please spec me. pc needed to calculate numbers

Shakeel

Shakeel

Shakeel

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pc is for a friend but ive been away from the scene for a few months. in that time the new 6 series at icards have come out and the x6 cpus so im totally lost

Here is what ive come up with

ATI 5870
P2 AMD 970 3.5
4GB CORASIR RAM
1TB HDD
DVD-RW
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CASE?
PSU?
MOTHERBOARD?

In other words he needs best bang for buck on everythnig. he does prefer amd to intel

thank in advance
 
If its just number crunching then can possibly forget about the gfx card and just use onboard which would suffice, unless the programs can offload calculations to the gpu in which case keep, anyway changed the CPU to the 6 core, gfx to a 6 series, and put 8 gig of RAM in which may help with computational work

AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1055T 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £149.99
HIS ATI Radeon HD 6850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE CODMW2 Game £134.98
Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard £69.98
2 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £46.99 x 2 = £93.98
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £42.99
OCZ StealthXStream 2 500W Power Supply £41.98
Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £37.99
LiteOn IHAS124 - DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM drive - Serial ATA £11.74
Sub Total : £496.71
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £88.76
Total : £595.97
 
spend all your money on a EVGA SR2 motherboard, 24gb ram and two xeon 3.4ghz processors...
If you are concerned about GPU power get 4 580gtx.
 
billysielu said:
Number crunching is specialised - but it doesn't sound like this is really a request for a specialised machine. Why the 5870?? -shrugs-
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he said he needs a powerfull card becuase the gpu is going to help with the number crunching

shall i tell him to go for an nvidia card becuase of CUDA
 
it really depends who hes planning on doing, and what software hes using to do it.

a gpu will not do the number crunching unless the software has been designed to use it.

if the software only uses CUDA, then an amd card would be pointless.
if the software doesn't use any GPGPU then a dedicated gpu of any kind would be pointless.

also depending on the budget, an i7 might be a better open.

if hes conviced he needs a gpu, i would say go for nvidia, at least then theres more chance that the software would use it.
 
In which case would a GPU based solution now work better. They tend to be better at the whole single task computing then most processors. Obviously depending on the programs design
 
Reaaaaaally would need more info on the nature of the "number crunching". What sort of scale is it on? Do we need to build your friend a supercomputer?

Are we talking about big processor based (multithreaded?) numberwork?

Are we talking about big parallel processing on a gpu? If so does the program (or programs?) use CUDA? or OpenCL?


Perhaps the name of the program (or programs) to be used itself would help :)


A budget is also helpful.


What this info will do is allow the fine folks on here to tailor a build to suit your friends actual needs. Do we want 6 cores of AMD parallel CPU? Do we want high powered i7 cores? Do we want huge gpu horsepower?

If there isnt an infinite budget, then these questions are important in order to get the best suited hardware for the price :)
 
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