What will your next system(s) be?

Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited March 2004 in Hardware
I'm hoping to get a couple new computers as graduation/birthday presents this summer... here's what I've got in mind:

<UL>Desktop
<li>ASUS, ABIT, MSI, or Tyan dual S939 board
<li>2 S939 Opterons @ the highest speed available at the time
<li>2-4GB DDR
<li>ATi R420 or NV40
<li>SATA or SCSI RAID w/4x 74GB Raptors or 74GB Seagate 15,000RPM SCSIs
<li>8x (or faster) DVD+RW/-RW
<li>52x+ CD-RW
</ul>

<ul>Laptop
<li>Probably a Sager, possibly something else
<li>15"+ screen w/1280x1024+ resolution, preferably not a widescreen
<li>AMD Athlon 64 or P4 CPU, possibly a Centrino, but I doubt it
<li>1GB+ DDR, dual channel if I go with the P4
<li>ATi Radeon 9700m/256MB, unless something else comes out that's faster
<li>7200rpm hard drive, possibly a RAID array + a backup drive (the Sager 8890 takes 3 hard drives internally...)
<li>DVD+RW/-RW
</ul>

That's what I have planned... What about you?

//Edit
Since so many people are constantly upgrading their systems rather than buying entirely new ones, I figured I'd add a little list of upgrades I'm considering:

<UL>NF7-S system
<li>Replace 1800+ JIUHB DLT3C w/Mobile 2600+
<li>Upgrade R9700 Pro to 9800XT or R420
</ul>
<ul>K7D-L system
<li>Replace dual 2500s with dual mobile 2600s
<li>Replace R8500 with the replacement 9700 Pro for the dead one I need to RMA
<li>Replace Toshiba DVD-ROM with a DVD-RW/+RW when they're about 50% of what they cost now (I've already got a DVD burner in the NF7-S, so I don't need another one)
</ul>
<ul>"Print Server" MSI Pro266TD-LR
<li>RMA the MSI board so I can get the K7S5A/1700+ out of it
<li>Replace the 1700 in the K7S5A with dual 1GHz PIIIs for the MSI board
<li>Throw the extra 512MB of DDR I have sitting around into the MSI board (for a total of 1.5GB)
<li>add a 3rd hard drive (160GB+)
<li>Replace Radeon 9000 with the Radeon 8500 that's currently in the K7D
</ul>
<ul>Tyan S1837 "Thunderbolt" 440GX
<li>Replace dual 450MHz PIIIs with dual 800MHz+ PIIIs in Upgradeware Slotkets
<li>Upgrade to 512MB PC133
<li>Get it in a case, with a hard drive of its own so it doesn't have to use my firewire enclosure's drive
<li>floppy, cd-rw drives
</ul>
<ul>Supermicro S2DGU 440GX Xeon board
<li>Replace dual 400MHz/512k Xeons with 500MHz+ 1MB/2MB Xeons or 2 1.4GHz PIII Tualatins in Powerleap adapters
<li>Turn it into a working system, not just a motherboard and CPUs sitting on my printer
</ul>
<ul>Supermicro P6DLS 440LX
<li>Turn it into a working system, not just a motherboard sitting on top of another motherboard on top of my printer
</ul>

Comments

  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    cant say for the system cause i am already A64 BUT next cpu will be 3800+ whenever the release them if htere is one!

    Video NV40

    and if i get a new mobo its an msi
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    My system will be the fastest components available at the time. I don't care who makes them.
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited February 2004
    New video card I suppose is what's next on the list, followed by more RAM.

    Neither of these will happen till Doom3 or HL2 are released. Nor will I buy much of anything till I get a new job.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited February 2004
    My next system is my current system but with a replaced processor (unless it turns out to not O/C as well as my current CPU) and I might get some PC3500 RAM to replace my PC3200 with.
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    8way opteron 848's all folding...anyone got $12k lying around they dont need? ;)
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited February 2004
    Athlon 64 (939) with the mobo, everything else I can just canabilize from my current system
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    i dunno about that much But i recommend to all the new Global winn 520Watt psu I just finished sleeving and installing mine What a psu! quite and powerfull
  • DanGDanG I AM CANADIAN Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    hopefully 15k rpm sata drives will be available. Definately A64, a gig and half of ram, PCI-X video card. And hard drives, more hard drives.
  • astroworpastroworp Northridge, CA
    edited March 2004
    Thrax wrote:
    My system will be the fastest components available at the time. I don't care who makes them.


    ditto - except i require the fastest as well as the quietest.

    first, however, i need money.
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited March 2004
    probably same system just new processor, im probably an Athlon XP 3200+ so i can oc that sucker....

    panzer every time i see your sig i just stare...... thats just the cutest gif evar!!
    (heh heh......)
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited March 2004
    I'm partial to the blondie on the right, I like pretty girls that wear glasses
  • Al_CapownAl_Capown
    likes the twins


    AND TWINS...

    /me leaves the room
     Indiana
    edited March 2004
    likes the twins


    AND TWINS...

    /me leaves the room
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited March 2004
    probably a 939 a64, but im definitely waiting until PCI-X so that i can justify a big "upgrade" from my 2.8c (im not getting rid of it of course, its going to become a folding file server :))
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited March 2004
    Well, there will be a lot of haters out there that get mad at me for this...

    But I am currently debating between the 14 Inch iBook G4 15 inch iMac .

    What can I say. I want OS X. I'm sick of Windows and all it's clunkyness. It's time to evolve.

    //EDIT: Fixed links.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    *gag* ;D

    Actually, have you heard of Rhapsody DR2?
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    To be honest I haven't even thought of getting a new PC lately. My new Athlon64 system runs by just fine for me... :P

    But when I do get a new system, it must contain all thenewest technology... PCI Express, or PCI-X something or another.... BTX form factor, completly new video card that is not an upgrade of an existing card(3 yrs. running now?)

    You get the drift, it won't be for at LEAST a year, I JUST CANNOT AFFORD IT ANYMORE!!!!!
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    FormFactor wrote:
    Well, there will be a lot of haters out there that get mad at me for this...

    But I am currently debating between the 14 Inch iBook G4 15 inch iMac .

    What can I say. I want OS X. I'm sick of Windows and all it's clunkyness. It's time to evolve.
    Your links are dead.

    Do yourself a favor. If you're getting a Mac, get a good Mac. You can go ahead and get the retail Mac ATI Radeon 9800 Pro too.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • teflemingtefleming
    edited March 2004
    Thrax wrote:
    My system will be the fastest components available at the time. I don't care who makes them.

    Even if it's an Intel???
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited March 2004
    drasnor wrote:
    Your links are dead.

    Do yourself a favor. If you're getting a Mac, get a good Mac. You can go ahead and get the retail Mac ATI Radeon 9800 Pro too.

    -drasnor :fold:


    Fixed my links.
    Thanks for the advice but that bad boy is almost 2 grand without a monitor. And I really don't want it for gaming so no need for a Mac Radeon9800 Pro. When Doom III gets here I will buy a PC 9800 Pro w256MB Ram. (In fact they are down around 300$ now). This mac will be for everyday stuff like email, web surfing, downloading stuff. Stuff that I am tired of using Windows for. Also my girlfriend is going back to school. That served as a perfect excuse to invite a new notebook into the family :) .
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited March 2004
    Geeky1 wrote:
    *gag* ;D

    Actually, have you heard of Rhapsody DR2?


    Not until you mentioned it here.

    A google search basically tells me its a GUI based on Xerox's original mouse and keyboard plans. Kind of like the Mac Lisa OS.

    I am into purty colors and stuff, which is another reason I am so partial to OS X.

    Rhapsody DR2 looks a little primative at this point. Do you know if it is available for x86 platform?
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