I'm Back! with a 6-core

[PcManiac]

for now anyway :)
I have been building quite a number of custom AMD computers lately. I like to stress them for a few days/weeks before handing them over to my customers. what better way to push a processor then running at 100% cruching? :D

on Monday I built my first 1055T 6-core. this computer is just amazing! I have it running stock with 4GB DDR3 1600MHz G.Skill 8-8-8-24 1.6V RAM. a 1TB SATA 3 Western Digital hard drive, (Gigabyte GA-890GP-UD3H motherboard).
just a beautiful system!

running it and a couple others on Poem right now. stats are :Measured floating point speed2321.85 million ops/secMeasured integer speed8369.38 million ops/sec

X6!! oh yeah! I just wish it was mine so I could OC it :)

Anyway, just thought I would jump in here since it has been a good year or so.

you should check out my company's website, not much on there, I am just a one man show for now.

Peace!

[NeoGen]

Welcome back PcManiac! :)

Ah yes, I can imagine nothing hurts more than seeing your custom built AMD Powered babies going to the clients, especially a 6-core system like that one you just described. But I'm sure they will go to good homes, with people who will not slave drive them to the last CPU cycle as any of us would. :icon_lol:

I thought you worked at Microsoft, what's that new company of yours? Where can we see it? Does it have plenty of AMDs to show? :)

Come by when you can and give us a link. :icon_wink:

[PcManiac]

Wow, I totally thought I put a link in there, all is well, here is is! http://www.mtbakercomputerservices.com

I did use to work at M$, but that was just a 1 year contract. I was asked to come back, but I am a small town guy, and living in Redmond didn't suite me so well.
after the contract finished up, I did construction until everyone was laid off, and then started this business over a year and a half ago. (Jan 2009).

I make all my customers sign a paper promising not to abuse their systems, unless I can leave my account attached :P j/k hehe

[NeoGen]

You got a nice little website there. I was hoping to see some snapshots of your custom built rigs, but no luck just yet. Coming soon? :icon_rolleyes:

I don't know if you have been reading up on the wiki, or my blog here at AMD Users, but I have been actively developing our Team's Wiki. It's over 200 pages long already and counting! Have you checked out your profile on the Wiki? :)
http://www.amdusers.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=member:PcManiac

[PcManiac]

Yeah, I have been planning on taking pictures, and giving all the details.. I guess I should just do it!

that wiki is pretty cool! I just realized I should link AMDUsers on my site.. oops. :icon_redface:

[vaughan]

I've joined the 6 core team now having retired an Intel core 2 duo 6300.

The new system is an AMD Phenom II 1090T, GA-890FXA-UD5 motherboard, 4GB Kingston DDR 3 1600 RAM, Samsung 1TB 7200rpm SATA HDD, MSI GTX460 Hawk GPU, Antec Nine hundred two case, Seasonic 650W modular Gold series power supply, Linux Mint 64 bit operating system.

[Ramjet]

Congrats on the new system! I don't think you'll be disappointed. My 1090T is smoking my dual quad setups, averaging 3000 ppd in WCG compared to 2000 to 2100 ppd for the Octicores. But in all fairness, they are older and unable to OC them due to the server motherboards with no OC features. The 1090T will easily go to 3600 Mhz with no voltage increase.

Good Luck with the new toy! :icon_wink:

[vaughan]

Darnit, the day after I go out and buy the 1090T that X-bit labs (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20100923084511_AMD_to_Refresh_High_End_Microproces sor_Line_Next_Quarter.html) announce AMD are releasing the 1100T in the next few months.

Anyway, the C2D 6300 was too slow.

The 1090T is humming along at 3.6GHz. All I need now is to find a way to check the temps under Linux.

[Dirk Broer]

I decided to look for the current AMD Bulldozer prices, but found that all sources that previously sold them (at least on paper/on website) have removed the item. Couldn't get the needed Mobo anyway. So for now it's just upgrading my PC-farm (Still working with single-core AthlonXP+s....), replacing the AGP boards with PCIe boards and get me some nice GPUs. My 2nd hand GTX260 192 core does more than the 8 PC's currently employed for boinc together....

[Dirk Broer]

I decided to look for the current AMD Bulldozer prices, but found that all sources that previously sold them (at least on paper/on website) have removed the item.
Found the little buggers: for a mere €1,086.99 a piece they trade owner (under the veil of Opteron 6174). The Mobo, an Asus KGPE-D16, goes for €448.99. Supports up to 256GB Registered ECC or 64Gb Unbuffered ECC/non-ECC DDR3 memory at speeds of 800, 1066 and 1333MHz. Quad-Crossfire possible: four PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots.
Given unlimited money, two 6174s on this mobo give you 24 cores and together with 4 HD5970s and 256 Gb RAM you should be able to crunch your way to the #1 spot.

[PcManiac]

I've joined the 6 core team now having retired an Intel core 2 duo 6300.

The new system is an AMD Phenom II 1090T, GA-890FXA-UD5 motherboard, 4GB Kingston DDR 3 1600 RAM, Samsung 1TB 7200rpm SATA HDD, MSI GTX460 Hawk GPU, Antec Nine hundred two case, Seasonic 650W modular Gold series power supply, Linux Mint 64 bit operating system.

Good motherboard, although I have been favoring the Asus boards over Gigabyte lately.. had a few faulty ones... I love the Samsung drives! is that the F3 HD103SJ? I have 4 of them running at my office right now, and used 4 of them in a RAID 10 (or 0+1) setup for a customers desktop lol. super fast, super quiet :)
I have been building all my AMD systems with G.Skill ripjaws ram aside from the most recent 3 6-core systems that have 4GB 1600MHz OCZ AMD Black series :) so far so good!

Speaking of my recent monsters here they are:
1055T's (stock)
Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 motherboards
4GB OCZ AMD Black Edition (OCZ3BE1600C8LV4GK) 1600MHz @ 8-8-8-24 1.65v
60GB OCZ Agility 2 OCZSSD2-2AGTE60G SSD Hard Drives (Win7 gives them a 7.3 rating)
COOLER MASTER HAF 912 RC-912-KKN1 Cases (HUGE for mid-towers.. very easy to work with)
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro M600 RS-600-AMBA-D3 600W power Supplies.
75-in-1 card readers
24X DVD-RWs...

3 identical machines I am building/built for a customer. didn't need a second bigger hard drive since all their data will be on a new Dell T310 server.

I am wondering if they will let me keep a couple cores each running for me :)

At any rate, we just moved to 28th on Poem! yeah!

[vaughan]

Yes they are Samsung HDDs but I'm not sure of the model.

The Phenom 1090T is a great CPU and the Gigabyte motherboard was a good fit for the case I purchased. The ASUS motherboard I was considering required a larger than ATX case.

[Jason1478963]

It can also be a great upgrade for a number of am2+ boards. I wouldn't mind having a few more for boards that are running quads. It would also be nice to have steady work to pay for the electricity they like to consume.

[Dirk Broer]

Quads and Hexes are already becoming oldschool. The new quick risers in the various projects have taken up on the idea I posted here before: They use 2-CPU Mobo's with Opteron 6174s, giving them 24 cores. I discovered it while checking why I had dropped so many places with Malaria, which can be accounted to a glitz in the credit system, but I found amongst the top-10 hosts suddenly five 24-core beasts, with real massive scores.

[AMDave]

...and big $$-figures too by the look of the price tags on those server cpus, mobos and components.
I still recon the combo of 1050's and 1090's is a better price point and lower fail risk.
If 1 Hex goes down you still have 18 cores running on 3 other boxen, as opposed to any 1 component on the 24-core will take all 24-cores offline.
Not sure about the power equivalence though.
The 24-core might be cheaper on the power.
I'd sure like to test one out to answer the questions. ha ha ha
(Don't send me one. My wife would ... ah ... em ... say some very spirited things? LOL)

[Dirk Broer]

Big $$-figures? It depends how you look at it. There are several socket G34/LGA1944 CPUs on the market, and the Opteron 6174 is indeed a wee bit expensive, but a 8-core Opteron 6128 costs only around $240. A ASUS KGPE-D16 mobo now costs a little under $400, so you can have your 16-core monster for $880, excluding memory, disks and graphics. Considering the Opteron 61xx series consumes in general 80W, such a setup will only consume 10W per core. You can use your old cheap standard (unregistred) DDR3 RAM (up to 96 Gb) or expensive registered memory (RDIMMs) up to 256 Gb. You might also hunt for the Opteron 6124HE, 6128HE or 6164HE which only consume 65W per CPU and thus lower even further the costs of operating -in case of the 6164HE to 130Watt per 24 cores- The only thing that bothers me is the non-standard size of the mobo (SSI form factor) and the non-standard power supply it needs (look at those connectors), though I found an affordable SSI power supply in the Coolermaster Silentpro M1000 (around $130 for those 16-24 cores). The mobo will not fit my present cases either, so at present it will have to wait for the winning lottery ticket:icon_santa: When that ticket arrives I'll fit in two HD 6990s as well....:icon_mrgreen: