I know this system is total overkill but I don't want it to be wasteful in regards to the utilization of all the components to the best of their ability. One or more of the components aren't released yet which is fine because the project won't be done until around March.
The primary usage of this machine will just basically be what you would expect of an insane enthusiast machine (games, folding, SETI, etc) but it will also function as the head-end of a cluster I'm working on.
Please give me some advice or scold me for improper part selection or whatever. I'm very open to ideas and discussion.
- Tyan Thunder SLI-based MB w/ 2 independant NForce4 chipsets.
- 2x AMD Opteron 250
- 8gb DDR400 RAM w/ecc
- Some variation of a PCI-E graphics card
- (Possibly this 'cause I think its cool: http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041216_115811.html )
- 12-port LSI-Logic PCI-E SAS RAID w/ 1gb cache (if available)
- 16x 18gb 15k RPM SAS HDs in RAID 0 OR
- 16x 16gb 15k RPM SCSI320 in RAID 0 OR
- 24x 36gb 10k RPM SATA in RAID 5+0
- 1x Broadcom Octal-port GBe NIC (for future clustering project)
The primary usage of this machine will just basically be what you would expect of an insane enthusiast machine (games, folding, SETI, etc) but it will also function as the head-end of a cluster I'm working on.
Please give me some advice or scold me for improper part selection or whatever. I'm very open to ideas and discussion.