A $40,000 Quad CPU Computer - HOLY $H!T Ep. 10
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,738 words · ~8 min read
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for the 11th installment of holy we have
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come all the way down to Seattle Washington to check out the most
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powerful CPU workstation on the
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planet or like sort of pretty close
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anyway Puget systems was too cheap to ship it to me so they made me come all
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the way down here let's go have a look inside and see if it lives up to all the
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hype
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the Arya headphones from Phoenix come complete with a cardioid clip mic and
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acoustic Chambers constructed entirely of Japanese Pinewood click the link in
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the video description to learn more and
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here it is the Puget Peak quad this
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monster of a system
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has oh crap no this is the old revision
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well also the current revision that they actually have to spend 3 days modifying
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the case just to get the freaking enormous motherboard to fit inside let's
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go have a look at the Prototype one that they are working on ah here it is this
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is the new and improved Puget systems Peak quad the case is actually a
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collaboration with case Labs who you've probably heard of at some point or
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another so uh construction quality feels pretty good but it's still missing a few
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features Puget figures they've got about 17 things to add still including an SSD
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Mount that isn't on top of the optical
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drive they're thinking maybe on the back of the motherboard as well as some fans
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on the side panel that actually don't need to be unplugged when you open up
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the side panel that swings off and or swings out and up a little something
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like that but of course you're not here
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to see the case you guys want to see the guts inside so this my friends is a
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super micro X10 qbl 4ct motherboard
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which uses a form factor that I can pretty much guarantee unless you browse
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super micro's website for fun yeah nobody does that unless you do
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that you've probably pretty much never seen and that's why they needed to
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either design a custom case or like do Custom Fabrication on an existing case
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cuz look at this freaking thing the io is like you know what whatever that is
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it's like 4 in down from the top of the board the PCI Express slots well they're
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just like way down at the bottom you got to use a riser and then like an
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expansion hard PCB if you even want to put two cards in it and the whole thing
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is covered with CPUs and RAM yes my
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friends quad CPUs water cooled by
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Corsair h60s and using their laser cutter they actually create these
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acrylic and then uh sort of vanity plated hold Downs for them so they can
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mount them on a narrow ilm LGA 2011 V3 3
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socket in terms of cooling this kind of a beast you can see each CPU has its own
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heat sink for the vrm that goes along with it and this is where things get
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Crazy Town each of these CPUs actually
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has 128 gigs of RAM on it with the
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system being capable of holding up to four times that much so altogether the
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system has 512 gigs of ddr4 memory and
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can hold up to two freaking ter
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but if that's not impressive enough for you check out the video card so we
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actually went and grabbed these from something else they're not for this particular system but we're like ah come
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on it's holy just throw whatever we got in here so we've got a couple of
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NVIDIA's cuadro m624 gig video cards making for a total
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of 48 gigs of video memory in this
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system so it's a total of like almost 600 gigs of RAM although it really
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doesn't work that way that's not how like memory works you don't get to just
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add it all up how do you power a system like this
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that's a great question I'm glad you asked they're actually using an EVGA
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Supernova 1600 P2 this is the same power
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supply that we used back when we did seven Gamers one CPU and for good reason
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the motherboard alone requires a 24 pin
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power connector and four count them four
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EPS 8 Pin connectors because it has wait
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for it four CPUs right okay so that's fine lonus but
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what does all of that translate to in terms of real world performance well in
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task manager you can see that our uh
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four E7 8867 V3 processors make for a
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total of 64 cores and do we have hyperthreading disabled it was off we're
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going to fix that and of course super micro is not F10 to save changes and
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reset so I will go here and we'll be
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back all right let's try that again opening up task manager boom there's our
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512 gigs of RAM so the fact that we're using 7 gigs of RAM right now and that
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is 1% of our system memory if that doesn't
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tickle you guys then uh you clearly don't have the same ticklish spots that
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I do and now we've got all 64 of our
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real cor all 128 sockets and you guys
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have probably noticed we're running Windows Server 2012 yes because we have
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four physical sockets on the motherboard
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we actually have no choice but to run a Windows Server operating system because
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the consumer ones will not support this
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check this out we actually have to scroll we have to scroll and the current
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version of this system with the 8867 V4 would actually have slightly more
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processors I think like another eight but of course that's not what you guys
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really want to see you want to know but
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does it run C bench wow look at it
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go if you've ever run that on your MacBook then uh you'll you'll know that
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I mean look at this 6,139 points it's crazy it's unnatural
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and it's actually not even as crazy as it gets this system can be configured
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with up to 96 total cores
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192 threads mind you you'd be paying a pretty penny
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for that because even in the configuration that we're looking at here
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today I configured uh a reasonable
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approximation of this on Puget site you
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would be looking at see this says
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$3,496 but actually that's with only one cadro m6000 in here if you add the
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second one you'd be looking at
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$40,000 to take home a system like this
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peripheral is not included chipping not included taxes and other search charges
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not included so unless you're a freaking baller or you're using it for legitimate
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purposes like you know gas and Mining
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exploration like crazy number crunching stuff like that you might as well not
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even drool after this system because as much as watching cin bench numbers that
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are from the planet Mars is pretty cool
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there are disadvantages to running a system like this as a general desktop
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for example I can't even wait here talking buying time long enough for you
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guys to watch this thing boot it takes like multiple minutes to post because of
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all the RAM and the fact that it's got a Server Motherboard in it but that doesn't change the fact that it's cool
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and that doesn't make it any less deserving of a spot on holy which I hope
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you guys enjoyed I will see you again next time speaking of a lot of money brain
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transactions fee free so thanks for watching guys and uh
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only one that builds that particular system so we'll have that Linked In the
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done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so check out our last episode of holy where
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we did an individual Spotlight on that $5,000 graphics card including running
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like Da Vinci resolve on it and stuff like that