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SatTech

SatTech

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I bought an open box dual G34 board a couple of months ago, with the intent of waiting till Bulldozer comes out and grabbing a pair of those. Since I've been home waiting on work for so long, I got a little bored and decided to build it up.

I didn't want to spend a fortune on some of the 12 core chips, so I picked up a pair of the 2.0 Ghz 8 cores. Just got it set up, Linux installed and am currently working on a 6903. PPD is around 100k. I'm thinking hard about taking the 2 480GTXs offline to offset the electric bill. This would leave me with an SR-2, Dual G34 and i7 920@4.0.

I'll post a picture here in a bit. It's nekkid for all you pervs.


 
Here it is in all it's glory
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And sitting next to the nekked SR-2
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Damn, another naked folder! It is like the entire multi-processor crowd here don't mind flopping their circuitry to anyone out there.

Either way, are those Noctua coolers? They look really nice! I didn't know that a pair of 2.0ghz 8 cores would do so well as $250 each isn't a bad price at all. Considering that my single Gulftown only gets 40-46k ppd doing regular bigadv, that is a steal! Now I can't wait to see what you'll do once the Interlagos 16 cores come out.
 
Don't happen to know what kinda wattage it is pulling.... do ya?
 
amdgamer said:
Damn, another naked folder! It is like the entire multi-processor crowd here don't mind flopping their circuitry to anyone out there.

Either way, are those Noctua coolers? They look really nice! I didn't know that a pair of 2.0ghz 8 cores would do so well as $250 each isn't a bad price at all. Considering that my single Gulftown only gets 40-46k ppd doing regular bigadv, that is a steal! Now I can't wait to see what you'll do once the Interlagos 16 cores come out.
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I'm still collecting cans and bottles to get money for my processors. ;)
 
amdgamer said:
Damn, another naked folder! It is like the entire multi-processor crowd here don't mind flopping their circuitry to anyone out there.

Either way, are those Noctua coolers? They look really nice! I didn't know that a pair of 2.0ghz 8 cores would do so well as $250 each isn't a bad price at all. Considering that my single Gulftown only gets 40-46k ppd doing regular bigadv, that is a steal! Now I can't wait to see what you'll do once the Interlagos 16 cores come out.
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Noctua coolers. They were the only ones I came across on NewEgg that weren't 5000RPM turbines.

I'm really looking forward to the Interlagos chips myself. Maybe build a 4P system with 64 cores early next year...
 
Is that the 80mm? What temps have you seen? I just bought the 120 mm for my new toy, and they look much more space limited. If my ISP would actually work, I would have some frame times by now.
 
SatTech said:
Noctua coolers. They were the only ones I came across on NewEgg that weren't 5000RPM turbines.

I'm really looking forward to the Interlagos chips myself. Maybe build a 4P system with 64 cores early next year...
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That is what I thought as you definately cannot mistake the color theme of Noctua's stuff. It definately looks impressive, especially considering that there isn't much available for servers. Those POS dynatrons I hear are indeed annoyingly loud.


tjmagneto said:
I'm still collecting cans and bottles to get money for my processors. ;)
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You and me both. You were one of the biggest reasons why I splurged for a Gulftown back then, and I have to say that it has been worth every penny I scraped together for it. The lesson I have learned though, is that I need to pay more attention to fleabay to see what is available. I am hoping that i'll be able to snap up some budget G34 processors or maybe even some extra spicey chips when Bulldozer comes out.
 
amdgamer said:
That is what I thought as you definately cannot mistake the color theme of Noctua's stuff. It definately looks impressive, especially considering that there isn't much available for servers. Those POS dynatrons I hear are indeed annoyingly loud.
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It is a pretty hideous color scheme...
 
0ldways said:
Is that the 80mm? What temps have you seen? I just bought the 120 mm for my new toy, and they look much more space limited. If my ISP would actually work, I would have some frame times by now.
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Yeah, 80mm. No idea on temps as I haven't delved into installing any sort of temp monitoring app. I don't know crap about Linux.
 
amdgamer said:
It isn't that bad. I would prefer different colors, but Noctua's brownish/beigeish theme is pretty unique as you immediately know that it is a Noctua.
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couple fan replacements fix that

I love those Noctua G34 coolers even though they are just overpriced rebadged versions of their existing coolers.

100k is really impressive for $500 worth of CPUs. You figure you can snag one of those mobos for $250 open box at newegg, then probably $120 worth of RAM, old hard drive and a $60 psu and you have 100k PPD for $930 or less.
 
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