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I7 980x up and running

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jtisgeek

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And it's badass haven had time to play with it much going to my boss .

Wanted to post this cause no one around me truly understands. 😱



I wish it was going to my desk but oh well it's still fun being our hardware guy since I get to build and buy all this fun hardware.

Other spec asus rampage 2 x58
12gb ddr3 1600
ati 5850
4 300gb velocity raptors in raid 10
Put it in the 585 cayon abs case nice.
1000 watt abs psu nto sure on specs off the top of my head.
 
I am bemused and befuddled as to why you would spend so much money on a CPU when you skimp on the GPU. And wtf is with the RAID1+0 VRaptors? Get some SSDs!
 
Mr. Pedantic said:
I am bemused and befuddled as to why you would spend so much money on a CPU when you skimp on the GPU. And wtf is with the RAID1+0 VRaptors? Get some SSDs!
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I agree with this I would have ditched 6GB of memory, totally scraped the Raid and just picked up a nice SSD plus a 5870. With the money saved from the changes I made you probably could have even gone 5970.
 
And I bet your clueless boss probably 'fully utilize' this machine by surfing the internet and checking emails with all day long with it. sigh ... :{
 
First of for the size ssd's would have cost way more and the speed is not needed the raptors hit 170mb's yesterday so no big deal. Just wanted a fast raid that had data protection this is a business!

Video is cheaper yes but he doesn't play games So way over kill just something nice to run 2 30inch lcd's.


Everyone but me are programmers here they like for when they test apps that they debug fast other stuff also but not getting in to that.

We are also do a lot of data moving like 60k row excel files which from the benches I saw will love the 6 core.

So yes overkill a little but will be used from the way we look at it actually saved money cause he would have when with so 5600's series quad xeons or something that would have been easily another 2k probably.

Ran Sandra benches on it last night when stight to 37th in the ranking lol.
 
Makaveli said:
I agree with this I would have ditched 6GB of memory, totally scraped the Raid and just picked up a nice SSD plus a 5870. With the money saved from the changes I made you probably could have even gone 5970.
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Remember this is not a gaming pc we need the 12 gb and need data protection and speed of the raid.
 
why are u guys picking at his build?

i have a 980X, and its also on 12GB of DDR3 ram.

And whats wrong with raptors on raid?

Im running 3 raptors on raid as well.
 
aigomorla said:
why are u guys picking at his build?

i have a 980X, and its also on 12GB of DDR3 ram.

And whats wrong with raptors on raid?

Im running 3 raptors on raid as well.
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Thank you

I was going to go for 16gb board the board doesn't care for the 4th dimm for so reason so i just took it out.
 
JAG87 said:
Wait a second,

who bought an asus rampage, a radeon 5850, and a 1000W psu for a BUSINESS PC?
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I did , much cheaper than buying a similar workstation from like Hp or IBM.

Rampage is overkill but I liked it features.

1000 watt is normal even for some of the hp's I have.

This is all so just for someones personal computer.

I would never build a sever or even a computer my users use but for me or my co IT guys it's something we can do and support.
 
jtisgeek said:
I did , much cheaper than buying a similar workstation from like Hp or IBM.

Rampage is overkill but I liked it features.

1000 watt is normal even for some of the hp's I have.

This is all so just for someones personal computer.

I would never build a sever or even a computer my users use but for me or my co IT guys it's something we can do and support.
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I don't understand.

Is this A) a personal computer going into someone's office, or B) a business computer used for critical work? You made mistakes no matter what the situation is.

If A, sure you can put whatever you like in it, but who the hell puts 4 raptors in raid 10 in a personal computer. Your boss has a terabyte of pictures he can't afford to lose? Does he plays bad company 2 during work hours? Or WTF does he run that requires 12GB or ram and 12 threads?

If B, is your boss aware that if his asus motherboard craps out he is going to be down for like a month? Or is he just going to shell out for a new board because he can't afford that much down time? Is your boss aware that his Radeon 5850 is consuming power and producing heat for nothing? And is he aware that his 1000W psu is highly inefficient at 30% load?

I'm not critizing you here, I'm just critiquing your recommendations as an "IT guy"

An H57 board with a Core i3/i5, 8GB of ram, one or two Intel X-25M (if he really want's redundancy), and a quality efficient 500-600w psu, would have made a much better and cheaper computer for both A and B.
 
His boss wanted the fastest computer in the office.

And he built it for him.

So whats wrong with that?

Its not mission critical, his boss just sounds like the same person i am.
 
Jag87 you don't get it that's fine everyone is so serious.

Power wise it will be used I guess noone here does any sql work or any large data base work that's not a lot of ram for it.

Yes business is good so we built a new really fast computer why is that a crime lol.

speed is king in our work if you can save 30 seconds ever time I select 30k rows in excel that's like 2 hours more work he gets done a week.

I never cheap out on a psu that 1000 watt idling the hole time will always have good up time instead of loading a 600 up.

I hate that I have to defend the 5850 but it's idle well on power so no big deal it's much cheaper than a workstation card sense we don't run auto cad or anything to use it.
 
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aigomorla said:
His boss wanted the fastest computer in the office.

And he built it for him.

So whats wrong with that?

Its not mission critical, his boss just sounds like the same person i am.
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Yeah we have lots of other box's nothing would ever be mission critical.

Down time is never a issue that's why if it broke new one overnight is no problem when your talking about these type computers.
 
HopJokey said:
Boss: I want the best machine in the building! Money is no object!

IT Guy: Yes, master.
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it's more like ...

Boss: I want the best machine in this building so I can stare down any respectable employee here with an air of superiority and power!! Money is no object!

IT Guy: Yes, master.
 
You have ECC and a UPS right? NVM ecc memory isn't supported. So whats the point of this machine again?
 
Rubycon said:
Post your BCLK, multi, VCORE, VTT, idle/load CPU temps.
What did you o/c that sucker up to? 😛
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I let the board do it's small overclock so it's at like 3.46 no need to push it I put the Coolmaster V8 cooler temps are good but I will load it up this weekend to test some stuff.
 
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