HNNNGH. I know I'm always saying i7s are un-necessary for the vast majority of people but I want one of these so bad just because I know it would handle and ridiculous shit I threw at it.http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/29632-intel-core-i7-980x-gulftown-six-core-32nm-processor-review.html
Imagine how many contributions to the field of medical science one could make with such a powerful machine.
>>406Well, they'd have to code a program that can take advantage of all six cores first bu yes, that will be sweet. The majority of computer nerds I see making high power rigs make them for distributed computing. I run F@H but I'm not even in the top 100 on my team because there are so many monster rigs :3c
>>411Which is awesome. I run Rosetta@home and Poem@home. My machine isn't anything really amazing.. 2007 off the rack Gateway desktop. Quadcore. NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT card. I don't try to compete with the big guys. I'd be happy just knowing the year combined total my machine spends folding proteins translates into that one day earlier discovery of a new drug or genetic therapy that could save lives.
>>412Me too, I'm just happy doing what I can. Still, knowing about them all and seeing their build worklogs makes me want to make one of my own some day.
You know what, I'm just going to use this as a news thread. Feel free to post news in here too.This actually came out a while ago but I never posted it. It's a nice step in between HDDs and SSDs. Pairs a smaller capacity SSD with your pre-existing HDD to boost speeds; not as quick as contemporary generation SSDs of course but it's a much better alternative to older generation SSDs which are usually beaten in read/write speeds. Moreover, pairing it with large hard drives like 1TB ones means you can use it to boost whatever you're doing at the moment as opposed to the conventional (as of now) method of buying a (relatively) cheap SSD and using it as your boot drive. Good, but only works for boot and system service performance. This gives it much more flexibility.Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB Review (looks like this has been discontinued, the lowest capacity SSD with which this package is sold I can find now is 64GB)http://ow.ly/1oX5RSilverStone HDDBoosthttp://ow.ly/1oX6p
>>443In case anyone reads my crap and are interested:Kingston kit complete with adapter and SSD drive is ~$170CADSilverstone adapter (no SSD included) is ~$60CAD