Pictures Of Your Dually Rigs!

Centauri said:
as well as 16GBs of RAM, it is still shockingly useful as a basic use system running even the Summer 2020 release of Linux Mint
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In 2020, there was new computer arguably less performant or around the same being sold, say Intel Celeton N3450 system, the intel celeron N4020 was a 2020 release, they were maybe using 15 time less watt too, sold with way more less ram.

Would this outperform say a simple Core i7-975 system ? (I would have assumed post Q-6600 type of era for Intel to have that period crown for the ultimate system until recently, but did not follow tech closely for a while)
 
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LukeTbk said:
In 2020, there was new computer arguably less performant or around the same being sold, say Intel Celeton N3450 system, the intel celeron N4020 was a 2020 release, they were maybe using 15 time less watt, sold with way more less ram.

Would this outperform say a simple Core i7-975 system ? (I would have assumed post Q-6600 type of era for Intel to have that period crown for the ultimate system until recently, but did not follow tech closely for a while)
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I really should run some good benchmarks on it. But in an all-core workload I feel like it would hang with a 975.

Mr. Bluntman said:
The Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB on the shelf has not gone unnoticed... :p
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My ATi GPU collection has gotten pretty epic; the flagship of basically every gen.

Rage Fury Maxx
Radeon DDR 64MB
Radeon 8500 128MB
Radeon 9700 Pro
Radeon 9800 XT
X850 XT Platinum Edition
X1950 XTX
HD 2900 XT 1GB, HD 3870 X2, HD 4870 X2...
 
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Centauri said:
My ATi GPU collection has gotten pretty epic; the flagship of basically every gen.

Rage Fury Maxx
Radeon DDR 64MB
Radeon 8500 128MB
Radeon 9700 Pro
Radeon 9800 XT
X850 XT Platinum Edition
X1950 XTX
HD 2900 XT 1GB, HD 3870 X2, HD 4870 X2...
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That is pretty epic. You're missing the X1800 XT, though... lol

Oh, if I only could have told 2002 me...

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Centauri said:
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X1950 XTX was the flagship though, not the X1800.
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The X1800 XT or R520 was launched in October 2005 after the X8x0 line to compete against the feature set of the GeForce 6 series. It for a very short time was ATi's highest end offering until the X1900 XTX/R580 and later the X1950 XTX came out with 3x the pixel shaders: 48 instead of 16. So technically I'm not wrong. It just wasn't flagship for long. I believe with R580 ATi also added support for HDR and MSAA at the same time; a feature that G70/G71 lacked...

The launches between the two GPUs are just shy of 3 months apart.

You're not wrong about the X1950 XTX being the flagship when all the dust has settled for that generation, though. :p
 
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Stugots said:
Hah! I noticed that too! I had one similar to that and modded it to a FireGL if I remember right.

I always liked the Rage Fury Maxx too. Shame it never made it past the Windows 9x era.
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If I remember right the Rage Fury MAXX had really bad frame pacing issues due to it using alternate frame rendering instead of scan line interleaving like 3dfx...
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
I'm having a lot of fun with the dually testbench.

I never know how much fun it could be to just tinker with older hardware, especially when you can just pick up stuff dirt cheap on eBay when you need it.
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One of the main reasons my old stuff still keeps me amused. :) Plus it's all documented somewhere depending on how old it is, so you just search and implement. :)
 
Current view

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Core Specs:
2x 4090 RTX Founders Edition
2x AMD 7773x Epyc (128/256 cores), Gigabyte MZ72-HB0 Dual socket motherboard
1 TB RAM DDR4 ECC LRDIMMs 1600W+ digital power supply
(Data drive) Raid 0 Micron 9300 Max (15.4TB each / 77TB array - overprovisioned to 64TB)
(OS Drive) Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus (8TB). 2x Back up drives Micron 5300 8TB each
Asus PA32UCG-K monitor, MS Data Center 2022 & Ubuntu, Air cooled, cool temps, relatively small case

Some perfs:
data write speeds in excess of 50.6 Gb/s

Video Benchmarks (fist place)

https://gravitymark.tellusim.com/leaderboard/​

 
Venturi said:
Video Benchmarks (fist place)
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First, second, 5th, 8th, lol! Very nice setup! I think it's a tribute to what can be done today if money is no object. One question I have is what speed is the ram?
 
machine has been upgraded to

2x 4090 RTX Founders Edition
2x AMD 9684X Epyc (192/384 cores) 2.2GB of L3 cache , Gigabyte MZ73-LM0 Dual socket motherboard, PCIE 5.0
1.5 TB RAM DDR5 ECC LRDIMMs 4800mhz 2050W digital power supply
4x Micron 9300 Max (15.4TB each) Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus (8TB). 2x Back up drives Micron 5300
Asus PA32UCG-K monitor, MS Data Center 2022 & Ubuntu, Air cooled, cool temps, small case, ultra quiet operation
1x pound of flesh and blood as usual
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https://gravitymark.tellusim.com/leaderboard/
 
Shoganai said:
This thread makes my wallet hurt.
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Hey now, I only paid $400 for mine!
...Granted I immediately doubled that by quadrupling the RAM and adding a GPU that was actually from this decade, but still!
Venturi did you have to float a loan to pay for all that? Damn.
 
Venturi said:
machine has been upgraded to

2x 4090 RTX Founders Edition
2x AMD 9684X Epyc (192/384 cores) 2.2GB of L3 cache , Gigabyte MZ73-LM0 Dual socket motherboard, PCIE 5.0
1.5 TB RAM DDR5 ECC LRDIMMs 4800mhz 2050W digital power supply
4x Micron 9300 Max (15.4TB each) Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus (8TB). 2x Back up drives Micron 5300
Asus PA32UCG-K monitor, MS Data Center 2022 & Ubuntu, Air cooled, cool temps, small case, ultra quiet operation
1x pound of flesh and blood as usual
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https://gravitymark.tellusim.com/leaderboard/
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WOW, just WOW.
 
Welsper said:
Hey now, I only paid $400 for mine!
...Granted I immediately doubled that by quadrupling the RAM and adding a GPU that was actually from this decade, but still!
Venturi did you have to float a loan to pay for all that? Damn.
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I paid significantly more than that...

...but that was a decade ago when it went into my server.

Now that it is in a makeshift workstation it has cost me $0 above what I spent a decade ago :p
 
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