newtekie1
Semi-Retired Folder
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- Nov 22, 2005
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- Indiana, USA
Processor | Intel Core i7 10850K@5.2GHz |
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Motherboard | AsRock Z470 Taichi |
Cooling | Corsair H115i Pro w/ Noctua NF-A14 Fans |
Memory | 32GB DDR4-3600 |
Video Card(s) | RTX 2070 Super |
Storage | 500GB SX8200 Pro + 8TB with 1TB SSD Cache |
Display(s) | Acer Nitro VG280K 4K 28" |
Case | Fractal Design Define S |
Audio Device(s) | Onboard is good enough for me |
Power Supply | eVGA SuperNOVA 1000w G3 |
Software | Windows 10 Pro x64 |
I think I might spend some tax refund money on a Folding Farm in a box.
Here is the parts I'm thinking of using:
4x 9800GX2(I hope to get a decent deal on these used, otherwise I might go for 2x GTX295's and add 2 more once they are cheap)
MSI K9A2 Platinum
Phenom 9600 2.3GHz Quad-Core
2x2GB DDR2-800
80GB SATA Hard Drive
600w OCZ StealthXStream+ThermalTake PowerExpress 650w(I already have this, and it is a dedicated PSU for the graphics cards)
ThermalTake Armor+
What do you think? I'm wondering if I can drop the CPU down to something even cheaper. I doubt I'll be running the SMP client on this, just the GPUs, so would a dual core be able to handle it? Of course Vista x64 will be used so that the GPU client doesn't kill the CPU.
I did a quick build on newegg, and it comes to a little over $1600 for everything, but I'm hoping to find a lot of it used, and I'll definitely be shopping around, especially the video cards. They were $260 on newegg, I'm hoping to find them for $200 or less.
Here is the parts I'm thinking of using:
4x 9800GX2(I hope to get a decent deal on these used, otherwise I might go for 2x GTX295's and add 2 more once they are cheap)
MSI K9A2 Platinum
Phenom 9600 2.3GHz Quad-Core
2x2GB DDR2-800
80GB SATA Hard Drive
600w OCZ StealthXStream+ThermalTake PowerExpress 650w(I already have this, and it is a dedicated PSU for the graphics cards)
ThermalTake Armor+
What do you think? I'm wondering if I can drop the CPU down to something even cheaper. I doubt I'll be running the SMP client on this, just the GPUs, so would a dual core be able to handle it? Of course Vista x64 will be used so that the GPU client doesn't kill the CPU.
I did a quick build on newegg, and it comes to a little over $1600 for everything, but I'm hoping to find a lot of it used, and I'll definitely be shopping around, especially the video cards. They were $260 on newegg, I'm hoping to find them for $200 or less.