How would it fold ;)

[oceaness]

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
And a small Nuclear Power station.

so 16 cores... Linux SMP anyone?

If only we could raise that for a Stompy Mk II

 

[oceaness]

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

For £5k my money on deep thought x6

24 C2D core's beats 16 x2's

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

 

[oceaness]

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]

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)

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*

 

[oceaness]

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

 

[oceaness]

8*4 cores = 32 cores
One Quad gets around 2600 ppd. 8 should get around 20800 PPD.

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

 

[oceaness]

Total including delivery: £4606.88

2600 * 10 = 26,000 ppd

Deffo need a price per watt though...

 

[oceaness]

Don't you just love out of control spec-me threads

(why stop at 10)

Cause it's near the £4.5k mark

 

[oceaness]

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.

I was thinking Live CD and I did think about Netowork Boot but I don't have the expertise

And thats a good point Get the 550W or a bit but only buy 5 Dunno how that would affect OCing mind?

Actually to be honest if I was gonna do that I'd phone up *unnamed company* and see what kind of a deal they'd do me seeing as I would be about to give them £4.5K

 

[oceaness]

@the gf thing

could you get the nine pcs and then "loan" them out to friends and family on the condition they leave them on 24/7?

Auntie Nora gets an overclocked q6600 to play solitaire on and you get to spread the electricity bill.

They would still be my computers.

Also my family and friends wont leave a PC on 24/7.

My one has to stay on because it's a server.
The media centre has to stay on else it can't record.

I have to make excuses to keep PC's on.