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Hey Guy's, After a couple of problems with 2 of my computers this week in the PrimeGrid challenge. I am looking to build the Ultimate Cruncher. Given an unlimited budget.. But not a super computer budget, OK..  What would you choose and why?? Will be water cooled, Absolutely.... No GPU's, hopefully will be on board...but have a spare couple of EVGA 770's laying around... I have built many computers, most on a budget. Now I have no limits.....Awesome. Currently have 4x Folding computers with 10x EVGA GPU's running 24/7. The spare CPU cores are used to crunch. So give me your wildest ideas and gear suggestions. Looking forward to building this beast..... Much appreciate your suggestions and advice. Cheers Steve
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/05 09:00:36
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Sounds like fun.
Try for a 4 Socket Zeon build with 128GB of RAM and use them 770s for crunching as well. And a nice PCI-E SSD for the storage.
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/05 09:02:51
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Now that is a very, VERY nice start, Thanks...
Will edit my first post later with the final configuration..
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/05 09:28:22
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/05 10:07:31
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A quad socket Intel Xeon v3 series or v4 series with each CPU 12 cores or more cores would produce.
You can get a lot more hardware buying used, new Xeon CPUs are crazy expensive.
There are dual socket 2011 boards, new OEM for 200$ and used 8 core CPUs as low as 70$ each. Were 1550$ new
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/05 10:22:16
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Thanks Bill for the PM,
Been looking at ebay and some nice deals. 4x CPU would be best, a killer 2x CPU is not out of the question.
Off to do some more research....
Much appreciated.
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/06 11:12:55
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Have 2x new 850watt power supplies now ready and waiting..
Plenty of new 120mm fans laying around, so sorted..
Have a KVM for the local monitor and keyboard/mouse...
Tomorrow is research day for Motherboards/CPU's and Ram.....
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/08 09:53:55
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Got 2 packages today... both cases..... Thermaltake Core X9  PHOBYA WaCoolT Cube 1 
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/08 10:01:30
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Also ordered 2x i7-6500k cpu's, Asus Z170 PRO motherboards and 16Gb ram..
Will arrive tomorrow fingerscrossed.. if not Saturday, maybe..
These will replace the AMD systems I have..
Still doing research for the Ultimate Cruncher.....
will sell my AMD cpu's and motherboards/ram
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/08 10:05:12
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Just remembered, Thanks to EVGA Bucks, I ordered a Power supply, Some T-Shirts and Lanyard's... So will be kitted out for the next couple of photo's..
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/09 23:28:59
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Arrived, now any spare time in between my boy's birthday parties today and tomorrow, will upgrade from those troublesome AMD cpu's......... Still looking at Xeon's and motherboards. Just need to finalize the configuration, then buy it... 
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/10 09:22:48
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/10 09:43:45
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Nice plans so far 
1) ASUS Z97-WS, i7-4790K@4.9GHz, 2-Way-SLI - EVGA GTX Titan X SC - EK block/plate, Custom loop, 32GB GSkill Ripjaws DDR3-2400, Samsumg Pro 850 SSD, 2-2TB WD Black, Phanteks Primo Case, Win 10 Pro 64bit, 4K Acer XB280HK monitor, EVGA 1600 P2 Supernova PSU, Fire Strike 1.1 = 21,842 2) EVGA X99 Classified, I7-5960X, 2- Titan X Pascal, 32GB GSkill Ripjaws DDR4-3000, Intel NVMe PCIe 750 SSD, Win10 Pro,PSU EVGA 1200 P2 Folding 2.5M PPD Affiliate code 05MLLDCG6B 
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/11 12:43:48
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The weekend goes by so quickly... oh well. My Boy's had awesome birthday parties Saturday and Sunday, mini-golf and go-carting. Plus an awesome water fight, cake, and cake and pinball........ So much pinball, burnt out a coil on one of the poppers,,,  Totally exhausted and crashing out. Tomorrow is a new day and I might have 2 hrs free to install some components into my download and security computers. Fingerscrossed....
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/12 06:27:46
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A very nice package arrived today,  Thanks EVGA for the bucks, have been well used. Am kitted out for the fast approaching winter here, plus a 750w power supply for the i7-6500k, Asus Z170 and EVGA 980ti Hybrid. 
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/12 10:02:46
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1) ASUS Z97-WS, i7-4790K@4.9GHz, 2-Way-SLI - EVGA GTX Titan X SC - EK block/plate, Custom loop, 32GB GSkill Ripjaws DDR3-2400, Samsumg Pro 850 SSD, 2-2TB WD Black, Phanteks Primo Case, Win 10 Pro 64bit, 4K Acer XB280HK monitor, EVGA 1600 P2 Supernova PSU, Fire Strike 1.1 = 21,842 2) EVGA X99 Classified, I7-5960X, 2- Titan X Pascal, 32GB GSkill Ripjaws DDR4-3000, Intel NVMe PCIe 750 SSD, Win10 Pro,PSU EVGA 1200 P2 Folding 2.5M PPD Affiliate code 05MLLDCG6B
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/12 17:59:39
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How did you get T shirts? I went to buy a couple and there is not a one for sale.
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/13 08:59:39
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I am in Switzerland, been waiting for ages, finally they had them in the Europe online store.....
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/18 04:20:22
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Did a little work yesterday before it rained, too cold to paint today.. This is my download computer, my main computer.. Now called, "Hulk"..  
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/18 04:51:43
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Looks good. Now I know what's in the beer fridge!
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/18 10:23:14
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1) ASUS Z97-WS, i7-4790K@4.9GHz, 2-Way-SLI - EVGA GTX Titan X SC - EK block/plate, Custom loop, 32GB GSkill Ripjaws DDR3-2400, Samsumg Pro 850 SSD, 2-2TB WD Black, Phanteks Primo Case, Win 10 Pro 64bit, 4K Acer XB280HK monitor, EVGA 1600 P2 Supernova PSU, Fire Strike 1.1 = 21,842 2) EVGA X99 Classified, I7-5960X, 2- Titan X Pascal, 32GB GSkill Ripjaws DDR4-3000, Intel NVMe PCIe 750 SSD, Win10 Pro,PSU EVGA 1200 P2 Folding 2.5M PPD Affiliate code 05MLLDCG6B
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/20 10:20:15
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Yes, and always in need.... More parts arrived today 
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/22 11:20:51
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YAY.. CPU waterblock arrived today...   This weekend is going to be busy building.....
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/09/24 05:54:35
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Part 1 of the dual motherboard install done today.... Lower board installed.  Squeezed 2x 970's in there, i7-6700K, 16gb ram and AIO Corsair H100i cooler.  All neat and tidy, now to just slide it in and start on the upper board. 
post edited by HK-Steve - 2016/09/24 05:56:03
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/10/13 05:22:38
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Hey Guy's, Been busy messing around with computers this week. Finally got some CPU's for my HP DL585 G7, originally had 4x cpu's with 4 cores each, Now have 12 cores for each cpu.. 48 cores now.  Thought I would throw some tasks at it. Running the rest of my Enigma tasks, runs perfect..on all 48 cores. But just tested some Folding, It does not use all 48 cores, even though it has detected and says cpu:48.. using the beta Folding client. I am looking at CoreTemp and see not all cpu's cores, some are at 0% Yes I should ask over on the Folding forum, but thought to ask here as most of you here were BigAd crunchers. Anyway, More water cooling parts came in today, so need to finish my hoses and fire up another computer.. Appreciate any comments. Cheers
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/10/13 05:49:50
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12:09:13:WARNING:WU00:FS00:AS lowered CPUs from 48 to 24 12:09:13:WU00:FS00:Running FahCore: "C:\Program Files\FAHClient/FAHCoreWrapper.exe" C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\FAHClient\cores/web.stanford.edu/~pande/Win32/AMD64/Core_a4.fah/FahCore_a4.exe -dir 00 -suffix 01 -version 704 -lifeline 7368 -checkpoint 15 -np 24 OK, So I found the problem.. should have looked in the logs first...  So would this be done for every WU??
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/10/13 05:59:13
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I have a vague recollection that after the end of bigadv, the remaining CPU projects do not scale to as many CPUs as before. I could be wrong... but the more important point is that it is almost pointless (note the pun) to do CPU folding any longer. The PPD/Watt is so low compared to GPUs that unless your energy is free it simply is not worth doing. In last year's TZC, I produced only 2.4 million points using a 24-core Xeon E5 system that draws 300W, in what must have been a few weeks' time. Now you can do that much in 5 days or less, drawing 170W with a GTX 1070.
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/10/13 08:05:26
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If I remember right 8 is the most cores for SMP right now, so you have to run 6 slots of 8 cores to load up your system.
Maybe easier to just go do some PG LLR WUs and see how well she does.
What MB and CPUs did you go with?
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Re: The Ultimate Crunching computer, Help me build one....
2016/10/13 08:09:17
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This is a HP DL585 G7 server.
4x cpu's, Opteron 6344 with 128Gb of ram.
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