I am curious on what the PC specs the Uber developers use. At the Uber office everyone may have similar specs or special for what each developer needs. So I am not only curious in what you guys have at the office, but also at home. Custom built? bought HP/Dell etc? Motherboards, CPU, Ram Over clocked and water cooled? I am just curious... And because I asked you guys... http://www.overclock.net/lists/display/view/id/4819529
That is one serious overkill of a pc you linked (also a 4 rail 750W thermaltake will die within 2 years with that setup) I imagine the pcs that are used for animations and rendering are probably close to this overkill.
So we've gone through about 3 generations of PC's over the last 5 years. Keep in mind that we've recently expanded to using Mac's for development as well as Windows and Linux. The machine I'm typing this on right now is a Macbook Pro which is where I've done most of my coding for the project (as I tend to do more coding at home and do bs stuff at the office). The typical office machine is an intel quad core with 12GB of ram (although some newer machines have 32GB I think). We spec Intel SSD drives as standard equipment with a large spinner for extra local storage. I typically have us buy a variety of video cards, usually whatever can be bought for $150. We also get a fair number of cards from Nvidia and ATI occasionally. For example they just sent me a Titan which I'm probably going to build a new machine around for testing on the higher end. Motherboards / memory and stuff are usually decent quality. I think we mainly have used Asus boards, typically whatever the current well reviewed model is. We typically buy dual Dell 24" monitors. Some people have a single 30" monitor instead (like me). Overall it's fairly simple and we don't really try to push hardware outside normal bounds. Reliability with good performance is better that the fastest machine that falls down when you need it.
If I get two more years it's good by me. I bought it in 2006... But still wondering why you say that? I have a watt meter at the and when I tuned the PC volts to stick at 1.4 volts using llc, it topped out at 425 watts when folding. Otherwise with out any special adjustments the most I have seen is about 520 watts and that was win I took out two sticks of ram and ran the ddr3 at 1866 mhz. Just saying I am not getting close to stressing the psu....
That makes sense. I am really curious as PCs now a days are more powerful then required uses, but as you guys are doing what you do, I was unsure if you actually had to go all out just for testing hardware or if you needed to to get the most out of all your 3D development apps. I built my PC to play with multiple VMs for testing/learning purposes and something I shouldn't have to replace for a while. My last PC lasted 6 years and really only replaced it because I was having driver BSOD issues with Win7 and RAID 0. I am also curious on how that Titan works out. I have been hearing mixed reviews. But if you need one gpu for games and have reason for a super computer than its a reasonably priced workstation class GPU (those cards are crazy expensive). Still very interested to hear from other Uber developers. Not really sure why but I woke up today very interested to know what you guys use.
Overall it's fairly simple and we don't really try to push hardware outside normal bounds. Reliability with good performance is better that the fastest machine that falls down when you need it. True.
If you're not coming close to stressing it then you wasted a lot of money on a serious overkill(since if you have such a system one would assume you do heavy 3d rendering and virtual machine work every day) That power supply works at max 650W when bought and considering the age, I'm pretty sure by now anything over 400-450W will really risk the stability of the entire system(capacitors in a psu weaken over age which lowers the efficiency) I just worry for the sake of other really pretty parts, I have people bring me in pcs cause they died and killed their gpus and mobos cause of low power all the time. :cry:
I understand. But this is a high end psu. I talked to over clockers and psu expert about still trusting it. Was told not to worry about high end PSUs 80% efficiency and above made with better parts. Also I do check the volts every week or so under load as it is a old psu. But as I was saying, I did my due diligence and am currently not worried. I don't think it's over kill as it has lasted this long. Also an 80% efficiency is better for my electric bill. I really did get what I paid for. Also as amps are lower on multi rale psu I wanted higher watts and amps for crossfire. When I bought it I had also bought 1900xtx for xfire. Those needed some power. I don't remember it's power requirements as it was 6 years ago. I am also known to play with gfx and cpu over clocking now and again so I like the extra overhead. I have also seen many bad things in regards blown caps and cracked south/north bridges. http://www.overclock.net/t/1347145/old- ... irex-build
All I could of when I saw those specs were "Why would he ever use a keyboard from 2006 on such a nice PC?"
This really isn't an expensive rig. This is 3930k@ 4.6 32 gig 1800mhz red vengance 2x 256 ocz vertex 4 asus sabertooth 2011 7970 ghz edition silverstone 1.2 kw psu
There is only one keyboard that is better then my original G15 and its the G19. And I dont need to spend that kind of money for something I am not going to use very often if ever. I really do love my keyboard and my G7 mouse also bought in 2006. Each device was $100 and i really dont want to replace them. The most i would get would be more of a side grade and less of an upgrade. Look up the parts and reviews of them. It would be easier to find a new keyword worthy to replace my G15 (G19 as I said) then my mouse (have yet to find a new mouse I really like), both of my current input devices are high quality and still work very well. Also the reason I pointed out my G15 was made in 2006 was because there are two different G15 keyboards, and mine is the better original model.
Because they're indestructible? Newer tech isn't always better, especially when our market fundamentally encourages making junk that breaks.
Did keyboards evolve in any way since then? If you go and get a nice one it can easily serve you the next decade. Just free it of bread-crumbs every now and then.
Well GPU is overkill for your screensize(think 1680x1050) imo. Cpu is ok i think FX8350 first really good from AMD since years. But i still would go for Intel they give me a better performace per power. Also i am done with Logitec, stuff of them broke one time to often on me. Edit: Ah sorry just saw you have 3 screens, i ignored the other 2. So with eyefinity crossfiring 2 7870 is prob ok
