Super computer has been completed

[ThomasSoerensen]

Ok so you saved a few quid. But you spent days of your life that could have been spent billing.

Granted you learnt a lot, but the savings are only real if your time is cheap. Bit like Linux.

I'm not sure why you bring up this old thread.
But I did not spend time learning, speccing and building the PC, that I could have spent billing as I did all that in my spare time.

Have a nice evening.

[Churchill]

I'm not sure why you bring up this old thread.
But I did not spend time learning, speccing and building the PC, that I could have spent billing as I did all that in my spare time.

Have a nice evening.

Oi TS - We're due a new Desktop, we had a look at a MAC on Saturday but sanity prevailed, we're going to build a "Dogs-Bollocks" PC.

[ThomasSoerensen]

Good stuff.
Remember to not be shy when choosing the quality of the mother board and the quantity of memory and CPU cycles.
It will bring you much happiness for the longest time

[Churchill]

Good stuff.
Remember to not be shy when choosing the quality of the mother board and the quantity of memory and CPU cycles.
It will bring you much happiness for the longest time

I'm looking at a multi-socket board that I can populate with I7 processors as and when I can afford them - what's the current "Ultimate"...?

[ThomasSoerensen]

Current Ultimate is the i7 980X - with that you get 6 cores with hyper threading - so 12 process threads - nice

What motherboards with several sockets are you looking at?

[Churchill]

Current Ultimate is the i7 980X - with that you get 6 cores with hyper threading - so 12 process threads - nice

What motherboards with several sockets are you looking at?

I'm looking for advice at the moment - CM wasn't happy with the fact that we'd spend 2k on a MAC and it would be obsolete in 18-24 months but happy enough for us to spend ~2k on building our own box.

[ThomasSoerensen]

Churchill - why do you believe you need a multi socket motherboard?

Why do you even need the ultimate intel cpu?

My monsterPC with the i7 920 has 4 cores and multithread - and I have never seen more than 4 threads used simoultaneously (outside deliberate burn in programs) and that was on MSSQL server.

the benefit of the 980X over the 975 (or 920) is the extra 2 cores but depending on the applications you intend to use - you might never use that benefit.

[Platypus]

2k on a MAC and it would be obsolete in 18-24 months

Not obsolete, just not the 'latest model', ffs. The same is true for anything these days.

[Churchill]

Not obsolete, just not the 'latest model', ffs. The same is true for anything these days.

Same same.

[Churchill]

Churchill - why do you believe you need a multi socket motherboard?

Why do you even need the ultimate intel cpu?

My monsterPC with the i7 920 has 4 cores and multithread - and I have never seen more than 4 threads used simoultaneously (outside deliberate burn in programs) and that was on MSSQL server.

the benefit of the 980X over the 975 (or 920) is the extra 2 cores but depending on the applications you intend to use - you might never use that benefit.

Ok, I want a 64-bit OS running various VMs. I'd like a couple of slots for Graphics cards. at least 8GB of RAM, a Blu-Ray drive, a DVD drive, a couple of 500GB drives. A 250 Gig SSD.

I'd like at least a dual socket board or preferably a 4 socket.