SEPTEMBER 2006 MA XIMUMPC
UNDER THE
HOOD
THINK OF IT
AS A RAPCUDA
Paleontologists will make a
shocking discovery in 35 mil-
lion years when they unearth
this year’s Dream Machine: the
fossilized remains of Raptors
living with Barracudas! Dream
Machine 2006 includes two
10,000rpm, 150GB Western
Digital Raptor X drives in RAID
0 for speed, paired with three
750GB Seagate Barracudas
running in RAID 5, to create a
1.5TB redundant array.BLU-RAY BLUES
One day, we expect to be able to
actually watch a Blu-ray movie on
the Dream Machine, but the way
the industry is moving, that may not
be for the better part of a decade.
In the meantime, we can still use
our Pioneer BDR-101A to make
nice fat backups of our important
fi les, 25 gigs at a time. The drive,
of course, also supports old-world
DVD discs—including both double-
layer varieties.FIRE IN THE HOLE!
Today’s multi-GPU setups
put out enough heat to cook
a bratwurst. Fortunately our
Silverstone case features a mid-
ship intake that lets the case
suck in cool exterior air and
blow it past the videocards via
a 12cm fan. We would almost
call it a BTX-like design, but that
would infl ame the ATX fanboys.