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Dream Machine 2010: 16GB of RAM and a 4TB Drive?
In 2010, the need for multiple hard drives and multiple optical drives will continue to drive the demand for large tower enclosures, and it's likely that the BTX spec will be standardized by then. Liquid or phase-change cooling will be standard for power rigs. Dream Machine 2010 will pack a CPU with four or more cores integrated into a single die, 16GB RAM (8GB will be commonplace by then), and 4TB of storage running on SATA-III. It will lack the BIOS as we now know it, but sadly, we'll still be using a mouse and keyboard to play games and run the PC. Dream Machine 2010 will feature a processor with six cores running at 10GHZ. Its videocard will be from nVidATI (the two companices will merge in 2008) and will feature 2GB of onboard memory, which will allow it to run Half-Life 4 like buttah. The Serial ATA hard drive will boast 2TB of storage, and the optical drive will use 200GB dual-layer discs.
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| CPU | 200 MHz Pentium | 300 MHz Pentium II | 400 Mhz Pentium overclocked to 450 MHz | 500 Mhz Pentium III* | Dual 1 GHz Pentium IIIs | Dual 1.2 GHz Palomino Athlons | 1.2 GHz Intel Pentium III Tualatin | Intel 1.8GHz Pentium 4 OC'd to 2.02GHz | AMD Athlon 1800+ (1.53GHz) | 3.2GHz Pentium 4C | Intel 3.6GHz Pentium 4 560 |
| Motherboard | FIC PT-2003 based on Apollo-VP chipset | AIR P6-KDI Dual Slot 1 based on 440LX with onboard UW SCSI | Tyan Thunder 100 Dual Slot 1 based on 440BX chipset with onboard LAN, UW SCSI | Abit BX-6 R2 based on 440BX chipset | Intel OR840 based on 840 chipset with onboard LAN | Tyan Thunder K7 | Intel Easton 2 | Asus P4T | Soyo SY-K7V Dragon Plus AMD Socket-A | ABIT IC7-G | ASUS P5AD2 Premium |
| Memory | 32 MB EDO RAM | 64 MB SDRAM | 128 MB PC100 SDRAM | 128MB PC100 SDRAM DIMM | Two Kingston PC800 256MB RIMMs | 1GB Crucial registered DDR SDRAM | 256MB Crucial CAS2 PC133 | Two 128 MB of Kingston PC800 RDRAM | 256MB Crucial PC2100 DDR CAS2 | Two 512MB sticks of Corsair Micro XMS3000 (CL2) | Crucial Technology Two 1GB PC-4200U DDR2/533 |
| Primary Storage | 2.1 GB Quantum Atlas with Adaptec 2940UW | 4.3 GB Micropolis Stinger UW SCSI | 9 GB Seagate Cheetah UW | 18.2 GB Quantum Fireball Plus KA | Dual 18GB Seagate X15 SCSI drives, 75GB IBM 75GXP | Two 70GB Seagate 73LPs and one 180GB Seagate Barracuda 180 | Three 80GB Maxtor 540DX's with | Two IBM 60GB 60GXP's | 120GB Western Digital WD1200 | Two 36GB
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| Secondary Storage | Two 250GB WD Special Edition Caviars | Two Maxtor DiamondMax 10s | |||||||||
| Controller | Promise Ultra66 Controller | Adaptec 39160 Ultra 160 | Promise FastTrack 100 TX2 | Promise FastTrack 100 TX2 | |||||||
| Primary Videocard | 4MB Matrox Millenium | 4MB ATI All-in-Wonder and 4MB Diamond Monster 3D | 16 MB Matrox Mystique G200 and 12MB Canopus Pure 3D II | 32MB Matrox Millenium G400Max | 64MB Hercules 3D Prophet II | Elsa Gloria DCC | GeForce2 MX400 with nVidia Personal Cinema | Leadtek's Winfast GeForce3 TD | Leadtek WinFast GeForce3 | nVidia GeForce FX 5900 Ultra | ATI Raden X800 XT Platinum Edition |
| Secondary Videocard | ATI All-in-Wonder VE | ||||||||||
| MPEG Decoder | Sigma Designs Real Magic Hollywood Plus | ||||||||||
| Primary Display | Nanao T2-17TS | 19-inch ViewSonic Optiquest V95 | 19-inch Sony GDM-400PS | No Monitor included | 21-inch Sony F500 | Sony FW-900 | NEC MultiSync VT540 Projector | Sony F520 | Sony F520 CRT | NEC MultiSync FE2111 SB CRT | |
| Secondary Display | Sharp LL-T2020B LCD | Sharp LC-M3700 LCD | |||||||||
| Third Display | Earth LCD XLK-5002T touch screen | ||||||||||
| CD Drive | Plextor Ultraplex 40x Max | ||||||||||
| CD Burner | HP 8200i CD-Writer Plus | Dual Plextor Plexwriters 12/4/32 | Pioneer DVR A03 | Pioneer DVR-A03 | TDK veloCD 24/10/40 | Plextor PlexWriter 24/10/40 | Plextor Premium 52/32/52 | ||||
| DVD Drive | Pioneer ATAPI DVD-ROM | Pioneer DVD-115 16x | Pioneer DVR-103 | Pioneer DVR-103 | Pioneer DVD-115 | Pioneer 16x DVD-116 | |||||
| DVD Burner | Pioneer DVR-A06 | Plextor PX-712A | |||||||||
| Dual Layer DVD Burner | Sony DRU-700A | ||||||||||
| Soundcard | Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE32 | Diamond Monster Sound | Turtle Beach Montego A3DXstream | Diamond Multimedia MX-300 | Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Platinum + Live Drive II | Sound Blaster Live! and Echo Audio's Mia PCI | Creative Lab's Sound Blaster Live! MP3+ 5.1 | Hercules Game Theater XP | Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy X-Gamer | Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Gamer | Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer |
| Speakers | Klipsch ProMedia V.2-400 | Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 | Klipsch 5.1s | Klipsch 5.1s | Logitech Z-680 5.1s with DTS support | Logitech Z-680 | |||||
| Case | PC Power & Cooling Personal AT/ATX Mid-Tower Enclosure | PC Power and Cooling Solid-Steel Tower | Antec SX1440B | Case Depot's R160B | Cooler Master ATC-201 | PC Power and Cooling Mid-Tower | Cooler Master TAC-T01 | Silverstone Nimiz SST-TJ03 | |||
| Power Supply | PC Power and Cooling Silencer 275 | PC Power and Cooling's Turbo-Cool 425 | NMB 460-watt Anthlon power supply | PC Power and Cooling Silencer 275 | PC Power and Cooling Silencer 400 | PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 300 ATX 300W | PC Powe & Cooling Turbo Cool 510 Deluxe | PC Power and Cooling Turbo Cool 510 Deluxe Express | |||
| Cooling | Three Standard 80mm Auxiliary Ball-Bearing Fans, Two Silencer 80mm Cooling Fans, One Turbo-Cool 2x | Two Thermalright SK-6 | Voodoo F-1 Liquid Cooling | Thermaltake Jungle512 fan/heatsink combo | |||||||
| Cabling | Plycon's blue cabling | Plycon's braided cables | Black Hole Cables BlackFlash Special Edition | ||||||||
| NIC | 3COM 3C905B | ||||||||||
| Modem | ActionTec Call-Waiting Modem | ||||||||||
| Removable Storage | Iomega Zip 100 | Iomega Zip 100MB IDE | Atech Pro-9 Multiple Flash Card reader | ||||||||
| FireWire capture card | Canopus DV Storm RT | ||||||||||
| Tablet | Wacom Intuos Special Edition 9x12 Tablet | ||||||||||
| Digital Camera | Nikon Coolpix 995 | ||||||||||
| DV Camera | Canon XL1 DV | ||||||||||
| Keyboard | Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro USB | IBM Active Response | Micro Inovations Micro Stealth | Keytronic Designer | Key Tronic LifeTime | Logitech DiNovo Media Desktop | |||||
| Mouse | Logitech First Mouse Wheel | Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer | Logitech iFeel | Logitech MX700 | Logitech DiNovo Media Desktop | ||||||
| Steering Wheel | Logitech WingMan Formula Force | ||||||||||
| Joystick | Microsoft Force Feedback 2 | ||||||||||
| Game Pad | Microsoft Gamepad Pro | ||||||||||
| Mouse Pad | C$ Mouse Pad | ||||||||||
| OS | Windows 98 | Windows 2000 Pro | Windows Millennium | Windows Millennium | Windows XP Professional | Windows XP Professional | Windows XP Professional | ||||
| Price | $11,987 | $17,100 | $7,870 | $5,712 | $10,985 | $12,328 |