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Re: Benchwell 1.7
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:24 pm
by Leonardo
It's very hard to know which processor did what by just looking at the tiny picture.... are the Core i7, still the best bang for the buck?
4x Opteron 8393 SE on a quad socket (TYAN - S4992) MB
... sounds expensive
Re: Benchwell 1.7
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:30 pm
by dmeyer
arch3990 wrote:4x Opteron 8393 SE on a quad socket (TYAN - S4992) MB
Get some Istanbuls in there!
Re: Benchwell 1.7
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:32 pm
by arch3990
Leonardo wrote:
... sounds expensive
4x Opteron 8393SE - US $ 1.530,50 -> eBay USA - less than two Xeon X5580
Re: Benchwell 1.7
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:32 pm
by arch3990
dmeyer wrote:
Get some Istanbuls in there!
...could be one of the next steps
Re: Benchwell 1.7
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:16 pm
by Leonardo
arch3990 wrote:Leonardo wrote:
... sounds expensive
4x Opteron 8393SE - US $ 1.530,50 -> eBay USA - less than two Xeon X5580
hmmm...
The closest I could find was this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Supermicro-H8QME-2- ... 286.c0.m14
any good? (oh, wait... I think those are dual core, not quad cores
)
hmm.. how about this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Opteron-8354-Quad-c ... 286.c0.m14
(that is like $320)
Re: Benchwell 1.7
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:57 am
by arch3990
one of my Quad Opteron setups is a H8QME-2 I bought for 200 Eur ($ 287) - but you have to take care, only Mainboard Rev. 2.01A has "Shanghai" / "Istanbul" (six-core) support.
I bought 3x 4 pcs. of Opteron 8360 SE on ebay USA - the highest price was $ 1.300 for 4 ($ 325 for one CPU) - so you see it may be quite cheap to get a good Setup for Maxwell
the NUMA architecture of AMD Opteron is perfect for Maxwell because Maxwell depends on good CPU - RAM performance
Re: Benchwell 1.7
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:31 pm
by Leonardo
Re: Benchwell 1.7
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:47 am
by arch3990
nice work with the pics - but why didn't you just take this one:
Tyan Transport VX50 (8x Opteron Sockel-F, dual PC2-5300R reg ECC DDR2)
http://www.tyan.com/product_SKU_spec.as ... =600000101
8x Opteron 8435 (6-core) -
48 cores
Re: Benchwell 1.7
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 10:28 am
by arch3990
dmeyer wrote:
Get some Istanbuls in there!
4x AMD Opteron 8439SE - 2.80 GHz (24 cores):
3m23s / 3157.18
4x AMD Opteron 8439SE - 2.80 GHz (24 cores) - OC to 3.1 GHz:
3m02s / 3171.85
Re: Benchwell 1.7
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:06 am
by micheloupatrick
Impressive!
What's the real (no eBay) cost of the system?
Re: Benchwell 1.7
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:42 am
by arch3990
... I can't tell you - HP offers something similar - (HP ProLiant DL585 G6 w. 4x 8439SE) - this system costs (without HDDs) - 13445,50 Eur (in Germany)
(but this system cost less than an actual Mac Pro Octo with 2.66GHz)
Re: Benchwell 1.7
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:17 pm
by dmeyer
arch3990 wrote:
(but this system cost less than an actual Mac Pro Octo with 2.66GHz)
Ummm, how is that possible? The 8439SE chips alone are $2500+ USD each...
Re: Benchwell 1.7
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:35 pm
by arch3990
you need a lot of patience and a little bit of luck... with e*ay
(these ones came from e*ay UK and were brand new and sealed)
Re: Benchwell 1.7
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:56 pm
by Leonardo
no 32 cores for me... I went ahead and bought a:
Silverstone tj07 case,
core i7 920,
EVGA gtx 260,
CORSAIR 1000W PSU, everything else is
classified
I'll be water cooling it and OCing it, as soon as I get another job that pays for the parts
(pics will come soon)
Re: Benchwell 1.7
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:04 pm
by micheloupatrick
dmeyer wrote:arch3990 wrote:
(but this system cost less than an actual Mac Pro Octo with 2.66GHz)
Ummm, how is that possible? The 8439SE chips alone are $2500+ USD each...
Yes, the quoted Mac Pro is $4,699...
And you have to buy a motherboard (the Tyan sells for $499 at Newegg), a power supply, some ram, a hard disk drive, a case, a 3D card, keyboard...
you certainly got an incredible deal on those Opteron.
