[KillMeNow]

dammmmmmmmmmmmn man lol you are crazy lol but i admit it too if i had the money i would do the same

[Darkage]

Lol, i got to do something whit the pile of money i have so why not by a monster of a computer:) and i always like to have the newest hardware:) but it took me 4 years to collect that money, and i stil don't have enough:)

[KillMeNow]

if its for rendering stay witha the dual but get extra ram and the wildcat 3 rembers you need ECC regisitered ddr ram

[Corsair]

Bill Gates should just give all of us enough money for each of us to have a supercool computer. I mean, he'd still have like $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 left.

[Darkage]

Originally posted by KillMeNow
if its for rendering stay witha the dual but get extra ram and the wildcat 3 rembers you need ECC regisitered ddr ram

never heard of the ECC registerd ram before. wha does it stand for?

isn't 1024mb DDR @333mzh ram enough?

the wildcat 3 wil certerteinly come into my new little rendering pc:)

[KillMeNow]

i couldn't tell you to be honest - but avenger told me that witha  multi processor system thats teh ram you need - i take him at his word since he knwos about computers

[Darkage]

I no stranger to Hardware or other computer stuff.. (I am soing education for it:) i already know more then my teacher:D) i thought the limit was about 1024mb of DDR atm...

now to wonder what kinda OS i should run it whit.
got any idea?

[Zeronet]

XP?

[Kamikaze]

UNIIIIIIXXXXX!!!!!

[Darkage]

Originally posted by Zeronet
XP?

It's a windows OS

and AMD calls it's CPU's like that...like the AMD Athlon XP

[Zeronet]

Originally posted by darkage



It's a windows OS

and AMD calls it's CPU's like that...like the AMD Athlon XP

Windows rules!

[wEvil]

Supercomputers are funny things.

For raw performance...i'd go for a 256 node compaq Alphaserver running 256 Alpha EV68 CPUs (thats 256x21264@800Mhz)

its a 64bit RISC processor that really kicks the pants off everything.  

DDR basically uses a method of double-signalling per-clock to get the extra bandwidth over SDR.  This means that you get a kind of inductance occuring in the circuitry traces.  ECC memory introduces a 9th bit on the end of each 8 bit line that acts as a parity bit.  If it gets the wrong checksum the line is declared invalid and flushed...or something like that.

Registered just means the Memory stick has an IC that handles adressing instead of the northbridge/CPU.  You used to need it on servers to break the 1gb memory limit..or something like that.

Athlon MP board needs these two features cause they run 4 DIMM slots.  Asus 4-DIMM slot DDR boards also need ECC reg'd memory, otherwise you get bad reads and writes due to the back-EMF problem.

[Zeronet]

We could use a machine like darkages for NW the Movie.

[HotSnoJ]

My computer puts you all to shame!

PII 266MHz

8.5 GB IBM HDD
32 or 5?x CD-ROM
16x 10x 32x CD-RW
17 (15-16 viewable)" Monitor
Some other crap in there.
Windows 98 FE(First Edition)

And the best for last!




A.........




4MB Something or other Graphics card! :doh:

[wEvil]

Darkage,

Consider getting an Adaptec 29160(n) SCSi160  card, I run one and its the bees knees.

Also for your SCSI drives, two 36gb MAxtor Atlas 10kIIIs would do you proud for OS and programs, and a western Digital caviar 2100Jb 120gb IDE drive for storage.

the 10k III go for about £150 each, the 29160 is about £270.
both of them are SCSI160

Watercooling...uhm.  Just make sure its insured.  Failing that, get a vapochill

Also consider a tyan Thunder if you want SCSI..since it comes with a DUAL CHANNEL SCSI160 controller inbuilt+AGP pro, 2 3com 100base net cards and some other server-type bells&whistles.

No DDR333 and not much OCing tho!

[CP5670]

I'm thinking for buying a computer sometime near the end of this year but have not really decided on any particular specs yet; I plan to use it both for gaming and math stuff and have a budget of around $4000. Some new technologies will hopefully be out by that time.

Supercomputers are funny things.

For raw performance...i'd go for a 256 node compaq Alphaserver running 256 Alpha EV68 CPUs (thats 256x21264@800Mhz)

its a 64bit RISC processor that really kicks the pants off everything.

They had some of those supercomputers over at my dad's work; I tried running Mathematica 4.1 on them some time ago and it was amazingly fast; it could do every calculation almost instantaneously. Too bad they probably cost millions of dollars...

[wEvil]

New tech.

the only really new stuff will be AMDs Hammers, unless *ntel has an ace up its sleeve...which i dont think they have.

An 8-way sledge system...now THAT would be nice

[Darkage]

i'll try to folow your advise as good as i can, depends on the preformance of the system.....see it as my own personel renderfarm...or simple server, as i am not realy into gaming atm.

[KillMeNow]

hehe i jsut suggested a silcon graphic workstation hehe - but iw illb e so jealous if he gets it =(

[wEvil]

naaa..

SGI NT workstations use intel processors and cant compete wit AMD MP platforms

well...arguable the northwood xeons are faster but would you pay over four times the price for 10% higher performance?