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[optomos]

I have a school project where we need to build a complete, from scratch, computer system(on paper) according to our needs. I need some tips on what hardware to use. If you guys could list any quality material I could use to build this system it would be helpfull. Any suggestions would be helpfull.

[Boss429]

Well if your going to go that overboard!

Main Components
4 900MHz Pentium III Xeons with 2MB L2 cache apiece ($3,692 ea.) $14,768.00
2 re-engineered Kryotech Renegades, 2 copper heatsinks (approx.) $2,000.00
SuperMicro S2QR6 motherboard $2,600.00
16 1GB PC133 ECC SDRAM DIMMs from Crucial ($1,800 ea.) $28,800.00
Amtrade 3200 Twin Server Chassis with PC Power and Cooling TwinPower 850Watt power supply $1,950.00

2 Mylex ExtremeRAID 2000 with 64MB of cache ($1,950 ea.) $3,900.00

12 Quantum Rushmore Ultra 5320 3.2Gig solid state drives($28,000 ea.)

8 - 73Gig Seagate Cheetah Ultra160/M-SCSI drives($1,300 ea.)

6 Plextor 17/40X UltraPlex Wide Ultra - SCSI drives ($90 ea.) $540.00
3 Plextor Plexwriter 12/10/32S drives ($265ea.) $795.00
Creative Labs internal DVD-RAM SCSI drive $355
SuperDisk (120MB / standard floppy) $40.00
Tape Backup Quantum DLT 8000 $6,000.00

4 G200 MMS Matrox PCI cards with quad-monitor support $2,800
16 Pioneer 50" gas-plasma PDP-502MX screens ($20,000ea. )
HP Color LaserJet 8550GN $9,000.00
Turtle Beach Pinnacle Project Studio $400.00
6 - Martin Logan Statement speakers
1 - Martin Logan Logo speaker
1 - Martin Logan Cinema speaker
4 - NAD 218THX 2 channel amps $217,200.00

3Com 3C985B SX Gigabit Ethernet card $600.00
GyroMouse Presenter $190.00
Wireless Computing Wireless Surfboard keyboard $350.00

Power - UPS APC Symmetra 16kVA Power Array $13,000.00
Multiboot configuration with FreeBSD, Linux and Windows 2000 $2,000.00

Total US $973,688.00




also, the 3dlabs Video card. As nice as it is, the driver support for games is not there. The drivers are geared towards applications and such with workstations. not Games.

Monitor speakers are great but the speakers are active monitoring speakers and need special hook up, setup and reallly a practical app. I mean I am no audio genious.. for shame me even entering the ground of Audioyoda, but in my understanding, monitor speakers may be geared for highs , lows, and things in beteen but the range at times is limited where other speakers are not.

I also understand that the use of a Sound Pressure meter can make all the difference for speaker systems, from mismatched pairs, and out of the box home theatre to full blown theatre application like bi amp, pre amp, sub amps and digital decoder units with no use of a "reciever"



This post has been edited by Boss429: Nov 23 2004, 06:03 AM