Go buy an under 1K buck dual core 64-bit P4 or AMD X2 and wait one year for the that 12K machine to come down a bit.
Bob
Every year MAXIMUMPC builds the fastest machine money can buy. I just want to know what you think of the specs.
Two dual-core AMD Opteron 275 processors
Tyan K8WE motherboards with 2 nvidia chipsets
Silverstone TJ07 case
8 1GB Corsair XMS registered RAM
Two nvidia GeForce 7800s in SLI
Two Dell 24" 2405FPWs monitors
850 watt PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool power supply
Five Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 500GB drive = 2 TB
SATA Netcell Revolution running drives in RAID 3
Two Plextor PX-716SAs SATA drives
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi sound card
Logitech Z-5500 speakers
Metadot Das Keyboard
Logitech MX518 mouse
Windows XP Pro and Windows XP Pro X64.
Cost = $12870

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