Look at this system!

[forfun]

Hey ppl
I was searching through the net for computers (that I could never buy) and i came across the Sony Vaio desktop RZ series. You can customise and look what i came up wiv

windows XP Media center edition
intel pentium 4 3.20Ghz with HT technology
2GB 400MHz DDR Ram
ATI 9800 XT Graphics card
2 x 200GB Hard Drive (thats 400GB's!!!!)
and a shi...darn load more, liek surround sound system etc.

all this for $3455 USD
i was impressed with Sony on this

What do guys think? (i dunno if that price is reasonable)

Cheers
forfun

[awash2002]

dang

[Delta_]

Go one step further custum build this.

Dual AMD Opteron 244 (Whatever MHz that, who cares though because AMD proved MHz does not make it the fastest)
3GB 400MHz DDR RAM
ATi 9800xt
2x300GB HDD

That will kick any other comps. a$$

[Jared]

that's an OK, system...:-)

[Delta_]

Yep, that AMD rig will eat that P4 one as a snack before breakfast.

[Jared]

Yep, that AMD rig will eat that P4 one as a snack before breakfast.

lol..so true, before I upgraded my parents had basically the same setup as me, and mine blew theirs out of the water in just about every area...:-)

(They were running a gateway w/pentium, I have always ran AMD)

[Daz]

AMD BABY!!!

[Vmike_5570]

hi there people .well i just want to tell you something about building.so try  www.alienware.com and please tell me what you think about it.


regards
vmike5570

[Delta_]

Anything they can do i can better.....
I think i can beat anything any company is making with that comp i mentioned above.

[Scottler]

With Intel unveiling their 3.4 GHz, seems the 3.2 is already outdated.

[forfun]

Thats the thing though isn't it.

Any computer system you buy or make will always be outdated within a year even.

My real question is will this system run FS2004 on FULL graphics and settings all on high.

Thats what im aiming for.

Also is it possible to change processors later on because i was thinking of getting the Sony and in the future replacing the processor with an AMD 4GHz when that arrives (which it inevitably will)

Cheers
Forfon

[Delta_]

I would wait around abit.
AMD with its highly efficient processing power is taking it one step further and making a terahz model soon.  Intel have to redesign their processor to make it efficient because they can't just make the pipelines longer and bump the hz up, like they did with the P4.  
Long pipelines= slow and ineffient for its MHz.
That is why AMD recently got the award in Europe for the fastest processor available, with its FX systems.  
The new AMD processors come out in 2006 and are called AMD Fab 36.
Where Intel have seem to have given up on making a smaller transistor, AMD have already approached finalising it and i would expect that is why they are hitting teraHz in 2006 and Intel are not even close.