>> If I was to plan to build the "perfect" system from scratch, using a >> motherboard bundle (with up to 8GB DDR RAM), top line graphics card, >> ditto sound card that would allow connection with an external amp to >> jive up the sound quality - what might this thing of technological >> beauty be? imo it has do be defined what is a "perfect system" -- a gamer certainly has something different in mind that the audiophile has. Somebody like me for example, wants to have fast I/O (Input/Output) into his storage and simply wants a "storage agnostic" system i.e. managing the storage totally independent of the OS. So, for me the perfect system has to have a hardware RAID HBA (Host Bus Adapter) card http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/hardware.html#adaptec_31205_raid_hba Another must-have is a big screen -- at least for me. RAM, yes, enough but then I mostly never need more than 4GiB even if I have uptimes of more than a week or so. Well, I could go on but then imho not buying the 100% possible at a time but rather upgrading components ever now and then, is cheaper in the long run and one will have a pretty much high end system at all times. If the storage can be considered separate, that is all piece of cake. Here is http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/hardware.html#sunos_workstation what I put on my desk after 8 years of suffering a damn slow notebook :-]
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