baddest build...6k budget

[John P. Myers]

Well played, JPM. Well played...

oh i've got more notes and options for that build. need awhile to finish tinkering with some other stuff then i'll post it.

[John P. Myers]

oh i've got more notes and options for that build. need awhile to finish tinkering with some other stuff then i'll post it.

Ok. A couple things to point out. With that motherboard, put the 2 GTX590's in the first 2 PCIe x16 slots, put the GTX580 in the 3rd and the HD6990 in the 4th.

Since the 6990 has the fan in the center, it needs to be in the last slot to breathe properly. The HAF X case will have no problem feeding it plenty of air.

Since the GTX580 is a single slot card, putting it in the 3rd x16 slot leaves the PCI slot open for a 9500GT! Beautiful. You could then set tht as your main video output to not interrupt the crunching of the other GPUs.

The board also has a built-in Bigfoot Killer 2100 NPU. Just might help bandwidth out when you're doing things other than simply crunching.

And we've also got a built-in Sound Blaster X-Fi DAP. Even the headset amp is built in. One less thing for your CPU to do means more crunching.

Speaking of the CPU, yeah it may be the cheapest Intel 6 core, but with this board and it's 16 phase PWM, you can overclock the crap out of it. Remember i hooked you up with that Swiftech water cooling system (exact same one i use) so temps won't be anything to worry about. Many people report stable speeds of 4.4GHz with this chip.

Your RAM kit comes with a cooling fan. Problem solved.

Also, since this CPU does lolHyper Threading, i'd change BOINC setting to only use 6 (maybe 8) of the 12 threads possible with this chip. The remaining 6 (or 4) threads can feed your GPUs and perform other tasks you might be doing on your computer, such as watching porn

Also, the reason i suggested only 2 GTX 590's instead of 3 or all 4 is because even though the PSU i suggested is badass, it couldn't safely handle that big of load. Plus this way, you've got an HD6990 to throw on DNETC.

Overall, i went Nvidia-heavy because PG is really hot right now, and because there are more projects than can be tackled vs. AMD.

Build this rig, overclock it right, and i guarantee you a minimum of 5,000,000 credits per day.

[Maxwell]

Since the GTX580 is a single slot card, putting it in the 3rd x16 slot leaves the PCI slot open for a 9500GT! Beautiful. You could then set tht as your main video output to not interrupt the crunching of the other GPUs.

This might be a problem - I've heard a lot of people have problems mixing cards unless they set the ATI card as the primary output...

[jeeprnovru]

Ok. A couple things to point out. With that motherboard, put the 2 GTX590's in the first 2 PCIe x16 slots, put the GTX580 in the 3rd and the HD6990 in the 4th.

Since the 6990 has the fan in the center, it needs to be in the last slot to breathe properly. The HAF X case will have no problem feeding it plenty of air.

Since the GTX580 is a single slot card, putting it in the 3rd x16 slot leaves the PCI slot open for a 9500GT! Beautiful. You could then set tht as your main video output to not interrupt the crunching of the other GPUs.

The board also has a built-in Bigfoot Killer 2100 NPU. Just might help bandwidth out when you're doing things other than simply crunching.

And we've also got a built-in Sound Blaster X-Fi DAP. Even the headset amp is built in. One less thing for your CPU to do means more crunching.

Speaking of the CPU, yeah it may be the cheapest Intel 6 core, but with this board and it's 16 phase PWM, you can overclock the crap out of it. Remember i hooked you up with that Swiftech water cooling system (exact same one i use) so temps won't be anything to worry about. Many people report stable speeds of 4.4GHz with this chip.

Your RAM kit comes with a cooling fan. Problem solved.

Also, since this CPU does lolHyper Threading, i'd change BOINC setting to only use 6 (maybe 8) of the 12 threads possible with this chip. The remaining 6 (or 4) threads can feed your GPUs and perform other tasks you might be doing on your computer, such as watching porn

Also, the reason i suggested only 2 GTX 590's instead of 3 or all 4 is because even though the PSU i suggested is badass, it couldn't safely handle that big of load. Plus this way, you've got an HD6990 to throw on DNETC.

Overall, i went Nvidia-heavy because PG is really hot right now, and because there are more projects than can be tackled vs. AMD.

Build this rig, overclock it right, and i guarantee you a minimum of 5,000,000 credits per day.

Help out when im doing things other than crunching??? wha? who does other stuff?............................................ .................................................. .......................................Shhhhhhhhhh h!!!! if it finds out it can do other stuff we will be screwed!

im an ATI guy, also, no changing that! and i have a lap top i use for all meh porn, so we can focus on workin the shit outa this rig!

[Mumps]

Build this rig, overclock it right, and i guarantee you a minimum of 5,000,000 credits per day.

Is that a "Put your money where you mouth is" kinda guarantee? Will you reimburse him his 6K if it fails to perform?

[rgathright]

Is that a "Put your money where you mouth is" kinda guarantee? Will you reimburse him his 6K if it fails to perform?

Alright everyone... not trying to show off here but earlier in this thread the AMD G34 motherboard was mentioned as an ideal system for a $6,000 computer.

Well, here is the proof! I have already collected over 1,000 Credits at Androinc in the past 1:45 minutes with just a single AMD Opteron 6128 processor! In fact, I only have four memory sticks in this system so the peak bandwidth potential has not even been reached.

http://androinc.net/show_host_detail.php?hostid=6555

What could this system (cost less than $800 to build) do with a $500 NVIDIA x16 video card?

Finally, don't forget, around September 2011, we will see 16 core Opteron G34 chips hit the market and the ASUS KGPE-D16 will support them.

[Crazybob]

All this hardware talk is making me drool. Feel as if I showed up at a gunfight with a switchblade. A real bad case of hardware envy.

[DrPop]

I just think you'd get the best bang for the buck if you used the money for (2) dual GPU cards per machine...and built 2 of them. If you really want to push it, try three of them in a rig! I know this can work with Linux, I'm not sure about Windows - I keep getting conflicting reports on that (running 3 dual GPU cards for 6 total GPUs).

Honestly, for max credits all you need is a (mid grade) CPU that can push the GPUs enough - like I said, an X6 AMD 100T for $199 or an i7 (around a 920 or so) for a little more.
A good mobo with 3 PCI-e slots and lots of bandwidth is only like $150ish...
Don't spend more than $60 on the HDD, 4GB RAM for about the same...could be really inexpensive except for the high end PSU and the GPUs.
And even then, you can get a solid 1KW PSU on Newegg in the $100 - $150 range easy.
I'm all for the crazy stuff - but I just hate to see a guy spend tons of $ when he doesn't have to...

[John P. Myers]

This might be a problem - I've heard a lot of people have problems mixing cards unless they set the ATI card as the primary output...

Well...speaking from personal experience, i have an HD 5870, a GTX 460 and a 9500GT. The 9500GT doesn't crunch because BOINC won't use it by default since it's the weakest card and i have it set as my main video output, so i know it's possible

Is that a "Put your money where you mouth is" kinda guarantee? Will you reimburse him his 6K if it fails to perform?

Yep! As long as i also get the system. Then i'll make it do 6mil/day out of spite and start a "Told you so!" thread

[John P. Myers]

I just think you'd get the best bang for the buck if you used the money for (2) dual GPU cards per machine...and built 2 of them. If you really want to push it, try three of them in a rig! I know this can work with Linux, I'm not sure about Windows - I keep getting conflicting reports on that (running 3 dual GPU cards for 6 total GPUs).

Honestly, for max credits all you need is a (mid grade) CPU that can push the GPUs enough - like I said, an X6 AMD 100T for $199 or an i7 (around a 920 or so) for a little more.
A good mobo with 3 PCI-e slots and lots of bandwidth is only like $150ish...
Don't spend more than $60 on the HDD, 4GB RAM for about the same...could be really inexpensive except for the high end PSU and the GPUs.
And even then, you can get a solid 1KW PSU on Newegg in the $100 - $150 range easy.
I'm all for the crazy stuff - but I just hate to see a guy spend tons of $ when he doesn't have to...

The reason for putting a 6 core i7 in there as opposes to something cheaper is because 95% of projects still only use the CPU and all the GPUs in the world are worthless there. We have many competitions with are CPU only, and i'm sure he'd like to at least make a decent showing there. To do that AND feed 4 GPUs (3 of which are dual GPUs) also requires a fair chunk of CPU power. He's covered in all directions.

I have 8GB RAM in my machine with on;y 4 cores and right now i'm using about 5GB of it. Day before yesterday i was just under 7GB. 4 is just not enough to have any freedom, especially not with 6 cores.