coolfire Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 @ coolfire, my office machine is a BEAST: supermicro 5046a-xb barebones intel i7-965 extreme edition 12 gig of OCZ platinum ddr3-1600 2 intel x-25-e solid state drives dual quadro fx3800's windows xp64 faster than anything I've ever used, if something is slow, its the coding of the program not the machine. OTB, with no overclocking can calculate 1 million places in SuperPi in 12 seconds. Yea, its fast... Home is just a dual 3.2g xeon work station with 2 raptors, and dual 8800gtx's, and its like a dinosaur compared to my machine at the office. If I ever get laid off, I am telling them I want the PC... oh [censored].... those specs are really friggin' AWESOME!!! Yeah, grab the monster-machine first, buddy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornerstone Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 That's nothing. If you're talking rigs.... * 48k of RAM * Rubber Buttons. * Manic Miner on Cassette Tape * Eight minutes listening to that fax machine noise while it loads * Full 15 colour, 256 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
By-Tor Posted June 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 That's nothing. If you're talking rigs.... * 48k of RAM * Rubber Buttons. * Manic Miner on Cassette Tape * Eight minutes listening to that fax machine noise while it loads * Full 15 colour, 256 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
its_urabus Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 That rainbow brite computer is awesome. My first was a Tandy trs-80. Cassette tapes as well. @clerek, the i7 is an awesome chip. With hyperthreading turned on it has 8 threads. Now, the CPU alone was over $1000usd, but in my opinion worth every penny. We are happy with the ssd's as well. I am a huge raptor fan, buy even when these drives are at their end of life, the will still be 75% faster than a brand new raptor. Funny thing is, with all this power at my fingertips, I still can't get out of work at a decen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronus Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 That's nothing. If you're talking rigs.... * 48k of RAM * Rubber Buttons. * Manic Miner on Cassette Tape * Eight minutes listening to that fax machine noise while it loads * Full 15 colour, 256 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronus Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 @ coolfire, my office machine is a BEAST: supermicro 5046a-xb barebones intel i7-965 extreme edition 12 gig of OCZ platinum ddr3-1600 2 intel x-25-e solid state drives dual quadro fx3800's windows xp64 faster than anything I've ever used, if something is slow, its the coding of the program not the machine. OTB, with no overclocking can calculate 1 million places in SuperPi in 12 seconds. Yea, its fast... Home is just a dual 3.2g xeon work station with 2 raptors, and dual 8800gtx's, and its like a dinosaur compared to my machine at the office. If I ever get laid off, I am telling them I want the PC... Hope you dont mind my asking, but what exactly do you do at work that requires that power ? And can I have one ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
its_urabus Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 I am an architectural designer. we usually buy off the shelf rigs at $5k every 5 years. we were able to build this one for around that and it is way better than the dell $5k machine. here is the super pi (sorry its 13 seconds for 1 million places not 12. in comparison my old home rig (water cooled 4ghz p4 with 4 gig of ram) could one muster 19 seconds,this could do 8 calulations simultaniously at 13seonds each) The task manager read )0% cpu load at rest, Ive never had a pc do that before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickey Padge Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 You need to OC that bad boy! That is with my 4050Mhz Quad, 2GB RAM, and two 8800 ultras in SLI, all water cooled! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
its_urabus Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 Very nice mickey. I made a promise to the it guy I wouldn't OC the CPU or the gpu. I'm happy with it's speed. Oh and the rig is silent. Dead silent. Even my watercooled rig you could hear the pump. Any other super Pi fans out there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronus Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 I am an architectural designer. we usually buy off the shelf rigs at $5k every 5 years. we were able to build this one for around that and it is way better than the dell $5k machine. Cool! So you really DO need that computer Wish I had one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
its_urabus Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 Yea, I need it some days. its funny though, very few programs utilize all the cores, some programs dont even use 100% of one thread. it is nice to be able to truly multi-task. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickey Padge Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 It is a nice rig, with twin rads inside the case (240/360), and a laing pump, with two full covers on the 8800's. It can run quiet, or I can crank the fans up, depends on the ambient temps It's nice to build your own, but damn if I could have 5k to create a new PC, I would have so much fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
its_urabus Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 i loved the last rig I built. it is my home server now. some day I will build a new home PC. I will upgrade all of our home pcs to window 7 in the fall. bytor, are you overclocking that card you bought or leaving it stock? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
By-Tor Posted June 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2009 bytor, are you overclocking that card you bought or leaving it stock? I once overclocked my old Celeron... back in the 90's I think. Or early 2000's. Never again. It caused all kinds of occasional weirdness. And due to my editorial work I have to keep my machine on for very long periods of time. So I don't want to do it. And this machine is now fast as a lightning (compared to my intergrated POS). No extra speed is needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolfire Posted June 27, 2009 Report Share Posted June 27, 2009 Glad you're happy with your souped up machine now, dude! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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