# nvidia powered "personal" supercomputer **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [November 18, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nvidia-powered-personal-supercomputer/58371 "2008-11-18T13:54:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nvidia-powered-personal-supercomputer/58371/1 "2008-11-18T13:54:22Z")
> **[Professional Workstation Solutions from NVIDIA](http://www.nvidia.com/object/workstation-solutions.html)** > > Professional workstations accelerated by NVIDIA Quadro graphics and Tesla GPU Accelerators help you work faster than ever. NVIDIA NVS lets you expand your multi-display installations. Learn more. > **[NVIDIA announces cost, energy-saving Tesla Personal Supercomputer](https://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/)** > > AMD has already outlined its plans to harness the power of its GPUs for some added computing muscle, and it looks like NVIDIA is now taking things one step fur... :tup: ---
**Author:** ![quadturbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7bcc69/32.png) [@quadturbo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/quadturbo)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nvidia-powered-personal-supercomputer/58371/2 "2008-11-18T15:45:11Z")
3dmark? ---
**Author:** ![BillysRevenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@BillysRevenge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BillysRevenge)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nvidia-powered-personal-supercomputer/58371/3 "2008-11-18T16:11:28Z")
nah ---
**Author:** ![ZOMGVTEK](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/zomgvtek/32/5063_2.png) [@ZOMGVTEK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ZOMGVTEK)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nvidia-powered-personal-supercomputer/58371/4 "2008-11-18T16:29:44Z")
That thing is insanely over priced. Its just a bunch of decent video cards in a box with a 10k price tag. You can do much better with 4 280’s in a skulltrail mobo. Also, this is only a ‘supercomputer’ to applications that can properly use that many cores. Anything like video encoding, where you have lots of frames. Every core can handle a frame at a time. Instead of 2 quad core CPUs handling 8 frames at a time, this can do 960 at a time. And theyre decently quick cores too, about the speed of a 2ghz P4… So yes, a shitton of power, but only when its used for the right application. That, and this is almost year old news. ---
**Author:** ![BillysRevenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@BillysRevenge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BillysRevenge)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nvidia-powered-personal-supercomputer/58371/5 "2008-11-18T17:26:27Z")
2 cards is quite unnecessary for most computers including gaming. Performance is increased slightly in most cases with the use of SLi. 4 GPUs is fuckin overkill. Not worth it in My opinion. I don’t think I’ll ever use SLi, seeing as most games don’t need it. ---
**Author:** ![ZOMGVTEK](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/zomgvtek/32/5063_2.png) [@ZOMGVTEK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ZOMGVTEK)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nvidia-powered-personal-supercomputer/58371/6 "2008-11-18T17:40:15Z")
> [@BillysRevenge](#): > > 2 cards is quite unnecessary for most computers including gaming. Performance is increased slightly in most cases with the use of SLi. 4 GPUs is fuckin overkill. Not worth it in My opinion. I don’t think I’ll ever use SLi, seeing as most games don’t need it. The skulltrail cant use more than 2 cards in SLi, i wasnt talking for gaming. You can however slot 4 cards in it and they would be physically addressable for sending CUDA instructions to. ---
**Author:** ![Djs87](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/djs87/32/5132_2.png) [@Djs87](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Djs87)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nvidia-powered-personal-supercomputer/58371/7 "2008-11-18T19:39:13Z")
> [@BillysRevenge](#): > > **2 cards is quite unnecessary for most computers including gaming**. Performance is increased slightly in most cases with the use of SLi. 4 GPUs is fuckin overkill. Not worth it in My opinion. I don’t think I’ll ever use SLi, seeing as most games don’t need it. you couldnt be more wrong. with a good mobo and decently aged drivers, and no cpu bottleneck, an sli configuration can give you a 75% boost or more in games. Most games. Ive used about 10 different single card and sli configurations. The results are generally worth the investment. I agree that 4 gpus is overkill. Cant think of a game offhand that fully supports quad sli. ---
**Author:** ![MoparGuy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/moparguy/32/5209_2.png) [@MoparGuy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MoparGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 5:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nvidia-powered-personal-supercomputer/58371/8 "2008-11-19T05:38:02Z")
I’ll see your [NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputer](http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal_computing.html) and raise you one [SC3 E-16 SuperCluster](http://www.picocomputing.com/products/supercluster.php)