The Fastest PC ever...

**BigHub** · 06-23-06, 11:05 AM

This guy built the fastest PC in the world.... It was in PC Magazine that i get.

- Overclocked AMD Athlon 64 FX-60
- Dual ATI CrossFire Graphics
- ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe Motherboard
- 2GB RAM kit from Corsair
- Dell 24-inch widescreen monitor
- Water-cooled

Total Price: $7,000
Total Price on just the Rig: $4,392

He said it will be the fastest PC for only about a week, damn that sucks.

**BigHub** · 06-23-06, 11:09 AM

schaaaaaa-wing

**LethaL_ImpuLse** · 06-23-06, 11:46 AM

I remember reading something about the Japanese building the fastest supercomputer in the world..

I doubt that's still the fastest PC today, and definetly not in the next few weeks. Intel's Conroe will kick ass.

**geeseven** · 06-23-06, 01:07 PM

supercomputer is a whole different animal.

IBM has some 500GHZ processor, :shock:

**jason_jinx** · 06-23-06, 01:09 PM

i thought you can go for 4 gigs of ram now?

**jason_jinx** · 06-23-06, 01:11 PM

"WASHINGTON, DC -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/22/06 -- Today, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and IBM teamed up to announce that a new mark was achieved on the world's fastest supercomputer named BlueGene/L (BG/L). This world record for a scientific application was set by achieving a sustained performance of 207.3 trillion floating-point operations per second (teraFLOPS) on the "Qbox" computer code for conducting materials science simulations critical to national security. "

that was sourced from here
http://www5.sys-con.com/read/239625.htm