13 GPUs

Mr-White · 15 Dec 2009 at 11:10

FASTRA II features an impressive thirteen general purpose graphics processing cores for a total performance of twelve teraflops - trillion floating-point operations per second - at a minuscule cost of just €6000 (£5,400).

The rather impressive build - requiring a special cage to hold the graphics cards which are connected to the motherboard via flexible riser cables - features six Nvidia GTX295 dual-GPU graphics cards along with a GTX275 single-GPU graphics card for a total of thirteen addressable processing cores - not including the system's CPU. In order to satisfy the power demands of all that graphics hardware, FASTRA II uses four individual power supplies all snugly nestled up on a Lian-Li PC-P80 Armorsuit case.

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I wanna see this run Crysis

MW

craptakular · 15 Dec 2009 at 11:16

will provably get 32 fps on ultra then lol

Deific · 15 Dec 2009 at 11:17

runs at a kabillionjagillion degrees fahrenheit

magicroundabout · 15 Dec 2009 at 11:22

love the way they have the case open with a fan blowing air into it.

man they must be so hot

Mr-White · 15 Dec 2009 at 11:32

magicroundabout said:
man they must be so hot

Surely having to sit in your underpants to keep cool is a sacrifice many would be willing to take

MW

Disjunto · 15 Dec 2009 at 11:33

needs mega sli to run cysis

bJN · 15 Dec 2009 at 11:39

Yeah I'll have two kthx

MCH · 15 Dec 2009 at 11:59

bet you still wont have playable fps on full settings throughout the whole of crysis

SiriusB · 15 Dec 2009 at 12:12

Mr-White said:
Surely having to sit in your underpants to keep cool is a sacrifice many would be willing to take

MW

Especially since most gamers sit in their underpants anyway

Disjunto · 15 Dec 2009 at 12:13

SiriusB said:
Especially since most gamers sit in their underpants anyway

I just wear a towel....

niggyg · 15 Dec 2009 at 12:35

No dx11

Ritsugamesh · 15 Dec 2009 at 12:38

I love how that's their life, just building ridiculously amazing pc's, if only!!

Still, it's not dx11... =P

chaparral · 15 Dec 2009 at 12:44

7 GPU cards....But i only see 4 PCIe slots on the motherboard :confused:

neo-omega · 15 Dec 2009 at 12:46

To me that just screams watercooling! Could you imagine the number of loops for all those graphics cards!?

Disjunto · 15 Dec 2009 at 12:47

chaparral said:
7 GPU cards....But i only see 4 PCIe slots on the motherboard

look harder..... some of them are black

chaparral · 15 Dec 2009 at 12:51

Disjunto said:
look harder..... some of them are black

GTX 295 are dual slot cards...So only the blue PCIe slots can be used

Disjunto · 15 Dec 2009 at 12:52

they've got some cool mounting thing going on, if you look at this pic with them in, the top card goes over the CPU, allowing them to fit more cards in

gt_junkie · 15 Dec 2009 at 13:02

Disjunto said:
they've got some cool mounting thing going on, if you look at this pic with them in, the top card goes over the CPU, allowing them to fit more cards in

Yup - you're correct!

They're cradled in a special cage:

The rather impressive build - requiring a special cage to hold the graphics cards which are connected to the motherboard via flexible riser cables - features six Nvidia GTX295 dual-GPU graphics cards along with a GTX275 single-GPU graphics card for a total of thirteen addressable processing cores - not including the system's CPU. In order to satisfy the power demands of all that graphics hardware, FASTRA II uses four individual power supplies all snugly nestled up on a Lian-Li PC-P80 Armorsuit case.

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Borden · 15 Dec 2009 at 13:07

They have flexible PCIe riser cards so that they can fit them all.

alexthecheese · 15 Dec 2009 at 13:09

Yeah they have extended flexible PCIE connectors going so they're mounted 6" or so above the motherboard itself.