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    The Best Computer Money can Buy !

    Here is a peek at the best computer that can be bought presently. Its priced at $10,000 Woooooooo.............

    Here is the link
    http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/...e_toms_10k_pc/

    Specifications

    Chassis Silverstone TJ-03 Aluminum

    Power Supply Silverstone Zeus 850 W

    Processor(s) Intel Core 2 Extreme Edition
    2.93 GHz @ 3.73 GHz, 1.066 GHz FSB, 4 MB L2 cache

    Motherboard Asus P5N32-SLI DLX

    RAM Corsair TwinX-2048-6400C4
    4 x 1024 MB @ DDR666 (CL4.0-4-4-9)

    Hard Drive 2 x Western Digital Raptor, WD1500ADFD
    150 GB, 10,000 rpm, 16 MB cache, SATA150 (in RAID 0)
    1 x Seagate, ST3500641AS
    500 GB, 7,200 rpm, 16 MB cache, SATA150

    Graphics Cards BFG GeForce 7950GX2 1 GB GDDR3
    570 MHz Core
    775 MHz Memory (1.55 GHz DDR)

    Sound Card Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS 7.1 Channels PCI

    Networking On-Board nForce4 Gigabit Ethernet Onboard Marvell Gigabit Ethernet

    Optical Drives Sony 16x DVD-ROM
    Plextor 760A 16x DVD +/- RW Dual Layer

    Floppy Drive Mitsumi FA404 USB 2.0 Floppy Drive and 8-in-1 Card Reader

    Mouse & Keyboard Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5000 Laser

    Speakers Logitech Z-5450 Dolby 5.1 and THX Certified

    Display Apple Cinema Display 30" Dual Link DVI (2560x1600)

    CPU Cooler Sanyo Denki San Ace MC Liquid

    I found it pretty coool. What is your opinion on this ??
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    It is not "the best" at all...................I can see two glaring misconfigurations.

    1. There should be twin DVD burners for redundancy.

    2. SATA/150 is lame, it should be SATA/300?


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    Just beowulf a cluster of awesome.
    Hi.

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    Noooo .... this is my next upgrade the Roadrunner
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    Well even if it isn't the best this is one great configuration to have.

    Apart from this the technology is evolving at such a rapid pace that there will be better hardware components available in a matter of months that will pose a challenge to this configuration too.
    \"The Smilie Wars\" ... just arrived after the great crusades

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    He-heh, the "best" is in the eye of the beholder. Me? I prefer
    throwaways. Gimme an old laptop I can toss off a bridge into
    the river at a moment's notice.

    It's ALL j-u-n-k.

    “Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.” — Will Rogers

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    Not even close to the best. There should be dual 8800 GTX's in there. And why is there only 800 GB of storage? I'd have thought dual (or more) 500GB Seagates would be the way to go... And for that amount of money, I want a dual processor board with 2 Core 2 Duos in there

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    Moira! beware my dear, they called it "roadrunner" for a reason............ it will run Windows Vista "Extreme, Extreme" edition....................

    The BIOS goes "Beep, Beep" then you get a BSOD?



    Yes I remember Roadrunner, Wily. E . Coyote, Dick Dastardly, Muttley and the rest.................

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    It will also be able to achieve "petaflop speeds". One petaflop is the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.

    Running at peak speed, it will be able to crunch through 1.6 thousand trillion calculations per second.

    1.6 thousand trillian calculations per second!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moira
    1.6 thousand trillian calculations per second!
    What would you possibly do with that?!

    I think that most people only need their computer for one of two reasons...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7ZGpgQwYFU
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhTxRssxfuI
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