7 Gamers, 1 CPU - Ultimate Virtualized Gaming Build Log

[TheRomanSenate]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

But is not a pc, its a server.

would the server board only work with one of the cpus?

[TheRomanSenate]

1 minute ago, TheRomanSenate said:

would the server board only work with one of the cpus?

I ask because if it can't then maybe we could consider it a single cpu with two physical multi-cores.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, TheRomanSenate said:

would the server board only work with one of the cpus?

I might work with a i7, but you could use one at once which kinda defeats the point of a dual cpu board.

[TheRomanSenate]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

I might work with a i7, but you could use one at once which kinda defeats the point of a dual cpu board.

Darn, theory debunked.

[Paralectic]

2 CPUS still refer to one CPU, the unit, the PC, as it stays central as a whole to have 7 gamers using it.

[Elehat]

It's clearly a play on words with a particularly graphic video. Shame on LTT :).

[509Vince]

On 1/3/2016 at 7:41 PM, TheRandomness said:

Did you watch the entire video? The short GPUs meant that he was able to take them out again plus are there any 980Tis with all the video outputs in a single slot?

 

There is the 980ti Kingpin from EVGA which is single slot capable when water cooled

[necross]

Hardware:

MotherBoard: Asus Z10PE-D16 WS

CPU: 2 X Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2660 v3

RAM: 128GB(4X64GB) DDR4 ECC

Storage:

1. 6 X Kingston SSDNow KC400, 256GB on Raid 10
2. 1X Samsung SSD 850 evo Pro 500GB

Display:

1. AMD HD7970 (PassThrough) for mac OS El Capitan
2. Nvidia EVGA GTX 780 (PassThrough) for Windows 10

Network: Intel 10GB (2 port) Network Adapter

Case: Phantek Enthoo Primo

WaterCooling: EKWB+

 

HOST: 

ESXI 6.0

VMs:

1. Mac OS El Capitan
2. Windows 10
3. Ubuntu 15.10 X64

Hope you guys like it

[ProVicx]

This is passion and desire from Linus !!!

[Guest riley mclinn]

On 1/2/2016 at 10:22 PM, LinusTech said:

Ever dreamed of what you could do with a $30,000 computer? Turns out the answer is "a lot"

 

Vessel link: tbd

YouTube: 

 

 

 

Parts List

 

Kingston 32GB DDR4 ECC RAM (x8)

Amazon: http://geni.us/3N2B

 

Kingston KC400 1TB Business SSD (x8)

Amazon: http://geni.us/3c6w

 

Lime Technology unRAID Server Pro Software

Manufacturer Link: http://lime-technology.com/

 

Caselabs Mercury S8

Amazon: n/a

Manufacturer Direct: http://bit.ly/1P8UvW3

 

Acer Predator X34 21:9 Gaming Monitor (x7)

Amazon: http://geni.us/32xr

 

Intel Xeon E5 2697 V3 (x2)

Amazon: http://geni.us/1nya

 

ASUS Z10PE-D8 WS

Amazon: http://geni.us/wov

 

AMD R9 Nano (x7)

Amazon: http://geni.us/Ubr

 

EVGA T2 1600W

Amazon: http://geni.us/3ad1

 

Cablemod Custom Cables for PSU

Manufacturer Link: http://bit.ly/1NYnrCz

 

Water Cooling Parts

CPU blocks - EK Supremacy Evo

Radiators - EK Coolstream XE 360

GPU Blocks - EK R9 Nano

GPU Connector - Custom 7-way version of FC Terminal

Pump/Reservoir - EK Xres 140

Fittings - EK Advanced Compression Fittings

Tubing - Primochill Primoflex Black/Orange

End my life

[sMASHsound]

hey, u thought about trying multiple vm's on one of those new 10 core hyperthreaded cpu's that can actually overclock? probably 2/3 cores per vm

[n1h1l1s7]

Blimey! I never thought of that before.

 

Surely, $30k is $30k, but the possibilities are incredible

 

[HamCannon]

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[Brockit]

That's crazy!

[Staes.Adam]

Interesting for gaming clubs :-)

[Josephus]

Now build another system using 1080s and 6950x for fun. 

[Djjawsyetti.iso]

I'm thinking about building something like this but have one question. How well will it handle virtual machines inside virtual machines e.g. Windows as host vm OS X elcapitan guest virtual machine. Or is there a way to set up a host vm as OS X elcapitan. 

[Marcinius]

You really should look into making the home cloud computing system.

[thegenerallee86]

I want to do something like this with my new build I am doing which will be as follows:

Core i7 6950x Extreme Edition

Corsair h115i CPU Cooler

32gb x 4 Sticks Corsair Vengeance 3400mhz DDR4 Ram Red LED ram

2 Titan X Pascals

EVGA SuperNova 1000 Watt G2 PSU

3 Samsung 28" 4k UHD Monitors

I can't wait to finally put it all together!

[ewokohtwo]

This is beautiful!!

 

How would you modify this build to aim for a 4 Gamer, 1 CPU system?  Yes, not as epic as a 7 Gamer system, but I hoping for something more feasible.

 

 

[Simon771]

24 minutes ago, ewokohtwo said:

This is beautiful!!

 

How would you modify this build to aim for a 4 Gamer, 1 CPU system?  Yes, not as epic as a 7 Gamer system, but I hoping for something more feasible.

 

 

Simple, just use 4 video cards instead of 7  

And you can acctually use single CPU for this: E5-2699 v4 

It has 22 cores + hyperthreading, so 44vCores.

You can disable 4 vCores, so those will be for running uniRAID

 

You are left with 40 vCores. So each user would get 10 vCores. Something like 5 cores / 10 threads.

And you would be using 4x GTX 1080 or Titan X Pascal.

 

It still won't be cheap, and will take some time to make it all up and running.

[ewokohtwo]

12 hours ago, Simon771 said:

Simple, just use 4 video cards instead of 7  

And you can acctually use single CPU for this: E5-2699 v4 

It has 22 cores + hyperthreading, so 44vCores.

You can disable 4 vCores, so those will be for running uniRAID

 

You are left with 40 vCores. So each user would get 10 vCores. Something like 5 cores / 10 threads.

And you would be using 4x GTX 1080 or Titan X Pascal.

 

It still won't be cheap, and will take some time to make it all up and running.

 

 

 

Thanks @Simon771 !! 4 separate system builds still appears feasible. 

 

[Simon771]

14 hours ago, ewokohtwo said:

Thanks @Simon771 !! 4 separate system builds still appears feasible. 

 

Yeah, building seperate build is probbably better decision cost wise.

Also i7 6700k are better for gaming and overclocking

[Talamakara]

@LinusTech out of morbid curiosity. When you are done with builds like this, builds where you have done extremely custom work such as the 7 card water block or custom painted cases where the final price tags have cost you a good deal of money, what do you do with these rigs?

I mean if we look at some of the recent videos such as this $30k unit or the "Compensator" which has probably $4k worth of video cards alone, thats a lot of money and equipment to sit on a shelf and collect dust if you aren't using these units, which i really hope your not doing.

[fredih]

On 10.12.2016 at 2:11 AM, Talamakara said:

@LinusTech out of morbid curiosity. When you are done with builds like this, builds where you have done extremely custom work such as the 7 card water block or custom painted cases where the final price tags have cost you a good deal of money, what do you do with these rigs?

I mean if we look at some of the recent videos such as this $30k unit or the "Compensator" which has probably $4k worth of video cards alone, thats a lot of money and equipment to sit on a shelf and collect dust if you aren't using these units, which i really hope your not doing.

I'm no really Linus, but I think they re-use the build parts, you might have seen a very familliar ASUS board in their videos with the glowing PCIe clips, they used that a lot of times, also they re-use the titans and the tubing, but the custom waterblock for example? I have no idea...