Ordered a new computer today...

[Monster Dave]

So my boss had me order a new computer for the office today and I think that blood came out of my nose when I saw the specs on the final order. Check out these specs:




Motherboard: Gigabyte Extreme
Power Supply 850W
Processor: Intel Quad Core 3.06GHz, 8M Cache
Video: 2 NVidia 9600GT 1GB Silent Graphics Cards
RAM: 12GB DDR3
Hard Drive: 1TB Serial ATA 32MB Cache
25 in 1 Card Reader
Super Blu-ray Disk Burner (Reads and Writes any media)
8-Channel HD Audio
4yr warrenty
OS: Vista Business 64bit w/free 7 upgrade.

I had no idea that you could put 12GB of ram on a system! This thing is going to be amazing! WOW! At just under $3000 though, it had better be!! I have to admit though, any thoughts of work went completly out the window and dreams of lan parties and mass destruction gaming were more vivid than ever!!

[zarn02]

Holy tits!

[NAKID]

12 gig of RAM 

[KnightofNi]

you could play a wicked game of unreal on that machine.

[derby]

Motherboard: Gigabyte Extreme
Power Supply 850W
Processor: Intel Quad Core 3.06GHz, 8M Cache
Video: 2 NVidia 9600GT 1GB Silent Graphics Cards
RAM: 12GB DDR3
Hard Drive: 1TB Serial ATA 32MB Cache
25 in 1 Card Reader
Super Blu-ray Disk Burner (Reads and Writes any media)
8-Channel HD Audio
4yr warrenty
OS: Vista Business 64bit w/free 7 upgrade.

what do you do for work that "requires" two 9600GTs?

for the price, i'm surprised those aren't quad-core xeons (server/workstation procs).

[Monster Dave]

you could play a wicked game of unreal on that machine.

I know, this new system "may" have to pull double duty at some point....especially with an internet download speed of 69Mb/s!!

Game On!!!  

[Monster Dave]

what do you do for work that "requires" two 9600GTs?

for the price, i'm surprised those aren't quad-core xeons (server/workstation procs).

We actually purchased two of this particular system. One will be used with an employee who does 90% autocad work. The other system doesn't really "require" two graphics cards, but the money was allocated for the purchase, so my boss, who's a tech-aholic like me figured "when in Rome"....so that was it!  

[He Man]

25 in 1 card reader? jebus christo. they make that many different types of cards???

[superjohn]

12GB of RAM is great until Windows figures out you have it and somehow allocates 11.5GB to 75 instances of xxxxxxxxx.dll like my work laptop did this morning 

[roy-nexus-6]

The free upgrade to windows 7 works for me! Vista ugggh.

The specs are just out of this world! 

[ZLTFUL]

what do you do for work that "requires" two 9600GTs?

for the price, i'm surprised those aren't quad-core xeons (server/workstation procs).

Actually, it is a quad core i7 950...and it runs 8 threads so to the OS it looks as though it is running 8 individual cores.

As a side note, I am typing this on a computer with a core i7 975(oced to 4.2ghz with HT), 24GB of RAM, 2x xFx GTX295s, 2x120GB OCZ Vertex SSDs in RAID 0(OS and apps), a pair of 300GB Velociraptors in RAID 0(storage backed up to a 1.5TB external) displaying on a 30inch Dell LCD. And I just browse the intrawebz!!! 
I actually only have $3200 in this machine so far...

[causeofkaos]

do you guys remember when the first one gig hard drive came out,
we got one at the office i worked in at the time and there was 4 or 5 of us nerds oooohhh and aaaahhhing. We have come a tremendous distance in a very short time.

[JEFF_H]

meh.
it's fast...but this one gets more girls

[He Man]

silly jeff_h, girls on the internet? give me a break!

[Latinbalar]

you know its already out of date by the time you made that post.