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P. Coutsos Send message Joined: 30 Sep 06 Posts: 19 Credit: 42,756,138 RAC: 26 |
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 |
mramakers Send message Joined: 20 Jul 04 Posts: 42 Credit: 3,694,335 RAC: 0 |
Hello crunchers, Linked it for you. |
Tim Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 211 Credit: 278,575,259 RAC: 0 |
It is only for 4x dual-slot GPU. :-( Tim |
Hydropower Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 15 Credit: 923,836 RAC: 0 |
"yeah, I have one like that in my kitchen" ;-) |
j mercer Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1 |
Of course the price is hefty, but we have the right to dream... Only a measely $31,538.50US for my dream machine. LOL ... |
juan BFP Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 9786 Credit: 572,710,851 RAC: 3,799 |
All that "beast" with a 100 WU limit? Spare your money... Buy a 100$ 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... |
hbomber Send message Joined: 2 May 01 Posts: 437 Credit: 50,852,854 RAC: 0 |
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). |
Tim Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 211 Credit: 278,575,259 RAC: 0 |
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: 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 |
hbomber Send message Joined: 2 May 01 Posts: 437 Credit: 50,852,854 RAC: 0 |
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. |
Tim Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 211 Credit: 278,575,259 RAC: 0 |
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. 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 |
Hydropower Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 15 Credit: 923,836 RAC: 0 |
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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