD media being streamed to all the rooms in my house, but on a much smaller scale, of course.
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I do too, but, well, I would like to have entire blu-rays ripped to this server, which requires a rather large disk array, and I would like to have multiple rooms (let's say 5) be able to all stream with no issues what so ever. My current server is already full, I have had to go as far as setting up a small computer with a couple of 80GB drives in it to help with how much data I have, just to hold me over for another month.
Corrisive you could still do what you wanted to given a 2 month time frame.
Have you ever considered looking into the second or third generation opteron quacores or maybe hexacore ?
I was staring at a good used opteron 8320 on ebay, the seller wanted 19.00 plus 6.99 shipping.
I'm going to hold off on it for abit as my budget is a little bit tight for this month.
I was thinking building a small media server and just transmit some tv around the house.
Have you ever considered looking into the second or third generation opteron quacores or maybe hexacore ?
I was staring at a good used opteron 8320 on ebay, the seller wanted 19.00 plus 6.99 shipping.
I'm going to hold off on it for abit as my budget is a little bit tight for this month.
I was thinking building a small media server and just transmit some tv around the house.
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