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NJ5 on 05 June 2010
jefforange89 said:
NJ5 said:

It would definitely not be an i7, it would be a multi-CPU motherboard with 4 Xeons, 8 Opterons or something like that.

Perhaps, though that would have absolutely no value for gaming - and in the case of certain multi-CPU systems, namely AMD's latest octo and dodeca-core Opterons, it'd be worse than most desktop CPUs since they've got low clocks but over 9 000 cores, where as games prefer high clocks and fewer cores.


True but the OP asked about "full speed performance", which I interpreted to mean if all CPUs are going at full speed. In which case a few Xeons or Opterons put together will eat the i7 for breakfast.



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Trentonater on 05 June 2010

GTX 480 FTW edition is the best



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disolitude on 05 June 2010
lightbleeder said:

I agree on USB 3.0

So you're saying that the 5970 is much better than the GTX480, alright...

So it's better to have 6GB of RAM than 8? Also I haven't seen a PC with 12GB of RAM yet, are they making those already?


5970 is already a 2xGPU card so you can only do double crossfire...

I think if you want the best video card these days the battle is between tripple SLI 480 GTX and tripple crossfire 5870. With the current drivers both those setups usually give you better performance than 2X 5970...



disolitude on 05 June 2010
zarx said:

check this out

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/3304/msi_radeon_5870_four_way_turbo_charged_with_ln2_by_deanzo/index.html

and weep.

I raise your post of awesomeness with this... http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=316295



zarx on 05 June 2010
disolitude said:
zarx said:

check this out

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/3304/msi_radeon_5870_four_way_turbo_charged_with_ln2_by_deanzo/index.html

and weep.

I raise your post of awesomeness with this... http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=316295

Curse you 

Damn quad SLI GTX 480s and there epic win filled awesomeness

But the lack of game benchmarks is a tad disappointing, and I thought the fact that the tweaktown one didn't benchmark any DX11 games (or at least the Haven demo) was disappoint. But I guess synthetic benches will have to do.



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sieanr on 06 June 2010

Hahaha, I actually went I newegg and came up with an "ultimate pc" earlier today

2 of the 6-core unlocked xenos (1600 or so each)

48gb of ram (2400$)

2 ati 5970s (1400$)

Maybe a decent geforce so you can have physx and cuda (couple hundred)

The server motherboard is 500 or so

OCZ pci 1tb SSD is 4,000

Throw in 4 or so 2tb HDs in raid for around 1000

I probably go with dual PSUs in this build, so factor in 5-700 or so for high efficiency models. Watercooling is a good idea as well, which could easily break 600 for CPU and GPU waterblocks plus a few high end radiators. And you might as well throw in two bluray burners at this price.

Not factoring in athe case, monitors, mouse, keyboard, wifi n card, ect and your still looking at 14k or so.



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Zlejedi on 06 June 2010

Actually getting those 2 6 core cpus is completly poittless for gaming.

You would be much better with

single 6 core intel 980X or xeon equvalent

3 highest clocked 480GTX all put under high end water cooling system and overclocked to the roof.

and the reason why 480GTX is better in this case is because you can use 3 monitor 3d surround gaming

 

Also you definitly went wrong on storage - get LSI or other good brand sas/sata raid controler and put 8 sand force based SSDs into it for 2 GB/s reads

 

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SnesTea on 06 June 2010

What do you want to run that needs 8 GB of RAM? Thinking about those speeds is making my head spin.



Soleron on 06 June 2010
Zlejedi said:

and the reason why 480GTX is better in this case is because you can use 3 monitor 3d surround gaming


What about 6-monitor surround gaming with two 5970s?

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The fastest CPU setup would be eight eight-core Nehalem EX's. That's 64 cores at 2.26GHz.

And you would want SSDs on such a PC.



mirgro on 06 June 2010
Soleron said:
Zlejedi said:

and the reason why 480GTX is better in this case is because you can use 3 monitor 3d surround gaming


What about 6-monitor surround gaming with two 5970s?

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The fastest CPU setup would be eight eight-core Nehalem EX's. That's 64 cores at 2.26GHz.

And you would want SSDs on such a PC.


Except that the 480 is a better investment and scales far better when it coms in multiples than ATI's cards. There are some games that see over 100% increase in their FPS when you add a second 480.