OK gurus, don't mince words! Spell out what the Dream Machine is made of today, including mainboard, CPU, RAM, heat sink-fan, video, audio, drive and controller type, power supply, OS, and hell why not--case :()Remember, money is virtually no object, the goal is Best Performance from a smoothness and framerate at max settings standpoint. We might fudge on the drive system as that can get crazy, but spell it all out if you can.Good luck!Noel

>OK gurus, don't mince words! Spell out what the Dream >Machine is made of today, including mainboard, CPU, RAM, >heat sink-fan, video, audio, drive and controller type, >power supply, OS, and hell why not--case :() >>Remember, money is virtually no object, the goal is Best >Performance from a smoothness and framerate at max settings >standpoint. We might fudge on the drive system as that can >get crazy, but spell it all out if you can. Too tired, going to sleep. Will post tomorrow (unless Rocker8 wants to post the system specs of the system I configured for him) :)Max Cowgill

>OK gurus, don't mince words! Spell out what the Dream >Machine is made of today, including mainboard, CPU, RAM, >heat sink-fan, video, audio, drive and controller type, >power supply, OS, and hell why not--case :() >>Remember, money is virtually no object, the goal is Best >Performance from a smoothness and framerate at max settings >standpoint. We might fudge on the drive system as that can >get crazy, but spell it all out if you can. >> The new P4 northwoods running at 2.53 with the new 533/FSB would certainly be the hottest setup right now: P4 2.53B Intel 850E w/533 FSB, add a GF4Ti4600. The P4s run cool enough that you can use the stock HSF, if you want something better than the stock one you will have to probably wait a few weeks to a couple of months before they are available, but I really don't know.As far as case I think that's a personal choice as there are just a ton of options like nice aluminum cases to cases with pull out hard drive drawers, color and height etc etc. Paul