Monster of a Computer

[Spike88]

So I was browsing around Tigerdirect when I saw this giveaway:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/sectors/sweepstakes/killers/index.asp?cm_re=Homepage-_-Spot%2023-_-Sweesptakes_Killers

Its a Monster of a computer with:


CPU: Two (2) Intel Xeon 5680 Six-Core Processors
Motherboard: EVGA Classified SR2 Motherboard
Memory: 24GB Corsair Tri-Channel DDR3 Memory
Video Cards: Four (4) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Video Cards
Hard Drive: Two (2) 2TB Hard Drives
Solid State Drive: 160GB Intel SSD Drive Solid State Drive
Optical Drive: BluRay/DVD Burner
Power Supply: EVGA Classified SR-2 Power Supply
Case: Custom One-of-a-Kind “Killers” Case
Monitors: (3) 3D Ready Acer Monitors
3D Glasses: NVIDIA 3D Glasses

The only thing I don't like about it is the case since it has the the words Killers in pink along the side.

[SteamWake]

nothing a can of spray paint wont fix.

Good luck !

[Wolfehunter]

Wow that is a killer rig. Me jelous... Me want... Damn its in the US... :damn:

I can just imagine the electrical bill.... That would suck up soo much juice.. :D

[HunterICX]

4 of those 480's, holy crap

damn, I think the PSU will knock out my house's fusebox :dead:

HunterICX

[SteamWake]

Meh.. its 1,500 watts your hair dryer draws more current.

[Sailor Steve]

I prefer AMD to Intel. I prefer ATI to Nvidia graphics cards. I wouldn't know what to do with 2 Terrabytes of storage. I'm not impressed by all the bells and whistles. Bigger isn't always better.

So...

I'm busy opening up as many email accounts as I can Gotta have that thing!:D

[Arclight]

Ain't it the truth? :haha:

Wouldn't know what to do with all that either, maybe split it into 2 separate systems, but it's a great toy.

[Spike88]

I think the best thing to do with this computer is to solve cancer by folding at home.

http://folding.stanford.edu/

Or play Crysis and any other high performance demanding game at once. Hell, it has three monitors, you can play 3 seperate games. :haha:

[kiwi_2005]

So I was browsing around Tigerdirect when I saw this giveaway:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/sectors/sweepstakes/killers/index.asp?cm_re=Homepage-_-Spot%2023-_-Sweesptakes_Killers

Its a Monster of a computer with:


CPU: Two (2) Intel Xeon 5680 Six-Core Processors
Motherboard: EVGA Classified SR2 Motherboard
Memory: 24GB Corsair Tri-Channel DDR3 Memory
Video Cards: Four (4) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Video Cards
Hard Drive: Two (2) 2TB Hard Drives
Solid State Drive: 160GB Intel SSD Drive Solid State Drive
Optical Drive: BluRay/DVD Burner
Power Supply: EVGA Classified SR-2 Power Supply
Case: Custom One-of-a-Kind “Killers” Case
Monitors: (3) 3D Ready Acer Monitors
3D Glasses: NVIDIA 3D Glasses



What a beast! :rock:

[Spike88]

Good chances that whoever wins this isn't going to use it for anything demanding. I highly someone who only uses computers for facebook/email winning it. :haha:

[Arclight]

"Wow, FarmVille never ran this smooth before!" :haha:

[Sailor Steve]

Truth to tell, if I did win it I'd sell it for as much as I could get and then buy as much computer as I actually needed.

[Castout]

If that kind of processing power met with less than 50 Watt of power requirement then it's my dream thing. Right now it's a monster in both processing power and electrical bill. A sort of brutal solution to achieving raw power.

I mean most of time I'm using my PC not for gaming anyway at least not before ArmA 2 came along. It's just stupid to power all those devices when what you do is mostly typing or browsing :haha:.

11 grand PC....nuts.

I dream of rig with growing hard disk space(bio storage) and growing RAM too, with a pre-installed AI whom I can talk to, very fast processing speed(both graphics and programs) with a peak load temperature of the room's. At idle the rig would actually cool down to a temp lower than the ambient room temperature. All that with a power requirement of less than 50 Watt and comes with self charging bio battery that ideally could keep the rig going indefinitely without being plugged into any power source. . . . Ummmmm . . . .and it's no longer a two state machine in terms of processing mechanism but encompassing all the characters that mankind have ever known of.

[Arclight]

We'll probably have giant space-cruisers in orbit before that happens though. :hmmm:

Truth to tell, if I did win it I'd sell it for as much as I could get and then buy as much computer as I actually needed.
Exactly. Think most people would do the same. :yep:

Maybe just sell 2 of the cards, and use the money to swap out the motherboard to a decent SLI one, with i7 CPU. Sell of half the memory as well, got a killer rig and some spare cash.

[Task Force]

This computer makes mine feel inadiquate!:wah:

[Arclight]

Says mister GTX480. :shifty:

[Sailor Steve]

This computer makes mine feel inadiquate!:wah:
Mine IS inadequate, so it doesn't worry about it any more.:sunny:

[Spike88]

I know one thing for sure, if I owned this computer and didn't sell it's parts, I'd definitely get it insured.

[Task Force]

Ya know, I heard that these 480s actualy perform worse when you have quad SLI, its better in tri...:yep:

[Spike88]

I've heard that most tri-sli(rhymes) boards, don't really run all cards at 16x, but have to drop one or even two into x8. So I guess the same would apply for this board.

[Arclight]

:)

Currently the max number of channels you'll find in the top-tier X-58 chipset is 36, which results in 16x/8x/8x (tri) or 8x/8x/8x/8x (quad). So no matter if you have 3 or 4, same number of lanes is used. Improvement with 4th card is minor at best, if it exists at all.

Even the top Nvidia chips won't give you more than 3 x16 slots, but more typically it's 16x/16x/8x, or you get 2 x16 PCI-e 2.0 slots and 1 x16 PCI-e 1.1 slot. 1.1 has half the bandwith from 2.0, so it's the same as plugging it into a 8x 2.0 slot.

* it's a frickin rip-off, seriously. I remember when they started marketing memory kits as "SLI ready", while there is no connection at all between how many cards you have and what modules are installed.