Post your dream setup!

well my dream setup would be something outrageous, but there. Probably set it up with a i7-3820, GTX690 2 way SLI, and SSD with say 2 512GB in RAID 0 for gaming. Then I would build one with Linux under say a 2100 or something with 6 or so 3TB 7200 RPM drives in RAID 0 (not for speed, but rather to have it as 1 massive drive. After all that is ~18 TB of storage space there) to keep movies, and just overall junk space. Set them up with a KVM switch and keep them running 100% of the time and all would be great in my world.
 
2 xeons would be good for gaming, but it is not a gaming chip. There is no need for 2 cpus, for folding@home, yes, but if you could have a dream setup, why use your folding@homeas a gamer? Get 2 machines. I have never seen a motherboard compatible with 2 3960x's. 2 xeon's only. A 3960x would most likly be just as good as 2 xeons in gaming.
 
byteninja2 said:
2 xeons would be good for gaming, but it is not a gaming chip. There is no need for 2 cpus, for folding@home, yes, but if you could have a dream setup, why use your folding@homeas a gamer? Get 2 machines. I have never seen a motherboard compatible with 2 3960x's. 2 xeon's only. A 3960x would most likly be just as good as 2 xeons in gaming.
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Show me these "gaming chips"

And as an fyi, Xeons are just a regular chip binned to run cooler, lower voltage at higher clocks, etc.
 
Okay, after some extensive research, you guys are right, but not by to much. An i7 6 is supperior to an 8 core xeon. 2 xeons are far supperior to a 6 core i7, but by the time we use 16 cores, the cpu will be so old it wont matter. 16 cores in gaming would be the only reason you would want 2 xeons.
 
Most games use like 2 cores at most so I still wouldn't care for the gaming. I would use the 16 cores for folding.
 
2x3690X, 2x690, 128gb RAM, 4x512gb SSDs RAID0, 5x2tb 7200RPM RAID 0.

Run a virtual Windows installation through RAMdisk.
 
Perkomate said:
2x3690X, 2x690, 128gb RAM, 4x512gb SSDs RAID0, 5x2tb 7200RPM RAID 0.

Run a virtual Windows installation through RAMdisk.
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Yes, please divert the conversation from xeon cpus. I love the idea of a ramdisk, I think 16 GB for os and the rest for Ramdisk. I dot know how you make a permanant ramdisk, though. Im not sure if 2 3960xs are compatible though, i think its just xeons.
 
wolfeking said:
SSD with say 2 512GB in RAID 0 for gaming.
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Don't like RAID-0 all that much myself, and apparently striping SSDs isn't a great idea because you lose TRIM. A single 512GB SSD would be fast enough. Doubt you'd notice much difference between 1x512GB SSD vs 2x512GB striped SSDs. Also remember hard drives in RAID-0 are theoretically twice as likely to fail and when one fails you lose everything. :/

If you want multiple drives to be seen as one large disk though, I suppose RAID-0 is the way to go.
 
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If I have enough to drop in 2 512GB SSDs do you think I am worried about if it breaks. And that is true of anything you install more than one of in anything. If you install SLI, you are double as likely to loose one. If you have 4 sticks of ram your 4x more likely to have a failure. Flat lining it, assuming 10% likelyhood of failure, your still less than 10 years ago, and will still be more than 10 years from now.

Second thing, I am not after speed there. It would be 1TB that way, and could if wanted to be split in the future to run a different OS, or install a single massive program to one.

byteninja2 said:
Raid 0+1, performance of rid 0 and security of raid 1.
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No. That to me is plain stupid at this point. As you go up to 4 drives and only get 1/2 its size if i understand it right. Now you are going from double as likely of failure to 4 times as likely and get nothing other than that feeling that you can fail and keep your data. Thats what a NAS server is for. That is why I can reload my OS on a weekly basis for the hell of it and still have security. And not need to quadruple my fail rate.
 
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