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What Does a $16,000+ PC Look Like, Anyway?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the half-the-cost-was-windows-server-liceses dept.

justechn writes "Tom's Hardware has an article about custom PC maker Puget Systems, who had just finished a custom $16,000 PC for one of their clients. So what exactly goes into a $16,000 system? How about: Four quad-core Opteron processors, 32 GB of memory, Windows Server 2008, Asus Xonar DX PCI Express sound card, 3Ware 9550SX-8LP SATA 3 Gb/s RAID controller, Two Western Digital 300 GB VelociRaptor hard drives in RAID 1, Two 1 TB Samsung SpinPoint F1s also in RAID 1, and Four 1 TB Samsung SpinPoint F1s in RAID 5. Puget went with MagiCool's Xtreme Nova 1080 radiator, Nine 120 mm fans, Four Koolance CPU blocks, Koolance combined pump and reservoir unit, and Cooler Master Stacker 810 case. In addition to all that hardware, it also runs very quiet and very cool. The temperature of the CPUs is 36 C at idle, 45 C at load."

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  1. Re:Where have I seen this before? by McKing · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ummm, where is it said that Chewbacca lives on Endor? The Ewoks live on the forest moon that orbits the gas giant Endor. Chewbacca is from Kashyyyk. If he lives anywhere (i.e. has a home), it is on the Millenium Falcon.

    (My dog's name is Chewbacca, how lame am I?)

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  2. Re:What a waste by icebike · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why not do some research, where you will find I was being generous.

    http://weblog.infoworld.com/labnotes/workflow-transaction-times.html

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  3. Re:What a waste by icebike · · Score: 0, Troll

    Realistically, the NT kernel has something like a 1% overhead, if that, especially for CPUs other than the primary. User-mode applications can cheerfully use 100% of each core, the kernel will not get in the way,

    That's the most ridiculous thing I've seen on Slashdot all month.

    You think just because task manager doesn't show you kernel time that its not doing anything?

    Go back ad read the rest of the article.

    Until Vista and Win7, Even Microsoft admitted that Windows was a poor platform for multiprocessor utilization. This was largely due to spinlocks.

    Windows 7 is way better than Vista in this regard, and Vista is better than XP/2k. Win7 is expected to scale to 256x without wasting too much resources.

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  4. Oh great more Mac propaganda by Mike+Buddha · · Score: 0, Troll

    Great, now we'll be hearing from all the Mac-fanboys how much more cost-effective Macs are because they've got lower TCO than this $16K monstrosity. From previous experience, we'll be hearing about this for the next 10-15 years.

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