Ultimate Overkill PC?

[SonnOfSwagg]

I'm just curious. I know I'd never be able to afford such glory. Anyone up to the challenge of figuring out what the most overkill, current PC would be?

[emosun]

Sunway TaihuLight
 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunway_TaihuLight

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[3 Lions]

Probably something like this (minus the CPU cooler as that is just a placeholder)...

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hFqzm8 

[Tiberiusisgame]

He said PC. A super computer is not a personal computer. Thread un-done. Er, re-done? No, back-on?

[emosun]

Just now, Tiberiusisgame said:

He said PC. A super computer is not a personal computer.

If it's yours it is

[Tiberiusisgame]

Just now, emosun said:

If it's yours it is

Ruling?... We'll allow it, this time.

[emosun]

Just now, Tiberiusisgame said:

Ruling?... We'll allow it, this time.

lol

4 minutes ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

Probably something like this (minus the CPU cooler as that is just a placeholder)...

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hFqzm8 

Aw common. Even if we did go with the single machine route at the very least we gotta start with 4 way or an 8 way board.

[emosun]

start with this , it's a single computer with 8 socket 3674 xeons. Thats 224 cores on one system

[brob]

1 hour ago, SonnOfSwagg said:

I'm just curious. I know I'd never be able to afford such glory. Anyone up to the challenge of figuring out what the most overkill, current PC would be?

PC are tools. The most overkill depends on how the tool will be used.

[Fokus]

1 hour ago, SonnOfSwagg said:

I'm just curious. I know I'd never be able to afford such glory. Anyone up to the challenge of figuring out what the most overkill, current PC would be?

Here is one I put together on pcpartpicker:https://pcpartpicker.com/list/7FVKFd I think this is a beastly computer it will do anything you want it to do(within reason).

[InertiaSelling]

@SonnOfSwagg As @brob stated, it obviously depends on what the computer would be used for. The 7980XE might look like the most overkill single chip one could buy, but it gets outperformed by the 8700k in most games, and by multi-socket Xeon configurations in most multi-threaded workloads. So it's not the most overkill in any of these scenarios, but it could very well be the best compromise between core count and single-core performance if you're trying to build the most overkill streaming machine, for example. So tl;dr, you could buy the most expensive parts that could reasonably fit in a single giant case, and it still wouldn't be the best for every single-system use case.