A 5-loop system?!

[Cutless009]

So Im planning out my next build since Im sitting on my hands for one last thing to finish off this current build, and Im having this crazy notion to follow a certain someone's path and build a 16-core 4-processor system, and put 64gb of ram in it (thats right 64gb of ram! HA!).... yah anyways, since Im insane, I was thinking doing this:

CPU1: EK Res > MCP355 > CPU > Thermochill 120.3 > Res
CPU2: EK Res > MCP355 > CPU > Thermochill 120.3 > Res
CPU3: EK Res > MCP355 > CPU > Thermochill 120.3 > Res
CPU4: EK Res > MCP355 > CPU > Thermochill 120.3 > Res
GPU: EK Res > MCP355 > 4870x2 > Thermocholl 120.3 > Res

The rads/pumps for the four CPU loops would be put in a pedestal24, and the rest would be housed in an extended U2-UFO o.o

D:

Crazy? Not worth it? Pure insanity? AMD sucks and it takes four of them to do the job of 2 intel 771's? D:

comments?

16 cores with 64gb of ram holy crap D:

[bigslappy]

folding ...........

[bigslappy]

you could do that with 2 Iwaki's

[bigslappy]

dbb up the cpu's on the 2 loops & run both feeds into yer vid card It would look uber cool ..

[bigslappy]

run the Rad's in serial ... 2 on each loop

[Septim]

and fit everything inside a big case and lug it to some pdxlan event...

[RedRaider]

QuakeCON 2009 ........ FTW

[Kayin]

Umm, it doesn't take 4 AMDs to equal 2 771s. Processor for processor Shanghai is MUCH better for some loads than any (and I do mean any) Intel.

It depends on your game. HPC apps benefit from the Amd architecture.

[Septim]

only point i am seeing with these kinds of build is major folding & crunching, then major cpu intensive graphics designing... not to mention some bragging rights in the wings...

do current games ever take up more than 2 or 4 cores yet?

[smee]

do current games ever take up more than 2 or 4 cores yet?

As far as I know.... a couple games do. COD4 being one, but I'm not much of a gamer so I don't know the others. xD :D

Sounds like a an awesome build! :up:

~BIG DEAL guy

[Demthios]

Hmm this should be pretty intresting to watch!

[Sadasius]

Damn....Would like to see the build progress on that one.

[Kayin]

As would I, I've done SMP before. However, I hope he has looked at component cost, and just how much would have to be custom made...

[cian1500ww]

That sounds interesting, why not watercool everything else to go ultimate ??!! Motherboard, hard drives, ram, PSU ???!!! It would look and perform insane :) And you could use different colours of coolant with some kind of colour scheme OOh the possibilities :)

[Boyu]

wow 5 loop, can't wait to see this.

[RedRaider]

5 Loops is Extreme.....

[Ricey]

Intel's 16 core Caneland and 32 core Tigerton systems based on Core i7 technology are around the corner. It'll make mince meat of anything Shanghai... at a price.

I would prefer a Tyan Typhoon platform.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=730

5 loops is extreme, yes. 8 loops would be more extreme, and 10 loops would re-define extreme

cpu + 3 gpu + nb + sb + mosfets + memory + HDD = 9 loops, or 10 loops for skulltrail

[Kayin]

Someone has to beat my 4.

Yes, Ricey, but right now AMD is on top. We'll see how that pans out, but I think you're right.

[Cutless009]

Um, yah, if theres a freakin Quad-Socket I7 motherboard, Im so building that instead....

[Kayin]

LATE next year.

[Cutless009]

LATE next year.


then amd it is :up: LOL