- Friday, 27 November 2009
- INQ Mobile
- RSS
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple - Oscar Wilde
Fastest desktop in the world launched
LEWIS HAMILTON WASN’T the only Brit setting records for speed today as UK retailer Yoyo Tech unveiled the world’s fastest desktop PC, unceremoniously shoving the two time winning 8-core SUN UltraSPARC system from its throne.
Yoyo Tech’s Fi7EPOWER MLK1610, which is built around an overclocked Intel Core i7 965 processor, runs with 9GB of Corsair DDR3 memory, an Asus P6T mainboard, and a 2GB HIS 4870x2 graphics card. The independently expensive Core i7-965 Extreme Edition - which costs £1,000 on its own - provides a 3.20GHz clock speed as well as a 25.6GB/sec data transfer average using Intel’s QuickPath. The mean machine also boasts Chipzilla’s latest X58 chipset.
Yoyo Tech’s owner, who insists on being referred to as CK, noted that budget wasn’t an issue when building the super fast machine, saying, “We went back to the mindset you have as a child. Focusing 100 per cent on the ‘I Want, I Want, I Want’ mentality”.
That mentality was probably why Yoyo Tech also opted to bung an 80GB Samsung SSD into its creation, making it that much faster, quieter and... more expensive.
The Fi7EPOWER MLK1610 managed to score 130 in SPEC’s peak integer rate test, quite literally blasting Sun’s 8-core UltraSPARC system - which managed a score of 85.5 – out of the water. It also performs about twice as fast as anything powered by Intel's former top-of-the-range CPU.
Gamers may not exactly be falling over themselves with excitement, however, because the speedy Gonzalez of the desktop world only has one Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card with 2GB of DDR5 memory. Oh well, nobody’s perfect. But, not to fear, the Asus P6T motherboard does support AMD's Crossfire, so any punter willing to splash out even more cash could customise it and add another one.
Anyone who could afford to would have to be pretty loaded though. Pricing already starts at a whopping £4,000. CK doesn’t think this is necessarily a high price to pay for owning “a piece of history” however, noting that as well as having the fastest core processing scores ever the system also offers an additional 2.4 TeraFLOPS of pure graphics processing power.
As to who CK reckons his potential customers for the machine could be, YoyoTech’s owner believes the Fi7EPOWER MLK1610 could be perfect for professional studios who need to process ultra high-definition images and video in the shortest possible time. CK also believes it may come in useful for “designers and other artists” too.
We assume that by ‘artists’, CK means those with bank accounts more similar to ones formerly known as Prince. µ
L'INQ
Yoyotech
Share this:
ShareBusiness Intelligence Software
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Enterprise Accounting Software
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Enterprise Systems Management
that the budget doesn't stretch to a proofreader for their advert!
Uh Lewis Hamilton wasn't setting any speed records yesterday... He was busy being decimated by a young guy in a useless car. It took another young guy in a more useless car for him to win.
SSINF or So Stupid, its' NOT Funny. Cool, eh? Heres good One: SICNR or Sorry I Could NOT Resist."thats what sheish stated".

Anyway, it needs Ultimate 64 & slower processor with saving get additional card plus SSD with about 270mb/s read, to push limit bit, maybe bit more Juice, too. sayKW+. actually Server 2008 be better, excepting media thingie, so home server2008 might be option? 2. 
drashek irmc-I Rest My Case.
You could run this same story on a weekly basis "fastest desktop in the world launched ... week 45 2008".
~YAWN~ Big yiptee doo
I believe it is called triple channel memory.
Beggar Me: Never mind that I wish to complain about this QX6700 what I purchased. 
Intel: Oh yes, the, uh, the Kentsfield... What's,uh... What's wrong with it? 
Beggar Me: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's dead, that's what's wrong with it! 
Intel: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting. 
Beggar Me: Look, matey, I know a dead QX6700 when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now. 
Intel: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable Chip, the Kentsfield, idn'it, ay? Beautiful FSB! 
Beggar Me: The FSB don't enter into it. It's stone dead. 
Intel: Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting! 
Beggar Me: All right then, if he's restin', I'll wake him up! (shouting at the socket) 'Ello, Mister Processor QX6700! I've got a lovely fresh Triple Channel DDR3s for you if you show... 
(Intel hits the socket) 
Intel: There, he moved! 
Beggar Me: No, he didn't, that was you hitting the socket! 
Intel: I never!! 
Beggar Me: Yes, you did! 
Intel: I never, never did anything... 
Beggar Me: (yelling and hitting the socket repeatedly) 'ELLO Processor!!!!! Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your 1366 o'clock alarm call! 
(Takes QX6700 out of the socket and thumps its IHS on the counter. Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor.) 
Beggar Me: Now that's what I call a dead QX6700. 
Intel: No, no.....No, 'e's stunned! 
Beggar Me: STUNNED?!? 
Intel: Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin' up! Kentsfields stun easily, major. 
Beggar Me: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That QX6700 is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged overclock. 
Intel: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the Netburst. 
Beggar Me: PININ' for the Netburst?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got 'im home? 
Intel: The Kentsfield prefers keepin' on it's back! Remarkable Chip, id'nit, squire? Lovely FSB! 
Beggar Me: Look, I took the liberty of examining that QX6700 when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its Mainboard in the first place was that it had been NAILED there. 
(pause) 
Intel: Well, o'course it was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed that Chip down, it would have nuzzled up to that heatsink, bent 'em apart with its beak, and 
VOOM! Feeweeweewee! 
Beggar Me: "VOOM"?!? Mate, this Chip wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised! 
Intel: No no! 'E's pining! 
Beggar Me: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This QX6700 is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e 
rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the Mainboard 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is Quad Core processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the 
bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-QX6700!! 
(pause) 
Intel: Well, I'd better replace it, then. (he takes a quick peek behind the counter) Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of QX6700s. 
Beggar Me: I see. I see, I get the picture. 
Intel: I got a slug. 
Beggar Me: Well shoot it man!
The rig has "only" one 4870 X2, but more importantly, a much much cheaper configuration with a C2Q 9650 overclocked @ 3.6 GHz or more would offer far better performance in games.
Would that be three 3 GB sticks or six 1.5 GB sticks?

9 GB sounds weird like AMD's three core processors.
Hmm, so you wrote a story about Yo-yo tech because they got you a Core i7 review sample?

This isn't the fastest desktop in the world; just take any other PC manufacturer (Scan, Cyberpower.. heck, even Dell) who overclocks a top Intel chip as standard...
a much much cheaper configuration with a C2Q 9650 overclocked @ 3.6 GHz or more would offer far better performance in games.

How is a 3.6GHz C2Q faster than an i7?
I'm guessing
2 1 2 1 2 1
for the RAM.

Tri channel, 6 slots

I know we'll end up calling it tri-channel, but it should be treble channel. (Simple, Dual, Treble vs Single, Double, Triple)
Actually the one setting records yesterday was Massa, Hamilton was laid back and won by pure luck.
do you speak any English, maybe?
Some of us care about FP performance more than int performance. I notice that wasn't mentioned here. That's probably because this machine isn't anywhere near the top in that category. If you check you the SPEC page you see that a 2P i7 machine with 12 cores at 2.67 GHz still loses out to a 2P Opteron with 8 cores at 2.3 GHz when it comes to FP rate.
So if the next Mac(whatever those are)

uses an I7 will it be called an 'Apple-Core'?

Hehehe oh yes, can't resist-

How does this thing run Crysis?

Hahahahha.
a much much cheaper configuration with a C2Q 9650 overclocked @ 3.6 GHz or more would offer far better performance in games. 

How is a 3.6GHz C2Q faster than an i7?

Double Retard!
the core i7 offers little (or sometimes worse) improvements on games. It will have a price premium imposed upon it aswell. Core i7 ofers vastly improved bandwith for virtualisation and the like.

So a core q9650, (quite alot cheaper to start with) overclocked to 3.6ghz (100% of chips can do that easy) WILL perform better in games than a core i7.
in other apps. mabye not so.
fast enough to boot Vista in a reasonable time?