Thread: How many $$ for a new PC?

If we are playing who has the biggest computer... (it is effectively 2576 gaming computers rolled into one)

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Manufacturer: Cray Inc. (USA)
Model: XC40 Series Supercomputer
Compute Processors: Intel Xeon E5-2690V3 ?Haswell? processors (12-core, 2.6 GHz)
Computing Power: 1,097 TeraFLOPS (1 PetaFLOP+).
Memory: 93 Terabytes (64 GB of DDR4-2133 per compute node).
Interconnect: Cray Aries interconnect, at 72 gigabits/sec per node
Network Topology: Cray Dragonfly ? 56% populated
Nodes: 1488 (35,712 processor cores, two compute processors per node)
Weight: 1.7 tonnes/cabinet
Power consumption: circa. 50 kWatts/cabinet
Local storage: Sonexion 1600 Data Storage System, 3 Petabytes, w/ 70 GB/sec sustained r/w performance

Of course unlike the silly scene in "The Martian" you don't go and plug your laptop into it to run simulations...

Btw - I can't help much on the original question. I buy (order) several computers per year but we can only buy Dell or Apple, and all the PCs are desktop workstations at the upper limit of the specs. However they are all on a 3 year lease now so I imagine there is somewhere Dell is selling off 3yo Desktop workstations which still have a pretty good spec. We do have one batch of machines though which have 4x3TB HDDs in each machine and so far have had 50% HDD failure across them. I think Dell knows this as the replacements are all a different brand.

Did not read all the replies sorry.
Build you own! Cheap and easy.
I spend under a grand a few years ago and built my current pc.
Could build the same now for 600 or there abouts.
Its still rated 7.6 from windows.
And thats a game capable pc.
Cheapish board although as all i need on it.
i5 processor.
16 gig of ram.
AMD Radeo HD 7800 series graphics card.
Solid state hard drive.

PC runs fine and still plays the latest games when i let the kids play it.

my current pc

ASRock Fatal1ty Z97M Killer
Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.00GHz
32.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
OCZ REVODRIVE3 X2 240GB
31tB of hdd's

Originally Posted by incisor

i just built one for a guy who supplied all the bits he imported himself

6.5k worth of bits he reckons

i think all the lights in godwin beach dimmed when i turned it on for the first time..

he was doing the software install, i just had to build and optimise

madness....

If he (apparently) knows so much about hardware to order all this high end kit, how is it that he can't build it himself?

Originally Posted by VladTepes

If he (apparently) knows so much about hardware to order all this high end kit, how is it that he can't build it himself?

Let someone else build it then you can forward the blame to them i guess.
Building a pc is as easy as changing a damn oil filter.
Dunno what all the fuss is about really.
Plug this in there. That in here. Bit of paste there and turn it on.
Internet is your friend. There would be a gazillion tutorials on how to build a pc.
OS. Bah run a disk of USB. All no big deal.

Originally Posted by VladTepes

If he (apparently) knows so much about hardware to order all this high end kit, how is it that he can't build it himself?

yeah mate nothing at all to it....

Internet is your friend

Yep that is how I got to building my own. I don`t think there is a computer related problem that has not been covered on the internet. Be it either hardware or software. The only thing I struggle with is dos commands. You have to be oh so correct in what you type. My first build was a AMD socket A board. A more interesting one was a dual opteron work station board.
Cheers Hall

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