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P. Coutsos Send message Joined: 30 Sep 06 Posts: 17 Credit: 3,399,657 RAC: 6,976	Message 1329354 - Posted: 20 Jan 2013, 8:07:42 UTC
	Hello crunchers, look and this: http://www.avadirect.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2594 Of course the price is hefty, but we have the right to dream... Greetings
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mramakers Send message Joined: 20 Jul 04 Posts: 22 Credit: 2,791,322 RAC: 4,818	Message 1329356 - Posted: 20 Jan 2013, 8:10:23 UTC - in response to Message 1329354.
	Hello crunchers, look and this: http://www.avadirect.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2594 Of course the price is hefty, but we have the right to dream... Greetings Linked it for you. ____________
	ID: 1329356 ·

Tim Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 148 Credit: 170,950,905 RAC: 267,950	Message 1329450 - Posted: 20 Jan 2013, 16:01:24 UTC - in response to Message 1329356.
	It is only for 4x dual-slot GPU. :-( Tim ____________
	ID: 1329450 ·

Hydropower Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 15 Credit: 902,453 RAC: 1,681	Message 1329510 - Posted: 20 Jan 2013, 18:27:10 UTC - in response to Message 1329450.
	"yeah, I have one like that in my kitchen" ;-)
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j mercer Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 453 Credit: 11,198,138 RAC: 939	Message 1329929 - Posted: 21 Jan 2013, 20:06:45 UTC - in response to Message 1329354.
	Of course the price is hefty, but we have the right to dream... Only a measely $31,538.50US for my dream machine. LOL ____________ ...
	ID: 1329929 ·

juan BFB Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 2449 Credit: 152,760,324 RAC: 414,602	Message 1329930 - Posted: 21 Jan 2013, 20:14:54 UTC Last modified: 21 Jan 2013, 20:15:29 UTC
	All that "beast" with a 100 WU limit? Spare your money... Buy a 100$ cheap MB and a couple of 690, they will do the same job... keep waiting for new WU to crunch all the time... and cost 1/20 of the price... ____________
	ID: 1329930 ·

CLYDE Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Aug 99 Posts: 132 Credit: 9,907,254 RAC: 22,380	Message 1330152 - Posted: 22 Jan 2013, 13:52:04 UTC - in response to Message 1329354.
	Hello crunchers, look and this: http://www.avadirect.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2594 Of course the price is hefty, but we have the right to dream... Greetings Rich dreams - poor wallet :( ____________
	ID: 1330152 ·

hbomber Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 2 May 01 Posts: 437 Credit: 39,243,885 RAC: 24,761	Message 1330154 - Posted: 22 Jan 2013, 14:14:22 UTC Last modified: 22 Jan 2013, 14:16:20 UTC
	I would buy MSI Big Bang-Marshal. Yesterday there were two of these on Amazon for 360 CDN a piece. Then fill all eight slots with these slim bitches: http://www.techpowerup.com/179080/Colorful-Announces-iGame-GeForce-GTX-650-Ti-Single-Slot-Graphics-Card.html. Equip it, I would, with some 2-cores, 4-threads processor(pick one, my personal favorite is i3-3220 or i3-3225) and thats it. If deviation from average price of 650Ti is not that big, then 8 of these cards would cost like single GTX 690 or somewhere there. Such system would produce 100K+ RAC(mostly like 120K) a day, for 550-600W total power consumption. Of course, there are other choices of motherboard. PCIe x1 slots can be modified to accept x16 video cards(made it for bitcoin miner machine) on some cheap boards, no matter what brand and platform it is. Most important, now there are most energy effective cards in single slot variant available(or available soon I hope). ____________
	ID: 1330154 ·

Tim Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 148 Credit: 170,950,905 RAC: 267,950	Message 1330161 - Posted: 22 Jan 2013, 14:45:57 UTC - in response to Message 1330154. Last modified: 22 Jan 2013, 14:46:40 UTC
	I would buy MSI Big Bang-Marshal. Yesterday there were two of these on Amazon for 360 CDN a piece. Then fill all eight slots with these slim bitches: http://www.techpowerup.com/179080/Colorful-Announces-iGame-GeForce-GTX-650-Ti-Single-Slot-Graphics-Card.html. Equip it, I would, with some 2-cores, 4-threads processor(pick one, my personal favorite is i3-3220 or i3-3225) and thats it. If deviation from average price of 650Ti is not that big, then 8 of these cards would cost like single GTX 690 or somewhere there. Such system would produce 100K+ RAC(mostly like 120K) a day, for 550-600W total power consumption. Of course, there are other choices of motherboard. PCIe x1 slots can be modified to accept x16 video cards(made it for bitcoin miner machine) on some cheap boards, no matter what brand and platform it is. Most important, now there are most energy effective cards in single slot variant available(or available soon I hope). Did you ever try to set up a pc with 8 vga? It is very VERY difficult. Once upon a time here at the office we setup a machine with seven GTX 285 for rendering purposes ( not SETI ) but it was extremely difficult. There where blue screens, no boots, driver limitations at that time etc. Tim ____________
	ID: 1330161 ·

hbomber Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 2 May 01 Posts: 437 Credit: 39,243,885 RAC: 24,761	Message 1330168 - Posted: 22 Jan 2013, 15:35:32 UTC Last modified: 22 Jan 2013, 15:39:16 UTC
	Yes, I know I might expect problems, but I won't hesitate even a second to try to build it :) It 8 GPUs, Win7 supports 8, there are machines running SETI with same number of GPUs, even you have one I see. I myself had machine with 4 GT240s. There were problems too, but adding cards one by one did the trick. ____________
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Tim Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 148 Credit: 170,950,905 RAC: 267,950	Message 1330170 - Posted: 22 Jan 2013, 15:47:48 UTC - in response to Message 1330168.
	Yes, I know I might expect problems, but I won't hesitate even a second to try to build it :) It 8 GPUs, Win7 supports 8, there are machines running SETI with same number of GPUs, even you have one I see. I myself had machine with 4 GT240s. There were problems too, but adding cards one by one did the trick. Be aware… It is not the same thing. The difficulty is to add 8 vgas, and not 4 dual gpu cards like 295, 590, 690. Tim ____________
	ID: 1330170 ·

Hydropower Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 15 Credit: 902,453 RAC: 1,681	Message 1330178 - Posted: 22 Jan 2013, 16:40:34 UTC - in response to Message 1330170. Last modified: 22 Jan 2013, 16:40:55 UTC
	The difficulty is to add 8 vgas, and not 4 dual gpu Maybe clearer to speak of 'using more than 4 PCIe slots'. Fastra2 used 6 dual GPU cards and one single GPU on a 7 PCIe slot motherboard from ASUS. The FASTRA II design contains six NVIDIA GTX295 dual-GPU cards, and one GTX275 single-GPU card. http://fastra2.ua.ac.be/ Building a 4 dual GPU machine has its challenges as well. Power supply and heat for example.
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