SEPTEMBER 2007 MAXIMUMPC
PAYING THE PIPER
All this hardware doesn’t come cheap; here’s what it would cost to pick up the tab on the 2007 Dream Machine
All Together Now!
Too many multimedia
speaker systems squeeze by
with single-driver speakers—
that’s not good enough for
Dream Machine. We tapped
Creative’s GigaWorks S750
because its front, center, and
four surround-sound chan-
nels are outfi tted with 3.5-
inch midrange drivers and
1.0-inch titanium tweeters.
And its amp pumps 70 watts
into each of them.CATEGORY NAME PRICE URLCPU Core 2 Extreme QX6850 $1,000 http://www.intel.com
MOTHERBOARD EVGA nForce 680i SLI $250 http://www.evga.com
VIDEOCARDS 2 XFX GeForce 8800 Ultra XXX Edition $1,750 http://www.xfxforce.com
MEMORY 2GB Corsair Dominator 10000 $610 http://www.corsair.com
HARD DRIVES 4 Hitachi 7K1000 $1,600 http://www.hgst.com
COOLING Hybrid Swiftech/Danger Den Water Kit $510 http://www.swiftnets.com, http://www.dangerden.com
CASE Cooler Master Cosmos $200 http://www.coolermaster-usa.com
SOUNDCARD Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty $120 http://www.creative.com
MONITORS 2 Dell 2707WFP $2,800 http://www.dell.com
OPTICAL DRIVE LG Super Multi Blue $1,200 http://www.lge.com
OPTICAL DRIVE Asus DRW-1814BLT $50 http://www.asus.com
KEYBOARD Keytronic 104-key Classic $45 http://www.keytronic.com
MOUSE Logitech G5 v2 $70 http://www.logitech.com
POWER SUPPLY PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750 Quad $190 http://www.pcpower.com
SPEAKERS Creative GigaWorks S750 $500 http://www.creative.com
OPERATING SYSTEM Windows XP Professional $300 http://www.microsoft.com
OPERATING SYSTEM Windows Vista Ultimate $400 http://www.microsoft.comTOTAL $11,595