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I've got a SSD in there, is that normal? I thought an SSD would rate a bit higher than that.
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AMD Radeon HD 6600 Series for graphics.
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Sorry for the late reply, but yes, AHCI is enabled.phongn wrote:Is AHCI enabled?
Darth Nostril wrote:OCZ Petrol 64 Gb SSD
Just buy a single big drive unless you plan on doing some sort of RAID-6 array.Phantasee wrote:I'm thinking of picking up a couple large HDDs for storage. Would I be better served by a couple (or few) 500GB drives, or a single larger drive? My understanding is the higher capacity drives are not as reliable?
It's pretty rare (outside that Asus board you mentioned) since most people who need PCIe x16 are driving GPGPUs and those are dual-slot designs. EATX can't normally handle that (outside of watercooling, but that's pretty rare).Starglider wrote:Does anyone know of a decent dual LGA2011 board that fits into EATX, has 6 PCI-E 16x and has the full 16 DIMM slots? TYAN S7053WGM4NR would be an option - although might have to get a bigger case - if it had 6 x physical PCIx16, but for some idiotic reason four of the slots are physical 8x (cost savings on a $600 MB, really?).
Why don't you just go rackmount at this point?Two PSUs is kind of annoying - I'm running a pair of Zalman ZM1000-HPs in my curent machine - but I don't know of any >2kw solution unitary solution that fits in an ATX form factor, has appropriate cabling and doesn't come from a really dodgy manufacturer. The STH10 actually supports quad PSUs, which I find amusing (maybe one day AMD will fix their driver crap and I can have that 12-GPU sextuple 6990/7990 setup; EK make the single-slot waterblocks, but anything over 8 GPUs is still impractical for AMD cards).
Can you give up a PCIe slot for something from FusionIO?Starglider wrote:Might as well put another SSD in there to populate all SATA3 ports, 3 x Samsung 830 in RAID-0 for 768 GB sounds good (although practically the southbridge will probably saturate).
I have a WNDR3700v1 running an IPv6-oriented OpenWRT build that's pretty solid. Apple's Airport Extreme is very good but it's expensive for what you get.Beowulf wrote:My network configuration is beginning to flake out, so in lieu of actually trying to figure out what's wrong, I'm going to go the easy way, and replace all the network bits (well, almost, the 100 Mbit switch will likely go to the living room). I'm pretty sure it's due to the age of all the bits (almost 6 years for the oldest bit).
Yes, 7970 will in bursts when loading data and retrieving results (which happens continuously in streaming mode, subject to keeping system RAM filled). I hear with the Nvidia 690 and presumably AMD 7990 it can actually be noticable in gaming, it's a couple of % on 7970 gaming I believe (don't follow the gaming benchmarks that closely).phongn wrote:EDIT: Can anything actually use the additional bandwidth of a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot right now?
That's an interesting config, didn't know about that board. Not that useful for GPGPU since they're only x8 physical and if you used breakout adapters you might as well go for 7 x16 and break it to 14 x8 electrical / x16 physical, but probably useful for people who want lots of FPGA boards / NICs / etc.You could go something crazy like the X9DRX+-F (10 x8 slots!)
Because I want to run it under my desk when it isn't on loan, I will need to physically lug it into some meetings (when you're making arguments about consolidation, nothing beats having 50 rack servers worth of demonstrable compute in one box sitting on the table) and it's going to have some beauty shots and go on the new web site as a 'developer GPU appliance' (vs the 'sever dense GPU appliance' - marketing guy is working on the branding). 4U server cases and 3000w 2+1 PSUs are really heavy and awkward to lug around.Why don't you just go rackmount at this point?
I confess its tempting but we're not currently bottlenecked enough on local disk often enough for those server-grade PCI-E SSDs to be justifiable, at least not for development. The next-gen production server prototype will be developed later this year and hopefully I can trial one then. Our current standard prod server (recommended, customers actually buy the things) is the Tyan FT77-B7015, but even ignoring the outdated Teslas they try and force on you it's a little long in the tooth now; only 288 GB max (and the manufacturer only certifies it to 144 GB), limited to the old Westmere Xeons etc. I've sold the other directors on trying to make our own custom 'server appliance' using PCI-E breakouts, custom case fabrication and some of the other crazy stuff I've seen on the Bitcoin mining forums. Some of the guys there seem to have managed to get 12 AMD GPUs running OpenCL stable (in Linux only, Windows is a lost cause), that leaves 16 to 32x for NICs and SSDs (depending on motherboard). If we can get something like that sufficiently reliable and supportable it should sell.Starglider wrote:Can you give up a PCIe slot for something from FusionIO?
I only ask that when your bid for world domination goes into effect, you give me the courtesy of a PM so I can take my vacation early this year.Starglider wrote:The AquaComputer TwinConnect MAX-7. This is what makes time travel seven GPUs possible (in a desktop case at reasonable noise levels).
I built most of the system;TheFeniX wrote:Makes my old Water Cooling rig look like a joke.Starglider wrote:The AquaComputer TwinConnect MAX-7. This is what makes time travel seven GPUs possible (in a desktop case at reasonable noise levels).
I am open to suggestions on building a new system. Since I tend to do this sort of thing only once every five to six years or so, I am generally not current on quite the latest hardware trends. I know a lot of people here follow that sort of thing more closely than I do, so I would appreciate some input on what I have been planning (on a roughly one hour notice):Edi wrote:Fucking yay! Today is the first day of my vacation. And the primary hard drive on my computer is going to kick the bucket any fucking day now. The blasted thing has developed a quickly deteriorating case of reallocated sectors, going from a pending count of 1 a week ago to a reallocation count of 12 as of three minutes ago.
Fortunately the only data I need to back up are my email and browser profiles and a few sundry other documents, all the rest of the data is on a secondary drive that is much newer and perfectly intact.
Since this machine is already six years old, I might as well buy myself a new computer, which I intended to do later this year. Looks like later just became now.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUCCKKKKKK!
Why do you need a big case? Do you have many hard drives to run? Fractal Design's cases are pretty good and quiet.Edi wrote:
- Case: Antec P280 (needs to be large, needs to be silent, currently have Antec 180B)
- Motherboard: Asus P9X79 Deluxe Intel X79 LGA2011 ATX
- Processor: Intel Core i7-3820 3.6 GHz LGA2011
- RAM: Whatever doesn't blow the budget but goes to the higher end of what the mobo can use
- Graphics: Sapphire Radeon HD7870 2GB GDDR5. I'm open to suggestions on the graphics card, since this is the area I know least well, but for the past six years I've had ATI cards and have had good experiences with them. If there is a comparable and comparably priced Nvidia card, I'd like to know the pros and cons.
- Hard Drives: OCZ Vertex 3 - 240 GB 2.5" SSD SATA III for the OS + some standard SATA3 drive for games and bulk data.
PSU: Whatever is enough for the rest of the rig, but an emphasis on being both quality and quiet- Peripherals: The old ones work well, not into these.
- OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
I'd strongly suggest finding some room in your budget if you can (if not now, then later): SSDs are the single biggest advance in computer responsiveness in a long time. You will notice the difference. Rumor has it that Intel is planning for price cuts in August.Edi wrote:I took a look and the Intel SSD drives are so much more expensive than others for the same size that it pushes them right out of my price range. Meaning I'll just be getting a pair of standard SATA3 HDDs.
Not as far as I'm aware.Is there anything in the hardware pipeline in the next 1-3 months I should pay particular attention to?