Quad 7990's Game Rig

[Jegergrim]

Definately going to follow this thread, hopefully you'll log/record your work so that the rest of us will get to experience what the feeling is like to behold a true gaming rig being born at its prime time (maybe even dream about building one afterwards )

 

[INSTG8R]

I mean at this point I would just sit on it for a little while longer with Ivy Bridge just around the corner. I mean if your going for the "Go Big or Go Home" Rig only makes sense to wait it out.

I mean I just did my "Go Big or Go Home"(by my standards anyway) This past summer. I am just patiently waiting for the "GFX Card Wars" to "begin" so I can finish mine.

You have Ivy Bridge to consider and well AMD has released their "Big Gun" and NV has yet to fire a shot across the bow in return so if I was in your shoes I would sit on the plan and think about the rest of the nuts and bolts like case, monitors and resolutions and sit back and watch the upcoming battles unfold.

 

[repman244]

I mean at this point I would just sit on it for a little while longer with Ivy Bridge just around the corner. I mean if your going for the "Go Big or Go Home" Rig only makes sense to wait it out.

I mean I just did my "Go Big or Go Home"(by my standards anyway) This past summer. I am just patiently waiting for the "GFX Card Wars" to "begin" so I can finish mine.

You have Ivy Bridge to consider and well AMD has released their "Big Gun" and NV has yet to fire a shot across the bow in return so if I was in your shoes I would sit on the plan and think about the rest of the nuts and bolts like case, monitors and resolutions and sit back and watch the upcoming battles unfold.

The only issues with Ivy is that's it's delayed (and that's not even for the high end segment!), I would expect the 6/8 core Ivy CPU's to be out at the end of 2012.

 

[OneHotOutSpokenBitch]

I plan on upgrading when ever new hardware (latest) has been out a month or so , so I can check benchmarks and such before upgrading. As for games, there isn't any I don't play or atleast havn't tried. Right now I'm on the racing "wagon" . Friends come over every weekend and we sit and play from Friday till Sunday late with no sleep lol . As I said I like all, racing and fighting having hold on my intrests right now.

I doubt that about Newegg but you never know I guess. I personally have never had an issue. If you can get it at cost then go with that. Just watch the taxes. What kind of games are you looking to play and how often you plan on upgrading?

 

[brandonwh64]

I plan on upgrading when ever new hardware (latest) has been out a month or so , so I can check benchmarks and such before upgrading. As for games, there isn't any I don't play or atleast havn't tried. Right now I'm on the racing "wagon" . Friends come over every weekend and we sit and play from Friday till Sunday late with no sleep lol . As I said I like all, racing and fighting having hold on my intrests right now.

Only bad thing about racing games and the PC is there are not many simulator style games like forza or grand turismo for the PC

I have seen that they may be one coming out soon.

 

[Delta6326]

I plan on upgrading when ever new hardware (latest) has been out a month or so , so I can check benchmarks and such before upgrading. As for games, there isn't any I don't play or atleast havn't tried. Right now I'm on the racing "wagon" . Friends come over every weekend and we sit and play from Friday till Sunday late with no sleep lol . As I said I like all, racing and fighting having hold on my intrests right now.

Rfactor or iracing? You should definitely check out SimRacing TV

Racing is my main gaming hobby I want to purchase a BMW Z4 GT for $85k

 

[TheMailMan78]

I plan on upgrading when ever new hardware (latest) has been out a month or so , so I can check benchmarks and such before upgrading. As for games, there isn't any I don't play or atleast havn't tried. Right now I'm on the racing "wagon" . Friends come over every weekend and we sit and play from Friday till Sunday late with no sleep lol . As I said I like all, racing and fighting having hold on my intrests right now.

Well a duel CPU board might not be the best choice if you are only going to game and upgrade that often. It could cause more issues then benifits. I would stick to a single fast CPU, fast storage and a multi GPU setup. As of right now AMD scales better then NVIDIA and thier multi-monitor support is better. Drivers suck so find a driver that works and run with that. So here is what I would do....

CPU: Intel, wait for the new Sandy to drop within the month or so.
GPU: AMD 7990. Two of them. No more
HD: SSD SATA 6 x4 RAID 0
PSU: 1000w+ Gold. Nothing less.
CASE: Full size LIAN-LI. You are gonna need the space.
Cooling: This is only if you gonna be OCing. Otherwise stock is fine.

 

[Horrux]

Here's what I would do...

CPU: Intel, wait for the new Sandy to drop within the month or so.
GPU: AMD 7990. Two of them. No more
HD: SSD SATA 6 x8 RAID 10 <-- Speed is good, speed + reliability is better.
PSU: 1000w+ Gold. Nothing less.
CASE: Full size LIAN-LI. You are gonna need the space. <-- Lian-Li is probably the very best, I agree.
Cooling: Water since you WILL be overclocking. If you don't overclock, you're not going to get the highest-performing rig you can get. Two loops, one for the video cards and one for the CPU, ideally.
Display solution: Why do people ignore this? It's VERY VERY important. Get 6 x 120hz 1080p projectors and build the penultimate ultra-resolution video wall. Your gaming experience will be A LOT LESS ENJOYABLE without this, no matter how insanely great your other hardware is. I posted it before, but yes, something like this:

 

[Darkleoco]

Subbed for immense interest.

 

[chaotic_uk]

I'm uncertain as to who you are, or if you just wanted to know if I was blond in a sarcastic sense or not. Either way, perhaps we know each other. When I read where you asked if I was blond, and saw the .uk after your name, two names of people I know in the U.K. came to mind. To answer your question first, yes I am honestly blond. Is your name by chance Matt or Aron?

thought so and no

 

[theeldest]

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... I'd like to know that since I'm FEMALE , I don't have a dick. ...
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... let me tell you a story. j/k


Seriously, though. As you're new on the forum (as far as we can tell, at least) here's one bit of advice: Trust FitSeries. He's done the super high end and is in a much better position to give good advice.


The system to my left is my highest end I've run. But in my experience (and from reading a stupid number of reviews/benchmarks) the only reason you'd think of doing dual socket for gaming would be to feed the monstrous GPUs. With x79, however, you get PCIe 3.0 and quad socket memory. You're effectively getting the bandwidth you'd have for two x58 processors in a single x79.

And also as Fit mentioned, you can overclock on the single socket i7s but not on the dual socket Xeons.

For the best gaming performance I'd go x79 with dual 7990s on release or tri-7970s. (or wait for 680s from nVidia if you're inclined.)

For the WOW!! factor you could do something fun like phase change cooling over water cooling or whip up a fat peltier cooler,


TL;DR:
1. Listen to Fit
2. Go massive overclock on single socket over dual socket

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

I personally don't care if money is a issue or not. But if you build this contraption please at the very least install World Community Grid. Just pm me for the user name and team to use and password. LOL


Now Who will be banging out the ppd's.

 

[linoliveira]

Hello! And Welcome to TPU!

I think your desire of having the most powerful machine man can build is very exciting, but it’s not really the best for what you want. I’ll explain myself:

Games nowadays don’t require much CPU power (an example of that is BF3 that can't even stress my i5 2500k).
Games nowadays use 1 to 4 threads (some can use more, but not really need to, like BF3). So, from having a CPU with 4 threads playing a game that uses 2 threads, you won’t benefit from having 6, 8 or 20 threads! Imagine a game that uses 2 threads, the best performing chip on that game will be the one which has most performance with 2 cores active, so it’s better to have an overclocked, fast CPU than 2 slow CPU’s drawing 2x more power while being slower.

The best option you have now (with no money restriction) is the core i7 3960X six-core processor (which has 12 threads to play around). You can overclock it to 4.5GHz and say you have better gaming CPU power than some folks around with 2 Xeons that can’t be overclocked.

As for GPU’s at this time, you don’t have much choice, HD 7970 XFire FTW.
Note that you might have several driver issues when running 4-way XFire, it is the most high end, yes… but from what I have heard on the forums, 3-way is more reliable with less driver issues and good scaling.

So, basically I would recommend getting the X79 platform with an extreme edition processor, 3 or 4-way 7970 Xfire, pick some 2400MHz RAM, RAID0 4 SSD’s and there you go… awesomeness of a build. Ah… and don’t forget to water cool everything up with high quality components

My mind blowing things through the air:
CPU: Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition Sandy Bridge-E
1049$
Board: ASUS Rampage IV Formula LGA 2011 X79
369$
GPU’s: Radeon HD 7970 3GB GDDR5
549$
SSD’s: Mushkin Enhanced Chronos Deluxe 120G
199$
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 2400MHz
599$

For the case, monitors and cooling parts, i think its up to your own taste, performance should not be affected.

Good luck in this awesome build! And don't forget to update the thread with shinny pics

 

[dhdude]

Subbed for what looks like an awesome build in the making! +1 to the 3960X over dual Xeons approach!

 

[Aquinus]

A: Games can barely utilize 4 threads let alone 12, so the CPU is overkill, two is just nonsense for games.
B: Games can barely support quad-crossfire setups.
C: Why are you getting huge amounts of ram when faster ram would suit your gaming purposes better?
D: Bigger doesn't always mean better. Grabbing the largest price tag just flaunts how you have money to waste, something that will infuriate people who just get by and can only afford decent hardware.

What are you trying to accomplish by telling TPU that you're going to get the best and priciest stuff. If you're just going to pick out the most expensive stuff on NewEgg, why do you need our input on what to get? It sounds like you're trying to brag and show how big your e-peen is. Have fun building your SB-E system, because it isn't for novices who think they can just throw hardware together and have it work...

 

[MikeMurphy]

Wanted to post in hopes of getting some feedback on a new game rig I'm wanting to build.
I'm looking to build the BEST and FASTEST gaming rig possible. I'm wanting a motherboard that will support dual processors . It needs to support the latest processors known to man with the best performance over all the others on the market with the latest sockets possible. (Please, this isn't a joke, or wanting to brag about wanting the best of everything, I just prefer the latest and fastest in technology for what I'm wanting).

Money isn't an issue either so please, don't hold thoughts back on what I'm wanting to build. As for motherboard I was looking at the EVGA dual processor board :

http://www.buy.com/prod/evga-270-ws...herboard-hptx-2x-intel-lga1366/217527307.html .

However, it has sockets 1136 on it. Is there a board that has later sockets that would allow dual processors that would support the latest processors known to technology ? Also would need to have support for quad 7990's . I am wanting to run 6 SSD's at 600gb's each with 1 2terabyte hd for file/screen shot storage. As for other hardware,memory rom drives ect. I know what I want . Powersupply(s) on the other hand I''m not to sure which is the best to get. I only know that it's going to require alot of "juice" to power my dreamer's game rig.

Buy a 2500k CPU, socket 1155 motherboard and a 7870 GPU and you'll be rocking. Corsair AX-series power supplies are very serious hardware.

I don't know why you'd want to piss away so much money on such a waste of a machine.

Best,

 

[AsRock]

Practcally "neighbors". Dom's in Mobile,( another forum poster). As for Newegg, I've heard horror stories that Newegg actually resells stuff as "new". Think this is true ? I have a friend here who works at a company called Tech Advanced computers. He was going to order everything from the stores supplier and sell to me just for cost.

Yeah i thought that about 3 month ago with a Intel mobo so i contacted them about it and they said send it back and they sent me another and they payed all the postage and rushed it too.


Makes me think that their is some staff that are not checking the returned items currectly.

 

[Aquinus]

Yeah i thought that about 3 month ago with a Intel mobo so i contacted them about it and they said send it back and they sent me another and they payed all the postage and rushed it too.


Makes me think that their is some staff that are not checking the returned items currectly.

There is a reason why NewEgg sells open box, re-certified, and OEM products. People get hardware, wonder why it doesn't work and return it. NewEgg gets it, tests it with hardware that is known to work and sells it again. You have no idea how many people think hardware is defective and don't even question their hardware combination choices. If you look at almost all of the reviews for the P9X79 Deluxe ASUS board, you will see Asus will ask the user for a list of the hardware they're trying to use. I've never bought a "new" item from NewEgg (non OEM, open box, or recert.) and got a seemingly used product. I have however, received OEM parts that look like they've been used before but I've had no issue when I actually use them. I've been buying hardware from NewEgg for years and have never encountered this issue.

 

[SaiZo]

Just a question, but why not invest in an Octane III by SiliconGraphics?
http://www.sgi.com/products/workgroup/octaneIII/graphics_workstation.html