FUTURE PLANS

 

Basically I try to stay just behind the cutting edge technology because I can still have excellent performance and save a lot of money, the latest and greatest is ALWAYS more expensive (example:my Radeon 9800 Pro was $199.00 plus tax after rebates (tahts retail by the way which means I get it now), the Radeon 9800 XT currently sells for about $430.00 on Newegg.com. I can overclock the card and get some really massive frame rates close to the XT for sure.

While I have the resources to purchase almost any equipment I want, I feel better about my "hobby" knowing I am saving money and at the same time having fun. The money I save by staying one step behind affords me the ability to keep upgrading when I want thus keeping my machine more current than just having one "big bang" every year or two by selling the machine off and building a new one (which is a lot of work by the way) and would be expensive in its own right. Power computing isn't really that expensive of a hobby, especially compared to all of these new SUVs people run around in!! My car is paid for!!

Immediate Plans:

I am thinking of replacing the main board with an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe board but just thinking at this point in time.

Purchase more Ultra 320 SCSI hard drives @ 15K RPMs. Eventually migrate to all SCSI, then on to SAS when it emerges. Eventually migrating to RAID5 for data.

Move SCSI RAID5 outside of case to external mobile rack.

Dual monitors, then three.

Install Linux Red Hat.

Get the Lian Li Universal CDROM bezels and a Thermal Take chipset cooler.

Possibly go water cooled.

 

Future Goals:

Purchase VapoChill CPU cooling case from Asetek in Denmark: http://www.vapochill.com and add a WaterChill system for the chipset.

The VapoChill® cooling system (first version released 1997) is the most spectacular cooling system ever build with the intention of overclocking your CPU to extreme speeds.

The basic principle behind the VapoChill® cooling system is the utilization of a compressor (vapor compression cycle...) to remove the heat dissipated from your CPU. The use of the vapor compression cycle makes the heat removal 10 times more efficient as water cooling and 50 times more efficient than air cooling - and at SUB-ZERO temperatures.

Due to its superior performance and technology the VapoChill is beyond any doubt the tool that will bring you on top of the charts... By using the VapoChill technology to cool your Intel or AMD CPU's overclocks of 20 - 60% above standard performance is obtainable.