A supercomputer wow...

[Ammyneac]

I found a eBay website on supercomputers and it is a huge benefit for gaming pros. But the price is 15 times expensive then Alienware. (I'm not spamming I just want to list how cool it is.)
Here's the video link for summary and how he built it http://adfoc.us/21014237441951

Pros: (simplified)
4x Nivida GTX GEforce (Best GPU)
Primary: 2 SSD Samsung 512 GB (SSD Solid State Drive loads apps faster)
Secondary: 3x 2TB HDD (HDD = Hard Disk Drive)
ASUS Rampage IV Black Edition (Motherboard)
Intel Core i7-4960X (The best CPU there is my opinion)
Custom-made and beautiful LED lights
Water Cooled PC

Cons: (simplified as possible)
The Nivida can eat away a large chuck of CPU if performed under extreme game visuals and/or overclocking (Using more performance than normal.)

SSD: Although SSD are better than HDD due to fast processing and other stuff, it could wear down speed over time.
HDD: Hard Drive Disk takes a while to load a software and it is vulnerable to crashing and instability if dropped.
ASUS Ramage IV Black Edition: It takes huge amount of power to power the motherboard.
Intel Core i7- generally draws a bit of huge power to handle the proccess throughout the motherboard.

Water cooling - If there is one leak on any pipe, Game Over.

If there any mistakes please tell me thanks.
And also what is your reaction?

[CharlieHorse]

Build it yourself from scratch it's WAY cheaper and more fun also you get better options.

[Miserabilia]

Build it yourself from scratch it's WAY cheaper and more fun also you get better options.

True, I wish I knew how xD

[CharlieHorse]

True, I wish I knew how xD

it doesn't take much. There's LOADS of great guides and how-tos all over the internet.
It's worth it, and you'll learn a ton about computers doing it.
My gaming PC is like my baby :3

[Plane And Simple]

which GeForce is it using? And is it SLI or Crossfire or what? I find 4 too overkill

[CharlieHorse]

also, what samsung ssd, what hdd, what water cooling is used?

and the graphics cards?
i have a single gtx 770 which has been serving me well :)
what case?

monitor?
mechanical keyboard ;)? (they are hand sex)

[TheMatrix]

The biggest con of that setup presents itself in the form of your electricity bill at the end of every month, and the temperature of the surrounding environment(that's effectively a space heater right there, and I thought my Pentium 4 runs hot!).

Moreover, what does one do with this? Mine Bitcoins/Litecoins/Dogecoins/whatever-it-is-this-week? You must be crazy to do that.

[JamesSuperBoy]

Water cooled - never heard of that before.

[Silicate Wielder]

Dont use a supercomputer for gaming under any circumstances, they're only able to do basic calculations, and cant really display any sort of fancy graphics. if you run even just a windows 98 game, I doubt it would be able to do much more than show you your main menu at best.
Maybe 50 years in the future we will have these small enough to run as desktop computers, but until, then don't do it.

EDIT: dismiss this, I thought you were talking about quantum computers. lol

anyway, the biggest con as imcoobeans stated, is the damage it will have on your electric bill, unless you plan on having a large wind turbine set up in your back yard, which still would require maintenance. dont do it. just stick with your top end gaming computers.

[Ammyneac]

also, what samsung ssd, what hdd, what water cooling is used?

and the graphics cards?
i have a single gtx 770 which has been serving me well :)
what case?

monitor?
mechanical keyboard ;)? (they are hand sex)

Monitor and keyboard is not included.

There is 4 new (I think) 2013 Nividia GTX Geforce
The HDD and SSD is same old same old

Water cooled - never heard of that before.

Water cooling is best, because water absorbs more heat than air, however a leak could damage the whole computer.

Air on the other hand is best but it can clog up dust and other foreign materials over time...

which GeForce is it using? And is it SLI or Crossfire or what? I find 4 too overkill

EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 6GB

ignore... down below
(Thanks for reminder)

[DeadEyes]

it doesn't take much. There's LOADS of great guides and how-tos all over the internet.
It's worth it, and you'll learn a ton about computers doing it.
My gaming PC is like my baby :3

Nice contradiction there, if it doesn't take much then why is there so many guides and why would you learn so much from it? You got to know what you're doing, especially considering the price of certain parts.

which GeForce is it using? And is it SLI or Crossfire or what? I find 4 too overkill

I was about to ask that question myself and to answer yours: GeForce is SLI and Radeon is Crossfire (Two names for the exact same thing). That would be 4 way SLI and I do think it's a bit too much as well eh.

But speaking of too much, there is multi CPU sockets motherboards as well so you can have 2 or 4 processors in there.

Even more so, if you use a dual GPU video card times 4 then you end up with 8 graphic processors in there but then again, motherboards supporting 8 video chips (4 video cards each having 2 chips) are rare and very expensive.

I personally enjoy building computers as well which means I enjoy my job since it's one of the things I do for a living.

The GeForce GTX TITAN is basically a GeForce GTX 600 and it has almost twice the graphic power a PS4 or Xbox One has so I think just 1 is more than enough for gaming hehe

But if you want to go nuts, the GeForce GTX 690 does have 2 GPUs like I was talking about and is significantly more powerful than the TITAN.

[Mastretta]

If you say alien ware is even close to a super computer I can't help you. I hate water cooling too it's too dangerous and you have to know what you're doing to damage your parts

[Gopher]

There are so many flaws in the original post...

First of all this is not a supercomputer its a computer, supercomputers take up rooms and have 100x the amount of processing power used for highly advance calculations and running physics simulations...etc

4 X Nvidia GPU could mean anything, it could mean 4 660's run in SLI, which is not that impressive, or it could be 4 Titans, which is 4000 dollars of GPU right there. The model number is the difference between 1000$ and 4000$.

SSD's are used as boot drives for an operating system and commonly used programs. The Con about them is that the degrade after a lot of writes to them. Essentially the more you change the data (erase and rewrite) the more likely it is too die. However this is on a scale of years so it is not a very big con.

Power consumption, if everything is running under load then yes you will have a massive power consumption resulting in a high energy bill.

The biggest issue with this computer is that it is UNNECESSARY. With this setup you are looking at something that can run 4K with ease. While 4k is cool there is very little available that needs 4K support and you need a monitor that can run it.

This build is approximately 6000-10000$ depending on brand and quality of parts being used.

[CharlieHorse]

Nice contradiction there, if it doesn't take much then why is there so many guides and why would you learn so much from it? You got to know what you're doing, especially considering the price of certain parts.


Contradiction?
It doesn't take much to learn how to do it because there are guides. There are so many guides because it's easy to do, people like making guides on how to do things.
You learn a lot, but it doesn't take much.


EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 6GB

This is ridiculous why would you ever need a titan?

Please don't double post. Use the multi-quote instead. -TheMatrix

[Plane And Simple]

Nice contradiction there, if it doesn't take much then why is there so many guides and why would you learn so much from it? You got to know what you're doing, especially considering the price of certain parts.



I was about to ask that question myself and to answer yours: GeForce is SLI and Radeon is Crossfire (Two names for the exact same thing). That would be 4 way SLI and I do think it's a bit too much as well eh.

But speaking of too much, there is multi CPU sockets motherboards as well so you can have 2 or 4 processors in there.

Even more so, if you use a dual GPU video card times 4 then you end up with 8 graphic processors in there but then again, motherboards supporting 8 video chips (4 video cards each having 2 chips) are rare and very expensive.

I personally enjoy building computers as well which means I enjoy my job since it's one of the things I do for a living.

The GeForce GTX TITAN is basically a GeForce GTX 600 and it has almost twice the graphic power a PS4 or Xbox One has so I think just 1 is more than enough for gaming hehe

But if you want to go nuts, the GeForce GTX 690 does have 2 GPUs like I was talking about and is significantly more powerful than the TITAN.

Thanks for the reply. I was thinking it is in fact way too much, thanks for confirming it. I'd say 2 GPUs is more than enough for today's games.

[Ammyneac]

Contradiction?
It doesn't take much to learn how to do it because there are guides. There are so many guides because it's easy to do, people like making guides on how to do things.
You learn a lot, but it doesn't take much.



This is ridiculous why would you ever need a titan?

Please don't double post. Use the multi-quote instead. -TheMatrix

I'm not saying I want to buy it right now
I'm just want to know what is everybody reaction

[Plane And Simple]

Well my reaction is that it's WAY too much And It'll get your electricity bill up like 50%

[DeadEyes]

Contradiction?
You learn a lot, but it doesn't take much.

This is ridiculous why would you ever need a titan?

Please don't double post. Use the multi-quote instead. -TheMatrix

Contradiction indeed, if you need to learn a alot then it does take much learning.

And ever need 4 TITAN even less.

Thanks for the reply. I was thinking it is in fact way too much, thanks for confirming it. I'd say 2 GPUs is more than enough for today's games.

Even 1 is enough, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti or GTX 760 has as much graphics power than a PS4/XB1

Well my reaction is that it's WAY too much And It'll get your electricity bill up like 50%

Right, bigger gear needs bigger power supply and so use more juice.

[Plane And Simple]

Contradiction indeed, if you need to learn a alot then it does take much learning.

And ever need 4 TITAN even less.



Even 1 is enough, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti or GTX 760 has as much graphics power than a PS4/XB1



Right, bigger gear needs bigger power supply and so use more juice.

I'm just going for a safe bet. I know a 560 could cope with today's tames nicely.

[phuckphace]

It's high-end and pointlessly overpowered but I don't think it qualifies as a supercomputer. Supercomputers take up a big ass room and cost millions of dollars.

[Gopher]

I'm just going for a safe bet. I know a 560 could cope with today's tames nicely.

A 560? Thats a lot underpowered for todays games, Maybe 2 of them run in SLI, A single 560 will give you low fps at high resolution, to get a playable experiance you will need to crank all your settings to low quality, it can handle it, just definitely not "nicely"

[Plane And Simple]

A 560? Thats a lot underpowered for todays games, Maybe 2 of them run in SLI, A single 560 will give you low fps at high resolution, to get a playable experiance you will need to crank all your settings to low quality, it can handle it, just definitely not "nicely"

Oops my mistake. 760 I meant to say.

[Gopher]

Oops my mistake. 760 I meant to say.

Ahh that makes more sense, I run a 760 in my rig right now, worth every dollar and can run current gen games nicely.

[CharlieHorse]

Contradiction indeed, if you need to learn a alot then it does take much learning.



Jesus Christ.
You don't need to learn a lot to build a computer well. You end up learning a lot anyway. And it's easy to learn because the complicated ideas are simplified and displayed and explained well in the many resources you can find online. Guides and such.

[DeadEyes]

You don't need to learn a lot to build a computer well. You end up learning a lot anyway

No need to say more.

A 560? Thats a lot underpowered for todays games, Maybe 2 of them run in SLI, A single 560 will give you low fps at high resolution, to get a playable experiance you will need to crank all your settings to low quality, it can handle it, just definitely not "nicely"

I would say it's fine for most games but it might fall short on some newer shooter games especially in multi player and will definitely be underpowered for the new gen games coming.

Please don't doublee post: use multi-quote instead. -TheMatrix

[keychameleon]

With the two SSD you should set up RAID 0 to make them 2 times faster or in my opinion if you had the money get an NAS Device they normally hold up to 71TB and can set up pretty much any raid you want on them. Also just because you got an Geforce GTX doesn't make it the best and the way you have configured the computer and what your power supply is because I know that with my 4x GTX 780 Ti with everything on top it needs a 1500W Power Supply also with the motherboard was a mistake as it is one x 16x slot on the PCI-E slot a better choice would have been the Asrock Extreme 11 with the bonus SAS slots and all the PCI-E buses are Gen3 with 16x all the way across and you should have gone with 3x graphics cards because the 4th one is only for PhysX which I doubt you would need for a gaming rig. One last thing there are better CPU's my favorite is the E5-2687W v2 for a gaming computer plus it also goes into the Motherboard i mentioned earlier which most boards don't unless a server board

[jayce_xt]

No need to say more.

Wow. Just... wow. The reason there are so many guides on building computers is because it's a fun thing that anyone can learn, and many, MANY people are willing to teach it because it's that easy. I followed a guide, myself, and it was simple. Stop talking about "contradictions" when you clearly don't know what one is.

Back on topic: this computer is so unnecessary. And so expensive. I really think it's an attempt by parts manufacturers to excite tech nerds into buying loads of really expensive parts for really pointless profits so they can rake in a few extra bucks.

[DeadEyes]

Wow. Just... wow. The reason there are so many guides on building computers is because it's a fun thing that anyone can learn, and many, MANY people are willing to teach it because it's that easy. I followed a guide, myself, and it was simple. Stop talking about "contradictions" when you clearly don't know what one is.

Back on topic: this computer is so unnecessary. And so expensive. I really think it's an attempt by parts manufacturers to excite tech nerds into buying loads of really expensive parts for really pointless profits so they can rake in a few extra bucks.

Saying that it doesn't take much but that you will learn a lot obviously is a contradiction, if you learn a lot then it does require a lot of learning?

Speaking of which, not everybody is willing or able to learn about everything you need to build a computer from scratch, if it would be so simple, there wouldn't be as many computer techs being paid that much.

If you are going to do more than play games, actually make games or CG for movies or animated movies you will need something this powerful so no, it's not so unnecessary.

[HahaWaitWhat]

Jeeeeeeez. That's a little too flashy for me. I'd rather have the Dream Machine 2013 that Maximum PC built. Lol they both cost about the same too.

[parzzival]

Dang. Im jellous

[douglaseverett1998]

You want to see a cool computer, look up the dwave. It's a quantum computer that operates at just above absolute zero. Since its a quantum computer, it's binary code can exist in both states; it's not just a 1 or 0, it's both.