[BC] Comparing computers and parts

[Scott]

My first tower was a 1.1 Ghz Compaq Celeron w/512 Mb Ram a Turtle beach Santa Cruz, 1 TDK CD/R, 1 Memorex DVD/RW and a GeForce4 64 Mb AGP video. The box is going on 6yrs old and is now the Traffic/Office system for one of the stations I support and still running.
All of my new systems have been custom, But my newest Beast has been the funnest.
2 3.2Ghz Pentium 4's, 2Gb DDR 3200Ram, 1 TDK CD/R, 1 Memorex DVD/RW, 1 Lightscribe DVD/RW, 1Audigy 2 ZS 5.1 Surround w/ firewire sound Card, 1 M-Audio Delta-44 w/ Breakout box w/qaurter inch input and output sound card, 4 Serial 160Gb 7200RPM Seagate Barracuda Drives on a Raid Array, and a BFG Overclocked Nvidia 7600 GS AGP video w/512Mb RAM and triple outputs.
The winXP has been modded for QUICK boot and I don't have the annoying winXP logo for boot or the ever poopular dull Login Screen. My boot screen image is a shot of a green skull with win Logo floating in a hole in the skull.
And my login screen is a artist rendering of a Grim Reaper welcoming you to your doom.
My best boot time from a cold start is 38 seconds to a running desktop.
Whether you build it yourself or not what makes or breaks a system is the sum of all it's parts and it's operators. I say this because you can spend thousands on a system like some of the automation units I have seen and they aren't worth a tenth of what was paid but the same studios would spend 5 or 6 hundred on a front office system that has a far greater value in the long run due to it not failing.
It's a c**p shoot at best.

Scott O. Luse