06-12-2012, 07:41 PM
Hello,
This is my first post so I apologize if things I will be asking have been covered.
Goal: Build a machine that has Single MD5 speed of 60,000 M/s
Current Part List:
Motherboard = TYAN FT72B7015
CPU = 2 Intel Xeon 5600 series
RAM = Carsair Vengeance 1866 32GB
Hard Drive = Callisto Deluxe 240gb 280mb/270mb rw or Fusion-ioDrive2 400gb 1.4gb/1.3gb rw
The two expensive components are the motherboard and potentially the hard drive. I am trying to prevent any bottleneck in the system so I get max potential out the the video cards. I could get a much cheaper motherboard but most are not truly x16 in all the the PIC3 2.0 slots. If you more video cards in the tend to reduce the speed. For instance the Big Bang-Marshal (B3) on most sites says 8 x16 PCI slots but really its (2x16, 2x8, 4x1). I read that PCIe 2.0 has a bandwidth cap of 16 256gb a sec (16gb per channal *16). The video card specs for AMD HD 6990 says it has a 320gb/s memory bandwidth. So should I go with say a 5790 that has a 256gb bandwidth or am I just over analyzing and I can get with a cheap-o motherboard, hard drive and less expensive video card?
Any help is appriciated.
Cheers,
Kefka
This is my first post so I apologize if things I will be asking have been covered.
Goal: Build a machine that has Single MD5 speed of 60,000 M/s
Current Part List:
Motherboard = TYAN FT72B7015
CPU = 2 Intel Xeon 5600 series
RAM = Carsair Vengeance 1866 32GB
Hard Drive = Callisto Deluxe 240gb 280mb/270mb rw or Fusion-ioDrive2 400gb 1.4gb/1.3gb rw
The two expensive components are the motherboard and potentially the hard drive. I am trying to prevent any bottleneck in the system so I get max potential out the the video cards. I could get a much cheaper motherboard but most are not truly x16 in all the the PIC3 2.0 slots. If you more video cards in the tend to reduce the speed. For instance the Big Bang-Marshal (B3) on most sites says 8 x16 PCI slots but really its (2x16, 2x8, 4x1). I read that PCIe 2.0 has a bandwidth cap of 16 256gb a sec (16gb per channal *16). The video card specs for AMD HD 6990 says it has a 320gb/s memory bandwidth. So should I go with say a 5790 that has a 256gb bandwidth or am I just over analyzing and I can get with a cheap-o motherboard, hard drive and less expensive video card?
Any help is appriciated.
Cheers,
Kefka