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Simply put, 4 9800GX2s (not necessarily in SLi) and a Phenom processor (no Intel boards support such cards) can beat multi million pound/euro/whatever computer farm (200+ dual core processors) in some applications. It uses nVidia's CUDA.

Needs watercooling though. Those cards get awfully toasty.

I guess that's why they keep the side of the case open in all the pictures and videos I've seen.

Yeah, it says in the article they have serious heat issues (can get to 100C) and are looking into a solution. I think W/C would be an ideal solution. 3 loops - CPU/mobo, and 2 dual graphics loops, each with atleast a dual fan radiator.

Corrr... that sort of setup demands the PC-343

The PC-343?

Their cable job is the best I've ever seen

I've just noticed - why the hell are they using XP64?!

Yeah... looks like only the GFX cards are connect.

The PC-343:



Can't find it on their official website though

Ah, yes, or a mountain mods, lol.

I just thought, they could spend half a mill and get a hundred of these in a cluster, that would be incredible performance. Though sourcing 400 GX2s might be difficult, lol.

Also, you can see the mobo power is in the same bundle as the GPU and what appears to be 2 SATA cables and a bunch of front port connectors going to the right.

cool, id love to have one of thos, but 4 9800gx2s in a maxishine comp can only max out 80 fps in crysis benchmark

It's not really worth the money for gaming, and you'd be better off with tri-SLI/Crossfire and an Intel processor, lol. Also, you might aswell use GTX280s now. Would be good for bragging, though.

The main point of this is to show how much grunt graphics cards have, being able to do supercomputer jobs on a desktop scale, and FASTER.

yes ur right, but gtx 280s cost over £470!! more than my laptop!! which can still run crysis on high at a playable 10fps,

lol im so good i can play at 10 fps

Heh, yeah, but when they built this PC, so did the GX2s, lol. It's not particulary cheap, but when it's beating multi-million supercomputer clusters for what they want, it's an absolute bargain.

I saw a post on a forum that said "I never thought I'd see the words "4 9800GX2's" and "great value" in the same sentence". LOL!

Heh, yeah. I still want to see them spend as much as they normally do on one of these for a supercomputer. 100 of these in a supercluster would be insane performance!

wow, never would have guessed that
i wants one.
Liquid Nitrogen would be a *cheap and very safe* solution for the heating problem

It would be incredibly expensive and dangerous, lol. All the LqN would evapourate, people who overclock using it have to have another person keep it topped up.

Watch this video on Youtube.

meh, 25k nps. and its not that cold...

Nooo, -170 odd is not cold AT ALL.

sure isn't. i've been out in worse

It was just as I was walking out of the alien space ship when the weather suddenly got really cold and everyone froze. I met a man who had turned parts of an alien creature in to a weapon. What a trip. Liquid Nitrogen is nothing compared to that.

The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was around -70C, recorded at the polls or in Siberia.

And Aaron, Crysis isn't real.

BTW, if you really want cold, get some liquid helium

what about liquid hydrogen?

What about some liquid liquid!?

water cooled oh yeah

Liquid hydrogen would be better, but incredibly dangerous. Anyway, Liquid helium is less than 10K, I think, which is plenty cold enough.