can any of these 'handle' 5-boxing

http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_s...puter_wtb.html

take a look and tell me if its not as good as my hardware-noobish brain thinks it is

Those are not gaming PC's

neither is the one i 5-box on

I am simply guessing but I think those machines all use a non-gaming OS. Would be nice to have that kind of power but the processors are most likely optimized for a different environment than gaming.

most OSes can run Wine (or something similar)
so why not on these.

with that much power(or atleast as much as my brain intepretes it to be) they should be able to run wow x 5

What I am thinking is they will be missing certain "instructions" that normal gaming processors have i.e. mmx. With out those instructions they would actually be a pig trying to run applications that required those instructions in the processor. If they were that good then wouldn't one of these benchmark/hardware websites have already done fantasy testing on the platform as a whole? I am just guessing here and hopefully someone who knows better can chime in and help :D .

maybe they're to expensive for most hardware testing sites


12k $ for the BOXX

You can get one of these to run Windows.They do play WoW well, the problem is all of that power won't matter. These computers are for programs that have been coded to use the Nvidia Tesla GPUs. One of the distributed computing centers I frequent has one of these. They use it for artifact imaging. Thats all their good for, the impact on a consumer program is minimal at most. Give it a 2 billion frame 3d movie and it can work on that, or give it a complex 3D model that needs to be meshed for Finite element analysis or a complicated flow system that needs to be tested in ANSYS or any other CFD programs. It will tackles those like a champ, these are made for the companies or person(s) that need quick rendering but cant afford to have a distributed computing system.