What is your ideal setup?

[Bennieboy©]

It does not seem to do much a Mac Pro would not. I got a FirePro system at work recently, and am blown away by what it can chew through. Those and Teslas are making "supercomputing" a lot more affordable. It depends on what you want to do though.

Any standard desktop is not going to keep up with more specialized options, no matter what you throw in it. When you are really taxing computers, there are specific reasons why, so you often do not need the best of everything, and get more bang for the buck focusing on your bottlenecks.

yes, but in my eyes, that thing looks hot, my daily driver is a powermac G5 with 4Gb of DDR ram, i dont really tax that too hard with what i do, so i wouldnt need a supercomputer, heck, if i had the money i'd buy the detonator and a Mac pro,

 

[hakuryuu]

Well, I would wait for the Mac Pro refresh. Then I would get the fastest dual proc setup, 24GB RAM, 4x 2TB HDs, Raid Controller, Whatever the high end video card is. And then I would buy several Xserve with similar specs and a few Promise E610FD or Active Storage XRAID arrays as well as the expansion arrays. And all of the associated peripherals and whatnot to connect it all.

Sure would be fun.