Ultimate Computer?

Exfoliate · February 17, 2005, 10:50pm

If money was no object what sort of components would you buy? You can answer as if you’re filling out another “my computer” tab. Including an estimated price is cool too. Thanks everyone.

(I’ll come up with my dream rig soon, must go research…)

Addis · February 18, 2005, 1:49pm

Dual or Quad Opteron 252s with 8GB RAM. I’m not sure of any compatibility issues but it would be cool to have it with 6800Ultras in SLI. Or The Quadro range cards for CAD. Yea…

ProcalX · February 18, 2005, 1:52pm

CPU
4xIntel Itanium 2 Processor @ 1.6Ghz 8MB L3 Cache
Memory
32GB ECC (2.5-3-3-) DDR400 Ventura
SCSI Adapter
LSI MegaRAID SCSI 320-4X 4Channel. Ultra320 SCSI RAID 256MB PCI-X
Hard Drives
4x Hitachi 300GB Ultra320, 10Krpm SCSI Disks
Graphics
Anything really Intergrated Video → X800/6800Ultra
HotBus Adapter
Qlogic SANBlade 2344, 4-Port 2Gbps Fibre Channel HBA PCI-X
Network Adapter
2xIntel Pro/10GbE SR 10Gbit Server Adapter, PCI-X, Short Range, Multimode

all this on SuSe Linux Server 8 or RedHat for Itaniums using a Raid 5 striping with parity plus a hot spare.

That would cost you a very reasonable £45,000 ($60,000)

This system would literally make us burn through the Folding Team Ranks, 1 Itanium Single 1.6Ghz Processor can do 15Seconds 1MB SuperPI. - No overclocker has come close to this.

Addis · February 18, 2005, 2:03pm

Those Itaniums are really expensive. Maybe you should start saving?

ProcalX · February 18, 2005, 2:11pm

no need, i get paid at next week :good:

(if i won the lottery though, i’d buy several of these and purely run F@H on em for Z365)

Addis · February 18, 2005, 2:44pm

If I won the lottery, I’d take 100,000 and pout the rest in an savings account(s). Then I could live off the interest.

Big_B · February 18, 2005, 3:02pm

To be the mean guy here: if you’re looking into multiple CPU setups, there’s very few (if any) quad and higher SMP boards with graphics slots. They may have PCI-X (does not =PCIe), but the only video cards that would work with these are Matrox variety. Go ahead and dream, but you may want to consider what exists (or close to market).

I’ll figure this one out, but I gotta sleep. These 12-hour work days are nuts! (and why I haven’t been spamming as much).

Addis · February 18, 2005, 3:09pm

Yea I thought that. There wouldn’t be much need for a GF6800 in a server!

ProcalX · February 18, 2005, 3:13pm

Hence why i said Intergrated → 6800Ultra :good:

Ie it would be VERY nice if you could get a card like that in a system like that, but u cant, max u can get is a 9250SE/GeForce 4 4000MX i believe.

Exfoliate · February 18, 2005, 9:53pm

Sweet ideas guys, thanks!

Dave35k · February 18, 2005, 11:20pm

i get one of the quad systems used for 3d desing with 4 procesors 4 gig of ram 1 terabit hdd and dual s2 pci e graphics cards sweeeeeeet :good:

Exfoliate · February 19, 2005, 12:42am

I’d want an AMD FX55+, Nvidia SLI w/ 2 6800 Ultra’s (actually I’d wait till they refreshed their line first but whatever), 4 gigs of PC 4500 (non-DD2, I’m not too sure DD2 performs so well, takes too long to access data), possibly 2 Fujitsu 147GB 15,000RPM Ultra’s (I don’t imagine they’d be too quiet), a beefy 600+ watt silent psu, and some cool, quiet, and quality case (I’m not about to search Newegg for my fav). That has to be like $5500+ or so.

Fred · February 19, 2005, 8:48pm

Fred · February 19, 2005, 8:50pm

The above is not including the small things such as replaced fans, heatsinks/fans, 3 1/2 floppys, rounded cables, keyboard/mouse, etc…