worlds fastest pc | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:48:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png worlds fastest pc | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 8Pack OrionX2 – £33,000, the world’s most powerful PC! https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/leo-waldock/8pack-orionx2-33000-the-worlds-most-expensive-pc/ https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/leo-waldock/8pack-orionx2-33000-the-worlds-most-expensive-pc/#respond Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:26:57 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=407516 The specification of 8Pack OrionX2 has evolved from the previous OrionX (base spec £25k, typical spec £30k) with the main system migrating from Intel X99 and ten CPU cores to Intel X299 with 18 cores and 36 threads.

The secondary system moving from quad core Kaby Lake to 8 cores of i9-9900K.

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KitGuru’s video about the original £30,000 8Pack OrionX PC has been massively popular so we grabbed the opportunity to get up close with the new £33,000 OrionX2. As Ian ‘8Pack’ Parry was hefting this new OrionX2 PC through the door of the KitGuru studio we were discussing the all-up weight which is something like 80kg.

“Perhaps the next version will be carbon fibre – that might be an idea.”
Whether it was wishful thinking or early planning, you heard it first here folks.

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The specification of 8Pack OrionX2 has evolved from the previous OrionX (base spec £25k, typical spec £30k) with the main system migrating from Intel X99 and ten CPU cores to Intel X299 with 18 cores and 36 threads. The secondary system moving from quad core Kaby Lake to 8 cores of i9-9900K.

Previously the DDR4 memory was 64GB of Corsair Dominator and is now 128GB of 8Pack from Team Group.

The other major change is that the graphics were previously Nvidia Pascal GTX 1080Ti and are now Nvidia RTX. Typically these would be RTX Titan, although the system in our video is equipped with RTX 2080 Ti graphics.

Technical Details (Primary System):

  • Specially customised Phanteks Elite Full-Tower with integrated reservoirs and 8Pack logos
  • Cool interior with LED lighting, cable sleeving and coloured liquid coolant
  • Custom watercooling with EKWB components and three independent custom loops
  • Custom OC & water cooled Intel Core i9-7980XE (Skylake-E) with 18 Cores (36 Threads), 24.75 MB L3 Cache and OC @ min. 4.6GHz
  • Asus ROG Rampage 6 Extreme Omega Mainboard (E-ATX) with Intel X299 chipset and LGA 2066
  • Two water cooled Nvidia RTX Titans with 24GB GDDR6 VRAM connected in NV-Link for incredible gaming graphical performance, or three water cooled Nvidia RTX Titan run independently for computational/rendering operation.
  • 128GB (8x16GB) 8Pack edition Team Group DDR4-3200MHz or 64GB running at 3600MHz
  • 2TB Samsung 970 Evo NVMe-SSD as the primary storage device
  • 2TB Samsung 970 Evo NVMe-SSD as the secondary data storage
  • Huge 14TB Seagate HDD for tertiary data storage
  • 2,000 Watt Super Flower Leadex 8Pack Edition Power supply with extreme performance & 80Plus Platinum efficiency
  • Perfectly applied Thermal Grizzly Hydronaut thermal compound
  • OS Windows 10 Professional

Technical Details (Secondary System):

  • Custom water cooled Intel Core i7-9700K (Coffee Lake) with 8 cores, 12 MB L3 Cache, and overclocked to at least 5.0GHz or Intel Core i9-9900K, 8 Core, 16 Thread Overclocked to at least 4.8GHz
  • Asus ROG Strix Z390I Gaming Motherboard (Mini-ITX)
  • Rapid DDR4-RAM with 16GB capacity at an unbelievable 4000MHz clock frequency
  • Exceptional graphics card: Nvidia RTX Titan with 24GB GDDR6 VRAM
  • Two lightning-quick and reliable Samsung 970 Evo M.2 NVMe SSDs with 2TB, configured in RAID 0 as the primary storage devices
  • A huge 14TB capacity Samsung HDD for secondary storage
  • OS Windows 10 Professional

8Pack was keen to stress the knowledge that OCUK gain from developing this Ultra-high end PCs is used in considerably cheaper systems such as Infin8 or Germanium

The number of people willing or able to spend upwards of £30k on a PC is clearly a select group however the benefits also flow down to the mainstream enthusiasts.

Closing Thoughts.

Cynics told us the original 8Pack OrionX was crazy expensive and made little sense. The fact that OrionX sold in healthy numbers and has now been updated to OrionX2 proves there is a solid market for these astonishing PCs. We consider this to be an incredibly positive trend as it follows the hardware used in these systems has been tested to the absolute limits.

You may not feel the urge to invest in an 18-core CPU, push the clock speeds towards 5GHz, add 64GB or 128GB of DDR4 and then gang up three high end graphics cards but the fact it is possible makes our life better in the day-to-day humdrum world.

It proves beyond doubt that we can overclock a mainstream CPU, push the memory hard and make a single graphics card perform to its maximum ability and the system can be cool and quiet at the same time.

OrionX2 is much more than a proof of concept, it is a roadmap that shows us how we can improve our own systems and unlock the potential.

Buy from Overclockers UK for £32,999.99 HERE (customisations are possible).

KitGuru says: If you have forty grand burning a hole in your pocket – we say ‘Why not!?'

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Fragging with the Infinity Vesuvius is the game of kings https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/gaming-rig/bill-smyth/fragging-with-the-infinity-vesuvius-is-the-game-of-kings/ https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/gaming-rig/bill-smyth/fragging-with-the-infinity-vesuvius-is-the-game-of-kings/#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2014 11:30:50 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=189250 If you're a serious PC gamer and you've been anywhere near the internet in the past day or so, there's a chance you will have seen mention of the Overclockers Infinity Vesuvius. It's a monster and monsters have a thirst – so how much juice is needed to keep it happy?  KitGuru reads the metre …

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If you're a serious PC gamer and you've been anywhere near the internet in the past day or so, there's a chance you will have seen mention of the Overclockers Infinity Vesuvius. It's a monster and monsters have a thirst – so how much juice is needed to keep it happy?  KitGuru reads the metre under the stairs.

Putting one of the world's fastest graphics cards into your rig is something. Deciding that you need significantly more power and going with TWO of AMD's Radeon R9 295X2 cards is clearly nuts.

The chaps at Overclockers then build a towering system around those cards and the rest is history.

Enter the Infinity Vesuvius.

One question that has popped up on Facebook and other social media sites, is “So how much does that thing cost to run?”

Well, that depends on how many hours a day you intend to be shooting things.

Fortunately, a site called Sust-It provides an easy answer.

Drop 1157w into the box marked ‘Energy Consumption' and give yourself, say, 6 hours of gaming a day.

Remember to times this result by 365.  You know. For days in the year.

For our American/European cousins, £1 is around $1.65 and £1 is close to €1.2

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KitGuru says: On its own, this monster gaming rig is likely to be pulling around £365 a year from your wall socket. Then again, the Bugatti Veyron can't deliver 4 miles per gallon at full tilt (78l/100km) – and we did say that this is the Veyron of PCs.

If we have fuelled your curiosity, then let us know over on Facebook.

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YOYOTech XDNA Aurum 24K Images Gallery https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/base-unit/jules/yoyotech-xdna-aurum-24k-images-gallery/ https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/base-unit/jules/yoyotech-xdna-aurum-24k-images-gallery/#respond Fri, 01 Nov 2013 14:41:18 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=160349 The response to KitGuru's earlier article about YOYOTech's brand new £8,000 mega box, the XDNA Aurum 24K was really positive. While we can argue about whether any PC can be worth that much money, there's no doubting the beauty of this hand-crafted monster. You wanted more, so here's more. While we reserve the full on …

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The response to KitGuru's earlier article about YOYOTech's brand new £8,000 mega box, the XDNA Aurum 24K was really positive. While we can argue about whether any PC can be worth that much money, there's no doubting the beauty of this hand-crafted monster. You wanted more, so here's more.

While we reserve the full on 24mp shots for actual reviews, here are some of the up-close-and-personal type images that we've managed to sneak around this new system, starting with a shot of the whole thing – panel off. More details on the system itself over here.

When Asus first released its Z87 boards, people were not sure about the gold. Hats off to YOYOTech, great job making the Asus boards look this good.
When Asus first released its Z87 boards, people were not sure about the gold. Hats off to YOYOTech, great job making the Asus boards look this good.

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Hand etched then filled with gold leaf. Nice.
Hand etched then filled with gold leaf. Nice.

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Each of the nVidia GTX Titan cards come with a polished butt that provides a rich set of reflections.
Each of the nVidia GTX Titan cards come with a polished butt that provides a rich set of reflections.

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SLi data streams have never enjoyed such a glorious passage: Best bridge since Heimdall?
SLi data streams have never enjoyed such a glorious passage: Best bridge since Heimdall?

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More fans than Miley Cirus and Lady Gaga put together?  Well, not quite.
More fans than Miley Cirus and Lady Gaga put together? Well, not quite.

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Even the structural supports have their own band of gold. Well, you'd need it too if your job was to keep two warring Titans apart.
Even the structural supports have their own gold band. You'd need it too if your job was keeping Titans apart

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Check the set of pipes on this beauty
Check the set of pipes on this beauty. What's that?  “Corsair Vengeance is mine” – oh – very funny.

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KitGuru says: While the sheer physical size and wallet-emptying price will keep the YOYOTech XDNA Aurum 24K out of the reach of most enthusiasts reach, there is still a high level of Want-Want around this box. Reminds you of the golden days of Tech Porn.

Comment below, in the KitGuru forums or join 140,000 fellow enthusiasts over on our Facebook page.

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Cryo PC smashes world speed record https://www.kitguru.net/professional/workstation/jules/cryo-pc-smashes-world-speed-record/ https://www.kitguru.net/professional/workstation/jules/cryo-pc-smashes-world-speed-record/#comments Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:51:49 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=36459 While everyone and their dog can attack the Futuremark records, breaking the SPEC performance record takes some doing. KitGuru has been following the adventures of this Vale of Aylesbury company for a while now, and this announcement is quite special. During a recent, exclusive interview, Cryo founder Alan Johnson told us “Intel itself has now …

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While everyone and their dog can attack the Futuremark records, breaking the SPEC performance record takes some doing. KitGuru has been following the adventures of this Vale of Aylesbury company for a while now, and this announcement is quite special.

During a recent, exclusive interview, Cryo founder Alan Johnson told us “Intel itself has now effectively condoned overclocking by building Turbo Boost into its CPUs, which provides a self-limiting and safe overclock for regular users, without them every really being aware of it”. Alan then went one stage further, “In fact Cryo PC would say the term overclocking itself is now redundant. It’s more a process of ‘right-clocking’ rather than overclocking.  We prefer to think that AMD and Intel deliberately underclock processors for the channel, knowing full well that these chips are capable of giving much more performance with the right setup and configuration”.

OK, so Alan is an evangelist for ‘right clocking', so exactly what specification did Cryo use to beat the SPEC record and what kind of score did it manage?

Cryo PC takes SPEC world performance record with this gorgeous, water-cooled, Lian-Li casing

Dual Intel Xeon 5680 processors with the Turbo Boost facility turned off and the clocks set to 4.5GHz – that's 12 physical cores and 24 thread capability.

How do you keep those CPUs fed? With 48GB of DDR3. Feeding the memory takes a fast SSD drive.

All of that feeding needs energy, which generates heat. Alan's team chose the Lian-Li A77F chassis for this build, with a custom-designed, high-flow water-cooling system.

Congratulations to Alan Johnson's Cryo PC team for taking the SPEC world record, beating the previous holder (the BOXX Extreme) by up to 34%, and significantly ahead of HP, SGI, Dell and IBM

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KitGuru says: Impressive stuff. Nice to see a small UK outfit, that cares, taking on the world and winning. Tally Ho Chaps!

Comments below or in the KitGuru forum.

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OMG (Part 2): Proper scientists optimise the set up for EVGA SR2 https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/faith/omg-part-2-proper-scientists-optimise-the-set-up-for-evga-sr2/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/faith/omg-part-2-proper-scientists-optimise-the-set-up-for-evga-sr2/#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:21:49 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=10382 Serious speed is something you build up slowly. Especially when the mainboard presents you with more options than Subway has fillings for its 12″ sub.  For the Oh My God series, we've been making adjustments, monitoring progress, up-ing the ante, checking for stability and then repeating all over again. For those with a penchant for watching evil …

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Serious speed is something you build up slowly. Especially when the mainboard presents you with more options than Subway has fillings for its 12″ sub.  For the Oh My God series, we've been making adjustments, monitoring progress, up-ing the ante, checking for stability and then repeating all over again. For those with a penchant for watching evil scientists at work, here are the latest entries from Dr Zardon's notebook.

Clocking a mainboard, no matter how expensive, is never going to compete with the gut-churning adrenaline rush that you'd get from, say, tanking the latest Bugatti Veyron SuperSport past 267 MPH. Try the latest episode of Top Gear, 17 minutes and 30 seconds in, and you'll see what we mean.

OK, we don't have £1.7m lying around.

Bugatti's latest SuperSport version of the Veyron comes in KitGuru colours. Unfortunately, KitGuru pockets don't come in Bugatti sizes. Damn.

But we do have access to the latest EVGA Turbo-Nutter SR2 mainboard, along with a pair of Xeon 5680 processors. We also have an unlimited supply of cool components to surround this phenomenal engine – and plenty of time to get it right.

When this whole project started, we didn't think time was going to be an issue. As it turns out, that's a good thing. It's taken far longer than we imagined to get everything right. We're now confident that OMG (Part 3) will contain the real meat & potatoes that KitGuru readers demand. For now, we're going to update you on the options we've been evaluating on the open test bed.

We'll also give you an insight into the way experts turn initial thoughts into final delivery along a path which includes trying some of the dumbest and smartest ideas you've ever seen.

With this kind of ‘amazing first ever build', there are so many components being used together (each with unique electrical, chronological and thermal properties), that it's only after a lot of trial and error that you end up with the final solution. Here are the some of the questions we asked and, where possible, answered. This is the exam equivalent of showning your working out – just in case you get extra points.

How many graphic cards is enough?

Come on Makedon, where are the SexFire drivers you promised?

Best boots ?

What's the best boot mechanism? Always start simple. Intel's X25 provide a good starting point.

We'll change memory and PSU half a dozen times while preparing for final assembly. Many lies and half-truths from the various marketing spinners will be horribly exposed during this process. Also, some genuine mis-understandings will get cleared up. For example, memory companies that quote ‘the fastest DDR3 on the planet' only seem to supply in pairs. We're after triple channel loving. Most of the memory company's web sites only want to push stories of amazing DDR3 performance for 2 modules. Makes picking memory to test a little more time consuming than we'd wished.

Fastest DDR3 memory modules and a big, phat PSU provide a solid foundation

The cooler's connected to the, radiator; the fan is connected to the PSU; the mainboard's connected to the, well, almost everything (with FurMark in the background). Each variation of hardware runs and runs – gets monitored and all of the data copied down.

At the start, cabling is purely functional - let the spaghetti explode!

So many options, so little time.

Water, water, everywhere - but not a drop to drink. is LC the best for this?

You don't have to test in serial. And (liquid cooling or not) we definitely would not recommend testing in cereal.

With dual CPUs, it's actually possible to test two different coolers at the same time. Nice.

So how long should you test with each option?

Test until a fine coating of dust builds up on the northbridge cooler. That should do it.

Lastly, in addition to the built-in temperature sensors for the mainboard etc, it's important to use 3rd party instruments – to ensure accuracy.

Proper measurement depends on calibration.

Having discussed the issue with serious scientists, we decided to utilise an EVGA expert's butt to calibrate our main temperature sensor.

Ex-Military, Commander Relic assured us that his butt maintains a constant external temperature of 25 degrees celsius. And who are we to argue with the military.

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KitGuru says: Battle has now been well and truly joined. The next installment of OMG will see the final kit selection, some of the intricate steps involved in the assembly, as well as numbers. Those precious numbers that tell you exactly how Bugatti-like the dual Xeon 5680 experience will be. We can't wait!

Quick chat below. In-depth on the KitGuru forum. Remember to let us know if you have any suggestions for the final assembly!

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OMG (Part 1): Intel Xeon 5680 Chips Served on eVGA SR2 https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/faith/omg-part-1-intel-xeon-5680-chips-served-on-evga-sr2/ https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/faith/omg-part-1-intel-xeon-5680-chips-served-on-evga-sr2/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:46:41 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=7101 Fast is all a matter of degrees. Roll the clock back 10 years and Intel was happy to supply you with a 1GHz processor. These days, 1GHz is reserved for phones and cheap netbooks. Given that real/raw performance relates more to clock speed and cores than anything else, what if you cranked the GHz score …

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Fast is all a matter of degrees. Roll the clock back 10 years and Intel was happy to supply you with a 1GHz processor. These days, 1GHz is reserved for phones and cheap netbooks. Given that real/raw performance relates more to clock speed and cores than anything else, what if you cranked the GHz score way past 400% up from the CPUs of yesteryear and allowed a PC to run 24 threads. KitGuru today begins a journey of wonder.

OMG ranks alongside MEGA LOLs as one of our favourite text-speaks of the 21st century. Literally OH MY GOD. KitGuru gets its hands on a lot of kit that makes us smile. Sometimes grin. But the most recent hands-on experience produced a serious stream of OMGs, MEGA LOLs and a twitchy desire to sell random possessions in order to buy some of this kit.

You don't need it. But you really do want it.

So what has reduced KitGuru's white-coat-wearing army of combat benchmarking veterans into a gang of giggling school kids staring at the lingerie pages of a home delivery catalogue?

Simple.

Opening these packages.

Xeon 5680 chips arrive
Open, arrange, shoot, flip, shoot. Then realise you're grinning like an idiot. A very happy idiot.
Xeon 5680
No doubt. These are the Kray Twins of the CPU world. You'd pay them NOT to hurt you.
Xeon 5680
Intel Xeons are knitted by grannies. Ultra hardcore punk grannies with implants and plasma rifles.
They look big enough when you shoot them next to the picture of the SR2 on the back of the box

The really fun part was putting the chips on top of the mainboard box.

Anyone remember 2010 when the Russian chap takes a space walk near the monolith ?

Even mighty Xeons get a little nervous in the presence of EVGA's mental SR2

OK. So the OMG series has begun.

Work will commence on the kit in question and we'll be following it all carefully, camera at the ready.

KitGuru says: Can't wait to see how this thing overclocks and benches! Discuss in our forums.


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