How would it fold ;)

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Tyan Thunder n4250QE £704.94
Tyan M4985 +4 CPU exspanion card £678.23
8 * AMD Socket F (1207) Second-Generation AMD Opteron 8212, Dual Core 2GHz, 2MB Cache, Retail £2613.97
8 * 2GB 667MHZ DDR2 ECC REG PARITY CL5 DIMM DUAL RANK X4 NS £588.24

Total so far: £4585.38
Also need a case for it and a 3,000,000 watt PSU :p
And a small Nuclear Power station.

so 16 cores... Linux SMP anyone? :D

If only we could raise that for a Stompy Mk II ;)
 
I wish had the money for this sort of rig. Good luck, it would be a great addition to the team! :)

ms9cw
 
Lol. It was purely theoretical, at least for the moment...

shadowscotland said:
For £5k my money on deep thought x6 ;)

24 C2D core's beats 16 x2's
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I don't have room for 6 C2D's and my g/f would probably kill me on sight.

Also if I was building said rig I could just duct the A/C unit into a the case ;)
 
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To get the same number of cores in Intel form:

2 * Tyan Tempest i5000XT £585.76
4 * Intel Xeon X5355 Quad Core Extreme, Socket771, 2.66GHz, FSB 1333MHz, 8MBCache, RETAIL Active Fan £2987.78
8 * 2GB 667MHZ DDR2 ECC REG PARITY CL5 DIMM DUAL RANK X4 NS £588.24

Total: £4161.78

Bit Cheaper but need 2 cases and 2 PSU's, more crunching power though I suspect.
 
oceaness said:
and my g/f would probably kill me on sight.
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After spending 5 grand on a pc most g/f would be somewhat ******
(unless you want to do the old diamond ring trick)

Both require some serious thinking ;) (and a lottery win)

No swearing
 
shadowscotland said:
After spending 5 grand on a pc most g/f would be somewhat ******
(unless you want to do the old diamond ring trick)

Both require some serious thinking ;) (and a lottery win)
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The moneys not so much of an issue. The trick is I'm not aloud more than 1 PC for myself >_< thats the rule I have been set.

I guess when AMD eventually offer up there quaddies they will have similar performance to the Intel's at the moment.

I'm imagining 8 Quad Core Opterons.. 32 Cores *dreamy* :D
 
oceaness said:
thats the rule I have been set.
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Actually that not a bad rule, if you think about it ;)
You've found your self a 'reasonable' one - treat her well and reap the rewards :cool:

Edit: Oh and build her a media centre (folding rig) as a present :D
 
Well of course that still means that we can have a media centre powerful enough to run 1080P HD video so thats a nice dual core Intel if I upgrade now.

And my g/f will need her own Multicore PC for Photoshop with lots of memory, See that says a Quad to me ;)

And, well I can have a 32 core 8 Way Quad Core Opteron beast :D
 
shadowscotland said:
Actually that not a bad rule, if you think about it ;)
You've found your self a 'reasonable' one - treat her well and reap the rewards :cool:

Edit: Oh and build her a media centre (folding rig) as a present :D
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That man Shadowscotland, he talk heap much sense - it's certainly worked for me :D

Alan Woodford
 
EDIT: Squeezed in more rigs. Awesome

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9*4 cores = 36 cores
One Quad gets around 2600 ppd. 9 should get around 23400 PPD.
 
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BillytheImpaler said:
8*4 cores = 32 cores
One Quad gets around 2600 ppd. 8 should get around 20800 PPD.
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I know you can get much more power for you money its just the issue that thats going to take up an enormous amount of room, I'm not aloud more than 1 PC.

Hmm, I wonder if I can persuade her that a rackmount system is still one computer ;)

Also using a P4 HT Media Centre atm
 
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Reckon you could shave a bit more off ;) You could lose the DVD drives by running a network boot (I assume you were thinking of live CDs?) and with a bit of trickery I reckon each of those PSUs would just about support two systems.
 
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