*** It Has Officially Launched! ***

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Wow, looks like this PC got a bit of coverage from the technology media, no surprise really with the specification and the bonkersness of it all! :)

http://www.geforce.co.uk/whats-new/articles/8-pack-orion-x
http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/...3-titan-x-pascal-2-pcs-in-one-crazy-gaming-pc
https://www.overclock3d.net/news/systems/overclockers_uk_announce_their_24000_8pack_orionx/1
https://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2017/01/27/8pack-orionx-available-now/1
http://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/g...n/the-8pack-orionx-is-a-24k-monster-of-a-rig/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyl...ible-gaming-pc-that-costs-30000/#51e1a0352ffa
http://www.pcgamesn.com/overclockers-8pack-orionx-pc
http://www.techradar.com/news/overclockers-most-powerful-pc-yet-costs-as-much-as-a-bmw
http://www.pcgamer.com/overclockers-will-happily-sell-you-an-8pack-orionx-pc-for-24000/
http://www.eteknix.com/ocuk-launch-flagship-8pack-orionx-pc-23-999-99/
http://www.vortez.net/news_story/ov...ity_with_the_new_pound23999_8pack_orionx.html

Here is the video if you haven't seen it:

 
The video is good but honestly could be twice as long by slowing the pan speed down as you don't really get chance to see anything properly or take in what you are looking at in my opinion.
 
Doug2507 said:
You guys always underestimate the cost of binning for top tier cpu's. Go figure out the cost to bin x50 6950x, selling them off as used, and 'maybe' finding a golden chip.

Doesn't matter what you build, there will always be naysayers around to criticise. Usually they're the ones that live in dream land and say i could do this/that/better etc. As Ian said, be a do-er and show us instead of being a keyboard commando.

Those acrylic blocks are one of the coolest things i've seen in a long time, never mind the +1 for reducing the need for crazy tubing.

Awesome sauce.
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Hey I am not suggesting that it is easy or anything. But to suggest that per machine they are not covering £2k overhead for binning the CPU's is a little hard to suggest.

Out of interest my friend Binned a group of 10 CPU's with two test benches running in a few days and he no pro so I am extrapolating known data and time frame to have a good estimate of the cost of overheads needed to bin say 50 CPU's out of their shipment batch. If only 1 then comes good that is what the £2k would cover with the other 49 being used in their other system builds. If they happened to get a batch 2 CPU's are good out the 50 then suddenly that overhead between two machines halves so it would theoretically mean they have only cost £1k each to bin and suddenly there is even more profit.

Now how many reach that level of overclock I guess is probably more like 1 in 500 however they would have 'X' number test benches and quickly progress through the worst ones in a number of hours due to the fact it would become obvious quicker so in the first day you may be able to get through 50 CPU's on 4 benches.

It is all about number of setups, having a solid process in place to make it cost effective and know how to plan through the data.

I am also not critising in that I don't think it is worth it and they certainly need to cover their costs. I mean one thing that isn't factored that I overlooked is the delivery of the system with the flight case so that is another £500. Then you need to allow for say 5 years of customer service direct from 8-Pack and thus his down time because of this. Now with that you could easily add another £2k-£4k. And last there of course going to be no warranty for your system as you are likely going to be delidding the CPU etc as well to make a stable 24/7 clock even close to what 8-Pack is doing.

Oh and I assume the RAM has been overclocked/adjusted timings etc as needed so that again may be something.

I was merely suggesting if you as a home user really went to work on designing and collecting the parts the cost of the tower could be yours for close to £16k rather than the £24k.




Out of interest 8-pack why did you go for the 8x8GB and not 4x16GB RAM chips. Are the timings and the speed that different that not having a further 64GB usable not worth the extra costs and time?
 
Curlyriff said:
I was merely suggesting if you as a home user really went to work on designing and collecting the parts the cost of the tower could be yours for close to £16k rather than the £24k.
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If you have a spare 16k, that amount of time on your hands (which is months for just one person) and that level of skill across so many disciplines (binning, overclocking, CAD, machining, sleeving, bending and above all just planning PC's on this level) then you definitely should be doing it yourself. Aside having 16k I fall into most of those categories and I can tell you when/if anyone gets to that level, it's no longer about owning the PC and saving 8k is just irrelevant. As much as I agree with you and Ian simultaneously there is nobody who can do this who would want to own it so justifying the price is pretty meaningless to that end.

JR
 
Couple of questions if I may.

1. Why the need to cool the 1.2TB SSD? cool an SSD? Surely an extra expense for little gain?

2. How reliable are the milled acrylic bits? If any leaks happened then boy you'd be up the creek without a paddle. I'd be worried about that mostly I think.
 
5UB said:
Wow, looks like this PC got a bit of coverage from the technology media, no surprise really with the specification and the bonkersness of it all! :)

http://www.geforce.co.uk/whats-new/articles/8-pack-orion-x
http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/...3-titan-x-pascal-2-pcs-in-one-crazy-gaming-pc
https://www.overclock3d.net/news/systems/overclockers_uk_announce_their_24000_8pack_orionx/1
https://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2017/01/27/8pack-orionx-available-now/1
http://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/g...n/the-8pack-orionx-is-a-24k-monster-of-a-rig/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyl...ible-gaming-pc-that-costs-30000/#51e1a0352ffa
http://www.pcgamesn.com/overclockers-8pack-orionx-pc
http://www.techradar.com/news/overclockers-most-powerful-pc-yet-costs-as-much-as-a-bmw
http://www.pcgamer.com/overclockers-will-happily-sell-you-an-8pack-orionx-pc-for-24000/
http://www.eteknix.com/ocuk-launch-flagship-8pack-orionx-pc-23-999-99/
http://www.vortez.net/news_story/ov...ity_with_the_new_pound23999_8pack_orionx.html

Here is the video if you haven't seen it:

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Very nice marketing :D
 
Good lord... this is absolutely insane, but impressive :)

If only, though I know that I would never make use of it's full potential! I hope for the price that you pay for this build that it's sent via a fully dedicated same day courier ;)

Liam.
 
subbytna said:
Oh and ......how many have you got orders for already please? :)
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We have 11 guys interested from around the globe. What many on here don't get is that 8Pack branded high end is selling in reasonably large numbers. With three way SLI rigs selling one every 10-14 days or so.

I am confident we will sell one a month. We have several customers who have two Supernova for example. Why because they can and are very happy with the product.
 
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