- Mar 4, 2025
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Hello
I wanted to start a conversation about a machine that I have grown to love. And its for a unique reason.
I guess I technically downgraded from a machine based on an Asus P9X79LE, 10 core 2690V2, as I would have more memory channels. I brought the CPU over because I wanted the 10 core, got 64GB ram for 10 bucks a stick (at 1866), the big upgrade was the 1TB SSD that I was surprised I could afford. I ended up with 2 D300's, but to be honest I have had worse, and these are way more capable than I expected.
Literally Fable on XFire is like nothing I have ever experienced. Its great.
But there's the whole expandability, no drives ordeal right? The GPU's are enough, and 2018/17 builds will be more common with D700's. I just like crap GPU's, but what about the expandability?
Servers. Its a machine that needs a server.
I whole heartedly believe that the idea was you get an Intel Tube and pair it with your older CheeseGrater, or in my case, an R510, and you host storage over the network. Or a GPU, or set of them.
From what I can tell, no one really did that.
What do you think? I have my own proof for myself seeing the dual nics handle file transfers to my NAS, and the machine can handle DeepSeek pretty nicely as well. AMD VCE might only be available in windows and linux, not MacOS, but then again thunderbolt is there for a reason. That's at least the INTENDED way. I may be stretching that a bit, but I'm also not one to shy away from network rendering with blender.
Just a thought.
I wanted to start a conversation about a machine that I have grown to love. And its for a unique reason.
I guess I technically downgraded from a machine based on an Asus P9X79LE, 10 core 2690V2, as I would have more memory channels. I brought the CPU over because I wanted the 10 core, got 64GB ram for 10 bucks a stick (at 1866), the big upgrade was the 1TB SSD that I was surprised I could afford. I ended up with 2 D300's, but to be honest I have had worse, and these are way more capable than I expected.
Literally Fable on XFire is like nothing I have ever experienced. Its great.
But there's the whole expandability, no drives ordeal right? The GPU's are enough, and 2018/17 builds will be more common with D700's. I just like crap GPU's, but what about the expandability?
Servers. Its a machine that needs a server.
I whole heartedly believe that the idea was you get an Intel Tube and pair it with your older CheeseGrater, or in my case, an R510, and you host storage over the network. Or a GPU, or set of them.
From what I can tell, no one really did that.
What do you think? I have my own proof for myself seeing the dual nics handle file transfers to my NAS, and the machine can handle DeepSeek pretty nicely as well. AMD VCE might only be available in windows and linux, not MacOS, but then again thunderbolt is there for a reason. That's at least the INTENDED way. I may be stretching that a bit, but I'm also not one to shy away from network rendering with blender.
Just a thought.
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