April 2017
Previously, on "I need help naming a rig," Tony got all sorts of nuts trying, and failing miserably, to build a 7 GPU monster rig. Later, he upgraded his three Xeon's to all have the same processors, and added a 4th system, with intentions of selling the replaced CPUs. And that, is where this story begins....
After 30 days on ebay, and numerous price drops, my pair of Xeon E5-2695v3's did not sell. So now what? I can't just have them sitting here on my desk, now can I?
Less than 5 months later, and it's time for ANOTHER build.
Parts are in transit, so hopefully it will be assembled over the weekend if there are no complications. Some parts were bought, some laying around the house already, collecting dust.
Parts list:
Xeon
E5-2695v3 (
x2) (for a total of 28 cores, 56 threads)
Used
Motherboard- A risky choice, perhaps
Used 32GB RAM, ECC, Hynix
Used Samsung 850 Pro SSD
Used Corsair 1200w PSU
Used GTX1080 Founder's Edition (
x4)
Used CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO (x2)
Open air case, like Skeletor's (pictured 2 posts up)
Windows 10, although I certainly plan to try Ubuntu
I'll be swapping out parts here and there, putting those monster sized Noctua's elsewhere, so as to steal the more compact coolers, swapping cards, etc.
Current Folding at home tests for a pair of the 1080's is disappointing, at 550-600k ppd per card, but they keep getting the same low-paying 10496 series tasks, over and over again. With a proper mixture of tasks, I'm hoping for 2.8Mppd from this machine. My hope for Devastator was 3M, but using 7 980Ti's and an additional
1030 watts (and a 2nd PSU). Wow, I really
was nuts trying to build Devastator that way.
Since the case will match Skeletor, I originally considered naming it He-Man. Fortunately, upon re-reading this thread, reason set in, and I re-discovered a perfectly good name for this one in the first post:
Thunderstrike, to go along with Mjolnir.