New PC

[peterguthrie]

I have a z820, now relegated to being a renderslave... they are nice and compact for what they are, but they run pretty damn hot AND NOISY. I know Bertrand Benoit has had a similar experience with his z820, and even had problems with faulty ram. (see comments: http://www.peterguthrie.net/blog/2014/6/gpu-maintenance)

I now am using something I built myself, which is what I should have done all along. It is almost completely silent and runs at about 55deg under load compared to 80 (conservative average...) for the Z820.

When building mine, I referred a lot to the cooling strategy employed by these guys in the US, maybe worth a look?? Or maybe someone else has experience with them? http://www.pugetsystems.com/nav/gene.../customize.php

[Ilmanine]

Well you just jumped from a 3.5k build to a 10.5k. If you're going to those values you can get a lot of options.

About that one specifically I think the money you spend on 128gb of ram you could just spend on 32 or 64 and get the cpu above that one.

[Ilmanine]

I have a z820, now relegated to being a renderslave... they are nice and compact for what they are, but they run pretty damn hot AND NOISY. I know Bertrand Benoit has had a similar experience with his z820, and even had problems with faulty ram. (see comments: http://www.peterguthrie.net/blog/2014/6/gpu-maintenance)

I now am using something I built myself, which is what I should have done all along. It is almost completely silent and runs at about 55deg under load compared to 80 (conservative average...) for the Z820.

When building mine, I referred a lot to the cooling strategy employed by these guys in the US, maybe worth a look?? Or maybe someone else has experience with them? http://www.pugetsystems.com/nav/gene.../customize.php

Agree with Peter, the best is for you to build it yourself or ask a friend to build and you just buy the pieces. About the cooling, as long as the case has a nice air flow design, and not like those HP, you don't even need water cooling

[glorybound]

I have always built mine, too, but it is nice to window shop. About the water cooling... it would just be worth it to say that I have a water cooled PC

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Powersupply 50$?!

I hope its a mistake and it cost around 500$...

also if you are going up to 10k$ maybe just get a server farm of ebay with 10-20 nodes...

[danio]

I built my desktop with a custom water loop. It was pretty easy and it's been totally quiet and maintenance\leak free. I run waterblocks on my GPU and CPU. Both are overclocked and run very cool and stable. Pretty nice.

I started with a custom kit and swapped out parts I felt needed upgrading such as clamps, the CPU block and the tubing. It was still cheaper than buying everything (radiator, pump, reservoir, etc) separately. Also never add anything to your water, just use distilled and get a silver coil in the line. Works great for 2 years now!

[glorybound]

Do you have an example of something off of Ebay?

Powersupply 50$?! I hope i54ts a mistake and it cost around 500$...

also if you are going up to 10k$ maybe just get a server farm of ebay with 10-20 nodes...

[tricky]

We've mostly built our own machines in the past, but I'm not sure we will again in the future. Not enough time to troubleshoot issues that always arise from systems that aren't fully tested. Yes, you will save some money, but I'd keep my eye out for a ready-built Dell machine (or similar) safe in the knowledge that if it doesn't play ball, you can get it sorted quickly.

[samuel_bubat]

I also build mine in the past but stopped. When something goes wrong you have all the trouble indentifying and replacing the broken part.
that can be quite annoying and timeconsuming. I let mine build by alternate, an online shop. They have a PC Configurator where you can
choose exactly the parts you want. They´ll build it and you can optinal order a two day stress test. Also you´ll get warranty for the system.
If a part doesn´t work in the setup, they´ll contact you with alternatives.
http://www.alternate.co.uk/html/conf...r/pc/page.html

Btw. The new x99 chipset for the next intel cpus that will come out in september will support 64gb ram on release and 128gb later.
So it really might be worth waiting.

[tricky]

I let mine build by alternate, an online shop. They have a PC Configurator where you can
choose exactly the parts you want. They´ll build it and you can optinal order a two day stress test. Also you´ll get warranty for the system.
If a part doesn´t work in the setup, they´ll contact you with alternatives.

Interesting idea. A colleague recently got a new Dell machine - I forget the model. Its an amazing bit of kit. Absolutely solid and puts my 'hand-made' builds to shame!

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Do you have an example of something off of Ebay?

They seem to have lots of server

http://stores.ebay.com/SaveMyServer/...=p4634.c0.m322

look for bargains. I scored awhile ago for 1500£ 48 core(4pc/2cpu each/6core cpu) rig that was the bust pc buy I ever did...

[tricky]

look for bargains. I scored awhile ago for 1500£ 48 core(4pc/2cpu each/6core cpu) rig that was the bust pc buy I ever did...

Was that one of those Dell C6100 things by any chance?

[glorybound]

Around $4000.00

• Corsair 860 Watt Power Supply
• SuperMicro X9DAi Motherboard
• Dual Intel® Xeon™ E5-2630v2 Processors for total of 12 Cores, 24 Threads
• 64GB DDR3-1600 ECC Memory
• 180GB Intel SSD (530 Series)
• 1TB Western Digital Black Hard Drive
• EVGA GT630 Graphics
• DVD-RW
• Windows® 7 or 8 Professional

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Was that one of those Dell C6100 things by any chance?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...:X:AAQ:GB:1123

This one :- )

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Around $4000.00

• Corsair 860 Watt Power Supply
• SuperMicro X9DAi Motherboard
• Dual Intel® Xeon™ E5-2630v2 Processors for total of 12 Cores, 24 Threads
• 64GB DDR3-1600 ECC Memory
• 180GB Intel SSD (530 Series)
• 1TB Western Digital Black Hard Drive
• EVGA GT630 Graphics
• DVD-RW
• Windows® 7 or 8 Professional

You can use Asus motherboard. Those server grade mothersboards are very different to Desktop. It might be a scary change for you. Asus ones are a lot more delicate...