Overclocking the $30,000 7 Gamers 1 CPU PC

[nicklmg]

How do some moderate overclocks impact the performance of the 7 gamers PC?
 

 

 

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

[LittleCarrot]

May someone explain the logic behind 7 Gamers 1 CPU? 

The budget for this system was 30,000. Giving each game $4000, all of those gamer could have built a separate rig that would have outperformed this system. So I don't understand the reasoning here: @LinusTech

[unidentical]

Well if Linus was at it, my guess would be horrible to start and then less badly the more he got the hair model to help.

[UnlimitedTMD]

9 minutes ago, LittleCarrot said:

May someone explain the logic behind 7 Gamers 1 CPU? 

The budget for this system was 30,000. Giving each game $4000, all of those gamer could have built a separate rig that would have outperformed this system. So I don't understand the reasoning here: @LinusTech

the logic is more like; balls to the walls in a relatively small form factor

without money in the back of your head

[iamdarkyoshi]

Now PLEASE run F@H on this machine @nicklmg

[Samsonsuperco]

22 minutes ago, LittleCarrot said:

May someone explain the logic behind 7 Gamers 1 CPU? 

The budget for this system was 30,000. Giving each game $4000, all of those gamer could have built a separate rig that would have outperformed this system. So I don't understand the reasoning here: @LinusTech

I don't think this is supposed to be a logical setup. More like a really cool idea that nobody has done before. Also, what would be the point of the video if they just built 7 identical systems and then had a LAN party? Anyone can build 7 systems and have a LAN party. Not everyone can build the computer in this series of videos (custom 7-way waterblock connector).

[nicklmg]

28 minutes ago, LittleCarrot said:

May someone explain the logic behind 7 Gamers 1 CPU? 

The budget for this system was 30,000. Giving each game $4000, all of those gamer could have built a separate rig that would have outperformed this system. So I don't understand the reasoning here: @LinusTech

To use Linus-isms...

"Because we can"

Does this PC make sense? Heck no. Is it cool? 2.7 million people thought so, and we did too!

"Do as we say, not as we do"

We would NEVER, EVER recommend this as a "sensible" build if you want to do a 7-PC LAN setup... It's not supposed to provide the best price/performance, it's supposed to be a spectacle, it's supposed to be cool, and it's supposed to be something that most people can't do (and shouldn't do).

There is no logic. It's just fun

[Narnash]

4 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

To use Linus-isms...

"Because we can"

Does this PC make sense? Heck no. Is it cool? 2.7 million people thought so, and we did too!

"Do as we say, not as we do"

We would NEVER, EVER recommend this as a "sensible" build if you want to do a 7-PC LAN setup... It's not supposed to provide the best price/performance, it's supposed to be a spectacle, it's supposed to be cool, and it's supposed to be something that most people can't do (and shouldn't do).

There is no logic. It's just fun

FUN > logic 

 

EDIT: sadly only if the budget allow it  

[LittleCarrot]

37 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

To use Linus-isms...

"Because we can"

Does this PC make sense? Heck no. Is it cool? 2.7 million people thought so, and we did too!

"Do as we say, not as we do"

We would NEVER, EVER recommend this as a "sensible" build if you want to do a 7-PC LAN setup... It's not supposed to provide the best price/performance, it's supposed to be a spectacle, it's supposed to be cool, and it's supposed to be something that most people can't do (and shouldn't do).

There is no logic. It's just fun

Who's idea was this? Kingston?

[nicklmg]

Just now, LittleCarrot said:

Who's idea was this? Kingston?

Uhh. No... it was definitely Linus'.

Sponsors don't come up with our video ideas, our team does.

[LittleCarrot]

Just now, nicklmg said:

Uhh. No... it was definitely Linus'.

Sponsors don't come up with our video ideas, our team does.

Did LMG pay for any of the stuff shown or was it all sponsored?

[nicklmg]

1 minute ago, LittleCarrot said:

Did LMG pay for any of the stuff shown or was it all sponsored?

I'm not sure as I wasn't the one sourcing parts. As with most of our builds, I'm sure most of the parts were provided by the brands themselves. We're very up front about that.

[LittleCarrot]

10 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

I'm not sure as I wasn't the one sourcing parts. As with most of our builds, I'm sure most of the parts were provided by the brands themselves. We're very up front about that.

Thanks for all of this. Should we expect another video with this computer, a taredown video would be pretty nice to see with a computer of that size.

[nicklmg]

8 minutes ago, LittleCarrot said:

Thanks for all of this. Should we expect another video with this computer, a taredown video would be pretty nice to see with a computer of that size.

You can check out the teardown on Vessel right now (if you have it). Just went up.

[IAcKI]

Just now, nicklmg said:

You can check out the teardown on Vessel right now (if you have it). Just went up.

I was just about to check if the Vessel video was up aha!

[LittleCarrot]

1 minute ago, nicklmg said:

You can check out the teardown on Vessel right now (if you have it). Just went up.

OMG. I predicted a video...

[nbagf]

The Vessel upload is suuuuper broken. Audio is random bits from intro music played randomly and everything else has no audio.

[7850OC]

Great video 

is any chance we see Eyefinity x3 vs Eyefinity x3 vs Eyefinity x1? 

and a Eyefinity x5 vs Eyefinity x1 vs Eyefinity x1 ? 

[AxelRantila]

"If it ain't broke, we'll brake it"

 

Linus Media Group in a nutshell

[dinnozo]

Now we need 1 gamer 7 GPU's.

No VM's, pure performance.

All 28 cores, 256 GB RAM, 7 GPU's on 1 windows install then play 4K.

 

To bad the machine was dissasembled.

[nicklmg]

1 hour ago, nbagf said:

The Vessel upload is suuuuper broken. Audio is random bits from intro music played randomly and everything else has no audio.

Yeah we're fixing... Zzz long videos are a pain sometimes

[SolarNova]

When I started watching I was saying to myself, how the hell is he expecting the water cooling loop in that system to handle higher Voltage and thus higher heat output from 7 OC'ed cards.

 

Then I noticed Linus never touched the voltages

 

Good video, but no surprise on the results.

 

 

[Hatsjer]

Song at 13:48 ?

[risk]

if you're going to be mean, just skip this.

I'm going to try to be insightful at the expense of being boring, which tends to provoke mean-ness on the internetz, so you can just skip this if you don't care.

 

The benchmark inequality weirdness is called "ISOLATION FAILURE" ..

 

.. in the industry (where I work as well) where big companies run lots of big machines like that in their datacenters and share each machine for doing different things.

 

When a machine is shared, its utilization goes up, less is wasted. Keeping latency down and performance predictable for such machines is a hard hard problem, it's costing companies tens of billions of dollars per year (in network costs, in cooling costs as well as pure hardware costs), and fixing that problem is a whole different ballgame, and totally not the game limetech seems to be in or something where they can compete in (god bless them).

 

In the case of big cloud companies like google/amazon/facebook/microsoft, majority of tens of thousands of machines like this will potentially end up running some disk/fileserving, alongside a database, alongside some latency critical internet serving thing, alongside some big logfile crunching and analysis. Workload will end up getting scheduled/meshed together to fill in available resources like tetris or legos (or ...) all in an attempt to utilize the machines resources to the fullest.

It then becomes the job of your OS/kernel/virtualization to not allow one of those things to affect another in an unexpected way and unpredictable way. The workaround, is to not load the machines as much, which has the side-effect of not being able to utilize as much of the machine as expected, and having to keep its processing resources hungry for things to do, and keep it "under-utilized".

Imagine having tens of thousands of machines under-utilized like that and fixing software to be able to utilize another 1% of them, that's millions of dollars per year for 1% somewhere.

 

Enter "the cloud":

- you share machines, you have resources at low lead times when you need them, pay for what you use  -- that's on the business opportunity of things.

- fixing isolation (in software/hardware mostly) so you can get utilization up, is on the "business risk" side of things, fixing that is where these big companies I mentioned above get their mustard.

 

- Cloud doesn't work for gaming, damn it!

[Jrhumphrey89]

I really want to see this done with Nvidia Grid GPUs. I am curious if you can get more density on a board with less PCI slots or just get more "gamers" in general. PLEASE.