Alrighty, here goes my bid for the system. All prices in pounds, but converted from American dollars so may be some rounding.
First off, display:
CINERAMA 3 x 17 inch LCD Flatscreen - £1,800
16 ms response time
3840 X 1024 resolution (3 x (1280 x 1024))
Reasoning: £600 less than the 19 inch equivalent with arguably little loss in screen space; 4 display Grand Canyon model outrageously expensive (> £5000) and requires Workstation card to run
Main Rig:
l Mach 3.8 Extreme
3.8 GHz P4 Extreme Edition (Vapor Cooling)
950 MHz System Bus
2 GB RAM at 533 MHz
1 Terabyte 7200 RPM storage (Serial ATA I believe, possibly ATA-133 though)
Matrox Parhelia 256 MB w/ Performance Booster
8 x DVD-RW
3" x 3.5" Blue LCD system display (in case) for temperature monitoring etc
2 x FireWire 400
8 x USB 2.0
56 k Modem and Gigabit ethernet
Professional ADI1985plus 6-channel audio
High definition composite video out
550 W Power supply
Custom Vapor Compression Cooling Case
Custom logo and engraving
Wireless keyboard and mouse
Reasoning: The ultimate store bought PC by far. No SCSI because they only offer SCSI 320 drives for approximately £600--the slight performance increase as a scratch drive does not justify the added expense over regular IDE. Parhelia has the best image quality in the business and has three monitor output on-board (meaning no requirement for a dualhead card + pci card for the third screen). Refrigerated overclock is virtually faultless and offers ultimate perfomance for encoding (1800 CPU specmark vs. a mere 1200 for a 3.0 GHz HT P4
). Firewire 800 available if you own the camera, but an extra £40 for a relatively unnoticeable speed hike over Firewire 400. In-case screen likely useless but very cool looking
. Engraved logo is made of polished stone (quartz, granite, etc.) and can have up to two lines of text or your signature placed in it for a nominal fee--ultimate personalization! 6 channel professional audio for maximum quality. Composite video out for perfect output to tv or other device. Only thing missing is a capture card. I leave this to your discretion, but really many solutions under £50 are available with faultless video importing. Wireless keyboard and mouse to eliminate desk clutter for maximum pimpage
.
COST: £3,850 for system, £50 for video card
Total thus far: £5,700
That would be your system right there. If I was pushing right up to the £7,000 limit, I might add:
* 54 Mbit wireless ethernet for further elimination of cords (works well in my house--reaches ~25 Mbit real world speed at reasonable range)
* LCD Projector (not my strong point, although the NEC models I've used have been excellent--if a bit pricey)
* media PC--would require aforementioned wireless, but you could have a really sweet setup where you streamed video from your computer/office to your home theatre
EDIT: Apparently someone else beat me to Liebermann Inc (l computers)
ops:. Anyway, specs still stand.