LinusTechTips builds a $30,000 PC capable of running seven gaming setups at once

[Evernessince]

Are you really going to let yourself get sucked into this "battle of the dueling rookies"?

This is an extension of the eternal struggle between love & hate, admiration & dependency, playing out before you in the "very real field of cyber-conflict". There are dead electrons strewn about willy-nilly. Look, there's one with its quark blown off. Oh, the horror. Leave those two alone. They'll run off to Facebook and "unfriend" one another any minute now.

OK, so this $30,000 computer is wearing, "the emperor's new clothes". So what? In auto racing circles, it would be called a "sleeper". Basically, a car that just about flies, without outward accouterments of performance. You know, a car that isn't shi**ed up with racing decals and pinstripes. The proverbial, "vehicle to be named later".

Besides, the website could have simply run out of money and couldn't afford some stupid a** case in the shape of a dragon's head, with flashing lights all over it.

Which reminds me, if I had thirty grand, I'd buy myself a new Jeep, not piss it away on that piece of crap.

Yeah, stupid of me to even bother really. I was well aware of the intentions before I even went into it. Thanks for the extra wake-up call, I appreciate it.

 

[captaincranky]

My pleasure..(y)

 

[CJDad]

Well, post some of yours for us to admire in that case.

It's been obvious that you want me to expend a massive amount of effort on you because you enjoy laying the bait as much the next troll. Tell me, what need do I have to peruse my old posts all to appease you? Since your haven't been here for long, I'll let you in on something. You can view previous posts of any person by clicking on their name. Now that's settled, you can verify for yourself.

Now if you're the obstinate type, I'm fairly certain what your next move is going to be. In any case, I won't reply to any of your responses on this thread henceforth.

Perfect, leaves me the final word. The vanity on show here is something else. I'm sure you're very good at what you do but the point of my original comment was when commenting on another person's folly it would be bigger of you to be able to leave the elitism and negativity tucked away in the recesses of your perfect mind.

 

[RobertM]

Seems like a pretty standard build - all plug and play with some water cooling loops. Not even a custom modded case to show it all off?

Wasted money.

Pretty standard build? This has NEVER been done before. It has 7 SEPARATE computers in one box.

It was a joke..

 

[Jack007]

Seems like a pretty standard build - all plug and play with some water cooling loops. Not even a custom modded case to show it all off?

Wasted money.

Pretty standard build? This has NEVER been done before. It has 7 SEPARATE computers in one box.

He's right, nothing special was really done here other than dropping a boatload of cash. If it wasn't for Linus name attached, it never would have been news.

This is pretty much just a circle jerk. Any IT person would have loved to build this system and it's not like it's something hard to do compared to building a regular computer. Linus is a good salesman but nothing special of an IT guy.

You are right he is just a good salesman that can only repeat technical specs of hardware. He aint done nothing special with that system just assemble it.

 

[Jack007]

There is a certain motherboard that can take 4 amd opteron cpus totalling 64cores and 256gb ram with a certain type of enterprise drive that does like 5000 reads and 5000writes. coupled with 3 nvidia quadro pro 6000 6gb video cards and two evga supernova 1300watt power supplies to power it all. Such a system would guaranteed be lot more powerful than this one here.

 

[cliffordcooley]

Unboxing products are not that special either, but people still want to see it done. The negativity in the comments are ridiculous.

 

[kuroiei]

There is a certain motherboard that can take 4 amd opteron cpus totalling 64cores and 256gb ram with a certain type of enterprise drive that does like 5000 reads and 5000writes. coupled with 3 nvidia quadro pro 6000 6gb video cards and two evga supernova 1300watt power supplies to power it all. Such a system would guaranteed be lot more powerful than this one here.

In theory, I doubt it. NVidia Quadro cards are not optimized for games, and having only 3 physical cards divided into 7 different virtual systems would be really bothersome and uneven. Opteron CPUs are a bit getting a bit old last time I've checked. So no, it would not guarantee jack sh!t.

Other than that, I see it as quite the shame to use such a beast for gaming purposes... Oh wait, right. It's not even that, you can't play 7 games at once yourself.

 

[cliffordcooley]

The concept behind building this was not for one user.

On another thought. Can you imagine the 4K frame rates, if all 7 cards could have been Crossfired?

 

[Brock Kane]

This guy is my hero! Amazing thought process and confidence went into building this beast!

Amazing system, tried to explain to my wife, how much power this system has. Um, might of well just tried to explain it to the pets. She had no clue or even cared what I was saying.

But had to tell someone.

 

[deemon]

I build extreme gaming systems (see https://goo.gl/photos/WZZG53bMZxoknxzf6). If I'm going to build a PC to do >100 FPS in the most modern games, I'm going to go custom case at minimum - or in this case... not really a case. Because of the cost - usually only one a year. That build was nearly $4K last year (including monitor).

On one side. Impressive case and work and looks cool. (y)
On the other side... you just built yourself a PC case? SO? It's doesn't add any more functions or usability to it, even limits it. So who cares?

Linus and your work are uncomparable. He did system build design. You did case art. It's like comparing a building to sculpture or comparing sausage to male reproductive organ. Their function is entirely different and you can't compare them with each other.


And who says you have to add any of the ultimately unneccesary art (read: BLING) to any impressive gaming computer or server or workstation. Only function the case has is that it:
a) makes the computer parts into one solid bundle, so it's more easily transportable or manageable (like rack mountable for servers)
b) not too solid bundle, so it hinders it's performance - doesn't cause it to overheat for example.
c) protects it from environment, like dust.

 

[cartera]

I bet it can't run Crysis.....

 

[Rodox]

I've been running 3 users on one multi seat PC for years (now running 4) with only 6 cores and 8gb gb ram. I use aster multiseat as its better at sharing the computer resources without needing additional resource hungry os'es. The biggest problem has been some games are designed not to allow multi instances to operate concurrently on the system. But one game (blade and soul) with a slight hack was even sharing ram. The first user would login to the game which would be slow from the mechanical hdd, then every user after that and the game would start lightening fast, more so if they were in the same part of the map.

So its almost awesome, but getting games that run multi instances is the biggest problem.