I'm Back! with a 6-core

[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 When that ticket arrives I'll fit in two HD 6990s as well....