Recent content by Spoudazo

One Xeon, 12 cores

Ok. I was looking at cases, and considering all the items needed to fit a server mobo w/ two CPUs, etc., and to save hassle and space, maybe I'll just go w/ the e5-2670. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117475 12 cores and 24 threads :) Good point about the energy...

Ah. This will be my at-home machine, not work machine, so It'll be mainly used for gaming, experiments with real-time raytracing, and some rendering in Blender/Cycles.

Odd, is this correct? Answer/reply Is this correct? So when rendering something, it'll only use 8 cores instead of 16? :confused: From the benchmarks, that doesn't seem correct. It's in the Q/A part here, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113306

Cool. From that report it appears the dual AMD Opteron 6376 is about 27% faster than than the dual Intel E5-2660 CPUs, and it appears to be about 38% cheaper setup (just in reference to the CPUs, i.e. two Xeons 2650 at $2300 vs two AMD Opteron 6376 at $1440.

Not running 100% of the time, this is for realtime ray tracing mostly.

Xeon E5 2683 V3 sounds interesting, though in theory, wouldn't two 16-core AMD cpus be faster (i.e.-32 threads). Don't get me wrong, I love intel CPUs.

This is mainly for some raytracing-related code I'm writing in my spare time. It's currently in C++, and I'll try to vectorize as much as possible for use with SSE2 or AVX. System RAM will be probably around 16 to 32gb, as the data sets will not be necessarily too huge.

Quad CPU AMD board sounds cool too.

The Phi coprocessor can't run all, regularly x86/x64 code can it? It sounds neat, but only if it can run games too (mostly older PC games).

What do you think? Parallel usage will be pegged at 100%, regardless of number of cores. Would like to spend less than $1500 for the CPU, though the cheaper the better. Do you think a two-CPU mobo would be good? Looking to have at least 20+ threads available. 16 core AMD? ($719), or two of...

Well, I'm quite sure it's the power supply at this point. Ordered a new PSU, let's see how it goes. :)

It wasn't showing 24v before. The motherboard won't let it boot because of it (there's a safety option I left on that won't let it boot under certain conditions). Motherboard is, ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131790

Don't have a multi-meter, I could guy buy one if you have any recommendations. And yes, the GPU is uninstalled, just running video off the 2600k.

So, my wife accidentally dropped a water bottle about a foot away from the computer case, and somehow a little drop of water made its way through the case vent, into the computer onto the graphics card (AMD 7950). I'm just glad she's ok. I know what she was really doing, she knew I was wanting...