On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:41:39PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > My dream machine has the following specs: > > 64-bit 3GHz AMD Opteron > 4 GB RAM > ATI 9800 > 3 300GB IDE HDD's (7200 RPM) > 3 300GB SCSI HDD's and a RAID controller > 1 Hotswapable 10/100/1000 NIC > Board capable of supporting Hotswappable PCI cards > SoundBlaster's latest offering > USB everything 'cept monitor (which would be a 52" plasma screen tv)
You're shooting kinda high :)
However, you can realistically get a fantastic machine for under $1000 these
days. Athlon 2600+, 512MB of fast, quality RAM, 200GB HD, nice board, quality
power supply... Its all very impressive. The trick is to start high and
work your way down until you find the price/performance breakeven. The
other trick is not to buy cheap, crappy components to save a buck. You
can really get burned with bad memory or a bad power supply...
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