[LinusTechTips] 7 GPU Gaming Server

[Techhog]

That is actually very impressive. I didn't hear him say what virtualization tech they are using tho.

I think he went more in-depth with his other two similar projects, where he outlined every single step of the process.

 

[Techhog]

1540W at the wall is only around 1400W on the secondary side.

Regardless, I don't fully understand why they only used one PSU.

 

[VirtualLarry]

So, if this build was "Kingston sponsored", does that mean that they paid for all of it? Linus mentioned that they would be demoing it at their CES booth.

I guess I wondered if a YouTuber would be able to afford that kind of hardware. Even if they are LinusTechTips.

 

[Deders]

1540W at the wall is only around 1400W on the secondary side. The PSU has a guaranteed reserve of ~200W and a likely reserve of ~400W before any fuses get tripped.

It's about 1450W from the wall @94% efficiency. When I measured the power draw on my old computer, that particular level drew about 90W more than the heaven benchmark and that was without hyperthreading.

 

[UaVaj]

this would be awesome only if that server can combine all that power to only 1 user.

dual cpu with seven gpu.
4k surround with all the eye candy and ultra high frame rate with 120hz minimum dip.

 

[KaRLiToS]

It's about 1450W from the wall @94% efficiency. When I measured the power draw on my old computer, that particular level drew about 90W more than the heaven benchmark and that was without hyperthreading.

It is 94% efficiency at 50% load. At close to 100% load, it is around 91% which is still Titanium rating

According to jonnyguru testing, the PSU at 1583watts DC is at 91,1% efficiency

Now... since this is a Titanium unit, I have to do things a little differently from the norm. Titanium requires 90%-92%-94%-90% at 10%-20%-50%-100% load levels. Because the 10% load level corresponds to my usual low load test, I am therefore moving it into the main load test table with the rest of the gang. I'll do this for all Titaniums henceforth. Test zero is the 10% level, test one is 20%, test three is 50%, and test five is 100%.

Let's see if this beast can really make Titanium.

And the answer is... yes, it can. It does need me to put forth my 1% margin of error due to equipment limitations to get the pass at the 50% load level, but we do have a pass. That's already very, very impressive. In comparison with the Corsair unit, it is slightly lower efficiency at the 10% and 20% load levels, but it ends up actually being more efficient than the Corsair above the 50% mark. Not by much, mind you, but we'll take it.

AC (from wall) x PSU efficiency = DC (from PSU)

At 1540watts AC it is probably around 91% - 92%

1540watts x 0,915 = 1410 watts


I am a proud owner of this EVGA SuperNova 1600T2 beast.

 

[Face2Face]

I gotta say, that's an awesome build, but shouldn't it be titled as "7 Gamers one PC" Not CPU? There's two CPUs

 

[Deders]

I gotta say, that's an awesome build, but shouldn't it be titled as " 7 Gamers one PC" Not CPU? There's two CPUs

CPU is an anagram of cup, originally it was 2 gamers one CPU.

 

[Kenmitch]

I gotta say, that's an awesome build, but shouldn't it be titled as " 7 Gamers one PC" Not CPU? There's two CPUs

More like 7 gamers one PC for the filthy rich....Non the less it was pretty impressive.

 

[Teizo]

$30,000, and no custom heatsinks on the ram on a gaming machine?

FAIL

Still impressive though.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

I don't understand why people dislike Linus videos. He is always original, entertaining and his view counts and thumbs up speak for themselves.

I dislike the unprofessional approach to many of his videos. It seems to be more about the entertainment than about learning or coverage of a topic.

 

[Face2Face]

I am a proud owner of this EVGA SuperNova 1600T2 beast.

That's an awesome PSU anyway you slice it.

I just picked up a much tamer 750w EVGA G2. I couldn't ignore EVGA anymore on the PSU side, they have some amazing products, which are priced well and amazing warranties to boot.

 

[3DVagabond]

$30,000, and no custom heatsinks on the ram on a gaming machine?

FAIL

Still impressive though.

I know! They should have gotten the ones with flashing LED's.

 

[Kenmitch]

I know! They should have gotten the ones with flashing LED's.

Who makes a 32GB ECC DDR4 module like that?

 

[boozzer]

I don't understand why people dislike Linus videos. He is always original, entertaining and his view counts and thumbs up speak for themselves.

I tried a couple of his benchmark videos. super super bias. cheery pick games that favorite one side only. you know how some websites have a few games that does that? linus had all of the games like that in his benchmark video. instead of not using out-liners, he used exclusively out-liners.

that is just messed up. which I why I mock people who bring him up.:thumbsdown:

 

[KaRLiToS]

I tried a couple of his benchmark videos. super super bias. cheery pick games that favorite one side only. you know how some websites have a few games that does that? linus had all of the games like that in his benchmark video. instead of not using out-liners, he used exclusively out-liners.

that is just messed up. which I why I mock people who bring him up.:thumbsdown:

I hope you mock people who like Pcper, HardwareCanucks, techreport... actually, most of review web sites, they all get paid or sponsored. Don't act like Linus is the only one to grab the opportunity to make a buck.

I'm not here to change your mind, but to say you mock people who like him is just silly and disrecpectful.

 

[3DVagabond]

Who makes a 32GB ECC DDR4 module like that?

Nobody. I'm sure they could have got the heatsinks on their own. Except the company that supplied the RAM for free might not have liked it. I was talking tongue in cheek, BTW.

HERE's a link to Crucial's website in case you aren't familiar with their "Ballistix Tactical" series that have the LED's.

 

[Rakehellion]

I kinda want to see some ray tracing with all those cpus and gpus.

Raytracing is pretty unnecessary for most things and standard rendering techniques are astronomically more efficient anyway.

 

[Rakehellion]

$30,000, and no custom heatsinks on the ram on a gaming machine?

FAIL

Still impressive though.

Pretty unnecessary unless you're overclocking.

 

[Zodiark1593]

I dislike the unprofessional approach to many of his videos. It seems to be more about the entertainment than about learning or coverage of a topic.

I'd wager a sizable portion of the audience that actually watches his videos already know about said topic at hand.

Very recently though, they seem to be doing quite well with "What not to do", their shining example being their storage server. Mildly informative, and entertaining.

I really dig the 7 gamers, on build (2 cpus) video. I think having such a solution in a central home location would be quite feasible, and can power all sorts of displays and TVs in the household (a home based cloud server). This, in a sense, is proof of this concept.

 

[Ranulf]

Yeah their server failures are rather amusing and how can you not get a laugh from their comedy series about whole room water cooling?

 

[freeskier93]

I dislike the unprofessional approach to many of his videos. It seems to be more about the entertainment than about learning or coverage of a topic.

That's exactly what it's about, the entertainment. You wouldn't watch Linus for technical computer information anymore than you'd watch Top Gear for in depth car reviews. Not everything has to be super cereal, sometimes you just want to watch something that entertains you while still pertaining to a topic you really enjoy and have a lot of knowledge in.

I like most of Linus' videos (just as I'm a huge car guy and love(d) Top Gear). This 7 gamers (2) CPUs is pretty fuckin' awesome. Scrapyard wars are also entertaining along with all the other ridiculous builds.

 

[Piroko]

Until about 6 months ago I really didn't like their content. Mostly because Linus was showing heavy bias towards those companies that supported him earlier than others.
But lately I feel like they got quite a bit more professional, they are genuinely trying to do entertaining videos more than pure review content. Which is good, since they noticed themselves that they can only make so many "the best monitor ever" videos.

 

[UaVaj]

$30,000, and no custom heatsinks on the ram on a gaming machine?

FAIL

Still impressive though.

hopefully some of you do realize that those flashy heatsink and flashing led are meant to detract you away form the fact that you are actually getting slower, binned, ball to wall overclock ram.

vs

non overclock server grade 32gb ecc ram that does not need any nonsense heatsink nor led.

 

[monstercameron]

Raytracing is pretty unnecessary for most things and standard rendering techniques are astronomically more efficient anyway.

How do you define efficient? As I have seen many developers state, rasterization is a compromise between speed and accuracy. Ray/Path tracing is easy to implement with only the cost of raw computational power. Maybe something like the wizard or some kind of fixed function raytracing hardware might make the computational requirements moot.