Fastest PC possible = ?

Two quad core chips will be consistently slower than one eight core, and blocks you from getting the second 8 core chip in the future. Probably not the way to go!

If you'll never get the second chip, then dsr'ing the motherboard in exchange for a single socket one might make sense. If you might want the second cpu... that's your answer.

If you do end up with 16 real cores, the forum's distributed computing boards would love to meet you :)
 
JonJ678 said:
Two quad core chips will be consistently slower than one eight core, and blocks you from getting the second 8 core chip in the future. Probably not the way to go!

If you'll never get the second chip, then dsr'ing the motherboard in exchange for a single socket one might make sense. If you might want the second cpu... that's your answer.

If you do end up with 16 real cores, the forum's distributed computing boards would love to meet you :)
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I see where you mean.

I admit, that I was not intending on going dual CPU at all. The idea was planted and I kind of wanted to go for it.

The idea of going with the 2 smaller ones for now, was that I will have the same power but a grand cheaper and yes... next time, I would have to buy both CPUs not just the one wont I?

I think I am in that moment between buying the stuff, and getting it, where I am still worried that I made a bad choice in what I got.

I know me... I will most likely rip the lot open and therefore be unable to return it anyway.

Jumper118 said:
You could do some very serious folding on the list of machines in your sig! Holy moly.
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I have more... Much more.

AMD :-
2 x 8 Core - 8350 + 8120
2 x 6 Core - 1090T + 1035T
2 x 4 Core - 955 + 9550

Intel
1 x 6 Core - 3930 ( S2011-i7 )
1 x 4 Core - 860 ( S1156-i7 )
2 x 2 Core - 550 + 530 ( S1156-i3 )

Older stuff
Q9550 + Q6600 + E6600 + E6450

These are all fully working PCs setup on my LAN right now, with the exception of the 8350 and the 3930... Both of these are in the living room with me

So yeah... Serious folding to be had, and I do some folding, but I have not done it seriously these days... Im still doing it on my daughters PC though.
 
Ah well... Been piddling about a lot the last few days.

Bought myself some more bits, the marriage is seriously on the rocks because of it.

Anyway, I did do a swap for a smaller CPU but this enabled me to get both CPUs... Not the ones I wanted, but still stupidly more than I needed and so.. Bonus!

I went for the 4 core Xeons but then I find out that dont fit, so I went with the 6 core and they are sweet as hell.

I cannot possibly see any reason to go higher... The justification to do that is simply not there.
 
sastusbulbas said:
No Kingspec pci-e SSD, floppy drive or card reader?
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All my PCs already run on SSD...Only C: of course, they still use normal HDs for everything else, with the exception of the Master PC and thats also running an SSD for downloading torrents, that then get moved to the Server once they have downloaded ( of course uTorrent allows them to be still uploaded as you may know ).

The master I might add, is running a RAID for C: out of 2x60GB OCZ Drives.
Nice and nippy!

Floppy? LOL. I still have a couple of setups that have them, but I also use an Atari TT and Falcon, and many years ago, I started to use a ZIP Drive to copy files to/from Atari/PC. I still use these in my PCs although while they are in, they dont actually get used much anymore in any serious capacity, just novelty value.

Card reader? - Yes, but again, its not connected. My phone uses an SD card, but simply connecting will give me access to the card as a removable USB Disk, same with the phone, a card reader is another near to useless device anyway.
 
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