Hi all
Well this thread will be about how this new Duallie will come to it's completion, evry time i get new pats i will make some nice pics and probably a video if that is worth doing hehe.
The idea for this build began on Friday October 15, 2010, October 27th 2010 came the first part; the Lian Li W-X2000B Side Window from PerformancePCS.com, Palm Bay, Florida USA and today 3 months later the case arrived from High FLow B.V Rotterdam The Netherlands.
So here it is also with the side panel attached
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4448…p_+Gradinko.jpg http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4449…+it+will+be.jpg http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4449…front+panel.jpg
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4448…nel+removed.jpg http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4449…r+removable.jpg http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4451…X2000B+rear.jpg
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4450…dow+mounted.jpg http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4450…nels+opened.jpg http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4452…Case+opened.jpg
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4451…_+Drive+Bay.jpg http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4450…0B+Mobo+Bay.jpg http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4450…ot+Swap+Bay.jpg
Tomorrow the motherboard; a Supermicro H8DG6-F should be arriving with UPS aka United Parcel Service from Germany
So more pics once this part arrives, from this I will do more selling gear and saving up and aim for the CPU's a pair of AMD 12 Core OpteronMP 6174 HE Mangy Cours CPU's with a pair of Dynatron A6 coolers, these will get a pair of Enermax Cluster white ledded fans.
After this I plan on getting some ram 8x 4GB PC3-10600 ECC Reg from Kingston to start with and as upgrade another 8x 4GB PC3-10600 ECC Reg from Kingston, to fullfill all ram slots and the Quad Channel DDR3-1333 per CPU.
Then I will only purchase SSD's for my sotrage, the idea is to use no more moving parts, 6x 240GB sized SSD's with MLC chips should be a good investment, but this is something I plan to do in stages, start off with 2x 240GB in a raid 0 and add the other 4 over the uprade periods, that HDD hotswap bay will come in great handy to usage for these.
As for VGA cards? Well I have my GTX 480's to test the SLI hack, unless Lucid comes with them Hydra PCI-E x8 cards these will be used t make multi chip with NVIDIA GPU's possible, the PSU will be the Silverstone Strider 1500W and the soundcard an Auzentech X-Fi Forte 7.1 PCI-E x1 64MB XRam.
All in all, this will take me at least a year to do, but since the loss of my computerclub died due to member loss and playing no more deticated Lan games, which could of saved it..
So I am doing this so it will last for quite a few years, more than the average system would last, Lifespan is something very important I have to take serious, so I want to make this a perfect build, so patience will ben needed.
Bulldozer support will be welcome as well, since G34 will support these 16 core monsters, so that is just something nice to have for the system's lifespan, even when it's completed 8-12 months from now, although I hope earlier, it still will be a solid performer, so yeah I am going to take this ride, no more 1CPU builds from this one off.
2CPU.com: Because two is deffintely better than one.
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4316…+CG+CPU_s+a.JPG http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4316…+CG+CPU_s+b.JPG
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4317…l+sized+mug.JPG http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4317…ed+Java+cup.JPG
As for the Monitor, that is a later worry I do plan on going for a 30" anyways, which deffintiely be for an EIZO 30" with a S-PVA TFT
The final specs will be like this when it's completed:
Firefox SMP 2011
2x AMD 16 Core Opteron 6200 Series Interlagos CPU's @ 32x 3000Mhz, 32x 512KB L2 en 2x 16384KB L3
2x Noctua NH-U12DO A3 Socket G34 Coolers
Supermicro H8DG6-F Dual G34 Based Motherboard with Dual AMD 5690 Chipsets for Dual Socket G34
16x 4GB or 8GB PC3-10600 Kingston Value Ram ECC Reg, depends on price
1x EVGA GeForce GTX 590 Super Clocked Edition PCI-E 3072MB 768Bit GDDR5 [In Practical 2x 1536MB 384Bit GDDR5] as main VGA
1x EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Super Clocked Edition PCI-E 1536MB 384Bit GDDR5 as Deticated PhysX
Auzentech X-Fi Forte 7.1 PCI-E 64MB Sound Card
2x 240GB 2,5" OCZ Vertex2 E Series in Riad 0 via the LSI 2008 8i SAS2-600 Raid controller, 4 will be added as future upgrades
Plextor PX-LB950SA 12x Blu-Ray ReWriter 3D support, Light Scribe and all other formats.
Lian Li Tyr PC-X2000B + W-X2000B Side Window
1x 10cm Ultra Bright Blue CCFL from Revoltec for Gold Leader's Y-Wing Hangar Bay Mod
2x 30cm Ultra Bright Green CCFL's from Revoltec
2x 30cm Ultra Bright White CCFL's from Revoltec
1x Silverstone Strider 1500 Watt PSU
Everything Bolded in Green has been obtained
Ah well this will be another fantastic build, that is one thing to be sure about and yes my VGA's will be from EVGA this ride hehe