[Wicked101]

Lets spice this up a bit, dig deep down and think about it.

If you had all the money in the world and you were able to buy any PC component that is avail. at this stage and build it up yourself to have the fastest and most powerful PC ever that will have any BENCHMARK for breakfast, what would it be.

Explain in detail every piece of hardware you will get

[Wicked101]

Yeah, I was expecting global warming, this is sad

[jmmijo]

Actually, I would custom design the cooling system myself, it would be a heat-exchanger system based around liquid nitrogen and would cool a central radiator like in a standard combustion engine in that the coolant would circulate around from the heat sinks that are attached to vital components, such as the CPU, GPU and chipset, north and south bridges.

There would be a central large cooling radiator for which I would have a one or more 120mm, thermal fans so that the ambient air temp stays frosty

The other thing I would do would be to have an elevated floor for my computer room. The floor tiles could be lifted to reveal a crawl-space where tempurature controlled AC is feed into and thru my custom rig and out thru the top and back behind the walls for a return thru the heat exchanger once more.

Of course the custom chassis would be sealed so only the cooler air gets into the bottom of the chassis before the hotter air gets exhausted thru the top. I will also isolate vibration and noise via dampeners and dampening material to attempt to eliminate as much fan noise as possible.

I'm thinking I could make up both a P4 Extrem Edition and an Athlon 64-FX rig. Of course with the Athlon I could go with an SLI config or get Gigabyte's new Combo Motherboard + Dual-GPU graphics package

[jmmijo]

Yes I suppose I'm dating myself, but hey, with age comes wisdom

Anyways, back in the USAF, I was maintaning a C-130 Flight Simulator, yes the real one with the 6-point motion base and computer gnerated graphics. The simulator was controlled by (3)Three Perkin-Elmer 8-32D's which were actually mini-Computers with those huge floor standing CDC hard drive units

The cooling was an elevated floor that was cooled via a heat exchanger, a huge outdoor radiator that had chilled water flowing over it. Now I think they just call them chillers.

[Brian Frank]

I'd have at least a dual CPU rig with SLI and some GeForce 6800 Ultras for starters. Probably 2-4GB of RAM too. Probably 2-3TB (and I could do it pretty easily too with 400GB drives available. Get the largest watt PSU that PC Power & Cooling has...

I'd use some LN2 cooling setup...for everything, but if something couldn't work, I supposed I'd do a peltier setup and just toss in a 300-400W power supply just to run the peltiers.

[jmmijo]

Originally posted by Brian Frank:

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I'd have at least a dual CPU rig with SLI and some GeForce 6800 Ultras for starters. Probably 2-4GB of RAM too. Probably 2-3TB (and I could do it pretty easily too with 400GB drives available. Get the largest watt PSU that PC Power & Cooling has...

I'd use some LN2 cooling setup...for everything, but if something couldn't work, I supposed I'd do a peltier setup and just toss in a 300-400W power supply just to run the peltiers.

The only problem is that I've yet to see a dual-Athlon 64 system, however there are plenty of Dual Opteron motherboards out there but I think they are all AGP slot only.

Now if either AMD or nVidia comes up with a dual-PCI Express slot board to support dual-opteron, then I think you'll be cooking with hot EVOL

[Wicked101]

[Jerry Atrik]

i guess if i had all the money...

i would really like an sgi onyx4 and then pay ms and other software peeps to develop a nice gui for unix, software and some fps games

[Wicked101]

[Wicked101]

[jmmijo]

Originally posted by Wicked101:

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Yebo, it Euros.

I miss hearing/reading names like Deutsch Marc and Pound Sterling now

[AndyFair]

Originally posted by jmmijo:

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I miss hearing/reading names like Deutsch Marc and Pound Sterling now

erm...Pounds Sterling still exists 8)

[AndyFair]

Personally, I think that the US has become more arrogant over the last few years - various reasons lead me to believe this, like the Iraq war (on which I now hear that the US has tacitly admitted that they won't find WMDs), the refusal to sign up to Kyoto.

As an atheist and living in a largely secular country, I also cannot understand America's rampant Christianity, to the point where people are saying that it was a major reason for Dubya winning the election. I think that it is this religious fanaticism that has caused much of the animosity from the Muslim nations.

Another thing I can't understand as an outside is the apparent control that companies have on the legislative process - that lobbying can make or break whether a law is passed.

Now, I'm not saying that the UK is perfect - after all, Tony Blair is just George Dubya's lapdog - but I don't think we're in as bad a state as you guys.

These just *my* opinions, no one else's, and I may be flamed for what I believe - but they are just that: my beliefs.

Rgds
AndyF