Skulltrail 2

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i'd like to buy one ... if the President's Educational Computing Initiative would pay for it.
 

Idontcare

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Must be the new upcoming Mac Pro.

Not that I'm complaining, but for the things I do that need 20+ threads I can do just as easily with a smaller/cheaper farm of headless compute nodes chugging away in my basement where I don't have to pay to cool them or listen to them.

Which leaves me wondering, once you get above about 8-12 threads, what does the target audience for a "desktop" system like this do with such a rig?
 

aigomorla

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i heard the real name for it is called silk valley.. (ive seen the inhouse boards, and im not too impresed.)

So people still calling it ST2 have no idea what there talking about.

I will not be getting samples of Silk valley, instead i am getting gulftown.

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Which leaves me wondering, once you get above about 8-12 threads, what does the target audience for a "desktop" system like this do with such a rig?

Most of the time its usually for WCG or other DC projects.

On some occasions its fun to start a porn SQL server. :p
 

aigomorla

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Originally posted by: yh125d
Brag, make 3dmark records, and huge F@H PPD

F@H works better on gpu's.
 

ShawnD1

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Originally posted by: Idontcare
Which leaves me wondering, once you get above about 8-12 threads, what does the target audience for a "desktop" system like this do with such a rig?

It's for those times when Anand feels like hosting the website from his house.
 

ilkhan

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Originally posted by: ShawnD1
Originally posted by: Idontcare
Which leaves me wondering, once you get above about 8-12 threads, what does the target audience for a "desktop" system like this do with such a rig?

It's for those times when Anand feels like hosting the internet from his house.
FTFY
 

Golgatha

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Originally posted by: aigomorla
Originally posted by: yh125d
Brag, make 3dmark records, and huge F@H PPD

F@H works better on gpu's.

Miyuki: W3580 D0, DD Torture Rack, P6T-Dlx

I don't dare Google that from work. What piece of hardware is that?
 

ShawnD1

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Originally posted by: Golgatha
Miyuki: W3580 D0, DD Torture Rack, P6T-Dlx

I don't dare Google that from work. What piece of hardware is that?

It's surprisingly safe to google image search that. I have safe search off (porn=allowed) and 100% of the picture results on the first page are of computer hardware. If I had to guess, I would say the one thing all of these pictures have in common is that it's not in a computer case; it's just a bunch of parts held together out in the open.
http://onefoursix.com/images/tr/front.jpg

It must suck when your dog sees something like that and tries to lick the fans or bite the power cables.
 

aigomorla

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Originally posted by: Golgatha
Originally posted by: aigomorla
Originally posted by: yh125d
Brag, make 3dmark records, and huge F@H PPD

F@H works better on gpu's.

Miyuki: W3580 D0, DD Torture Rack, P6T-Dlx

I don't dare Google that from work. What piece of hardware is that?

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...la/Miyuki/IMG_1339.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...la/Miyuki/IMG_1338.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...la/Miyuki/IMG_1337.jpg

A side view...

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...la/Miyuki/IMG_1341.jpg


Haruhi is sexier tho..
http://i125.photobucket.com/al...la/Haruhi/IMG_1381.jpg

:p

When i get the W3580 this week, ima make a thread on a showdown of the intel titans. My 975 vs W3580. :p

My poor 965 wont be included as it would get seriously spanked by the two top EE processors.

Originally posted by: StinkyPinky

But will it run Crysis?

The rest of haruhi:
http://i125.photobucket.com/al...la/Haruhi/IMG_1385.jpg

Yeah she'll do crysis. LOL..

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...marks/Benchmark2-1.jpg
 

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I don't know why, but I just can't trust that site. It seems like something made just to get attention, and the names of the writers are the most unreliable of the Inquirer writers(like the one that suggested Conroe/Merom would be VLIW...).
 

Nemesis 1

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Well I now for fact I don't trust that site. Thats all I will say other than avoid it.

This makes zero sense. I believe there will be 2socket enthusiast M/B but not for MP socket. It will be for the 1366 socket and the DP chipset. Using either 32nm 6 cores or 4 cores. All tho the 4 cores in this instances would seem like underkill in a completelly over the top type system . If it has 2 sockets . Most would choose 6 core x2 over 4 core x2.

Noway is MP socket coming to desktop until 2013/2014 timeframe.


Say that Conroe/Merom being VLIW was actually good story . If you followed all the links was some really good conjector made by some bloggers that seems to now be unfolding . Time will tell.
 

Idontcare

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Originally posted by: IntelUser2000
I don't know why, but I just can't trust that site. It seems like something made just to get attention, and the names of the writers are the most unreliable of the Inquirer writers(like the one that suggested Conroe/Merom would be VLIW...).

Give'm time, they may turn out to be a good source of rumor (I miss the old days of TheRegister when it was a Magee operation, course the same could be said of Toms too) once they develop their insider sources.

Look at Fudzilla...was equally uninspiring when it first launched, and now it is pretty remarkable (to me) just how much "truth" there is in the vast majority of the rumor articles they write. (just a passive impression based on stuff I know isn't in public domain but Fudzilla gets their hands on anyways)

Quality and reliability at Fud has gone way up, above TheINQ even. Someday maybe so too BSN and semiaccurate.
 

aigomorla

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They could at least have gotten the name correct. :p

As i said its not going to be called skulltrail 2 unless they got inside source info. The last time i heard anything about it, the word Silk City was used.

Edit: I had to look at my backlogs... Its called Silk City