Re: Custom Made $16,000 Computer

Troop — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:34:08 GMT

I'll take one...

For free.

Re: Custom Made $16,000 Computer

ParaDOX — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:36:22 GMT

I wonder why they went with the Opterons... Intel i7's smoke anything AMD has...

Custom Made $16,000 Computer

DarkAstraea — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:25:20 GMT

Ever wonder what a custom $16,000 looks like?

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The process it took to actually make this computer is actually quite amazing. Brings me back to my highschool days doing things by hand.

"Our client came to us with a need we hear often: he wanted a high performance machine, but wanted it quiet. Of course, “quiet” is a subjective term... Building a mainstream PC to be quiet isn't difficult at all, but high-performance machines are more challenging. This particular computer has four quad-core Opteron processors, 32 GB of memory, two VelociRaptor hard drives in RAID1, and six 1 TB hard drives in RAID 5. That's not a easy machine to make quiet! We opted to cool the machine with a massive radiator mounted to the side of the case, providing an extreme amount of radiator surface area, allowing us to run the fans at 5 V for nearly silent operation. And the temperature on the CPUs? 36 C at idle, 45 C at load.

To get a computer with that kind of processing power is simply amazing in the eyes of engineers and programmers.

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