Fastest PC possible = ?

You guys owe me the Laundry and new keyboard bill for me spitting my coffee all over the place.

Ok ok ok... Thats a few K more than I was willing to cough up.

I was loving the 4xK20 idea... Completely OTT of course.

As I said, I am NOT gaming too much, but I will buy myself a nice card, but in truth, I am not going to waste money on something that I cannot get the full benefit of... Its the CPU / Mobo / RAM side of things that I was more thinking of.

Dual Xeon though... Sure, the cost is a little extreme, but 16 cores? Hmmm... They are not Hyperthreading are they? ( As if it will make any difference ? )

But seriously however. Ethermasters example is very much a possible option. Minus the GFX Cards thought Im afraid. I really cannot justify that.

But hey, a new kitchen and bathroom last year were her toys... mine is the PC.

( Funny how men justify things like that eh? )

Ok cheers... This will be fun trying to grovel to the wife now wont it? LOL

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The reason behind this is simply vidoe convertions.

We do Ghost hunting and we all use vidoe cameras etc and its up to schmucko here to get them all together and onto DVD... Plus I just like to show off a bit.
The most I do in terms of gaming is Dawn Of war series... I love it but I cannot play any FPS games anymore, and so I cannot justify a pricey graphics card.

Thanks again all.
 
:eek: !!!! your mad, but yeah the K20's are more 3D modelling GPU's and them Xeon's btw are 8 Cores (16 Threads) ....... so that's 32 threads for video rendering loveliness then.
 
The grovelling failed miserably.

Celeron it is then!

LOL only joking. She said yes to Mobo & one CPU but no to CPU 2 and I have enough RAM to get working since its only one CPU

I can get the second CPU and more RAM later on.

So, Cool.
 
16 real cores. 32 threads. No overclocking. Probably don't want the Asus board - if you're going dual cpu take a look at tyan and supermicro. Quad socket intel boards exist but they're even more expensive!

For video encoding it's possible a quad socket amd would be better.

The main problem is the cpu cost. £1500 for eight 3ghz cores is just not competitive relative to £250 for four 4ghz cores. But then, you did say "no clusters", so you probably don't want a dozen socket 1155 systems.
 
That's a good question. They're probably written using OpenMP or whatever windows has for threads, in which case they would use 32 threads... but speedup is not linear with increasing number of threads. It's not linear even before you hit hyperthreading.

It's difficult to judge whether a dual socket board is quicker than a single socket one when overclocking is involved. Six cores at 5ghz or sixteen at 3ghz? It's more complicated than 16x3 > 6x5. Good code would be faster, but there's a chance commercial video editors can't deal efficiently with NUMA.

I wouldn't try it without finding convincing benchmarks beforehand. Of course, if the OP isn't going to overclock it, then the single cpu system is much slower, making the dual socket look better in comparison.
 
No intention of overclocking.

I am seriously thinking that is a hell of a lot of money to go making a smoke machine.

Quad Socket AMD? Hmmm... I have just this last week been messing with my new AMD and after some widdling about and thewn going back to Intel, I am now back on AMD again.

The intel is superior but Im an AMD lover by heart, Dunno why...
 
millsd44 said:
This is just ridonkulous....no one has that much money to burn
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Really? We usually sell 1-2 systems of that spec a month.

And FYI You cant populate 4 x Tesla K20 in that system unless you use it as a headless node. The K20s do not have display out and the board does not have graphics. You would have to use 3 x Tesla K20 and 1 x K5000.

That sort of system would be used more for analysis projects than modelling/rendering. 4 x Titans may be faster but does not use ECC or double precision floating-point so would not be used in a test environment as results could not be certified as error free.
 
 
ZXSpectrum said:
Really? We usually sell 1-2 systems of that spec a month.

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That sort of system would be used more for analysis projects than modelling/rendering. 4 x Titans may be faster but does not use ECC or double precision floating-point so would not be used in a test environment as results could not be certified as error free.
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Indeed; I sometimes use the Quadro card in my workstation to do statistical analyses via monte-carlo markov chain algorithms. Need the poke and need the double precision...
 
An Xeon is really a server CPU, so I'd seriously suggest going Sandybridge-E instead, even high end, because you'll get much better value for your money and it may even be quicker.

Good computer, throw in a GTX780...(or GTX670 more realisticly) and stick with the M500 1TB SSD...
 
Fixed :)

Data Modelling Version:

YOUR BASKET
3 x PNY Nvidia Tesla K20 Workstation Solution Graphics Card - 5GB - GDDR5 SDRAM £2999.99 (£8,999.97)
1 x PNY Nvidia Quadro K5000 Graphics Card - 4GB - GDDR5 SDRAM £1819.99
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2687W 3.10GHz (Socket 2011) - Retail £1499.99 (£2,999.98)
6 x Crucial M500 960GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT960M500SSD1) £487.99 (£2,927.94)
1 x Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Dual Socket C602 Chipset (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £459.95
1 x Corsair Obsidian 900D Super Tower Case £299.99
1 x Enermax Platimax 1500w '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply (EPM1500AWT) £284.99
2 x Kingston HyperX Beast 32GB (4x8GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (KHX16C9T3K4/32X) £229.99 (£459.98)
6 x Seagate Constellation.2 SATA 6Gb/s 3TB Hard Drive - (ST33000650NS) HDD £229.99 (£1,379.94)
Total : £19,652.96 (includes shipping : £16.85).



3D Rendering Version

YOUR BASKET
1 x PNY Nvidia Tesla K20 Workstation Solution Graphics Card - 5GB - GDDR5 SDRAM £2999.99
3 x PNY Nvidia Quadro K5000 Graphics Card - 4GB - GDDR5 SDRAM £1819.99 (£5,459.97)
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2687W 3.10GHz (Socket 2011) - Retail £1499.99 (£2,999.98)
6 x Crucial M500 960GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT960M500SSD1) £487.99 (£2,927.94)
1 x Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Dual Socket C602 Chipset (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £459.95
1 x Corsair Obsidian 900D Super Tower Case £299.99
1 x Enermax Platimax 1500w '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply (EPM1500AWT) £284.99
2 x Kingston HyperX Beast 32GB (4x8GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (KHX16C9T3K4/32X) £229.99 (£459.98)
6 x Seagate Constellation.2 SATA 6Gb/s 3TB Hard Drive - (ST33000650NS) HDD £229.99 (£1,379.94)
Total : £17,292.97 (includes shipping : £16.85).



Take ya pick :D
 
Ethermaster said:
Fixed :)

Data Modelling Version:

YOUR BASKET
3 x PNY Nvidia Tesla K20 Workstation Solution Graphics Card - 5GB - GDDR5 SDRAM £2999.99 (£8,999.97)
1 x PNY Nvidia Quadro K5000 Graphics Card - 4GB - GDDR5 SDRAM £1819.99
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2687W 3.10GHz (Socket 2011) - Retail £1499.99 (£2,999.98)
6 x Crucial M500 960GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT960M500SSD1) £487.99 (£2,927.94)
1 x Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Dual Socket C602 Chipset (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £459.95
1 x Corsair Obsidian 900D Super Tower Case £299.99
1 x Enermax Platimax 1500w '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply (EPM1500AWT) £284.99
2 x Kingston HyperX Beast 32GB (4x8GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (KHX16C9T3K4/32X) £229.99 (£459.98)
6 x Seagate Constellation.2 SATA 6Gb/s 3TB Hard Drive - (ST33000650NS) HDD £229.99 (£1,379.94)
Total : £19,652.96 (includes shipping : £16.85).



3D Rendering Version

YOUR BASKET
1 x PNY Nvidia Tesla K20 Workstation Solution Graphics Card - 5GB - GDDR5 SDRAM £2999.99
3 x PNY Nvidia Quadro K5000 Graphics Card - 4GB - GDDR5 SDRAM £1819.99 (£5,459.97)
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2687W 3.10GHz (Socket 2011) - Retail £1499.99 (£2,999.98)
6 x Crucial M500 960GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT960M500SSD1) £487.99 (£2,927.94)
1 x Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Dual Socket C602 Chipset (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £459.95
1 x Corsair Obsidian 900D Super Tower Case £299.99
1 x Enermax Platimax 1500w '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply (EPM1500AWT) £284.99
2 x Kingston HyperX Beast 32GB (4x8GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (KHX16C9T3K4/32X) £229.99 (£459.98)
6 x Seagate Constellation.2 SATA 6Gb/s 3TB Hard Drive - (ST33000650NS) HDD £229.99 (£1,379.94)
Total : £17,292.97 (includes shipping : £16.85).



Take ya pick :D
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Them Xeons are gonna run a little hot with no coolers.. ;)
 
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