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My new desktop.
May. 30th, 2016 01:04 pmMy last desktop was Pentium 4 (Northwood) based, Gygabyte motherboard with Intel chipset, Nvidia graphics. I used it in 2002-2004.
Since that time, I never used desktops at home. (I had access to too many "fresher than new" dekstops at work, with maxed specs and stuff.)
But now I just got another one at home:
CPU is i7 6700K at 4.4Ghz (I bought it with a very big discount, unfortunately I am not allowed to disclose it).
The motherboard is GIGABYTE H170M-D3H. It is very cheap, and I don't mind the limitations of H170 chipset: having just one full speed PCIe slot (so no SLI) and limited overclocking (6700K is unlocked anyway).
Graphics card: waiting when 1070 is available...
The config is for VR, and also I noticed that even my trivial experiments with tensorflow take too long on my Macbook pro 2012; and I don't want to abuse my servers in a datacenter.
Upd: On overclocking, I am not a big fan, because reliability drops and desktop SKUs are already less reliable than server and embedded. Still, I installed a liquid cooler from Intel (value deal $ too, he-he) because Yulia asked me to make the system quiet, and with good cooling I have some headroom in CPU freq.
Since that time, I never used desktops at home. (I had access to too many "fresher than new" dekstops at work, with maxed specs and stuff.)
But now I just got another one at home:
CPU is i7 6700K at 4.4Ghz (I bought it with a very big discount, unfortunately I am not allowed to disclose it).
The motherboard is GIGABYTE H170M-D3H. It is very cheap, and I don't mind the limitations of H170 chipset: having just one full speed PCIe slot (so no SLI) and limited overclocking (6700K is unlocked anyway).
Graphics card: waiting when 1070 is available...
The config is for VR, and also I noticed that even my trivial experiments with tensorflow take too long on my Macbook pro 2012; and I don't want to abuse my servers in a datacenter.
Upd: On overclocking, I am not a big fan, because reliability drops and desktop SKUs are already less reliable than server and embedded. Still, I installed a liquid cooler from Intel (value deal $ too, he-he) because Yulia asked me to make the system quiet, and with good cooling I have some headroom in CPU freq.
