psyco's with too much money

i was just curious.... how would this do for GAMING?

1. a server motherboard

2.   two QX6800 overclocked to 5 ghz with liquid nitrogen

3.  two 8800 gtx's both overclocked in sli

4.  32 gigabyes of the fastest ram

5.  bunch of 15,000 rpm hdd's in raid 0 to equal 1 tb

6.  42 inch monitor at an insane resolution

7.  blue ray drive, and hd dvd drive

8. prolly a 3000 watt power supply

9. windows vista ultimate

10. am i missing anything? :P

i bet you could max out flight simulator x at keep 60 fps with directx 10 with this monster

okay, I dont know of any motherboards with 2 775 sockets, and also, I dont know of any cooling system that uses liquid nitrogen. Also, If there was a computer with a cooling system that actually uses liquid nitrogen, you can get a lot more than 5 GHZ. 353535355353535

no you dont, windows vista ultimate can have up to 128 gbs of ram....TheDemonKnight

just skip nitrogen and go right to the freonj3ninja10

Mmmm, tasty tasty Freon, I mean garbledargletigglejoobleheebengoobee. 

[QUOTE="j3ninja10"]just skip nitrogen and go right to the freonFlame_Co

Mmmm, tasty tasty Freon, I mean garbledargletigglejoobleheebengoobee.

are you having a seizure? do you need mouth-to-mouth? 

just skip nitrogen and go right to the freonj3ninja10

Wait a second, you could make the server case airtight, then make sure everything is bloted/strapped down, then get it into a 1×10-12 Torr. everything would be supercooled, and you wouldn't ever have to worry about heating problems, you could OC everything Extremely Fast. SWEET!, now to found a vaccuum that powerful...

It might run notepad.Stinger78

maxed out?

[QUOTE="Stinger78"]It might run notepad.tcarruth

maxed out?

It might run notepad.Stinger78

lol.  :lol:

[QUOTE="tcarruth"]

[QUOTE="Stinger78"]It might run notepad.DirkVDV01

maxed out?

Minesweeper will lag regardless. 

First off, you can't stick a C2D into an intel server motherboard. Both AMD and intel have different sockets and processors for multi-socket systems... they're the Xeons and Opterons, respectively.

Intel's Xeons based on the Core architecture run up to a solid 3.0GHz, same with the quad-core chips. And LN2 may yield that kind of speed, it's not going to be 24/7 by any stretch of the imagination, unless you happen to be HVAC certified to handle such dangerous chemicals.

No 32-bit OS can handle more than 4GB's of RAM, and Not many games will work very well (or at all) if they see that much memory. You could get around this if you could make a virtual machine that could enable 3D acceleration, but the only VM software I've seen that allows this is the beta of VMWare Fusion on OS X (which isn't even publicly available yet).

those 15k-rpm hard drives may sound cool on paper, but they will get very hot and very loud. Hope you've got some earmuffs (or sound dampening material); you may have to use the LN2 just to keep enough of those (to even make a 1TB RAID 0, let alone a 0+1) cool enough to not liquify by the time the OS is booted.

There are no computer monitors greater than 30" at the moment. There are ~42" 1080p HDTVs, on the other hand.

While BluRay drives are extraneously expensive compared to the "upgrade price" of HD-DVD drives for prebuilt computers, I've yet to see anywhere selling an HD-DVD drive for computers in any of the retail channels (yet).

Standard specifications for US A/C outlets only allow a maximum of 1000W per plug. You'd need to hire an electrician to rewire stuff to get more.

Windows Vista Ultimate right now would either choke on that and/or make it run only about 1% as fast as it could be with a proper OS. 

are server motherboards actually good for gaming?353535355353535

is it possible? Sure! But is it necessary? For gaming? Most definately NOT!! What game would even use that much raw powerMiguel16

Supcom, you forgot supcom! oh and fsx too! :lol:jfelisario

But then you'd need an SLi for each monitor, and again, there is no (that I know of) SLi supporting motherboard for Xeons yet. There is the 680a for AMD's 4x4 platform, which would be able to have two SLi's together. But then you'd be stuck with onboard audio, which would make it pretty ridiculous... and no place to fit a PhysX card, either.

[QUOTE="jfelisario"]Supcom, you forgot supcom! oh and fsx too! :lol:codezer0

But then you'd need an SLi for each monitor, and again, there is no (that I know of) SLi supporting motherboard for Xeons yet. There is the 680a for AMD's 4x4 platform, which would be able to have two SLi's together. But then you'd be stuck with onboard audio, which would make it pretty ridiculous... and no place to fit a PhysX card, either.

its fine, the 8800 gtx's make do with their physics engines, i drool at the prospect of a 60+ fps supreme commander game with max unit counts and max players, albeit the other players will lag like a m0f0, lol 

[QUOTE="jfelisario"]Supcom, you forgot supcom! oh and fsx too! :lol:codezer0

But then you'd need an SLi for each monitor, and again, there is no (that I know of) SLi supporting motherboard for Xeons yet. There is the 680a for AMD's 4x4 platform, which would be able to have two SLi's together. But then you'd be stuck with onboard audio, which would make it pretty ridiculous... and no place to fit a PhysX card, either.

nVidia did make the nForce Professional chipset, which does allow SLi with Opterons. But then, it's not so much a server so much as it is a workstation, which may very well need the graphics power to be able to render stuff in super high detail on stuff like 3D Studio Max and AutoCAD.

I remember that article.

A couple things though:

- THG used an ES P4 EE chip, which technically is still the property of intel to begin with.

- THG also used a motherboard that was pre-volt modded and cherry-picked by Asus for the job; none of their retail motherboards would have inherited the kind of volt mods and the quality of capacitors that they'd used for the "THG run".

- You still need to be HVAC certified to even be able to legally *handle* liquid nitro, much less order it for a job like this. 

http://overclockingpin.com/cooling.html

This guy's a legend when it comes to overclocking. 

just skip nitrogen and go right to the freonj3ninja10

First off, one of the fastest consumer CPUs has been cooled with liquid nitrogen.  Linkage: http://www.tomshardware.com/2003/12/30/5_ghz_project/

Secondly, I believe a they were able to run a P4 stable for a few minutes at 8Ghz

Thirdly, why are people saying that freon is colder than liquid nitrogen?  Liquid nitrogen cools at -200C.  Freon is a chlorofluorocarbon gas, works in household and commercial air conditioning units at much higher temperatures.

http://overclockingpin.com/cooling.html

This guy's a legend when it comes to overclocking.

jfelisario

is it possible? Sure! But is it necessary? For gaming? Most definately NOT!! What game would even use that much raw powerMiguel16

Ask Crytek, I'm sure they would take up the challenge. :D 

[QUOTE="tcarruth"]

[QUOTE="Stinger78"]It might run notepad.DirkVDV01

maxed out?

sure its kinda funny but as a mod i would of expected you to lock this topic... 

[QUOTE="jfelisario"]

http://overclockingpin.com/cooling.html

This guy's a legend when it comes to overclocking.

DirkVDV01

[QUOTE="DirkVDV01"][QUOTE="jfelisario"]

http://overclockingpin.com/cooling.html

This guy's a legend when it comes to overclocking.

cell_dweller

you **** idiot why would this be locked?! there is nothing wrong with it ****TheDemonKnight

because its in pc hardware and it has nothing to actually do in pc hardware its just spam sure he lists hardware but he doesnt ask a question or help anyone so its simply spam.. 

[QUOTE="codezer0"]

[QUOTE="jfelisario"]Supcom, you forgot supcom! oh and fsx too! :lol:cell_dweller

But then you'd need an SLi for each monitor, and again, there is no (that I know of) SLi supporting motherboard for Xeons yet. There is the 680a for AMD's 4x4 platform, which would be able to have two SLi's together. But then you'd be stuck with onboard audio, which would make it pretty ridiculous... and no place to fit a PhysX card, either.

Servers: NO, but workstations yes!

http://www.iwill-benelux.com/

the 4th motherboard from up-down 

is it possible? Sure! But is it necessary? For gaming? Most definately NOT!! What game would even use that much raw powerMiguel16

It will probably become evailable in the future nintendo DS / Gameboy in 2020 xD 

Ugg, server mother boards are made for just that, servers. Just because you have multiple processors doesn't mean anything as it is just there to take the load off the other processor, exactly what a server needs and not a game. As for supporting that much memory? You would either have to use linux or a copy of Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (Which can support up to 64 GB of memory if you use Itanium processors) Also, you can find boards out there for 4 - 8 processors but rare and few to find.

Sorry, RC2 of Server 2003 Enterprise Edition allows up to 2 TBs of memory if using Itaniums. 

Ugg, server mother boards are made for just that, servers. Just because you have multiple processors doesn't mean anything as it is just there to take the load off the other processor, exactly what a server needs and not a game. As for supporting that much memory? You would either have to use linux or a copy of Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (Which can support up to 64 GB of memory if you use Itanium processors) Also, you can find boards out there for 4 - 8 processors but rare and few to find.

 

 

Sorry, RC2 of Server 2003 Enterprise Edition allows up to 2 TBs of memory if using Itaniums.

Cdscottie