36 cores / 72 HT

Dafuk, didn't even know cpus were out like that.

 

it has been almost a year that I've had those cpus.

They overclock without issues at 107mhz, but I run the rig at 105mhz
Obviously the type of ram one uses is also important.

 

What Bleh said.

 

I'm speechless, what a monster!

After you get enough of it maybe you should consider donating that thing to Guru3D folding team :banana:

 

I've never folded, but its worth consideration. I'll see what's involved.

 

Out of curiosity, what is the primary function of this system?

 

Overkill?

 

For certain tasks? Absolutely. But it can be fully utilized in some fields, that's why I'm asking.

 

WELL NOW... i've seen everything.

Very nice!

Aside from the gaming, I too would like to know what kind of stuff this is used for?

 

Its my personal box, I use it for gaming and...


1. Radiology / DICOM/PACS

2. Nuc med/tech99

3. Oracle Database

4. MEd Billing

I have my individual work needs when I do stuff at home in individual VMs. Turn them off when I don't need them.

I have 7 VMs that are used for specific apps.
3 VMs are on windows 7 ultimate 64
2 VMs are on windows xp 64
1 VM is on Win Srv 2003 64
1 VM is Ubuntu 15

I have 5 scratch VMs I just for messing around like I'm playing with Mint now.
Some of the VMs have 64Gb ram, 16cores, other VMs only have 2 cores and 4gb of ram.

I'm experimenting with running the VMs in the titans. Mixed results so far.


Some of the software really benefits from lots of threading. Some software wants to be the only thing installed.

Anyhow, its used for work more or less and of course all the boxes I've built for myself are usually in that moment in time, a god box

and I like playing games (DRM free games when possible, or I have to re-engineer them not to use steam or EA or etc etc. I buy my games, so I shouldn't have to be logged in for the right to play)


I originally was water-cooled, but decided that I needed a low maintenance quiet box that can be devoid of leak issues, pump issues, etc. It should also be able on air to compete well with the former water-cooling, which it did. Sometimes I gave to leave the box on for 2 days. Most of the time I turn it off when I'm done. So I needed to know it would be of working hard without me around. So, it was supposed to the most powerful, quiet, low maintenance box I could build.

To do so I had to change many components in the case, change how certain sections fit together, make the board horizontal instead of vertical, change assumptions on airflow, change how bling would normally be done, and make all the components work together. Then to get the most of the component interactions had to work through three beta bioses from vendor to be able to get 4 titans to work at full on the board. Then a new bios to use the LRDIMM, then the infancy issues on the m.2 drives. I went through board versions 1.00, 1.02, 1.02a, 1.03, 1.04, and 1.05 to arrive at this build.

Long process to get rock stable, do work and do games.
I've probably developed a few OCDs along the way


Hope that helps

V

 

Interesting. I was betting Radiology, crypto/code breaking.

Thanks

 

Definately report if you get a chance to try this, i would absolutely love a system like yours to mess about with VMs, i do a fair bit of work with VMs at work, but at home i just use this 1 rig to test software and just deploy it at work, would be sweet to be able to do it at home.

 

I tip my hat to you sir

 

has anyone mentioned Crysis yet?!?!?!?.....if not will it?!?????.......

 

Liquid smooth on Crysis 2 cinematic and HD mod and dx11 mod with texture enhancement

Liquid smooth with Crysis 3 full eye candy

Games played at 4096x2160
You can also optimize the games for better threading and more rez in textures.




I don't have the original Crysis

 

Wow , very interesting. I didn't know that the Med field could require such large resources from a PC (Even if you are just using a portion of it through a VM). Though some of that is usually run off a server isn't it? (Just based on what I googled)

Thanks!c1:

 

yes sir, a lot of it can and is sometimes run on the server. However, for various reasons I have to host all of it on occasion to get done many of the things I get wrapped up in.

The nature of my computer use, on occasion, requires me to run core services

so, I have complicated obligations, and I built a pc/server to do whatever I need.

One of the biggest benefits is that I have more than one copy of a VM, so if I get a screw up, I can copy back the original over and over. VM has really made my life easier

 

well this computer is quite something and the past ones aswell

 

overclocking

Currently, the dual CPU set up is overclocked to a max stable (100% under all conditions) of 109.4.

I booted and had no issues at 110.8, but I was to "scared" to push it.

However I backed it off to 105.0 just for my internal sensibility.

So technically a 5% overclock.

In benchmarks a 5% bios overclock seems to correlate to a 6.5% increase in benchmarks, go figure.


In my case its more than just some software slider. All overclocks are done in bios and I have to manipulate many many other parameters to do so. Example, I have to change the "cluster on die" settings in QPI, or change the snoop, or manipulate the "memory pools", and after many others like that THEN I have to go mess with the memory timings

Asus does include auto overclocks that do great from 101 to 106, but beyond 106 its all manual

 

new IO stats

just thought I'd share the new IO speed after firmware update:

write speed 32.3 Gb/s
read speed 8.2 Gb/s