Video of the Day: 23 GeForce GTX 295 Video Cards Installed in a Single Server Rig

Tuesday, April 7th 2009

Wanna see what crazy is? How about 23 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 video cards installed in a single rig. Yep, that's not a typo. Named Atlas Folder, this wholesale pack of G200b GPUs (dubbed: folding server farm) is like an industrial grinder for Folding@Home. Watch the cool YouTube video here and feel free to leave a comment. I bet even NVIDIA engineers dream for such a monstrous distributed computing station.

Source: MaximumPC

posted by malware - 6:19 PM | Related News |

User comments

by Castiel (6:23 PM) - Reply

:eek: :wtf: That is just crazy! Nice find man!

by nicholasblock (6:23 PM) - Reply

What a waste!! I don't see any point in that at all

by W1zzard (6:25 PM) - Reply

warm in the winter

by ThomasDM (6:28 PM) - Reply

It's a Folding@Home farm. http://atlasfolding.com/?p=448

by tcorbyn (6:34 PM) - Reply

WOW.... so would that be like somthing used by OnLive servers?

by shagg (6:37 PM) - Reply

Im sure it can run Crysis at 50fps with a resolution of 1920x1800 :p

by newtekie1 (6:40 PM) - Reply

Ah, so not all in one machine, but all in one rack, and only 17 actually in the rack...cool I guess. I wish I could afford to do something like that.

by Jizzler (6:43 PM) - Reply

Yeah, not as exciting after watching the video...

by Salsoolo (6:47 PM) - Reply

fake! the video is for a folding farm. the link posted by ThomasDM

by BigBruser13 (7:00 PM) - Reply

wow now what is this guy going to do when the quad gtx 390 comes out. see the pictures of it in the link. You will trip out. I can't believe Techpowerup has not mentioned it at all.

by [I.R.A]_FBi (7:06 PM) - Reply

^ its a joke april fools http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f78/nvidia-geforce-gtx-390-spy-pics-204159/

by btarunr (7:10 PM) - Reply

All running on MSI AMD 790FX motherboards (no SLI). It's far from being the "ultimate gaming hardware", as only one of those 23 cards will be able to render a single 3D application at a time. Should've named it "ultimate folding hardware".

by thebluebumblebee (7:18 PM) - Reply

OLD news: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1217159&postcount=4280

by Jizzler (7:21 PM) - Reply

Unless someone does a real 16-gpu single rig, I'm not going to be impressed. Money = more PPD, but it doesn't always get you e-peen points! ;)

by PCpraiser100 (7:26 PM) - Reply

Great find! That means if I owned this rig I would play Crysis @ max settings while folding! :D

by goneoffthedeepend (7:27 PM) - Reply

The video link is also sort of incorrect. The video is his, but someone lifted and put their name on it. Atlas Folder posted here http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/foldinghome_user_crams_23_geforce_gtx_295_videocards_a_single_server about that in the comments.

by newconroer (7:44 PM) - Reply

The only thing exciting about that, or potentially exciting, is if one of the pretty blue lights suddenly went red or dead. :D

by wolf2009 (7:45 PM) - Reply

by: goneoffthedeepend
The video link is also sort of incorrect. The video is his, but someone lifted and put their name on it. Atlas Folder posted here http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/foldinghome_user_crams_23_geforce_gtx_295_videocards_a_single_server about that in the comments.

READ THIS GUYS ! People over at OCN were saying the same thing

by btarunr (7:51 PM) - Reply

Story Updated. Thanks for the observations.

by a_ump (7:52 PM) - Reply

yea, some hardcore PPD for sure, that's a 1-man team lol. but a waste imo

by lemonadesoda (7:58 PM) - Reply

I|m sure that this guy has had a lot of fun building 6 machines into a 19 inch rack. But 6x 4 GTXs could be improved using a PCIe expansion bay. Since this is a folding farm and not GPU SLI, he doesnt need x16 slots, so an extension bay would be quite practical. He could use x4 for the cards, and easily drive 8 or 16 cards from ONE PC.

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