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dream machine

Aug 10, 2005 3:09AM PDT

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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And I...
Aug 10, 2005 3:31AM PDT

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

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(NT) (NT) could buy a dodge neon with that money
Aug 10, 2005 4:15AM PDT
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(NT) (NT) lol i guess that's why they call it a "dream" machine
Aug 11, 2005 4:35AM PDT
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(NT) (NT) Like Aerosmith said....Dream on...
Aug 10, 2005 7:00AM PDT