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System Owner: Oj101
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System Details

Component Type Brand Product

Motherboard EVGA Classified SR-2

CPU Intel 2x Xeon E5645

Frequency: 3.42 GHz FSB / QPI: 190 MHz Multiplier: 18 x Stepping: Default
VCore: 1.325 v VTT Voltage: Default PLL Voltage: Default

RAM Patriot 12x 4 GB DDR3-1600

Frequency: 1520 MHz Timing: 9-9-9-27 Voltage: 1.62 v

Graphics Card PowerColor Radeon HD 7970

GPU Frequency: 1125 MHz Shader Frequency: Default Memory Frequency: 6000 MHz SLI: No

Secondary Graphics

Gigabyte

GeForce GTX 580 SuperOverclock

Solid State Drive

Intel

320 Series 120 GB

Solid State Drive

Intel

520 Series 240 GB

Hard Drive

Seagate

Barracuda 3 TB

Hard Drive

Western Digital

Green 2 TB

Hard Drive

Samsung

1.5 TB 5400 RPM

Hard Drive

Seagate

Barracude 7200.12 500 GB

Case

Corsair

Obsidion 800D

Power Supply

Be Quiet!

Dark Powr Pro 1200W

Cooling

Thermaltake

Frio

Cooling

Thermaltake

Frio

Sound

Creative

Sound Blaster Zx

Accessory

M-AUDIO

Studiophile Q40 Headphones

Notes

My pride and joy, this rig was built primarily for 3ds Max, Maya and After Effects. Having lost friends and family over the years to cancer, I am also heavily into distributing computing projects and have been since 2005. I started off with Folding@Home and have now settled on GPUGrid and World Community Grid.

When not being pushed, the rig runs World Community Grid on the CPUs and Litecoin on the Radeon HD 7970. Previously, the Radeon HD 7970 ran World Community Grid for the duration of GPU projects from World Community Grid. The GeForce needs to get back on GPUGrid, but I just haven't had the time lately. My Boincstats page can be seen here: http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/user/detail/5757/projectList

I haven't run benchmarks on the system as it wasn't built for benching and I know there are machines out there that would cost a quarter of the price of mine while giving it similar or better score. Cinebench 11.5 gives a CPU score of 19.4 (it's on HWBOT under my username "Oj0"), which is faster than some dual Sandy Bridge-EP 8-core Xeon rigs.

You may notice that the Vcore I'm using is quite high for the clock speed, but it's required to keep the machine stable for me. 24 hours of Prime95 means nothing to me if it falls over three days into a long render, or after three weeks of World Community Grid. I'd rather just push a bit more voltage and know it'll be stable - temperatures stay in the low 70'c range.

The LGA2011 Xeons don't have much headroom on the BCLK side of things, and upgrading to an EVGA Classified SR-X with two Xeons capable of beating my overclocked system would prove to be very pricey. Ivy Bridge-E still hasn't made the performance difference/price ratio sweet enough to upgrade, so I'm good for another year or two until Haswell-EP comes out on the new socket - here's hoping that EVGA brings out another dual CPU board.

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Oj101
09/06/2013
02:06 AM

I hit the character limit, so just to add... I do have another PowerColor Radoen HD 7970 which was running in Crossfire with the one currently in the machine, but I moved it out to make way for the GeForce GTX 580 as I found that I needed CUDA more often lately than I did before. The slot line-up on the EVGA SR-2 and 800D means that even though the board has enough slots for the second Radeon HD 7970, it'll sit below the bottom I/O slot on the 800D. I will be uploading pictures once I've given it a good cleaning, I don't want to show off my dust at the moment :P

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