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what is the best rig out there???

  • 06-03-2009 10:03pm
    #1
    seanyfarrell
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    what is the best rig out there???

    well??


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  • #2
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner


  • #3
    Burgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭Burgo


    Maybe you want something like this ;)


  • #4
    Kinetic^
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    oil-rig.jpg


  • #5
    seanyfarrell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 233 ✭✭seanyfarrell


    i was thinking if i was to buy and build myself ... what would be the best.. iv built the one i have now but im kinda out of it on grafx cards and that... and processers like whats this i7 from intel...


  • #6
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    The new i7 offers nothing extra to gamers, its a server chip. No game out there uses more than one or two cores so its pointless having 8 logical cores. You'll get great value in an older penryn quadcore with 4GB of good ddr2 which is for peanuts atm. Save your money for a better graphics card as this is where money is better spent.


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  • #7
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,316 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Overheal wrote: »
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner
    A cluster with one PSU?


  • #8
    The guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭The guy


    Kinetic^ wrote: »
    oil-rig.jpg

    It even has watercooling.


  • #9
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    the_syco wrote: »
    A cluster with one PSU?
    I suppose if you can find a PSU that can pump out 2.35 Megawatts, then sure.


  • #10
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,316 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Overheal wrote: »
    I suppose if you can find a PSU that can pump out 2.35 Megawatts, then sure.
    :o Was meant to have quoted Burgo's pos.

    BTW, I'm drooling at the 1.7 petaflops :eek: :cool:


  • #11
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Overheal wrote: »
    I suppose if you can find a PSU that can pump out 2.35 Megawatts, then sure.
    You could rip the plutonium power cell for the flux capacitor from a delorean. They're good for about 1.51 Gigawatts.


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  • #12
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    Actually watched Richard Hammond yesterday explain about the worlds biggest oil rig called Troll, amazing piece of engineering, height of 472 meters and weighs 656,000 tons. Wiki

    124.jpg

    This is the view from inside a leg looking up, takes 9mins in an elevator to hit the sea floor.
    121.jpg


  • #13
    seanyfarrell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 233 ✭✭seanyfarrell


    this is about computers not oil rigs


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