36 Cores, 72 Threads, and Two Titan Xs - Our New INSANE Rendering Machine Part 2
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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2,698 words · ~13 min read
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so it was from the observation that when you tighten an LGA retention bracket
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you'll have to look closely to see it though there's actually a lot of
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pressure on the CPU and it moves
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significantly as you lower the retention arms so I figured you know we're
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probably just not applying enough pressure if we'd found a way to tighten
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the heat sink down enough I think we could have pulled it
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off but we didn't do that so now we need
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need a new way to mount our
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coolers Kingston cascy 310 series ssds
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feature firmware based power loss protection massive capacities up to 960
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gigs and not to mention they perform well enough that we're using them in our
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24 SSD server with that massive raid array so click right here to learn
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more hey he there we
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go all right we're back in business
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business of breakage it's really great that Intel
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Provisions uh you know these emergency
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mounting mechanisms into their socket
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designs they think of everything I think
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we're on look at
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that hey hey there you go she's posting
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with two gpus installed let's get that other cooler on okay so we're booted
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into Windows it looks like all the hardware is working oh we haven't put in
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the second Titan x yet but there's time there's time for that I think we have to
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close out this video though so we'll finish up with just a validation that
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everything's in here so we can see the maximum speed of our CPUs how many
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sockets how many cores and threads we
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have stay tuned guys we're going to Benchmark this thing I want to check out
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power consumption want to see if we can Crush some leaderboards um so stay tuned
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for that in the meantime like this video now for you guys it won't really
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seem like we've made a ton of progress since last week it has been a full week
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since I've even been able to touch this but actually I've aside from cleaning up
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the desk area here I have been hard at
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work on trying to get this thing working now you can see it's working now but the
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issue is that this motherboard is really designed for Server use not workstation
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use and in spite of mine and super micro's best efforts to dink around with
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a bazillion different bio settings and all of that stuff we got one card going
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but we couldn't get two and I really wanted two Titan x's in here not for SLI
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or gaming or anything but for more compute performance more of dat Cuda
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so I have been waiting for two things to arrive number one is ASUS's whatever
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this thing is Z10 pe- D16 this is an
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ASUS dual socket board as well as the
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dual 10 gbit Nick that I'm going to need since that board doesn't have two 10
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gbit land ports on board the other thing
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I thought I needed is these Noctua narrow mounting brackets
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but uh I don't think that board actually uses the narrow ilm so I may not
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actually really need these anymore my zip ties were a great
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solution anyway I am so excited actually super
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micro has sent an additional board as
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well they sent one of their workstation ones so we're still not locked into
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using this one especially because their workstation one does have the land ports
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we need which means I can reuse that card somewhere else but you know JJ was
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all up in my business on Twitter being like yo lonus you should really be using
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Aus for everything so I uh I figured I
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might as well at least give them a chance so here it is my friends the
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unboxing experience so many
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CDs and that my friends is the board itself so as I suspected it does not use
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the narrow ilm so that was all for nothing
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potentially and there we go still got 16
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memory slots still got two LGA 2011 3
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sockets it still uses 24 pin 8 Pin 8 Pin
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and waa what's that we've got an additional four pin power down here so
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that is three CPU power connectors pretty fantastic we've got six SATA
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ports another four down here we've got whatever the devil all this stuff is USB
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3 on a front panel header' got an m.2 socket which is pretty interesting
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so let's go ahead and get this baby uh get this baby rigged up maybe with
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proper mounting hardware this time yeah I know right well people keep
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complaining that I'm not doing it properly so this time I'm going to do it
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properly they're going to end up with a boring video then no one's going to be
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happy except maybe a Seuss to not see their Hardware being
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mistreated okay now here's something you know many
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of you haters probably aren't noticing but go back and look for it me grounding
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myself out while I'm working I actually do do it I kill surprisingly Little
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Hardware almost kill a lot of
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Hardware eight okay it just counts down
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it it here it's here it just counts down
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the entire range of post codes that it can display this is not fair like
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why
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okay hey
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um well gee man I have had I have had
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better I went through hell with that super micro board and I was just hoping
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a s quality man I'm going to plug everything in and it's going to be like
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rocking out and I am I'm in a super sad
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state right now do you need sort of the full
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update uh yeah I I'm not aware of any of
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this I mean I guess it's something you were working on with with Roger yeah if
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you can at least let let me know what what Bo you have I can see what Insight
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I can give you and then hopefully we can help help get things moving forward okay
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uh in consumer based boards because there's a much higher likelihood that consumers are utilizing higher-end cards
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and newer cards that have uh GOP and nalization policy support uh we have an
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auto routine built in that should have neiz that detect it allow it to become
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in play but okay so we actually got it
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to post and we didn't get that error with the network card in the Bottom PC
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Express 16x slot but we ran into a new thing where we couldn't see any of our
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our boot devices so we pulled that out
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and we're trying again now so one way or another I'm not
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getting this video out on Sunday am I uh uh it's it still might be a
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possibility might be a possibility depends I I I might be able to actually
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get a hold of them today it just depends on if I can get a hold of our PM team to
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to get them to get me request that so unfortunately ASUS's BIOS team was not
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available to work on a custom BIOS for
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me on the weekend so we're going to have to settle for One Titan X but I don't
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want to leave you guys hanging any longer so we are going to run some
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rudimentary benchmarks with our two 2699
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v3s so our 36 cores our 128 gigs of RAM
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and a single titanx graphics card so we're going to kick things off and one
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of the things that I want to look at well a number of things I want to look at is power consumption temps now that
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we have proper coolers on them I want to see what what kind of turboing we get
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out of a something like a gaming workload and of course I want to see
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that cinebench number check this out
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idle power consumption is under 100 Watts from the wall closer to 90 Watts
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this is with an 80 plus Platinum efficiency power supply but still that
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means it's actually only consuming somewhere in the neighborhood of 85
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Watts at idle of course the story is going to change somewhat underload so
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let's go ahead and see how much we can actually draw here so at idle the CPU
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was sitting at about 1.2 GHz now it's turboing up to 2.6 when we're hitting it
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with a full load so you can see we've started a stability test here in Ida 64
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and our CP usage is sitting in the neighborhood of 98 to probably 100 by
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the time it refreshes again percent and check that out that is with just the
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CPUs working that's the kind of power consumption we'd expect to see see from
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a gaming rig including graphics cards but these are not CPUs for the faint of
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heart I think I saw that touch 500 watts
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just hitting the CPUs so let's go ahead and let's add system memory does it let
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me change the stress test mid-flight it really doesn't like
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that let's see okay so memory usage is closing in
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at 100% now and you can see that thanks
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to the efficiency of the ddr4 modules from Kingston that we're using we're
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still hovering around that 500 watt Mark but now we're consistently or much more
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frequently around that 500 watt Mark now
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we're going to throw GPU into the mix and see what happens so now with the GPU
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running we're actually seeing sustained loads in the high 600s and I've even
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seen Peaks at around 700 Watts but
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what's cool is we're still running at our max turbo frequency uh CPU temps are
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still very much under control in the low 60s to high 50s range in spite of the
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fact that the air is noticeably warmer in a sphere around this open test bench
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computer so this is good news it means everything's stable and we can proceed
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with the rest of our benchmarks next up is everyone's favorite multicore CPU
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benchmarks c a bench R15 let's go ahead and run that bad boy
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so that is what it looks like to see 72
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threads ripped through cine bench I have
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never seen anything quite like it
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wow so that's a score of
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3981 in cinebench R15 so for perspective
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that's what a 12 core xon at 2.66 GHz is
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capable of and uh we completely left
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that in the Dust by more than
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3x 3D Mark I wasn't expecting in to get
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like Powerhouse amazing results thanks to the low clock speed of the CPU and
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the fact that we're only running one GPU so it's not exactly optimized for it but
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I was expecting a little bit better on the physics score that's actually
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significantly lower than you can do on a 4770k showing that while it is a
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multi-threaded test it can't handle 72
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threads not so much so for our last
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trick we're going to try and top the real bench so that's ASUS's Rog
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Benchmark score board without an Rog
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motherboard I mean it's still an isus motherboard I'm sure they won't be too upset about it but oh I want to be able
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to have a look at how our multi-threaded CPU is helping us during this Benchmark
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so let's get that baby open it looks like we're using like one
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of our threads maybe two two maybe two threads I have no idea if that image
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editing score is any good but the encoding Benchmark is running and we're
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finally getting some CPU utilization only 50% Max so far oh oh oh here we go
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here we go okay so our final test is heavy multitasking and once again I am
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not getting necessarily the results I was hoping for we have not yet we have
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not yet broken our second SE oh yeah there it is yes so our score was not
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that great system score
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91,000 is which puts us
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actually pretty far down the leaderboard
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something about the Dual socket is not
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appreciated by a lot of the benchmarks that we've been playing around with here
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but this is something that we kind of expected and I think ties pretty well
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into the conclusion for this video so I'm actually going to go I'm going to stand next to it here this kind of a
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system is not for desktop use we know
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this and it's I had a lot of people criticizing me on social media about the
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fact that we're even running Windows on it because this is the kind of thing
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that if you're doing some kind of serious number crunching that for
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whatever reason doesn't benefit from GPU you really need CPU for it for some
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reason that's what this is for and it's becoming more and more of a n case
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scenario in a lot of cases something like Linux might be better for those
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particular workloads but what people don't know is what we're actually doing
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with this system and what we'll be doing with it is not going to be General usage
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where we've demonstrated that you probably shouldn't have 36 cores and 72
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threads what we'll be doing with it is we'll be running a specialized piece of
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software right now the front runner is sorin and squeeze server um to
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significantly reduce the output times of
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our videos so that we can turn them around much more quickly as well as
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actually transcode footage upon
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ingesting off of our cameras so that it's easier for our PCS to work with
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while we're editing the videos creating something called a proxy so that is what
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this system is for and for that it will be excellent so you guys are going to
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want to stay tuned where we'll show well it hooked up to the 10 gbit Network
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we're going to show its performance rendering videos over the network once
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we've actually got the software we're using finalized and that is going to be
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a sight to behold even if running desktop grade benchmarks with CPUs that
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are running at well not that high clock speeds wasn't that impressive today so
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