A PC as good as Mac (specs)

[Master Chief]

In a different forum someone challenged me to find a or build a pc w/ better specs then the new mac..

- 1.6GHz, 1.8GHz or Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 processors
- Up to 1GHz processor bus
- Up to 8GB of DDR SDRAM
- Fast Serial ATA hard drives
- AGP 8X Pro graphics options from NVIDIA or ATI
- Three PCI or PCI-X expansions slots
- Three USB 2.0 ports
- One FireWire 800, two FireWire 400 ports
- Bluetooth & AirPort Extreme ready
- Optical and analog audio in and out



They asked for the same or better. Can someone make heads or tales of this?

[Bob The Great]

first start out with an ATI AIW 9700 PRO to fight its digital editing. Now you'll want to get Opteron CPU's. Dualies probably. Now get something like the Antec Sonata so you got quiteness as well as usablity and looks. The mobo I'm not sure about as Opteron boards haven't been really hitting the market yet. Now don't install an OS on it, and you've got a PC just about as good. Add windows or Linux and your either buggy + crash happy, or difficult + funky.

It can't be done IMO right now.