My New "over the top" System [building in ~6 months from now]

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Case: Enermax FS2300SS
Dual PSU: Seasonic S12-600 [one for mobo + video cards, one for hard drives]
Hotswap bays: (5) SUPERMICRO CSE-M35T-1B Black 5 Bay (24x3.5" capability)
Hard drives: (24) Maxtor MaXLine III 250 GB Sata II NCQ 16mb cache
Raid array: 23 Drive [Raid 6]
Hot spare: 1 Drive
Estimated total hard drive space: 5,500 GB/5.5 TB (give or take)
Raid card: Tekran Areca arc-1170 24-port PCI-X 64bit/133mhz [upgraded to 2gb ram]
Motherboard: Tyan Thunder K8WE S2895
CPUs: (2) Opteron 275
Ram: 16 gigs Samsung ECC Registered DDR400 ram [8 per cpu]
Video cards: (2) Pny Quadro FX4500G 512mb Professional Video Card for CAD/Video Editing
DVD-RW 1: Plextor PX-740UF
DVD-RW 2: Lite-On SHW-16H5S
Phase cooling: 2x Prometia CPU Phase Cooling (if found to be possible to mount)
Water Cooling: Swiftech H20-Apex + extra components if needed for GPU
Extra fans + Control Panel for fans will be decided when system is built..
PCI slot (normal): Gigabyte i-RAM + 8 gigs ECC Registered DDR266 ram
Boot drive: Gigabyte i-Ram
Storage drive: Raid array
Primary Monitor: 24" HP CRT Monitor 2048x1536 @ 85hz
Side monitors (left and right): Acer 24" 6 ms LCD 1920x1200 1000:1 contrast (should be available by then)
 
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velis

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Whatever will you be using this beast for? No, don't answer that! There are only two possible reasons and i don't want to hear the second one ;)
You forgot to include sound dampening headset with that.

Otherwise, you have my blessing to brag about this all over the place :)
 
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meelk

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Unless you actually would have use for such a machine to earn your living, donate some money to charity and stop donating to yourself. There comes a point when excess becomes sickening.
 
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TheoPetro

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Originally posted by: meelk
Unless you actually would have use for such a machine to earn your living, donate some money to charity and stop donating to yourself. There comes a point when excess becomes sickening.
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his $ = his choice. you have NO right, as in NONE what so ever to tell him what to do with is. maby that system costs 1/10th of what he gives to chairty. i say congrats on your soon to be KICKASS system and to meelk...go away
 
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I got the hard drives at blowout prices (30 drives - $1,200 CDN) - wholesaler going out of business, but other than that I'm just investing a LOT of hard earned savings/money so that I can have a very solid system to do what I need to do for work/pleasure/etc..

I am also praying that vista will recognize all 4 cores which will be out by the time I have the full money to invest..

Other than that, yeah it should be interesting.
 
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Greenman

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What in the world would you do with a rig like that? It looks like something you'd build just to prove it can be done.
 
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Originally posted by: xtwells
I got the hard drives at blowout prices (30 drives - $1,200 CDN) - wholesaler going out of business, but other than that I'm just investing a LOT of hard earned savings/money so that I can have a very solid system to do what I need to do for work/pleasure/etc..

I am also praying that vista will recognize all 4 cores which will be out by the time I have the full money to invest..

Other than that, yeah it should be interesting.
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I don't know about Vista, but Win XP recognized four cores, atleast for the Xeons. I'm not sure about the Opterons, but I'm sure you won't have a problem. I love the case :), and that RAID controller is going to be awesome. I just can't believe you are water cooling that rig. But then again, with all those components, you are going to have a fun time with airflow. :laugh:

And you so better post pics when you start building that.
 
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cheesehead

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Those Quadro's are really pretty lousy for gaming, from what I've seen.
I'd just go for a good system (7800, dual-core 4000+, etc.) and put the money in the stock market. Then, use the intrest to buy a new computer every year.
It's the gift that keeps on giving!
 
Fullmetal Chocobo

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Originally posted by: Cheesehead
Those Quadro's are really pretty lousy for gaming, from what I've seen.
I'd just go for a good system (7800, dual-core 4000+, etc.) and put the money in the stock market. Then, use the intrest to buy a new computer every year.
It's the gift that keeps on giving!
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I believe that is why he wrote "for CAD/Video Editing". Although I am not real sure as to why he is getting two. But hey, whatever floats your boat.
 
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ub3rnewb

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Originally posted by: nfamous
Sweetness....i don't want to think about how much this is costing....
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I, on the other hand, do. Even if it is going to drive me into a suicidal depression. ;)
Rough estimate on the price?
 
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Prices are in Canadian dollars.

Case: Enermax FS2300SS - $700
Dual PSU: Seasonic S12-600 [one for mobo + video cards, one for hard drives] - $720
Hotswap bays: (6) SUPERMICRO CSE-M35T-1B Black 5 Bay (24x3.5" capability) - $780
Hard drives: (24) Maxtor MaXLine III 250 GB Sata II NCQ 16mb cache - $1,200 [special deal]
Spare hard drives: (6) Maxtor MaxLine III 250 Gb Sata II NCQ 16mb cache (put in 6th bay, not connected.) - also included in $1,200
Raid array: 23 Drive [Raid 6] - $0
Hot spare: 1 Drive - $0
Estimated total hard drive space: 5,500 GB/5.5 TB (give or take) - $0
Raid card: Tekran Areca arc-1170 24-port PCI-X 64bit/133mhz [upgraded to 2gb ram] - ~$2,800 (because of 2gb ram upgrade..)
Motherboard: Tyan Thunder K8WE S2895 - $600 - 650
CPUs: (2) Opteron 275 - $1,250 x 2 = $2,500
Ram: 16 gigs Samsung ECC Registered DDR400 ram [8 per cpu] - $650 * 8 = $5,200
Video cards: (2) Pny Quadro FX4500G 512mb Professional Video Card for CAD/Video Editing - $3,400 (approx) x 2 = $6,800 [definitely will beat dual 6800s though :p]
DVD-RW 1: Plextor PX-740UF - $100
DVD-RW 2: Lite-On SHW-16H5S - $75
Phase cooling: 2x Prometia CPU Phase Cooling (if found to be possible to mount) - ~$2,400
Water Cooling: Swiftech H20-Apex + extra components if needed for GPU - $400
Extra fans + Control Panel for fans will be decided when system is built.. - less than $100
PCI slot (normal): Gigabyte i-RAM + 8 gigs ECC Registered DDR266 ram - $2,832
Boot drive: Gigabyte i-Ram
Storage drive: Raid array
Primary Monitor: 24" HP CRT Monitor 2048x1536 @ 85hz - $900
Side monitors (left and right): Acer 24" 6 ms LCD 1920x1200 1000:1 contrast (should be available by then) - $1,400 x 2 - $2,800 (guess on price)

Some prices include shipping, others just are by pickup..

Total:
Approx $31,000 CDN
Approx $26,500 USD
 
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undeclared

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Built, last night..

running a beta version of vista, seems to be recongizing *almost* everything. Boots up so fast I almost freak out =p

Haven't put drives in raid yet, but they all seem to be recognized..

Tried encoding some uncompressed video with DiVX format, huge improvement of 4 hours from about 9-10 on my old system..

Older system: Dual Athlon MP 2000, 2 gigs of ram, Nvidia Quadro FX 500 (bought vid card not too long ago)
 
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