The Intel Core i7 is one bad mofo...

[Sgt Beavis]

Yesterday I upgraded my desktop to 18GB of RAM (I will max it out to 24GB eventually). My Intel Core i7-930 (not even the most powerful of the family) simply laughs at it.......

The screen shot is of VMware Workstation 7 running the following workloads:

4 x Win2k3 servers (running a domain controller, vmware vCenter, SQL 2005, and platespin Recon)
1 x EMC Celerra VSA (virtual server appliance.. acts as a virtual SAN device)
2 x VMware ESX 4.0 hosts (each with nested virtual machines that are not currently running)
2 x VMware ESX 4.1 hosts (each with nested virtual machines that are not currently running)
1 x VMware Management Appliance
1 x Apple OSX 10.6.6 (yes, I have a VM running OSX on a Win7 machine)
1 x Win7 x64
1 x Win2k3 x64 running vCenter 4.1 and SQL 2005


workstation7 by rboyett2001, on Flickr



taskmgr by rboyett2001, on Flickr


As you can see, the proc is just humming right along. I'm going to run out of memory before I lose CPU. BTW, these are not idle virtual machines. vCenter, SQL, Recon, and Win7 x64 are all working on various tasks.

I am planning to eventually upgrade to the Core i7-970 (hexacore) but at this point I'm not sure I would need to. Right now my biggest constraint is actually disk IO.

[Tx Redneck]

Show off!

[mustang_revival]

Here's the task manager from my desktop

[ozzeran]

930 is old news, but yeah it's a bad motherfucker for the price.

[GT Fanatic]

I didn't know you could put that much ram on a motherboard. Impressive.

[MikeD]

930 is old news,

Don't remind me........

<------ payed full tilt for mine like a retard

[Sgt Beavis]

930 is old news, but yeah it's a bad motherfucker for the price.

Yea, and I got the HP employee discount to boot. normally they don't let you stack customer discounts with employee discounts but last summer they were clearing these boxes out so I got a great deal.. Came with an ATI Radeon HD 5770. That said, it was cheaply built.....

I didn't know you could put that much ram on a motherboard. Impressive.

Yea, the x58 chipset will do 24GB. I got it for that reason as well as the ability to eventually upgrade to a 970. I won't need that upgrade anytime soon but the prices are finally starting to fall....

[Skidmark]

Yea, and I got the HP employee discount to boot. normally they don't let you stack customer discounts with employee discounts but last summer they were clearing these boxes out so I got a great deal.. Came with an ATI Radeon HD 5770. That said, it was cheaply built.....



Yea, the x58 chipset will do 24GB. I got it for that reason as well as the ability to eventually upgrade to a 970. I won't need that upgrade anytime soon but the prices are finally starting to fall....

My board only has 2 slots for ram. I guess that's what I get for wanting a mATX case.

[IHaveAMustang]

Meh, gots nuthin on my P4 HT Extreme Edition!

Ballah!

[ram57ta]

I didn't know you could put that much ram on a motherboard. Impressive.

While I will probably never do it my 2 year old Asus P5q-se can support 16gb thru 4 slots if I stick with 64 bit Windows 7.

[Tx Redneck]

Here's the task manager from my desktop

Liar! Server boards and dual hex's do not qualify as a desktop puter.

[Ratt]

Damn things have gotten fast. The first pc I ever built had a pentium III 800 MHz proc, a whopping .5 gigs of ram, a 20 gig hard drive, and, get this, a 16 meg 3d video card! WOO! I used that sucker all the way to counterstrike 1.4, even won a prize at ghettolan for the slowest computer there, and I was STILL kickin' ass!

[roliath]

Liar! Server boards and dual hex's do not qualify as a desktop puter.

lol at the page file