... yes, it's Friday evening and I'm just contemplating whether to change anything before this puppy goes into burn-in. It's primarily for photoshop and standard home use, with some 3D gaming thrown in. Any mavens out there want to comment?

[Yes, I know it's overkill for a home PC. You know what I drive... this should not surprise anyone ]

2 x AMD Opteron 275 (2.2 GHz) Dual Core
2 x Zalman CNPS7000B-ALCU Cooler for Socket-939 / 940
1 x Tyan Thunder K8WE nVidia nForce4 Pro 2200
4 x Samsung PC-3200 1 GB ECC Reg. DDR SDRAM
4 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 NCQ 400GB 7,200 RPM
1 x Soyo Bay One XP 9-In-1 Internal USB 2.0 Card Reader
1 x Benq DW1625 Lightscribe Dual Layer DVD ± RW / CD-RW
1 x Asus Radeon X850 XT Platinum PCIe 256MB
1 x Supermicro SC743S-645B Black EATX Full-Tower w/ 645W PSU
1 x Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard
1 x Microsoft Windows XP Professional X64 Edition

 

Lots of money

my dual opteron 246's in my sun box are purtty nice..

spend more money on faster Disk IO for boot and program storage (ie 10k sata raptor drives) they pay off.. then use a larger array for static storage...

And you do know how much all of that will cost right..

 

That's more power than some of the servers we run :|

 

yeah it will be a nice 10k rig..

 

ditch one of the CPUs and get more RAM and faster disks.

 

Which sucks because most of our servers run ~ $20k for the intel/amd based boxes. Though they have designs more suited to a server environment, just sucks it's so much $$

 

2.6k in cpus
60 in heat sinks
500 mobo
1k in memory
1k in hdd
20 card reader
80 dvdr
700 video card
450 case

maybe not 10k.. but damn man.. lots of scrilla.. haha i say do it and then post pics!

 

haha yeah i am prob going to be buying a few more sun servers for the house

got a project that is shaping up to be a cpu hog (as well as storage)

 

the best thing for your computer is to get rid of Widnows....

 

Get a mac.

 

> spend more money on faster Disk IO for boot and program storage (ie 10k sata raptor drives) they pay off.. then use a larger array for static storage...

Say, that is a very good idea! A pair of fast Raid0 drives for programs / replaceable data, and the larger slower array for irreplaceable items. I think I'll do just that.

 

+1

 

have one of those

haha may pick up an xserv as well (after two more sun boxes)

haha

 

Gonna be loud as ****.

 

If you are accustomed to quality rackmount hardware like Sun and HP, you will be appaled at the XServe. As a rackmount device, its a POS.