{"id":297,"date":"2015-11-30T12:18:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T12:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2017-01-11T20:16:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T20:16:43","slug":"building-a-monster-personal-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/30\/building-a-monster-personal-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a monster personal computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few days back I wrote &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/15\/purchasing-a-personal-computer-in-the-new-millennium\/\">Purchasing a personal computer in the new millennium<\/a>&#8221; which is how to get the absolute best computer by paying with a bit of elbow grease.<\/p>\n<p>If not elbow grease then perhaps a small fee to your local microelectronics store is the key to success.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting 8 core computer that was built in that previous article cost only $741.40 which is probably cheaper than some of the pre-built quad-core computers available.<\/p>\n<p>While fooling around, I was wondering what kind of crazy big computer you could build on a limited budget. I didn&#8217;t do a proper job but I did replace the two key components, the motherboard and the CPU.<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80%\">Description<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" width=\"20%\">Price<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80%\">MSI G210 1GB D3 PCIE DVH (graphic card)<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" width=\"20%\">31.99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80%\">EVGAMEM 16GB 8X2 D3 2133 DIMM C11 (ram)<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" width=\"20%\">84.99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80%\">MS OEM WIN7 PRO 64BIT SP1 OEM (operating system)<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" width=\"20%\">139.99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80%\">INLANDPRO ILSILVER 400 WATT ATX PSU (power supply)<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" width=\"20%\">24.99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80%\"><a href=\"http:\/\/geizhals.de\/supermicro-h8sgl-f-a521405.html?hloc=at&amp;hloc=de\">Supermicro H8SGL-F<\/a> (motherboard)<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" width=\"20%\">312.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80%\">WD 1TB 3.5 MAINSTRM BLUE HD (hard disk)<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" width=\"20%\">39.99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80%\"><a href=\"http:\/\/geizhals.de\/amd-opteron-6370p-os6370wqtgghkwof-a1074122.html?hloc=at&amp;hloc=de\">AMD Opteron 6370P, 16x 2.00GHz, Socket G34, boxed<\/a> (cpu)<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" width=\"20%\">771.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80%\">IPSG LG 24X DVD BURNER (dvd drive)<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" width=\"20%\">14.99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80%\">CORSAIR CARBIDE 100R SILENT ATX (pc case)<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" width=\"20%\">57.99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80%\">Subtotal<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" width=\"20%\">1477.93<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80%\">Build fee<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" width=\"20%\">130.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80%\">Total<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" width=\"20%\">1607.93<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>It is actually a pretty amazing computer, even if it won&#8217;t help for most common situations.\u00a0 Most software cannot take advantage of a 16 core computer, although I would suspect that photoshop and perhaps a few other graphics rendering software packages might.<\/p>\n<p>This motherboard can support up to 128 gigabytes of memory, it would be a great computer for running quite a few virtual machines simultaneously or some sort of as a application server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few days back I wrote &#8220;Purchasing a personal computer in the new millennium&#8221; which is how to get the absolute best computer by paying with a bit of elbow grease. 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