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Waxing Crescent 40.5%
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12-01-2018, 03:25 PM
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ze frogginator
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Sydney
Posts: 22,063
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RickS
Got a new processing workstation for myself as a Xmas present. It's not even breaking sweat registering 200+ subs... AMD Threadripper 1950X CPU (16 cores, 32 threads) with 64GB DDR4 RAM and a NVMe SSD drive.
Cheers,
Rick.
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Do you switch it off at night? In case is does "exterminate"
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12-01-2018, 03:48 PM
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PI cult recruiter
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 10,584
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Quote:
Originally Posted by multiweb
Do you switch it off at night? In case is does "exterminate"
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Nah. I'm worried that the inrush current will take down the grid each morning
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12-01-2018, 05:07 PM
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Novichok test rabbit
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Somewhere in the cosmos...
Posts: 10,388
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The rude question - $?
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12-01-2018, 05:17 PM
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PI cult recruiter
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 10,584
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LewisM
The rude question - $?
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Around $5.5K without keyboard or screen. I could have cheaped out on some of the components and gone for smaller/slower but I spend a lot of time processing at it seemed false economy.
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12-01-2018, 05:22 PM
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Big Scopes are Cool
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: SE Tasmania
Posts: 4,541
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How is it cooled?
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12-01-2018, 05:23 PM
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Big Scopes are Cool
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: SE Tasmania
Posts: 4,541
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Originally Posted by troypiggo
If you plug it in to 480V instead of 240V it will go even faster for a brief time.
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Like a qsi on 24V?
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12-01-2018, 05:30 PM
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PI cult recruiter
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 10,584
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Quote:
Originally Posted by peter_4059
How is it cooled?
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There's a liquid cooler on the CPU with a separate radiator that blows out of the case. Just a few fans otherwise.
Quote:
Originally Posted by peter_4059
Like a qsi on 24V?
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Ooooh, that was a low blow. Or maybe it was a fast blow?
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12-01-2018, 05:55 PM
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Bust Duster
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 4,846
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Quote:
Originally Posted by peter_4059
Like a qsi on 24V?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RickS
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Ooooh, that was a low blow. Or maybe it was a fast blow?
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If I go down, I'm taking someone else with me.
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12-01-2018, 06:47 PM
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Ultimate Noob
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 6,999
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RickS
Around $5.5K without keyboard or screen. I could have cheaped out on some of the components and gone for smaller/slower but I spend a lot of time processing at it seemed false economy.
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That’s more reasonable than I was expecting considering the specs. Or is that just me not having looked at pricing a computer for 3 years and not realising how far we’ve come
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12-01-2018, 08:20 PM
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PI cult recruiter
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 10,584
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Atmos
That’s more reasonable than I was expecting considering the specs. Or is that just me not having looked at pricing a computer for 3 years and not realising how far we’ve come
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I don't think it's outrageous. It's just the premium you pay for fast kit at any given time (the Intel 18 core CPU is about twice as expensive, so it could have been worse.)
I'm very happy with how PI performs under Linux on this beast. Stuff that took hours on my old i7-960 under Windows is now done in minutes.
I don't know that I'll finish images a lot faster but it will be a lot less frustrating!
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13-01-2018, 11:28 AM
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Drifting from the pole
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 5,443
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Atmos
That’s more reasonable than I was expecting considering the specs. Or is that just me not having looked at pricing a computer for 3 years and not realising how far we’ve come
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Yeah the AMD chips are really competitive...for a little more than $400 you can pick up and 8-core Ryzen 7, which from the benchmarks I’ve seen, works out about 2x the performance of my i7-3770.
Moore’s law no longer applies!
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13-01-2018, 01:25 PM
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ze frogginator
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Sydney
Posts: 22,063
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RickS
Nah. I'm worried that the inrush current will take down the grid each morning
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Sounds like a matrix job.
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13-01-2018, 03:20 PM
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PI cult member
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Flaxton, Qld
Posts: 2,064
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Probably the most frustrating thing price-wise with these new systems is the RAM cost - it's actually climbed in price, not dropped. And it's easy to spend more than the cost of the CPU and motherboard combined on memory.
Admittedly, I'm talking about having memory at the level Rick has in his machine, but that's the new "norm" for higher end processing, content creation, etc.
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13-01-2018, 04:40 PM
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PI cult recruiter
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 10,584
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Purchasing memory (RAM and flash) for manufacturing at work, typically component level parts but we do use some modules, has been terrible over the past year. Lead times are abysmally long and variable and pricing is all over the place, going everywhere except down. I get the feeling that there's a mix of unpredictable demand (here's a new iPhone - no memory for you now!) and deliberate throttling of production.
I read recently that China was going to start manufacturing their own memory. It will be interesting to see what effect that has...
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21-01-2018, 10:17 AM
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#6363
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Central Coast NSW
Posts: 1,250
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So it was a component build, or out of the box for the price? The price sounds good for the spec, and the full tower will be a great RAID platform.
The Chinese making memory won't be a big issue. "Secure" Taiwan, "appropriate" the technology to the mainland, upscale! Profit!
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21-01-2018, 10:25 AM
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Ultimate Noob
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 6,999
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Camelopardalis
Yeah the AMD chips are really competitive...for a little more than $400 you can pick up and 8-core Ryzen 7, which from the benchmarks I’ve seen, works out about 2x the performance of my i7-3770.
Moore’s law no longer applies!
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Bit cheaper than buying an iMac Pro
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21-01-2018, 11:07 AM
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Drifting from the pole
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 5,443
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Atmos
Bit cheaper than buying an iMac Pro
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No kidding
I've recently found essentially a mini-ITX type case that will _just_ hold a micro-ATX motherboard....
The only problem then is the screen, but I digress
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21-01-2018, 12:54 PM
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Ultimate Noob
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 6,999
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I am thinking I’ll need to upgrade my imaging processing machine, my MacBook Pro does a decent job but what Rick has here looks to be along the lines of what I should be getting price/performance.
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21-01-2018, 01:06 PM
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Senior Citizen
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Bribie Island
Posts: 5,059
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What a ' beast ' of a Machine
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22-01-2018, 09:31 PM
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PI cult recruiter
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 10,584
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Shano592
So it was a component build, or out of the box for the price? The price sounds good for the spec, and the full tower will be a great RAID platform.
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I spent a day or two selecting components and paid Umart $99 to assemble it. It seemed like a good deal knowing that I'd spend at least half a day of cursing and spluttering to get it put together
Quote:
Originally Posted by Atmos
Bit cheaper than buying an iMac Pro
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I did check out the iMac Pro specs and pricing as a comparison. It made me feel better about spending a fairly large wad of cash
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Originally Posted by FlashDrive
What a ' beast ' of a Machine
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It sure is, Col!
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