People: What's on your "Computer Upgrades Parts Wish-Li

Pretty much a whole new PC here. In the following order: 17 ADI F720 monitorCheap 300W ATX midtower case 80Gb HDD (hopefully by the time I'm ready to buy the 8Mb cache WDs would have come down in price.

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Pretty much a whole new PC here.
 
In the following order:
 

  • 17" ADI F720 monitor
Cheap 300W ATX midtower case
80Gb HDD (hopefully by the time I'm ready to buy the 8Mb cache WDs would have come down in price. I wouldn't mind one of the 120Gb versions...)
CD burner
DVD-ROM
EpoX 8K5A2+ motherboard (has onboard LAN and USB2.0 and is only 20 bucks dearer than the 8K3A+)
512Mb PC2700 DDR-SDRAM
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
Cooling fan for the above (not quite sure about this yet, I'm considering the Thermaltake Volcano 7+ but nothings concrete yet.)
Video card, possibly a GeForce4 Ti4200[/list:u]

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i would like a kicktail dvd-ram and a top line video capture

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New HUGE HDD!!!
 
Also, DVD burner for storage (farscape epz and what not)

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I want my work PC at home:
 
Dual 2.2GHz Xeons
1GB RDRAM
Plextor 40x24x40 burner
16x DVD-ROM
Dual 36GB U320 15K RPM SCSI drives in RAID0
1 120GB WD Ultra-ATA 100 HD w/ 8MB Buffer
 
Oh, and dual flatscreen monitors and a good video capture solution for it would be nice too.
 


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I just want my computer. It's still on a boat somehwere.
 
 
After that tho , I want a cable modem, which I just ordered and Maybe a 3.0 GHZ CPU.
 
 
And 1 GB PC1066 RDRAM.
 
 
 
And someway to hook that up to my new HDTV

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i got a dual 2.2 xeon thingy just recently. it rocks
tried to multi task it to death but it's hard to keep up with.
 
i wanna try some vid capture on it.... and some dvd encoding

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more hard drives and a dualhead gForce 4 to power my 2 21 inch monitors. I would love to have a solid state ram card like that tho that is so fukin badass

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Actually what I want Doesnt Exist.
 
 
I want External Devices to be able to boot. like a USB 2.0 drive boot into Windows. So I can run Mulitple OS by switching the plus around

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you can boot off a firewire card and usb sucks anyway

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well alec I really don't think the NV30 is in my price range. I am running my own small biz so essentials are what I need. I don't really game that much at all so this is what i had in mind http://www.msicomputer.com/product/vga/vga_detail.asp?model=G4MX460-VTP
I know it is an MX and it is crippled (no pixel shaders and whatnot) but like I said I don't really have a chance to play that much anymore. Besides that is more than enough card for my aging p3s.

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I think i am pretyt much gett'n a DEUM! good dream list for my new work computer!
 

 
Dude! your gett'n a dell!..lol
- company says they will onyl get dell
 
 
Specs:
 

$2077.00
 
Pentium:registered: 4 Processor at 2.40GHz with 533MHz system bus/ 512K L2 Cache
 
SAVE $70! (savings included in price) 512MB PC800 RDRAM
 
Dell:registered: Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard
 
Dual 19 in (17.9 in viewable,.24-25AG) P992 FD Trinitron:registered: Monitor
 
128MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce4:tm: Ti 4600 Graphics Card w/DVI and TV-Out
 
FREE Upgrade! 80GB Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive
 
3.5 in Floppy Drive
 
Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: XP Professional
 
Logitech:registered: Optical USB Mouse
 
10/100 PCI Fast Ethernet NIC
 
56K PCI Telephony Modem
 
Save $30! (Savings included in price) 24x/10x/40x CD-RW Drive
 
Integrated Audio with Soundblaster Pro/16 Compatibility
 
Harman Kardon HK-395 Speakers with Subwoofer
 
Norton AntiViru:tm: 2002, 12-month subscription upgrade
 
1 Year Limited Warranty plus 1 Year At-Home Service
 
DVI-VGA Adapter to connect 2 CRT Monitors to Ti4600 or Ti4200 Video Card
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Other wise for a home system,
 
 
48x Burner (think plextor has them now?
a new mobo with 2g RAMBUS and a p4 2.4 or higher
21' LCD - that would work well with Games (if they exist)
 
 
Although i am pretty happy with my current VAIO - except stupid sony used pc133 in it for memory!!!
 
so i may just get a new mobo and rambus or DDR 433 is it now? or DDR500, i dunno what they are @ now.

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i would definetly wait till next year for a video card
 
Since the 9700 PRO already has in it's specs a 256mb version!
 
so next year should be interesting!
 
i mean my video card already (g4 4600) aready has more memory then most people computers on this island...lol
 
 
One day i will build the ULTIMATE system, but u know, a few month later it will be a giant paper weight..lol so almost pointless
 
i likey won't do that until i got my own house with like a T1 or T3 running into it
 
talk about dreaming!

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i will keep on dreaming,
 
 
that i win the lottery!
 
 
lol

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ahahah
 
hey new best friend!
 
 
lol
 
 
well, if i win the one in the US for what, like 105 million, i will buy everyone on here a new system..lol