What is a state of the art PC nowadays?

[sasguru]

Having not dealt with hardware for several years, do any of you more technical bods know what a state-of-the-art desktop PC would comprise of in terms of O/S, processor, memory and storage?

Cheers

[DimPrawn]

Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core processor QX6850

64 Bit OS you can and 4-slot Motherboard you can have 8GB of RAM using DDR3.

Eg. http://computershopper.com/reviews/a...erboard-review

Would be pricey mind. Not for permies.

[DaveB]

Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core processor QX6850

64 Bit OS you can and 4-slot Motherboard you can have 8GB of RAM using DDR3.

Eg. http://computershopper.com/reviews/a...erboard-review

Would be pricey mind. Not for permies.

Dont forget Quad SLI and water cooling.

[KevinS]

IMO:

Intel Quad Core
4GB RAM
Dual SLI 8800GTX Ultra 768MB RAM
Vista Ultimate X64
RAID 0+1 Storage using 1TB SATA II disks.

[Moscow Mule]

Apple do quite a nice pro box...

www.apple.com/uk/macpro

Not cheap for 8 cores & 16GB - £10k including twin 30" panels, but should rip through that 3d rendering.

[n5gooner]

640k should be enough for anyone.

512k or prehaps 480k

[DimPrawn]

£10K for a Mac.

And they say MS are money grabbing barstewards?

Still it looks pretty, so that's all that matters.

[sasguru]

Thanks guys. I was thinking it's about time I got "down wiv the hood" It-wise as I am still using my laptop from 2002

[miffy]

I am still using my laptop from 2002

You must blend in well with the permies then! Most of 'em use ancient laptops with nailed batteries and scarce amounts of RAM.

[Rymez2K]

Having not dealt with hardware for several years, do any of you more technical bods know what a state-of-the-art desktop PC would comprise of in terms of O/S, processor, memory and storage?

Cheers

I can do you a good 'State of the ark PC' plenty cheapness.
HTH
Moses