Fastest PC possible = ?

FatRakoon · 28 May 2013 at 13:21

What is the fastest PC that some idiot like myself can buy?

Im not asking about some mega huge thing, or a behemoth cluster... Although I have dabbled in clustering for kicks, NO! , just a PC.

What is the fastest thing that anyone can get?

As an extra, lets just say its the 3970X then is there a Motherboard that TYAN or similar have knocked up that will take 2 or hell, even more of them?

just wondering for a kick really, although some dreams become reality dont they?.. Especially when the wife aint looking.

DaleTheWhale · 28 May 2013 at 13:25

Fastest PC to do what exactly?

Open word documents and spreadsheets or to render 4k videos?

Amraam · 28 May 2013 at 18:05

Fastest to be made obsolete the next week?

FatRakoon · 28 May 2013 at 18:17

ThaReaperGuy said:
Fastest PC to do what exactly?

Open word documents and spreadsheets or to render 4k videos?

MSDOS 6.22 & WFWG 3.11 - Ub3r l33t

Amraam said:
Fastest to be made obsolete the next week?

Yeah, but what a week!

Seriously though, I did this a few years ago... I asked on this these here forums, what the fastest bits were, the best mobo, the best cpu, the best ram etc etc etc and I was the king of the hill quite literally for about 3 weeks and AMD then came out with the better CPU ( XP2400 I think? ), nVidia brought out the Ti4600, and Abit came out with a faster Mobo...

My brother now has that setup and its rock solid even today.

So, I will be doing a lot of video conversions... the actual gfx card is unimportant but hell... I will be buying a nice one yes, but its the raw CPU power that I am interested, and a good mobo to help wring the hell out of the CPU.

Ethermaster · 28 May 2013 at 18:18

A good start for a single PC I would guess

YOUR BASKET
4 x PNY Nvidia Tesla K20 Workstation Solution Graphics Card - 5GB - GDDR5 SDRAM £2999.99 (£11,999.96)
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2687W 3.10GHz (Socket 2011) - Retail £1499.99 (£2,999.98)
1 x Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Dual Socket C602 Chipset (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £459.95
2 x Corsair Dominator PLATINUM 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C10 2666MHz Quad Channel Kit with DHX Pro Connector (CMD16GX3M4A2666C10) £439.99 (£879.98)
Total : £16,351.86 (includes shipping : £10.00).

Doomedspeed · 28 May 2013 at 18:25

FatRakoon said:
Seriously though, I did this a few years ago... I asked on this these here forums, what the fastest bits were, the best mobo, the best cpu, the best ram etc etc etc and I was the king of the hill quite literally for about 3 weeks and AMD then came out with the better CPU ( XP2400 I think? ), nVidia brought out the Ti4600, and Abit came out with a faster Mobo...

My brother now has that setup and its rock solid even today.

So, I will be doing a lot of video conversions... the actual gfx card is unimportant but hell... I will be buying a nice one yes, but its the raw CPU power that I am interested, and a good mobo to help wring the hell out of the CPU.

You need a budget. what price do you have in mind?

Video Conversions use fast cores and hyperthreading so maybe a 3930k x79 build?

Fastest is a silly way of speccing something, it depends on what your doing and what you want to achieve..

Ethermaster · 28 May 2013 at 18:30

Doomedspeed said:
You need a budget. what price do you have in mind?

Video Conversions use fast cores and hyperthreading so maybe a 3930k x79 build?

Fastest is a silly way of speccing something, it depends on what your doing and what you want to achieve..

Agreed

it seems from his sig tho that he already has a 3930K rig ...... it depends on what you want to with it, my mess about would be a video/3d modelling beast but does not game well and shouldn't be seen outside of the world of a professional studio.

Doomedspeed · 28 May 2013 at 18:35

Ethermaster said:
Agreed it seems from his sig tho that he already has a 3930K rig ...... it depends on what you want to with it, my mess about would be a video/3d modelling beast but does not game well and shouldn't be seen outside of the world of a professional studio.

Ahh, didn't spot that.. From what it sounds like he does the 3930k should be ideal.

Also didn't notice you has 4 (yes, FOUR) K20's in that spec.. I want.

Ethermaster · 28 May 2013 at 18:57

Doomedspeed said:
Ahh, didn't spot that.. From what it sounds like he does the 3930k should be ideal.

Also didn't notice you has 4 (yes, FOUR) K20's in that spec.. I want.

Me toooooo, only 1 small problem .... its the price of a brand new family car

but if OP has loadza money you will not currently beat it .... I would want to come round your house to have a play on it aswell

Kaapstad · 28 May 2013 at 19:08

Doomedspeed said:
Ahh, didn't spot that.. From what it sounds like he does the 3930k should be ideal.

Also didn't notice you has 4 (yes, FOUR) K20's in that spec.. I want.

4 overclocked Titans are faster.

Op this is about as quick as it gets for a general purpose rig.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=24224895&postcount=239

Unfortunately looks are not it's strong point.

JonJ678 · 28 May 2013 at 19:58

There's a break point between single cpu and multiple cpu systems.

Whether a single overclocked six core chip outperforms four lower speed eight core chips is strongly workload dependent. Moving to multiple sockets makes 2400MHz ram unlikely and introduces exciting bottlenecks courtesy of non uniform memory access.

If you're playing a computer game, the single socket overclocked one will be "faster". If you're doing embarrassingly parallel maths the quad socket board will easily crush it.

edit: There have been rumours of an eight core SB-E chip for an infuriating length of time. If one ever makes it out the door, one of those at 5ghz would be spectacular. Otherwise Haswell has some interesting architecture changes.

Bromhead · 28 May 2013 at 20:03

Ethermaster said:
A good start for a single PC I would guess

YOUR BASKET
4 x PNY Nvidia Tesla K20 Workstation Solution Graphics Card - 5GB - GDDR5 SDRAM £2999.99 (£11,999.96)
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2687W 3.10GHz (Socket 2011) - Retail £1499.99 (£2,999.98)
1 x Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Dual Socket C602 Chipset (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £459.95
2 x Corsair Dominator PLATINUM 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C10 2666MHz Quad Channel Kit with DHX Pro Connector (CMD16GX3M4A2666C10) £439.99 (£879.98)
Total : £16,351.86 (includes shipping : £10.00).

This looks like an absolute bargain.

millsd44 · 28 May 2013 at 20:27

Ethermaster said:
A good start for a single PC I would guess

YOUR BASKET
4 x PNY Nvidia Tesla K20 Workstation Solution Graphics Card - 5GB - GDDR5 SDRAM £2999.99 (£11,999.96)
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2687W 3.10GHz (Socket 2011) - Retail £1499.99 (£2,999.98)
1 x Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Dual Socket C602 Chipset (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £459.95
2 x Corsair Dominator PLATINUM 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C10 2666MHz Quad Channel Kit with DHX Pro Connector (CMD16GX3M4A2666C10) £439.99 (£879.98)
Total : £16,351.86 (includes shipping : £10.00).

This is just ridonkulous....no one has that much money to burn

JonJ678 · 28 May 2013 at 20:33

Uh - Tesla's aren't aimed at the same market as your 7950s. They sell just fine. He's also picked one of the cheaper Xeon chips and under bought on ram. Plenty of companies have that much money to burn.

Ethermaster · 28 May 2013 at 20:40

Here's the rest of it but remember its this or a brand new car....... hmmmmm brand new computer or new car, I know what I would get

***on route to my local ford dealer now***

YOUR BASKET
4 x PNY Nvidia Tesla K20 Workstation Solution Graphics Card - 5GB - GDDR5 SDRAM £2999.99 (£11,999.96)
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2687W 3.10GHz (Socket 2011) - Retail £1499.99 (£2,999.98)
4 x Crucial M500 960GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT960M500SSD1) £487.99 (£1,951.96)
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
4 x Western Digital Caviar Black 4TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD4001FAEX) HDD £239.99 (£959.96)
2 x Kingston HyperX Beast 32GB (4x8GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (KHX16C9T3K4/32X) £229.99 (£459.98)
Total : £19,436.98 (includes shipping : £16.85).

millsd44 · 28 May 2013 at 20:42

I like the way you're still expected to pay for shipping. Just looks funny on a £21k basket!

Orcvader · 28 May 2013 at 20:45

I can't believe you guys are speccing PCs without using the fastest case on the market:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Lian Li PC-CK101SB Mini ITX Train Case - Black £199.99
Total : £211.39 (includes shipping : £9.50).

Seriously, this case makes every other case feel as slow as a stationary block!

Doomedspeed · 28 May 2013 at 20:45

Ether, you Missed something:

Hinty, Hinty Hinty!

Ethermaster · 28 May 2013 at 20:53

Doomedspeed said:
Ether, you Missed something:

Hinty, Hinty Hinty!

I never knew they did water blocks for the k20's !!!! ok your going to need 4 of them as well and the rest of the loop

Ethermaster · 28 May 2013 at 21:31

millsd44 said:
This is just ridonkulous....no one has that much money to burn

This spec isn't for gaming

, professional video editing or 3D modelling on the other hand .... (think dreamworks and your not going to be a million miles off).