Abacab buys a $37,000 PC

[abacab-101]

For work


Corsair 900D
Sabot Grey
The Freedom To Choose - ORIGIN PC Razer BlackWidow Keyboard
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Red LED
ORIGIN High-Performance Ultra Silent Fans - Black
ASUS P9X79 WS
ORIGIN FROSTBYTE 360 Sealed Liquid Cooling Systems
Intel XEON E5-2697 v2 Dodeca-Core 2.7GHz (3.5GHz Turbo)
1.5 Kilowatt Corsair AX1500i
Green Individually Sleeved Cables
Dual 12GB NVIDIA Quadro K6000 (Non-SLI)
Single 4GB NVIDIA Quadro K5000
12GB GDDR5 NVIDIA Tesla K40 w/Active Cooler
256GB Kingston ECC 1333MHz (8x32GB)
Genuine MS Windows 8.1 Professional 64-Bit Edition
RAID 10: For optimal performance and data security (4 identical drives needed)
LSI MegaRaid 9260-8i RAID Controller
5 Bay Trayless Hot-Swap Cage
4TB Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive
4TB Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive
4TB Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive
4TB Western Digital Caviar Black
ASUS 24X CD/DVD Burner
16X Blu-ray Burner
40-in-1 Media Card Reader
On Board Audio
Intel PRO/1000 Pt Dual Port Server Adapter
ORIGIN Wooden Crate Armor
1 Year Part Replacement and 45 Day Free Shipping Warranty with Lifetime Labor/24-7 Support
ORIGIN Recovery USB3.0 Flash Drive
ORIGIN PC BlackWidow Ultimate
ORIGIN PC Taipan
ORIGIN PC Goliathus Medium Speed
ASUS 31.5" PQ321Q 4K UHD LED Monitor
ASUS 31.5" PQ321Q 4K UHD LED Monitor
Razer BlackShark
Logitech THX-Certified Z906 5.1 Speaker System
Logitech C920 HD Pro WebCam
LaCie Porsche Design 4TB USB 3.0 Desktop HDD
IOGEAR Portable Smart Card Reader (TAA Compliant)
Norton Internet Security - 1 Year/ 3 PCs
Microsoft Office Professional 2013
Microsoft Windows Live Essential
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox

[radditsu]

Why? Also good job paying for norton.

[Swish]

what's the webcam for?

[LulzSect]

3D 1080 HD gay porn streamer. Grats!

[abacab-101]

Why? Also good job paying for norton.

It's free, and they require it.

It's for high density graphic development.

[LulzSect]

Inb4 we all jelly

[Eslade]

Microsoft Internet Explorer, You really had to tell us that your windows computer has internet explorer? Nice specs though.

[Mac Drettj]

Fancy

[Rhuma7]

What stood out to me was the on board audio lol for 37k you would think there would be a decent sound card.

[bigshowtime]

Grats pal now u can praise the duke in high def

Hope to see u in the snow

[DeruIsLove]

37K and you have on board audio and only one year warranty? Wut

[Gaffin 7.0]

lol who spends 37k on a pc

[LulzSect]

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[abacab-101]

37K and you have on board audio and only one year warranty? Wut

1-year parts warranty, 5-year operational warranty.

Come at me nerd.

[abacab-101]

It's onboard audio cuz

Logitech THX-Certified Z906 5.1 Speaker System

http://images.highspeedbackbone.net/SkuImages/gallery/large/L23-0099-01.jpg

It's digital and can operate from anywhere in the room.

[DeruIsLove]

WTF is "operational warranty"? Does that translate loosely into "tech support?"

[DeruIsLove]

It's onboard audio cuz

Logitech THX-Certified Z906 5.1 Speaker System

http://images.highspeedbackbone.net/SkuImages/gallery/large/L23-0099-01.jpg

It's digital and can operate from anywhere in the room.

Are those wireless?

[abacab-101]

WTF is "operational warranty"? Does that translate loosely into "tech support?"

We have operational warranty inside the IT department

If it fails to function properly we send it back, they fix it and or send us parts; which is different than the 24/7 warranty which covers shit like DVD burner not working.

[DeruIsLove]

I looked it up, it covers shit like factory defects and recalls, not actual wear and tear/power surges. Effectively it's useless IMO.

[abacab-101]

Sound doesn't matter bro, just think of how quick I can zone into City of Mist with 256 gigs of RAM

[abacab-101]

I looked it up, it covers shit like factory defects and recalls, not actual wear and tear/power surges. Effectively it's useless IMO.

We repair wear and tear in shop, why would we send it back and wait 2-weeks when we can do it in our IT lab in 15 seconds?

Think dawg.

[DeruIsLove]

Sound doesn't matter bro, just think of how quick I can zone into City of Mist with 256 gigs of RAM
Kind of? I dunno, I'm just saying that $60 could make your whole world sound nicer.
We repair wear and tear in shop, why would we send it back and wait 2-weeks when we can do it in our IT lab in 15 seconds?

Think dawg.

Think about the 2/3 parts of the box that can't be 'repaired'. Burnt out power supplies, fried mobo, gfx, SSD, etc. Parts replacement is where it's at bro. Just sayin'.

[Ambrotos]

Sound cards are overrated. Some on board chips are just as good or better.

37k tho, pretty steep. I am guessing they are charging about 10k in labor just putting it together.

[Rhuma7]

Someone with 4gigs of 1333mhz ram and an ssd will zone just as fast but hey, what do i know... i spent $600 on my entire setup and have a faster computer on every game. Though im sure image processing programs uses more cores.

[Rhuma7]

Sound cards are overrated. Some on board chips are just as good or better.

37k tho, pretty steep. I am guessing they are charging about 10k in labor just putting it together.

Think about the logistics... for 37k you can buy like 30 top end overpriced pre built computers.

I equate this to hood rats bragging about their new rims.

[abacab-101]

Sound cards are overrated. Some on board chips are just as good or better.

37k tho, pretty steep. I am guessing they are charging about 10k in labor just putting it together.

Not my money, not my problem.

I am lulzing at the amount of $$$ they spent for high-powered graphics design.

I think our entire imaging station is like $7k and that runs 50 CPU's at once.

[Ambrotos]

Well pricing everything out so far, it is bringing me around 27k.

The biggest hitters are the video cards, cpu, monitors, and ram. Unless the website is showing the wrong parts for the SSds, they are only 180 since they are hybrid.

The main thing I question is the ram. Everything I am reading for that work system mb shows a max 64 gigs. I could be reading wrong, and a good chance, but I don't see anything saying otherwise.

Hey if it's for work and doing cool shit, have at it. Pretty good write off for business expense.

[Ambrotos]

I would say I wouldn't turn it down if my work offered me one. A+ for you

[abacab-101]

I would say I wouldn't turn it down if my work offered me one. A+ for you

I can't take it home, I can use it like 8 hours a day M-F tho.

[abacab-101]

The main thing I question is the ram. Everything I am reading for that work system mb shows a max 64 gigs. I could be reading wrong, and a good chance, but I don't see anything saying otherwise..

It's a dodeca-core;

Max memory size: 768GB, Memory types: DDR3-800/1066/1333/1600/1866, No of memory channels: 4
Max memory bandwidth: 59.7 Gbps, Physical address extensions: 46-bit

[Ambrotos]

Ya I never really worked with ws/servers. So I knew I was wrong, but just couldn't pin point why. I can see 3d usages taking up a ton of ram to process tho.

[abacab-101]

From what I understand this box is going to be rendering high-intensity graphics, so it needs intensive hardware to run the programs.

[abacab-101]

I normally use a 2011 HP dawg, running that ghost32 all week.

[Aussie]

Why your work wouldnt go with a T1 vendor i.e. HP, Dell etc is absolutely beyond me.

But hey, gratz on spending someone elses coin.

[abacab-101]

Why your work wouldnt go with a T1 vendor i.e. HP, Dell etc is absolutely beyond me.

But hey, gratz on spending someone elses coin.

We have around 2,000 something HP machines, desktops, laptops, rackmounts that do 90% of the work; we have Origin PC's for the graphics department.

[Swish]

Might as well mine some bitcoins.

[Dragonsblood1987]

what's the webcam for?

to send tiggles the bi-weekly dick pics he pays for, obviously.

[DeruIsLove]

I didn't realize at first it wasn't actually your computer. Fuck warranty if the company is the one fronting it all.

[LulzSect]

^^ dumb faggot

[Brad_mo123]

I hope the fucker has wheels so you can ride it too work because 37k can get you a pretty good vehicle....

[Estolcles]

I hope the fucker has wheels so you can ride it too work because 37k can get you a pretty good vehicle....

Use those wheels to make it "disappear" from work. :p

[Kekephee]

Are you going to use it to host your own Everquest server where all the things you don't like about P99 are different

[Byrjun]

Sound cards are overrated. Some on board chips are just as good or better.

Yes and no. As far as I've experienced, every on board sound card has a limit, even on expensive mobos. There might be an exception with the super high end, I don't know.

Anyways, any shmuck can afford an Asus Xonar DG ($20-$30). The quality improvement over on board sound should be noticeable to just about anyone, and there's really no point in spending more unless you use your PC to record.

Spending money on some nice headphones is a much higher priority though, so if you're just using skull candies or whatever the whole thing is a moot point and you're fine with on board sound.

[Clark]

Professional skateboarders cannot afford this. Can't say I believe.

[Skywarp]

People playing on a FREE emu saying he paid too much or its steep. I can't even think of a better metaphor than that.

[Estolcles]

People playing on a FREE emu saying he paid too much or its steep. I can't even think of a better metaphor than that.

FREE emu with pirated software.

I doubt anyone is using a store-bought version of the EQ client here on p99.

[Skywarp]

I am playing off the store bought. In fact in I have two of them bought around 2006. One belongs to my best friend.

[Tiggles]

I am playing off the store bought. In fact in I have two of them bought around 2006. One belongs to my best friend.

[GinnasP99]

FREE emu with pirated software.

I doubt anyone is using a store-bought version of the EQ client here on p99.

I'm installed from discs.

[Messianic]

Microsoft Internet Explorer

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