Most powerful desktop?

[Dayzed&Confused]

Hi,
As a hypothetical, what is the most powerful spec that can be built from OCUK parts? As this is hypothetical, no budget need be applied, I am simply wondering how powerful current desktops can be. Additionally, how much would these systems cost, and what sort of benchmarks could we expect from them?

 

[Remote_zero]

Last time this sort of subject came up, it got really silly
A guy said he didn't have a budget and everyone started throwing £5-10k specs at him.

 

[Dayzed&Confused]

Well that's fine, I've got no cash to upgrade, just want to know how powerful things can be at the moment, may have been better to wait for ddr4 and Haswell befor posting this, but then, the thread might survive anyway. To be honest, I was expecting a lot more than 10k to be thrown in as a figure.

 

[olivier renault]

Probably dual xeon SR2, or a 3960X type thing.

 

[Dayzed&Confused]

Could we have a full spec of that please? Also, how overclockable is it?

 

[Remote_zero]

There's a limit to what you can put in your basket.
This was a build suggested before

Major overkill.......
i think the most important parts of this are the energy drinks and mug.....youll defo need those....
only thing that would make this better is if the EVGA SR-X mobo was in stock and the Xeon e5-2687w was also in stock, then this would be £14k ish and two cpu's


YOUR BASKET
2 x EVGA GeForce GTX 690 HydroCopper Signature 4096MB PCI-Express GDDR5 Graphics Card (04G-P4-2699-KR) £1199.99 (£2,399.98)
3 x Dell Ultrasharp U3011 30" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey £839.99 (£2,519.97)
1 x Intel Core i7-3960X 3.30GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £799.99
1 x LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i KIT Controller Card - (Retail) £659.99
4 x Samsung 512GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD512BW) £449.99 (£1,799.96)
2 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (TXD332G2400HC10QQC-L) £379.99 (£759.98)
1 x OcUK Tech Lab - Asus Rampage IV Extreme Intel X79 Watercooled with EK Full Cover Waterblock Options £344.99
- 1 x EK-FB KIT RE4 - Acetal+Nickel CSQ £94.98
1 x EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 1500w Digital Classified Modular Power Supply £314.99
1 x XSPC RayStorm D5 RX360 WaterCooling Kit £289.68
1 x Saitek Cyborg Strike 7 Gaming Keyboard with Touchscreen LCD Screen £249.98
1 x Corsair Obsidian 800D (6GB/s) Full Tower Case - Black £229.99
1 x Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000 4TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM - Retail (0S03356) £199.99
1 x Asus ROG Xonar Phoebus 7.1 PCI-E Soundcard ** Free ROG 16GB USB ** £185.98
1 x Saitek Cyborg R.A.T. 9 6400 DPI Wireless Gaming Mouse £99.98
1 x Pioneer BDR-207EBK 12x BluRay RW / 16x DVD±RW 128GB - Retail £85.99
1 x AeroCool Touch 2000 4-Channel LCD Touch Panel Fan Controller £41.99
1 x Official Overclockers UK 'OC Fuel' Energy Drink (250ml) *Value 24 Pack* £19.99
1 x Mayhems Pastel - Sunset Yellow Coolant 1L ** NEW COLOUR FOR 2012 ** £14.99
1 x Official Overclockers UK Elite Gaming Mug £4.99
Total : £11,157.85 (includes shipping : £32.90).

 

[Crezzlin]

i would use 3x 680 4gb cards over the 690's as you will need the Vram.

 

[Bacon?]

i would use 3x 680 4gb cards over the 690's as you will need the Vram.

VRAM will be identical.

 

[Dayzed&Confused]

Does that mean that SB-E is more powerful than IB?

 

[triggerthat]

i would use 3x 680 4gb cards over the 690's as you will need the Vram.

Aren't 2x 690s faster than 3 680s?

 

[Jordan711]

There's a limit to what you can put in your basket.
This was a build suggested before

I'd be too afraid to touch it.

 

[Dayzed&Confused]

I'd be too afraid to touch it.

I'd just want to play with it, see how well it did when gaming, think there's possibly a better spec though...

 

[Remote_zero]

There defiantly is, but we wouldn't be able to put it in a basket, also limited by what OCUK actually sell. If you had infinite money you'd just pay intel to make you your own chip, lol.
At the very least you could buy x100 and see which one clocks best.

 

[Geo-Gamer]

Last time this sort of subject came up, it got really silly
A guy said he didn't have a budget and everyone started throwing £5-10k specs at him.

Lool

 

[Attu90]

I wonder how long it would take for that spec to be considered slow ?

 

[Remote_zero]

Probably not long after a £1k spec would be considered slow. Gains after that point are fairly insignificant.

 

[Dreyrden]

VRAM will be identical.

I was under the impression that each core at 2GB of ram in the 690 for 4GB in total? In that case 680's would have 4GB per card. Can't be 100% sure on this of course but I seem to remember reading that in a review.

 

[BrianB]

Why get a silly Dell monitor when you can get a 152 inch 4kx2k res plasma? Only £599K and a house to put it in.

 

[Devrij]

More to the point, where are the case fans in that build?

 

[Appleby]

Well here is my attempt! Just the tower. No silly peripherals.

YOUR BASKET
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2687W 3.10GHz (Socket 2011) - Retail £1499.99 (£2,999.98)
1 x LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i KIT Controller Card - (Retail) £659.99
1 x EVGA SR-X Dual Socket (Socket 2011) Motherboard £559.99
1 x Silverstone TemJin TJ11 Full Tower Gaming Case - Black (SST-TJ11B-W) £469.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova NEX 1500w Digital Classified Modular Power Supply £369.98
4 x OcUK Tech Lab H2O Custom HD 7970 3072MB GDDR5 £324.58 (£1,298.32)
- 4 x EK-FC7970 - Nickel Plexi CSQ £79.99
1 x Asus Xonar Xense Sound Card + Sennheiser PC 350 Xense Edition Headset £189.98
6 x Corsair Dominator PLATINUM 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit with DHX Pro Connector (CMD16GX3M2A1866C9) £179.99 (£1,079.94)
4 x Western Digital RE4 2TB SATA-II 64MB Cache - OEM (WD2003FYYS) £179.99 (£719.96)
4 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Series SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive - (MZ-7PC256B/WW) £149.99 (£599.96)
1 x Aqua Computer Aquaero 5 XT LCD Fan-Controller £141.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GLC-01844) £139.99
1 x LSI MegaRAID LSIiBBU07 Battery - (Retail) £139.99
1 x EK-FB KIT SR-X - Nickel £109.98
1 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 480 £94.99
1 x LG BH10LS38 10x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Lightscribe Drive - Black (Retail) £79.98
2 x Aqua Computer Laing D5 Pump with Tachosignal £73.99 (£147.98)
1 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 240 £55.98
1 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 120 £41.99
2 x Bitspower D5 Mod Kit £39.98 (£79.96)
1 x EK Multioption Reservoir X2 250 Basic £33.98
1 x Aqua Computer waterblock for aquaero 5, G1/4 £17.99
9 x Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm 1850 RPM - 3 Pin £14.98 (£134.82)
2 x Masterkleer Hose Pack PVC 15,9/11mm (7/16ID) Clear 3.3m £10.88 (£21.76)
30 x Bitspower Premium G1/4" Black Sparkle High Flow 3/8" (5/8") Compression Fitting £8.95 (£268.50)
Total : £10,798.16 (includes shipping : £16.85).




A bit pointless with no justification so here goes.

2 highest binned Intel workstation CPU's sat in the craziest desktop board for them (Asus Z9-PE-WS would also do but OCUK don't stock them).

Slam it full of fast corsair dominator RAM.

4 way cross fire 7970's as these can be water cooled and only take up a single slot each (more VRAM).

Decent RAID card with battery back up hooked up to 4 SSD's for boot and 4 HDD's for storage.

Beautiful sound card.

Whack it all in a well designed case that is lovely to work with and stick it all under water job done!

Only thing missing is I would fill the last PCIe slot with a high end network card, either Intel 4x GB ethernet or a 10GB fiber card.

And using desktop parts that't about it, now start saving!

(also just noticed I have nearly £300 of bitspower fittings and no waterblocks for the CPU's so throw in a couple of XSPC blocks etc)