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I would get two computers, a IBM compatible for every day use and an Apple for computer graphics. My dad has an IMac at home with a widescreen and a gig of RDRAM (insane!) and it is SWEEEETT! He finally got DSL too. Picture quality is top notch. Oh and I like the DVDR and CDRW combo. Nice!
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Originally posted by asylum24 but can u get ahold of a terabit sized hardrive... and get yours cooled at -25 celcius... no u cant
I could build a terabyte array of hard drives. U320 Seagate Cheetah's on an Adaptec RAID controller. The same thing they are doing to get capacities that high. And as to -25 celcius, there are ways to do it, but I could build a more powerful system out of a quad Opteron motherboard and still come under their price point (and not have to overclock the hell out of my processors).
Here is what I would do though for an ultimate processor system:
A quad Opteron motherboard
At least 4GB of memory
Two U320 MSU's (mass storage units, basically a library to hold SCSI drives), running RAID5 on both of them.
But for gaming I would tone that down to a single AthlonFX system, SMP aware games are few and far between right now, and SMP overhead eats up performance (although I bet the quad opteron system would still be damn fast). I would get close to the same amount of memory though.
I'd rather use the AMD Athlon 64 FX 51/Opteron processor over the P4 EE. The AMD is a 64 bit chipset and actually is running applications faster than a P4. Gaming seems to be a tad bit slower, but most gamers wouldn't use that type of computer. Another benefit of working in a 64 bit environment is that a 32 bit chipset limits you to addressing 4GB of RAM (I say limits very loosely here, lol, no desktop user runs 4GB of RAM) but with 64 bit you can address 8 TERABYTES of RAM. Just what I need.
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