advice on "money-no-object" computer

A guy I know just won a bit of money on the lottery (read 5 Million) and was asking what kind of computer he should buy. Since he admitted he now has more money than brains he wants a "good home setup". So far I've come up with the following:

Thunder K8W (S2885)
.....Broadcom BCM5703C GbE controller
.....TI TSB43AB22 IEEE 1394a PCI controller
.....Four SATA 1.0 ports
2 AMD Opteron 250 (2.4 GHz)
8 Samsung 3200 2GB DDR REG ECC 16GB total
ATi ALL-IN-WONDER X800 XT
Sound Blaster® Audigy® 2 ZS Platinum Pro
3Ware 9500S-12 12 port SATA RAID Controller with hot swap and hot spare support
16 Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GB 16MB buffer SATA Hard Drive
.....12 in RAID 5 /w hotspare 4TB Total
.....4 in RAID 10
2 PIONEER 16X16 DOUBLE LAYER DVD DUAL DRV (dvr108d) Burner
Viewsonic VP2290b 22.2" 16:10 3840x2400 resolution
Klipsch THX Ultra2 System 7.1
Lexmark C750n Colour Laser Printer

did I miss anything? (yes I know the drives won't be available until next quarter)

The Pen is mightier than the Sword, but the Sword is better if you need back up.

Get some cool toys. Finger-print id, Better sound (Rock Concert quality amp/speakers) etc.

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Biometrics...good idea.
the klipsch speakers ARE concert quality.

The Pen is mightier than the Sword, but the Sword is better if you need back up.

Uh dude, he got him 6.4TB.

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That would be awesome wouldn't it!!!

Can you imagine doom3 on a 50inch TV with cinema quality sound?
...Man I gotta start playing the lottery.

loser... lmao.

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heheh youre a metro.

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the 4 TB refers to the 12 drives in RAID 5 with hot spare.
the parity drive and the spare don't count.

The Pen is mightier than the Sword, but the Sword is better if you need back up.

If I had 5 million, I'd spend more than that on a computer...

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<font color=red>"Like what?"</font color=red>
"Like, you know, Slurpees and stuff."
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The guy's payin' me $200 to come up with a recipe for the baddest comp this side of NASA....what he does with it, I don't care.

The Pen is mightier than the Sword, but the Sword is better if you need back up.

complete BLUE GENE, shld settle for nothin less than that.

<i> <font color=blue>I don't suffer from insanity.</font color=blue><font color=red> I enjoy every minute of it.</font color=red> </i>
<b>He who laughs last thinks slowest!</b>

With that kind of cash I would call IBM up on da phone tell em to get thier skinny asses over and hook me up and if any of it sucks ass I would sue em and hound them like the dogs they are.

Meanwhile in my basement the home built water cooled AMD64 would be kicking ass on Day Of Defeat........

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You never see humour in anything, your like an old whore on her last good leg at the bar. Used-UP!!

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You can say a lot of things about DH but not that he doesnt see humour in anything.

YOU cannot see the humour in comments that make fun of YOU. Now to start working on this, the best thing to do is start making jokes at your own expense. Once you see people start laughing about that, you're on the first steps to self reflection. Good luck.



BigMac

<A HREF="http://www.p3int.com/product_center_NWO_The_Story.asp" target="_new">New World Order</A>

Subterranean gaming freak.

I don't need 5 mil, £30.00 and I already have more money than sense and after spending most of the £30.00 on Stella it still holds true, probably more so.


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Yeh we had a projector in our computing class, I remember when the teacher let us all play Doom3 and I got the computer with the projection screen...that was fun.
He will need a monitor aswell though because in daylight you wont be able to see [-peep-] on that projector.

He was, in fact, taking the piss.

<font color=blue>"Pub: ah, yes, a meeting place where people attempt to reach advanced states of mental incompetence by the repeated consumption of fermented vegetable drinks" - Kryten </font color=blue>

Buddy be careful, now he will think I have an incontinence problem.

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considering I've spent MAYBE 30 minutes of actual time working on this, that makes it $400/hr.

The Pen is mightier than the Sword, but the Sword is better if you need back up.

Crab Louis

2 cups lump crabmeat (about 1 pound)
1 cup prepared mayonnaise
4 teaspoons chili sauce
1 tablespoon finely chopped green bell pepper
1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, plus more to taste
2 scallions, finely chopped
Worcestershire sauce, to taste
Hot sauce, to taste
Freshly ground pepper
1 hard-boiled egg
4 to 8 Bibb lettuce leaves, washed and dried
4 thick slices beefsteak tomatoes
1 ripe avocado, seeded, peeled, and quartered lengthwise

Using your finger, carefully pick through the crab and discard any bits of shell or hard cartilage. Try to leave the lumps as intact as possible. Put the meat in a large bowl.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, chili sauce, bell pepper, lemon juice, 1/2-teaspoon salt, scallion, a couple dashes Worcestershire, and hot sauce. Season the dressing with pepper to taste.

Gently fold about 1/4 cup of the dressing into the crab with a rubber spatula. Take care not to break the crab into smaller pieces. Put the crab salad and the dressing in the refrigerator until cold.

Meanwhile, put the hard-boiled egg in a fine sieve set over a bowl. Using the back of a spoon, rub the egg through mesh to make a fine textured garnish. Set aside.

Divide the lettuce leaves among 4 plates. Top each with a tomato slice, and season with salt and pepper to taste. Place an avocado quarter across each tomato slice and top with 1/4 of the crab mixture. Spoon some of the dressing over the crab and sprinkle each salad with some of the egg. Serve and pass the remaining dressing at the table.

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"There's more to life than profits."
<font color=red>"Like what?"</font color=red>
"Like, you know, Slurpees and stuff."
<A HREF="http://images.southparkstudios.com/media/video/707/slurpees.mov" target="_new">South Park</A>

I am a Canadian Scott's basterd and Arabs from my point of view are CRAP!! "accept for Eden and few good men..."

By the way the next time another change in the way mankind lives on this planet (World Order) is made look under the United States order of the day. They will be the ones making the change not an Arab. That privilege has been revoked!!.... do to bad management in the Arab world!!

And by the way son I know Arabs don't use profanity or drink alcohol so... May a she camel piss in your camp fire after she has eaten her own afterbirth, and fatherd your children.


no offence Eden

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Well I'll be damned, that's DH!

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dont laugh, spoogehead!

"Never underestimate the predictability of Stupidity."
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i will lick... i mean kick your ass!


biatch!

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