[Josephus Holt]

Brian, I recently built one for $1419.63 including tax and delivery charges.

This is what I've got: Antec300 case, Coolermaster 750w ps, extra 3000rpm case fan (makes for 2 total case fans), LG DVD burner, Asus p6t (not deluxe) mobo, i7-920 overclocked (very stable) at 3.8Ghz, Noctua NH-U12P heat sink w/2 fans, 6gb GSkill DDR3 1600 ram, EVGA GTX 260, 500gb hdd, MS Vista 64bit Home Premium os.

Love this machine...boots up VERY fast with Vista.

Joe

[cgbeige]

great price - it's crazy how much cheaper the non-Xeon single sockets are. you can't even get a Dell 2.66 GHz 8-core Xeon for less than $7k. My 8-core Nehalem Mac Pro 2.66 was a *bargain* at $4500k + tax.

[Bubbaloo]

Thanks for sharing. That is a good price. I need to sell some more Turbosquid stuff before I can get one...

[polynurb]

i did a xeon vs. i7 rendernode comparison on the weekend, setting up components i would by atm.... thought i share it with you...things are getting cheaper...


these are european prices, the i7 has a total 14,4 GHZ @3.6ghz and the xeon 17ghz @2,13 ghz.

core i7: ~850€ w. 12gb ram



dual xeon: ~1100€ w. 12gb ram

[kami]

the thing I'd like to see is a render time comparison between those two.
does anybody have a simliar configuration around?
an update on the benchwell site would be much appreciated! or just unlock the damn thing

[cgbeige]

well my 2.66 GHz 8-core Mac Pro gets 2214.

[mgroeteke]

same macpro here, 8 core (X5550) 2.66 ghz, 12G RAM, bench 2212, time 4 min 51 seconds on osx 10.5.7 on mxcl 1.7.1 64 bit tech preview.

markus

[mashium123]

i7 920, overclocked and running @3.8 ghz:
bm: 1305.01 in 08m06 s

[sandykoufax]

wow, I envy your system all.

the next monster is ..
http://www.techpowerup.com/94743/Intel_ ... _Week.html

[cgbeige]

wow, I envy your system all.

the next monster is ..
http://www.techpowerup.com/94743/Intel_ ... _Week.html

I wonder if that will be much cheaper than the dual quad core. Also, since the dual uses QuickPath and a shared cache, I wouldn't expect the single chip to be too much faster at the same clock speed

[sandykoufax]

I wonder if that will be much cheaper than the dual quad core. Also, since the dual uses QuickPath and a shared cache, I wouldn't expect the single chip to be too much faster at the same clock speed

You will be know at next week.

[polynurb]

nehalem x will be an MP (4 sockets+) chip.. traditionally the price for these is way out of budget.. not many people need such power in one machine and they cash of them.

single chip prices now:

xeon mp 7350 ~2100€

xeon mp 7460 ~2500€

[sandykoufax]

Sure, If someone is rich enough to afford to buy it, he will got it.
And then, he will take the first place of benchwell list.
I didn't said it's cheaper, I'm just said it's a monster.
The Performance monster and the price monster
But I can say that 2500euro is cheaper than another copy of all softwares someone has.

[Josephus Holt]

the new Intel Nehalem-EX coming out later this year will have 128 threads PER processor With the reported speed increases in MW v2, on one machine we could be looking at a high quality render in less than an hour which would have taken maybe a couple of hundred hours on my previous dual core machine!!!

[dmeyer]

the new Intel Nehalem-EX coming out later this year will have 128 threads PER processor With the reported speed increases in MW v2, on one machine we could be looking at a high quality render in less than an hour which would have taken maybe a couple of hundred hours on my previous dual core machine!!!

I think you mean 128 per 8-socket system. 16 per processor.