rofl cant deside on new hardware

[fleaplus]

The SR-2 is a waste for WoW. The game is not NUMA aware so after about thirty minutes to an hour the performance drops to below what it would be on a cheaper i7 machine. Go with the 980x (or 990x?) and get a high end single video card like the gtx480 or hd5870.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Not sure if the SR-2 will work, yes its 48G ram but I dont think either of the CPU can get to the others ram:

http://ark.intel.com/chipset.aspx?familyID=32423

http://ark.intel.com/inc/images/diagrams/diagram-17.gif

Still about time they use server chips on a gamer board.


This time next year we might be using 8G chips or at least have gamer boards that can take them:

http://www.eio.com/p-22587-super-tal...er-memory.aspx

Then with 48G in ram we can get rid of the bottleneck from the SSD.


Those small fans on the firepro cards gonna be noisey though but could probably build a sound proof box around you computer at those prices.


Hey maybe it is possible: 32G and a PCIe slot:

http://www.tyan.com/product_SKU_spec...&SKU=600000185

Hey this board DOES take 32G (4 8G chips), 2 slots empty but run at 800Mhz max still so what.

Quad Rank
32GB (4x8GB)
800MHz, 1066MHz
800MHz

You need that board and 4 of these:

http://www.tyan.com/support_download...?model=S.S5502

The 8G Kingstons.

Kingston 8GB
4rankREG./ECC RoHS KVR1066D3Q8R7S/8G Hynix H5TQ2G83AFR-H9C
REG./ECC RoHS KVR1066D3Q8R7S/8G


Ok you can get 3 displays from this single slot card and its PCIe-2.0 X 16 which FITS the above motherboard:

http://www.amd.com/us/products/works...ighlights.aspx



There are you are; the whole wow folder in system ram! No SSD needed. Assuming 32G is enough for the wow folder and 25 clients.... gonna be real close though.

[Sajuuk]

The SR-2 is a waste for WoW. The game is not NUMA aware so after about thirty minutes to an hour the performance drops to below what it would be on a cheaper i7 machine. Go with the 980x (or 990x?) and get a high end single video card like the gtx480 or hd5870.

Read the thread before posting. We're discussing a system for running 25 clients on a single system, not some normal five-boxing rig.

Not sure if the SR-2 will work, yes its 48G ram but I dont think either of the CPU can get to the others ram:

I'm unsure of how that would work or which CPUs get what, I was just assuming you'd get 48GB of ram( assuming 24 per CPU) of system ram available. How would you differentiate between the two banks within the OS anyways?




Here's an idea sam. Buy me a SR-2, 48GB of ram and two hex Xeons and I'll test it out.

For now I'll sit behind my idea of maximum performance for a 25 boxing rig accounting for the (undoubted) increase in graphics for cataclysm stands at:
SR-2
Dual Hexes (also for shits n giggles)
48GB ram (20GB RAMdisk for wow, rest for the system)
Either 6 single slots mono-gpu cards or three dual-gpu cards.

Keep in mind I like to be able to switch between any client at any given point in time. But then, rendering power required could be reduced by reducing the size and resolution of windows. As mentioned previously, requirements could be lessened further by eliminating windows swapping.


oh this is so much fun! Now I want to compare parallel computing of wow instances with nvidia's newer lineup vs amds.

[fleaplus]

Read the thread before posting. We're discussing a system for running 25 clients on a single system, not some normal five-boxing rig.

You are right. I did only try ten accounts when I was testing WoW on a multiprocessor machine. It is a shame that it did not perform well and almost astonishing that a single processor machine could perform better. It would run wonderful for a good fifteen to thirty minutes but eventually get to the point where the whole system would freeze as it loaded texture data. My friend explained to me that the application has to specifically be coded for NUMA to run properly on these types of systems, or it eventually will start using memory on the wrong processor and end up with a bottleneck in the system bus. I even tried it with an HD5870 in case the FireGL card or drivers might have been causing the problem.

[roflstomp]

ok guys this is going abit outa what i want i understand im rofl and i love to hear this but it is getting to the point to order my new pc. what i picked out was a base for you guys to help with since i dont know intel and i was going to try it out.

so please go to new egg build a wishlist SS it and post it for me then after you all post it ill look at them and we will discuss together what would be the best single cpu build.

thanks

[Owltoid]

roflstomp, just make sure whatever computer you buy can run:

http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/wr...s_Writing.html

[roflstomp]

lol saying my grammer and spelling is bad lol. btw im on my cell phone so give me alittle break.

[Sajuuk]

ok guys this is going abit outa what i want i understand im rofl and i love to hear this but it is getting to the point to order my new pc. what i picked out was a base for you guys to help with since i dont know intel and i was going to try it out.

so please go to new egg build a wishlist SS it and post it for me then after you all post it ill look at them and we will discuss together what would be the best single cpu build.

thanks

In all reality your build will probably work just fine since (I assume) you'll have the extra windows running at a much lower resolution than the main.

[roflstomp]

yes i will and is the 470 gtx cards better than the ati 6870

[Sajuuk]

yes i will and is the 470 gtx cards better than the ati 6870

I'm unsure. The 6870 is roughly equal to/slightly better than the 5850 as far as I know.