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- TwoKill, on 08/26/2008, -6/+399The kind of stuff I miss seeing on digg. Dugg!
- l33tpwnzord, on 08/26/2008, -76/+440yes, but will it run crysis?
- ryanjanssen, on 08/26/2008, -7/+334no because it's linux
- zenithmbr, on 08/26/2008, -13/+260oh you and your crysis meme. you are just too cute.
- alphex, on 08/26/2008, -0/+135... talk about RTFA... half of these comments would have been silenced if you had actually clicked the link.
He stated it pulls 400watts, and using less power then his desktop and generates less noise.
it cost less then his desktop
he can do a nights worth of rendering in 15 minutes now because of the parallel processing.
now go read the article. - JasonHilton, on 08/26/2008, -13/+140Love the idea, it's a shame the final product is sloppy.
- SoundFondler, on 08/26/2008, -18/+109What's that noise?
The sound of 2000 diggers creaming. - diggduggDOOM, on 08/26/2008, -5/+95Wow! An IKEA cabinet?! Amazing what technology is capable of these days.
- stealthc, on 08/26/2008, -9/+88I always thought the system requirements for Vista were a little high.
- yujie, on 08/26/2008, -13/+86But can it beat Michael Phelps?
- Raerth, on 08/26/2008, -1/+64He also plans a 2nd: http://helmer3.sfe.se/
AMD have sent him some kit to help him get started.
... and a 3rd: http://helmer3.sfe.se/
Aiming at 1PFLOP for this. - rald84, on 08/26/2008, -2/+62no because there's no dedicated graphics.
- bryxal, on 08/26/2008, -0/+536HDD is not excessive for 3D rendering. I'm actually surprised he doesn't have more.
- jcblitz, on 08/26/2008, -0/+47FTA: "The most amazing is that this machine just cost as a better standard PC, but has 24 cores that run each at 2.4 Ghz, a total of 48GB ram, and just need 400W of power!! "
- zenithmbr, on 08/26/2008, -13/+57you joined digg on january 8th, 2007. you never saw this kind of stuff on digg.
- rotten777, on 08/26/2008, -1/+45He's comparing it to a Mac using for rendering.
- cire9753, on 08/26/2008, -0/+43I don't think i am using my helmer cabinet to its full potential after reading this
- inajeep, on 08/26/2008, -3/+46Get that man a KVM!
- FoxOrian, on 08/26/2008, -0/+43But see, you don't have to be a member to merely browse the articles posted on Digg -- remember there are many "diggers" who don't have accounts.
It's possible he created one way after he began regularly browsing the site. - ZER0JACK, on 08/26/2008, -2/+43No one will ever know.
- CHAMELEONDH, on 08/26/2008, -3/+43Too fast for you to play it.
- blipblopblip, on 08/26/2008, -8/+47Because linux fails spectacularly at being Windows (but wins at being an OS)
- cheesygoldfish, on 08/27/2008, -14/+49***** YOU, TWO OF MY FRIENDS DIED WHILE TRYING TO RUN CRYSIS!
- ar0ne, on 08/26/2008, -1/+35He said it was for 3d renders.
- alexforcefive, on 08/26/2008, -1/+35I still don't understand how he could build essentially six computers for the price of one... what is he comparing to? Alienware or something like that?
- guestaccount, on 08/26/2008, -1/+35If there's one thing 90% of IT guys don't know, it is cable management. Yea, it works, but when it goes down, you don't want to be the one chasing wires.
- theodenking, on 08/26/2008, -5/+37"(if configured properly)"
Which would probably take longer than building the thing. - zip000, on 08/26/2008, -0/+31On the data sheet it has a total of $3500.
- lulzitsadigg, on 08/26/2008, -1/+28It'll render over 9,000 swimming pools before Phelps can even get in the water.
- benburned, on 08/26/2008, -4/+29Can wine run crysis?
- DerangedPenguin, on 08/26/2008, -1/+26Lets throw it in the swimming pool and see how well it swims first....
- inactive, on 08/26/2008, -1/+25Wow. Thanks.
Sorry my noobs are showing. - jamie191817, on 08/26/2008, -2/+25it said in the article. 400 - 800W. spread out over 6 psu.
- jamie191817, on 08/26/2008, -2/+2432 bit linux - 4GB still , 64 bit linux - not really any limit.
- ProfessorLX, on 08/26/2008, -1/+23800watts full load RTFA
- cawpin, on 08/26/2008, -5/+26Stop spamming your story, we've already seen it.
- VinCenT13, on 08/26/2008, -5/+25porn.
- Ericdigital, on 08/26/2008, -0/+19maybe showing off a little but rendering is intense. To give you an idea to achieve the quality of say something like.. transformers.
one frame took 48s hours and that's on multiple machines.
Even when your working on a project that say is rendering 5-10 minutes a frame and you have 2000 frames to renders, and your right on your deadline. You would be crying for something like this. I'm assuming he is a freelance artist. My housemates and I have been considering investing in a render farm for this exact reason. - chedabob, on 08/26/2008, -0/+19Not really. It probably consumes less energy than running the same job on a slower, less efficient system.
- drr104, on 08/26/2008, -1/+19With a 32 bit operating system (Linux or Windows) you'll only be able to use 3 to 3.5GB of RAM depending on your setup. (With PAE you get 36 bits so up to 64GB in total, but I believe you're still limited per process to < 4GB).
With a 64 bit OS you can use 4GB or more, certainly up to 128GB of RAM - so most people won't come close to this. (Each process can also use more than 4GB of RAM.)
Don't know about OS X, probably the same. - MaxIsBored, on 08/26/2008, -3/+20He's using linux.
good joke though :p - Gerbil_Juice, on 08/26/2008, -1/+18Exactly what I thought when I saw this on the front page. I miss the "golden days" of digg being a technology news site.
- matthewinDRO, on 08/26/2008, -2/+19finally enough computing power to live my wierd science dream!
- civicsi99, on 08/26/2008, -0/+16dugg for "my cat approve". hahaha
also, will it run duke nuk..........oh never mind. - frontporsche, on 08/26/2008, -0/+16I thought the IKEA cabinet looked okay. What's sloppy?
- diggerbez, on 08/26/2008, -0/+16I hope he is working on the next futurama movie.
- tomarocco, on 08/26/2008, -4/+20/you need a job
- BrokenCircle, on 08/26/2008, -0/+15I already lived out my weird science dream in the 80s with my baby sitter's bra, a pringle's can, some jello and my beta-max copy of Dune.
- inactive, on 08/26/2008, -0/+15I think if it went down, the guy who built it would love chasing wires.
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