What computer do you have?

Aluminum MacBook 2.4 Ghz w/ 4 GB ram, and a modified Dell XPS Gen4 w/ 4 GB, TB raid 1 array, and GeForce 8600 video card and tuner so my wife can watch computer porn on the TV.

 

PC components were a hell of a lot more expensive in 2004. Since I'm looking at a rebuild in the next year or so I was catching up and prices have come down a LOT, especially in the processor and memory areas, since then.

That 1700 included EVERYTHING from the ground up - guts, case, cooling, monitor, peripherals, cabling, all of it, ordered and shipped.

Motherboard was the first SLI model shipped under the new SLI method Nvidia adopted back then. It was $200 on sale back then. The Mobo. Alone.

 

Heres my system :

QX6700 Quad Core CPU @3.6 GHz
EVGA 680i Motherboard
4GB Corsair Dominator TWIN2X2048-8500C5D
2 BFG 8800GTX Watercooled Editions
BFG 1000w Power Supply
2 WD 74Gb Raptor Hard Drives
1 Seagate 320 GB Hard Drive
Pioneer Blu Ray Burner
Pioneer Dvd Burner
LIAN LI PC-G70B Computer Case
Scythe S-FLEX SFF21F 120mm 63CFM Fans
Nexus Fan Controller

Cooling:
Thermochill PA 120.3 Radiator
Swiftech MCP 655 Pump
Dtek Fuzion CPU Block
Single 5 1/4 Bay Res
1/2 Tubing


Ill try to get a few pics up too.

 

Multi-threaded software is still in the early stages of implementation anyway.

Even with software programmed from the ground up to be threaded, it's rare to see even both cores of a dual core proc maxed out all the time.

It's going to be a while before we really see these things unleashed.

 

I Put up some pics now

 

Depending on the app, you're probably limited most by hard drive speeds anyway. Like you, I wouldn't worry about it.

 

Mac Pro
2 x 2.66 duel core intel
5 gig ram
3 HD's - over 1TB

OS 10.5.8

 

An SSD would be great. Knocks the socks off a 7200rpm drive.

 

Well, there's a reason every company on the planet is working their ass off to try and get one produced at practical capacities and retail prices...solid state is definitely the future.

 

Yeah, 80GB isn't going to cut it for me, and I don't want to spend hundreds upon hundreds for a 256GB Samsung SSD.

 

Asus P6T MB
Intel Core i7 2.66gHz Quad
6GB (3x2) OCZ DDR3 1600 RAM
EVGA GeForce GTX275 GPU
Sound Blaster xFi Titanium
2x 500GB HDD, 1x 1TB HDD (SATA)
Corsair 750w PSU
Cooler Master RC690 Mid-Tower case

Extras:
Samsung T220 Monitor
Razer Death Adder Mouse
Razer Lycosa Keyboard
Razer Charcharias Headset
Altec Lansing Speakers.

 

Nice system. But I'm more impressed with that rotary phone! Is it working?

 

custom system built by me about 3 years ago or so, it has taken a serious beating including 2 day non-stop 3d renderings

Abit at8 ati chipset
amd athlon x2 4200+ socket 939 cooled with thermaltake blue orb 12cm fan
ati radeon 1800xt 512mb on video
4x 1gb corsair dominator ddr400
600w thermaltake power supply
2x 160gb WD caviar Sata drives

old setup running windows xp x64

oh extras
logitech 5.1 channel speakers
1tb maxtor firewire HD
17 inch monitor

I seriously need to upgrade this POS LOL

 

Liquid cooling is the shit!

I do like thermo electrical cooling as well

 

LOL everyone always notices that and yes it does work lol.

 

Yeah, but they're probably just running plain ol' water.

You don't really get into the serious shit until you see the OC freaks using liquid N2 submersion to cool their chips. Then the really high speeds start to come out.

 

I just submerge my computer in water.

 

Very nice!