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Krisonrik
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What motherboard is that? I've never seen a mother board that supports 7 double width cards. Are they all x16 slots? The best one I can find so far is the Supermicro one that has 4 x16 PCI-E slots. That's my dream machine already... if I can ever afford it.
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if only he hadn't crop the image in photoshop... we could see the generator beside the box :lol:

I'm a little envious... just a bit :evil:

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:D
Yikes!
Thats a shocker... perhaps in more ways that one.. ;)
I'm struggling to get two gpu's into my pc... :lol:

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I know EVGA just brought out a monster motherboard (http://www.evga.com/articles/00537/) but the slots aren't double width I believe. Most likely it is a Tyan, or some other monster server board. I just found a plugin for the scientific computing software they use here that pushes the code to CUDA, so I might be able to swing the powers that be to invest in something like this.
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havensole wrote:Just to get some numbers in mind, how much did the rig cost all together? I wish there were more video compression/transcoding software companies working with multi-gpu architecture. I could probably get me bosses to spring for a system like this then.
USD 20,000.
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Krisonrik wrote:What motherboard is that? I've never seen a mother board that supports 7 double width cards. Are they all x16 slots? The best one I can find so far is the Supermicro one that has 4 x16 PCI-E slots. That's my dream machine already... if I can ever afford it.
TYAN FT72B7015, it has 8x PCIe 2.0 x16 slots.
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Hmmmmmm.......... I might be able to convince them of that. Figure that's 3500 in GPU's to start, at least. PSU probably costs another grand+. Mother board another 4+ grand knowing Tyan. And the rest to the casing, CPU and ram. I'm sure one "might" be able to come in a little cheaper, but not without increasing the space, in rack spaces, required.
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Ummm... yes, please.
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SurfingAlien wrote:if only he hadn't crop the image in photoshop... we could see the generator beside the box :lol:

I'm a little envious... just a bit :evil:

(can't wait to see your videos)
Yeah, forget the render farm. Imagine the hamster farm to power the thing!

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Yoon,

Have you perform the bench scene on this machine?
If yes what are the results?
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