Project X

TheWhiteRose000

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(Backstory you can skip over it if you want.)


Well,.

As just a brief starter, I fell into computers by accident a stroke of the luck kind of thing.

But I soon there discovered I quite enjoyed computer's mainly building, and maintaining.

I'm kinda obsessed with the speed of a computer,.

I started out using Windows 95-98, with barely 64mb's of memory playing Commander Keen.

And I Kinda enjoyed it, took apart my first hard drive when I was about 10-12 if memory serve's me right.

(....obviously didn't work afterwards I just wanted to see inside and it was dead.)

Got my first computer off my brother.

Nice Gigabyte Board, running a AMD Athlon processor.

And then met someone who would change my life.

A person named Wesley Kaminski, in all seriousness I dislike him as a Computer Tech.

Cause he would constantly batter people about how vast his knowledge supposedly was.

And would constantly put people down cause of it.

Like he was God's gift to the world of computers.

So seeing his arrogance I wanted to shut him up and put him in my place.

Thus how I discovered my calling.

My computer going on the fritz I decided to embark and build my own.

And I did just that a nice Intel Dual Core CPU, and a Radeon HD 2600 video on a ASUS P5QL Pro.

I didn't however stop there, after proving I could build one.

I moved onto upgrading that but I still wasn't satisfied.

So I built another computer with a Gigabyte EP45T USB 3.0

And a Nice Intel Quad 9550, to surpass his computer even more so when I cross-fired 2 HIS Radeon HD 5670's

Continuing on from there I saw this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs

Samsung's SSD awesomeness video.

Although being poor and having to work a lot.

Just to afford to build these, I decided to go with something that head the speed I wanted.

But also something I could afford.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139175

The Kingston V-Series Double pack SSD's.

Two 30gb SSD's for the price of one.

So I studied and increased my knowledge more of how Raid arrays work.

And using 6, I was able to achieve a speed of 500mb's a second, I know it can be more but to do everything I want.

With my motherboard I'm minus one port and can't afford a raid card to get past this issue.

So now the question I faced was.

Where do I go from here?

I beat the rival I had the person of whom I challenged to better myself.

I feel when people are faced with a challenge either placed in front of them or one they create.

They are given the chance to overcome it and grow from it.

I wouldn't have learned this much about computer's or started going to a technical school.

So I thought what could I do now to keep moving forward.

To keep bettering myself.

And then it dawned on me.

The Solid State Awesomeness video.

That Samsung released.

So I spent hour's Googling away trying to find out who that person is, with just a name to go by.

A Man named Paul, and by a stroke of luck, and genius, a blessing was bestowed upon me.

I discovered that man's Twitter, and he told me sense he is no longer under contract with Samsung.

He can freely share his knowledge and how he achieved a computer with 2gb of speed.

And with the knowledge he openly shared with me, and the support he has given towards this in teaching me a few thing's I didn't know.

I am ready to embark on my new project.

Using his knowledge, the knowledge of the school techs, the knowledge of my friends at Google.

All of whom I have met by fate, to help me grow stronger.

I shall use everyone's knowledge and Wisdom I've learned on the net.

In the school, taught myself, to create and surpass Paul Curry's computer from Samsung Awesomeness.

Even though the record has been beaten a few time's now including once from Intel.

In my Project, which I have named.

~Project X~

The Goal of which is to achieve a 3-4gb of speed on a consumer computer.

It is hard for the fact about every part for the computer I got to buy myself.

Certain thing's I got to buy the big main part's.

Here is the current list of part's I am working to gather.

In a attempt to achieve this insane speed and goal.

Motherboard:

EVGA Classified SR-2 270-WS-W555-A2 LGA 1366 Intel 5520 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HPTX Intel Motherboard

Raid Controller:

LSI MegaRAID 9280-24i4e SATA/SAS 6Gb/s PCIe 2.0 w/ 512MB onboard memory controller card, Single

Power Supplies: (2)

COOLER MASTER Silent Pro Gold Series RSC00-80GAD3-US 1200W ATX 12V v2.3 / EPS 12V v2.92 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS


CPU's: (2)

Intel Xeon X5690 Westmere-EP 3.46GHz LGA 1366 139W Six-Core Server Processor BX80614X5690


Solid State Drives: (12)

Kingston SSDNow V Series SNV125-S2BD/30GB-2P 2.5" 60GB (2 x 30GB) SATA II Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)


Graphics Cards: (2)

Nvidia GTX 590 - ?????????? (Models currently not available.)

or

Radeon HD 6690 - ?????????? (Models currently not available.)


Network Card:

VisionTek Bigfoot Killer 2100 Gaming Network Card

Audio Card:

Creative PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series Sound Card



Memory: (12 x 4)

Kingston 2000Mhz Tri-channel DDR3 (Only the basic spec's are what I know currently.)

Heatsinks: (2)

ZALMAN CNPS9900MAX-B 135mm Long life bearing CPU Cooler Blue LED

Total cost remaining for the project

Excluding the following.

Memory - Unknown price currently

Graphics - Unknown price currently

Network Card - Already own

Audio Card - Already own

Kingston V-Series Solid State Drives (6 total - 3 box's)

Custom Built Mountain Modes Case

Total Cost Remaining for completion of this project.

$8,683.75
 
by the time you have saved up enough to buy everything on your for this beast of a project, better parts will be available.... it will end up being a catch22 project.

and besides, IMHO, it would be like mortgaging your granny for a F1 race car to drive to work in. it won't/shouldn't happen!!! lmao
 
On-board RAID?... I'd rather not. Like having a supercar, then only pumping the tyres at half pressure.

EDIT:My bad, I missed seeing the RAID card in the spec list.
 
I've been working on this for a while.

I just decided to start it.

The parts I want to get first are the CPU's, and the Motherboard, and Case.

Saving for the raid card and SSD's I'm okay with waiting for.

The SSD's I need to get a certain type though.

I'm using just the V-Series Kingstons cause it's 2 for one.

The Raid Controller Will probably be last cause the more I wait on them the better they get.

The GPU's I'm moving to Norway so I sold my car.

Perfect reason to go buy new GPU's!

Goal of this project to achieve a 3-4gb of speed a second.

Knowing how to get in contact with Paul now to ask question's has really helped this project a lot.

So does anyone think this will play Crysis?
 
So does anyone think this will play Crysis?

LMAO
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In all honesty I'm still not understanding it.

Cause someone explain it too me?

Basically (to my understanding anyway) you connect to a huge database that does scientific research for diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's helping to find cures and further understanding into the diseases themselves. The more people that fold the more and faster the research is done which means scientists and doctors are able to find cures and a better understanding of how the diseases work and affect people.
 
So basically if I get this right.

I'm using the excess processing power of my CPU.

To help the processing of data to find a cure for disease's?

Of this I did not know.
 
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