New Computer shopping

[Falaenx]

My computer is hitting its five year mark and I am going to start shopping. 

Problem I am having deciding is I like Mac's OS and the ability to make my day to day job really easy or Windows 7 which has proven itself to be a very good OS.

I was thinking this beast for apple:
http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MB535LL/A?mco=MTM3NDc3NjI
with a quadcore 16GB of ram and 4 512GB gt 120 nvidia video cards

If I were on the Windows side which company would you guys go with?

[Frostsocket]

look 3 posts down at this

http://plaguechill.com/plaguezone/index.php/topic,1244.0.html

Ero's suggestion of Magic Micro was a good one.

[FizzyMyNizzy]

Intel i9 should be coming out Q1/2010.

[Grazer]

I was thinking this beast for apple:
http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MB535LL/A?mco=MTM3NDc3NjI
with a quadcore 16GB of ram and 4 512GB gt 120 nvidia video cards

If you can afford this monster then...wow...well it really doesn't matter.  You will end up with a killer in the end regardless.  I look forward to seeing your decision. 

[Falaenx]

Turns out that the motherboard for the Mac Pro cannot do SLi linking which is completely stupid of Apple.  The only reason they have 4 cards in there is for 4 large screen displays and processing video encoding.  So for the alienware wins out I think.

[Manahmanah]

Fal you cursed me you *(&$head!!!

I came home and my computer is making this crazy noise like a piece of plastic caught in a vacuum cleaner. I pop it open - somehow the fan on my video card has become out of level and it's scraping against the heatsinks when it spins.  More than likely i caused this myself by 1 - leaving it on while i was at my inlaws for christmas and 2 - stupidly leaving it slightly on top of the metal thingy of my desk so the tower was slightly tilted the whole time i was away. Still, it's funny that you were bitching *specifically* about something like a fan breaking when you go with self-built systems and i was all BLAHBLAHBLAH FANS DONT MATTER.

 /fistshake

karma

eeet's a bitch!

[Falaenx]

Here's what I went with:

Magic Intel i7 X58 nVidia SLI

Intel Core i7 Extreme 975, 3.33GHz (Quad Core) 8000K

Coolit Domino A.L.C, extra quiet Liquid Cooling System

ASUS P6T7 WS SuperComputer X58, DDR3, 3 way SLI & X-Fire, 2x GB LAN, iEEE

12GB (6x2GB)

PC3 12800 DDR3 1600 Triple Channel

SLI Dual GeForc GTX 295 1792MB x2 PCI Express 16X ( 2 cards)

1000.0GB Seagate 7200rpm SATA2 UDMA 300 32m Cache

Lite On 20x DVD Recorder Dual Layer +R/RW -R/RW

Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion PCI express

Ethernet network adapter (onboard)

FireWire Adapter Card PCI

Cooler Master Stacker 830 black aluminum , front USB & IEEE

Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W ATX Power Supply, SLI ready, active PFC

Should be fun when it gets in, thanks Magic Micro!

[Manahmanah]

Should be fun when it gets in, thanks Magic Micro!

I should be charging these guys a referral fee.

[Frostsocket]

2x 295's holy shit son.

[Falaenx]

Can go up to 3 if I decide later

[Karaine]

u wouldn't need to.  the 295s are dual gpu cards.  Nvidia SLI only supports up to 4 or Quad SLI.  so you're running at the max settings for now...in terms of SLI.  the only other thing you could do would be to run a dedicated PhysX card.  which would be a 9800 GT would easily suffice that area.

[Falaenx]

Ah cool, thanks for that clarification.  I'll have to go get me one of those

[Falaenx]

So very sad today.  It looks like one of my graphics cards on my current system blew up and causes my computer to freeze every time I run wow.  Looks like I will have to remove that one as it is in the primary slot and just play with one for now.  I hope the slot isn't bad.

They tell me Tuesday it will be here.