OUTRAGOUES computer building contest!
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kookooshortman55
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Yeah go for the 24 SSD setup. That'll add a nice $20,000 to your computer 
Yeah go for the 24 SSD setup. That'll add a nice $20,000 to your computer
Better than that... Instead of an SSD you could go with a RAM drive instead. These would be much more "cost effective" if you get the more capable units and not this cheaper Gigabyte system.
I can't seem to find any info at the moment on the systems that pre-dated the i-Ram drives. I remember looking into this several years ago. I am sure something of this sort would be worthy of the uber-system.
just a noob
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http://www.ncixus.com/products/16611/GC-RAMDISK/Gigabyte/ only problem is the 4gb capacity, i may still look for an iram hdd to play with
dubesinhower
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my hardware class has played around with those ram harddrives. they said something about it not holding data very well... lol
How about SLI Voodoos? That would be soo insane
Voodoo? Are you talking of 3Dfx??
I think the point here is to build something outrageously priced and modern.
Yeah, I've been trying to find the company that makes a 64GB capable version. That would fit this topic very well.
That's why you will see that most of them have battery backups. Regular old RAM will not hold its data without power like Flash based RAM will.
Drives like this have been around in server environments for years.
just a noob
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the one thing that would turn me off of a ram drive in a server environment is the fact that its volitile, or you had best figure out how to turn on some seagate cheetah's to back up your data when the power goes out(i would imagine they have some bigass ups to do so lol)
Exactly, which is why, as I said, those systems usually are battery backed. And, yes, you are quite close. They also typically have some sort of non-volatile backup as well if they are not just in use as temporary database storage for instance.
dubesinhower
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we need one of those phaze changing coolers or whatever theyre called. those are mad expensive lol.
just a noob
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look into a 3 stage cascade, i can remember on another forum, a guy built a 4stage cascade, he had a 10,000 euro budget that he almost blew
he figured it consumed 1 euro worth of electricity per hour of useA peltier cooler? They aren't too expensive.
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look into a 3 stage cascade, i can remember on another forum, a guy built a 4stage cascade, he had a 10,000 euro budget that he almost blew
There you go!
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dubesinhower
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we need two of them for this beast remember?
Ha ha! Technically we would need four. The board just a noob posted is a quad-socket board.
dubesinhower
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our next task is to buy the parts and assemble. lol
