How future proof will this be? How long will it be relevant according to you?

[raystriker98]

I'm pretty sure many of us here are aware of the 7gamers 1 cpu rig linus had built.

Those who aren't, here-

Now my question to you all is-

How relevant will this rig be? How many years would it last (not physically) but performance-wise? Forget the 7 R9 Nanos. Suppose you kept upgrading the rig periodically with the latest graphics. Without changing anything else.

I wanna know your thoughts.

 

I mean to ask, how long will this beast's raw CPU power be relevant with all its glory, according to you.

 

 

 

 

[Moonzy]

1 day, i would diassemble it right after because

 

1) its hard to even get all 7 VM to boot properly as linus said somewhere along the series

2) the wattage consume even if one person is using it is ridiculous

3) its so impractical, i dont have 6 friends

[raystriker98]

Just now, Moonzy said:

1 day, i would diassemble it right after because

 

1) its hard to even get all 7 VM to boot properly as linus said somewhere along the series

2) the wattage consume even if one person is using it is ridiculous

3) its so impractical, i dont have 6 friends

I meant as a single user, not 7 VMs.

Remove the 7 Gpus, just a single is fine.

Now.

[LynxThe1st]

Just now, Moonzy said:

1 day, i would diassemble it right after because

 

1) its hard to even get all 7 VM to boot properly as linus said somewhere along the series

2) the wattage consume even if one person is using it is ridiculous

3) its so impractical, i dont have 6 friends

it's a waste of time, space and money and not worth the work to set up the vms as @Moonzy said so imo it won't be future proof for long at all

who was 6 tech savvy friends?

I don't

(or any friends at all )

[Moonzy]

Just now, raystriker98 said:

I meant as a single user, not 7 VMs.

Remove the 7 Gpus, just a single is fine.

Now.

so u mean a 4core 8 thread cpu + R9 nano? probably would last you around 5 years, depending on your gaming style and requirements

[potatoproduction]

12 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

i dont have 6 friends

well that sounds like a personal problem...

 

jk It is pretty impractical

and to answer your question ,For just as long gpus don't bottle neck the cpu and if the gpus don't go over the wattage of the psu

[raystriker98]

Just now, Moonzy said:

so u mean a 4core 8 thread cpu + R9 nano? probably would last you around 5 years, depending on your gaming style and requirements

I mean the above setup exactly as it is, ie the dual Xeon cpus and everything. Just without the 7 gfx cards.

[vanished]

What processor is in that again?  (I know there's two).  Was it 5960Xs?  That'll be the first thing to start holding it back I think.  How long will that last?  Well, I don't know many (if any) games that can use a single 5960X properly, never mind two, so it will probably last as long as a quad core haswell i7 at the same frequency.  Which, is hard to know, but it should be perfectly fine for several years yet, and will start to be a bottleneck after that, and eventually will just be unusable but that would be in like 8 years probably.  A lot of speculation in this  

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, raystriker98 said:

I mean the above setup exactly as it is, ie the dual Xeon cpus and everything. Just without the 7 gfx cards.

dual xeon + r9 nano? thats the most unbalanced build ever

but it would probably also last about 5 years for gaming, but last a lot longer for rendering performance

 

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

What processor is in that again?

the Xeon E5 2699 V3 iirc, two of them so 36 cores and 72 threads

[Sauron]

0 days, it's already outdated and never made any sense to begin with

[raystriker98]

5 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

dual xeon + r9 nano? thats the most unbalanced build ever

but it would probably also last about 5 years for gaming, but last a lot longer for rendering performance

 

the Xeon E5 2699 V3 iirc, two of them so 36 cores and 72 threads

Not a Nano

Something like dual Titan Xs or anything. Just not 7 hungry cards.

 

And forget gaming, I'm talking about raw power as a whole.

[I am an SSD]

5 minutes ago, raystriker98 said:

I mean the above setup exactly as it is, ie the dual Xeon cpus and everything. Just without the 7 gfx cards.

Its hard to say. Games may become more CPU intensive, but not necessarily.  It will always be the graphics card holding it back im sure. Maybe the equivalent performance of a GTX 960 today? Its a guess, but it makes sense yes?

[Moonzy]

Just now, raystriker98 said:

Not a Nano

Something like dual Titan Xs or anything. Just not 7 hungry cards.

wait what was the original question again? im confused

 

dual xeon and dual titan X? for gaming? no

this machine isnt meant for single person gaming

[raystriker98]

I know that hardly any games utilize more than 4 cores. Pls forget gaming, i'm talking about raw performance of a computer as a whole

[vanished]

Just now, raystriker98 said:

Pls forget gaming, i'm talking about raw performance.

Well "performance" by itself is useless - it depends what you do with it.  If it's gaming, I think you have your answer.  If you mean for other tasks like video editing or something else specific, that's a totally different question, and "how long it will last" is very subjective (unlike gaming) since it really just affects how long you're willing to wait for the final product, and that depends on the person and the situation.

[raystriker98]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Well "performance" by itself is useless - it depends what you do with it.  If it's gaming, I think you have your answer.  If you mean for other tasks like video editing or something else specific, that's a totally different question, and "how long it will last" is very subjective (unlike gaming) since it really just affects how long you're willing to wait for the final product, and that depends on the person and the situation.

that but with constantly upgrading the graphics over the years to come.

[Smurffin]

Gaming wise - all depends on the requirements of the games and what you deem to be acceptable, until we talk about the E5 2699 V3

like we talk about pentium's now

 

server bases on the other hand I know a certain fast food place that uses less powerful machines to run upto 32 KVS's 

so in a server environment its got a few years there 

 

after that I'm not sure if the min requirements for word are going to change much but by that point it will be obsolete 

[vanished]

1 minute ago, raystriker98 said:

that but with constantly upgrading the graphics over the years to come.

Eventually that CPU just won't be good enough, regardless of what GPU you stick in it.  In the very far future, that amount of RAM will be insufficient and we may even move to some new version of pcie (or to something else entirely) that new cards aren't even compatible, but I think the CPU will be a limiting factor long before that.  I looked it up and I think it's a 2697 v3, so 14 HT cores at 2.6 GHz base clock, haswell-esk IPC.  Processor improvement has slowed down over time, but my bet would be within 10 years that machine would be only a shadow of what it once was

[raystriker98]

1 minute ago, Smurffin said:

Gaming wise - all depends on the requirements of the games and what you deem to be acceptable, until we talk about the E5 2699 V3

like we talk about pentium's now

 

server bases on the other hand I know a certain fast food place that uses less powerful machines to run upto 32 KVS's 

so in a server environment its got a few years there 

 

after that I'm not sure if the min requirements for word are going to change much but by that point it will be obsolete 

And what do you think of in the case of a single user who intends to use it for everything- games, encoding, rendering etc

[raystriker98]

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

Eventually that CPU just won't be good enough, regardless of what GPU you stick in it.  In the very far future, that amount of RAM will be insufficient and we may even move to some new version of pcie (or to something else entirely) that new cards aren't even compatible, but I think the CPU will be a limiting factor long before that.  I looked it up and I think it's a 2697 v3, so 14 HT cores at 2.6 GHz base clock, haswell-esk IPC.  Processor improvement has slowed down over time, but my bet would be within 10 years that machine would be only a shadow of what it once was

finally someone who understands my question :')

[Smurffin]

1 minute ago, raystriker98 said:

And what do you think of in the case of a single user who intends to use it for everything- games, encoding, rendering etc

My own opinion, unless i was a oil tycoon, completely ridiculous

it has it own certain case uses like Titan (not GTX Titan) but its not a super computer, its not built to be.

 

Rendering yeah it will be damn good at, but Linus did do a video a while back demonstrating the diminishing returns 

 

like everything tech related it has a very short life-span, who knows what the big companies have in R&D that could completely change everything 

 

 

[iPC]

36 minutes ago, raystriker98 said:

I'm pretty sure many of us here are aware of the 7gamers 1 cpu rig linus had built.

Those who aren't, here-

Now my question to you all is-

How relevant will this rig be? How many years would it last (not physically) but performance-wise? Forget the 7 R9 Nanos. Suppose you kept upgrading the rig periodically with the latest graphics. Without changing anything else.

I wanna know your thoughts.

 

I mean to ask, how long will this beast's raw CPU power be relevant with all its glory, according to you.

 

 

 

 

If you have that kind of budget, get a really good custom water cooled rig for just yourself.  Its impractical and I wouldn't suggest it.

[Moonzy]

27 minutes ago, raystriker98 said:

I know that hardly any games utilize more than 4 cores. Pls forget gaming, i'm talking about raw performance of a computer as a whole

how long it'll last will probably depend on what you're doing with it and what's your expectations from it

 

if you're using it as a facebook machine then it'll likely last more than 20 years or more if hardware isnt failing and if facebook still exist by then

 

the raw performance will be the same forever, i dont know what you're trying to ask here tbh