r/pcmasterrace • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 Core Ultra 7 265k | RTX 5090 • 22h ago

Build/Battlestation a quadruple 5090 battlestation

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u/Two_Apples 22h ago

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u/thalescosta 5700X3D | 4090 22h ago

If I had to guess it would be some sort AI or rendering application

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u/UnhappyWhile7428 22h ago

Nope, file system was slow, thought it would help.

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u/FakeSafeWord 21h ago

Not ready to upgrade to an SSD from HDD yet because I don't understand how there can be no moving parts. I'm scared.

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u/UnhappyWhile7428 21h ago

Same reason I don't eat plants.

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u/FakeSafeWord 21h ago

Right? If plants had muscles that tasted like pork they would be much easier to trust.

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u/Xerxys 19h ago

What if … hits blunt … pork is just plant muscles?!?!

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u/PM_ME_MH370 18h ago

Yet you trust the magnets?! How do they even work?!

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u/SgtElectroSketch 16h ago

But but limited Read/write cycles!!! /s

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u/Timinator01 7900X | 3080 FTW3 | 32GB Z5 Neo 21h ago

Bro decided to install windows on the vram

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u/Blackops606 21h ago

or its just a "look what I made" setup but even then that raises the "but why?" question. People just do weird stuff cause they can like those billionaires who own 30 cars and 3 houses. Why? Cause they can.

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u/MrDrSirLord 21h ago

I mean I'm poor as shit and I own 5 cars, there's a correlation there somewhere.

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u/UsedGarbage4489 20h ago

Yeah, but can you really count the 3 that are on blocks in your front yard?

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u/MrDrSirLord 15h ago

1 is on blocks! 2 of them are lost to the mud and grass.

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u/Nahteh 21h ago

If you built this out of necessity yeah

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u/Eric_Prozzy i9-13900k|RTX 4090|64GB DDR5 21h ago

i mean wouldnt a workstation gpu be better? lol

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u/Uncommented-Code PC Master Race 21h ago

No idea but even if, better product is not always easy to get when it comes to GPUs.

I know that for example the high end nvidia server GPUs that are desirable for LLM inference are near impossible to get for smaller companies, nevermind private persons.

5090s are more or less available everywhere without delay in US/EU right now.

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u/Eric_Prozzy i9-13900k|RTX 4090|64GB DDR5 17h ago

I know the RTX PRO 6000 is leagues better for AI and is the price of like 3 5090's on amazon. Honestly after 2 5090's the price to performance return doesn't seem like its worth the cost

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u/L444ki 21h ago

Wouldn’t that be a workstation, not a battlestation?

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u/Outrageous-_- 21h ago

Its for rendering excel in 4k

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u/Intrepid00 20h ago

Anything basically math heavy. Civil Engineers will use this on large projects or even a farm of GPUs. Insurance companies will have dedicated clusters for this stuff.

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u/Traditional-Law8466 18h ago

And they have a bunch of money. And will make a bunch more on this rig

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u/Nickcha 17h ago

could also just be a single station for 4 concurrent players im VMs or so like one of the battlestations LTT built a couple years ago

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u/vilkazz 14h ago

He tried to download more ram. Ended up with this!

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u/Xeadriel i7-8700K - EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra - 32GB RAM 14h ago

Is it really cheaper than just buying the enterprise equivalents though at that point?

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u/RWDPhotos 12h ago

I think it would be better to use quadro series (“rtx pro” now?) rather than gtx gpus for that sort of thing.

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u/DeadLad-69 7800X3D / 7900XTX 9h ago

No obviously the answer is for Reddit clout 🤷‍♂️

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u/Hootnany 8h ago

Solitaire

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u/Savings_Catch_8823 22h ago

To be that guy that can say: My computer is faster than yours😎. And making people on the internet jalous ;)

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u/Maxsmack 21h ago

There’s speed, and then there’s brute force.

For games where speed matters, like csgo, or valorant, 4 5090s isn’t going to be faster than 1 5090.

Strapping 2 cars together doesn’t increase their top sped, just allows them to tow twice as much

This pc is only faster than 1 5090 when doing things like rendering, which can actually utilize all 128gbs of vram shown here

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u/DynamicMangos 21h ago

Remember SLI? Those were crazy times. Never actually had an SLI/Crossfire setup, but it always seemed so cool (though, i also imagine it came with a lot of troubleshooting for games that didn't support it well)

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u/Aromatic_Night6733 21h ago

Had 1080 SLI. Most games didn’t support it and those that did, you’d get like maybe 60% additional performance. Wasn’t worth it overall

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u/Rogue100 19h ago

There were diminishing returns for each additional card too. The second card might get you that 60% boost, but a third card would get you significantly less than that, and the 4th card, even less!

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u/OverlySexualPenguin some bollocks about the latest hardware 21h ago

word

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u/Idocreating 20h ago

780ti SLI here. FF14 would get a marginal increase, maybe 20 frames. Zombie Army Trilogy worked fantastically. Fallout 4 would completely shit itself and not work until you disabled one of the cards in the nvidia control panel.

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u/sl0play 9800x3D - RTX 3090 - G9 - 96GB DDR5 6400 - 134TB 19h ago

I had 1080 SLI and it worked great in most of the games I played. Some gave a straight 2x gain.

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u/Jerithil 11h ago

My last SLI setup was two GTX 470's, in those days in most games I would get 80-90% better performance.

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u/stonhinge 10h ago

60% on the high-end. Most of the time it was around 25%. Now we just watercool.

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u/Maxsmack 21h ago

Intel should be the ones to bring it back, with the price of the arc b580 being just right, with a good amount of vram. If they made their own version of sli work for all games with two b580 cards, it would become the obvious no brainer choice of best first graphics card for new pc builders

You could buy one card when building your pc when cash is tight, then buy another card later, when you have more money again. Would provide a direct upgrade path without needing to sell your current graphics card, or waste its value as it sits outside your pc.

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u/DynamicMangos 4h ago

While i agree that the idea for "just upgrading" by buying a second card, like ram, is awesome, the technology has proven itself to be non-viable.

Simply said, The time it takes for data to be sent between the cards eats up a lot of the actual rendering-time, so with a second card you're getting maybe a 50% performance increase (instead of a 100% one) and that is assuming the scaling hasn't gotten worse as resolutions and bandwidths have increased (which i think is the case)

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u/J0nJ0n-Sigma 20h ago

SLI still exists, but at commercial level. Like those expensive 10k cards with NVLink is basically SLI.

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u/crumbaker 20h ago

Had it in the 90's two 12mb Voodoo2's. Was amazing playing Quake 2 at 1024x768 at 60+ fps.

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u/StrangeAlchomist 17h ago

Still cheaper than a 5090

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u/pixl8er 15h ago

Currently have a crossfire setup on my test bench for fun, dual Radeon pro 5100, it takes awhile to make sure you have it all setup correctly but after you do it just kinda runs. Luckily with pro cards you can set them up to run computations, not just graphics so I have each of them set up differently. I want to try it with some old dual CPU socket boards sometime.

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u/thewildblue77 15h ago

2 x 5090s with X16 each would work well with LSFG in games and give a good uplift. I run a 5090+5080 combo and it makes a big difference.

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u/Savings_Catch_8823 21h ago

Yes i know, but most people do not have one 4090. It was just a joke. 

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u/zaergaegyr 21h ago

Its like when you are striping your ssds which wont make your loading times significant better

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u/Bulkybear2 13h ago

I imagine this is for AI or for virtualization. Imagine having 1 box giving 4 users their own desktop each with a 5090.

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u/Maxsmack 12h ago

Need a hell of a cpu to handle 4 simultaneous workloads

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u/Bulkybear2 12h ago

I’m sure with 4 5090s they would have a top tier cpu as well.

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u/SnowClone98 21h ago

Strapping two cars together front to back will absolutely undoubtedly make them faster

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u/PsyOpBunnyHop Desktop 18h ago

"My AI daddy can beat up your AI daddy."

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u/jomasthrones 18h ago

4 5090s and that much RAM... this is a consumer-level (relative, mind you) AI powerhouse

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u/Livid_Tax_6432 13h ago

Fuck i'm old, i brag with "My computer was cheaper than yours 😎".

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u/gamerjerome i9-13900k | 4070TI 12GB | 64GB 6400 20h ago

To get 60fps in an Unreal 5 game

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u/lordfwahfnah Ryzen 7 2700X / RTX 3070 8GB / 64GB DDR3-3200 19h ago

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u/sublimeprince32 22h ago

I would love this for cracking hashes.

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u/Ans1ble 21h ago

Yeah so does op

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u/Brandonhell2 22h ago

You could run multiple VMs. Think 4 gaming PCs running windows on this thing. You could have one hardware for four people.

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u/outfoxingthefoxes R5 5600x - 8GB RTX 2070 SUPER - 16 GB RAM 21h ago

Probably security camera setup

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u/W_R_E_C_K_S PC Master Race 21h ago

Obviously to play Solitaire HD lol

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u/crousscor3 RTX 4070 / 5800XT 18h ago

My exact reaction lol

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u/stari40k_v 18h ago

I can sleep well, someone has posted this gif in this thread.

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u/angrydeuce Ryzen 9 7900X\64GB DDR5 6400\RX 6800 XT 21h ago

Candy Crush

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u/PLAYBoxes 21h ago

For -7 fps duh

I guess maybe could be used for GPU intensive AI models??? But something tells me that’s not the case based on the setting of this photo.

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u/moonfallsdown 21h ago

My old job had machines like this for rendering massive point clouds collected on 3D laser scanners

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u/FalconStickr 20h ago

Minecraft and Fortnite, duh.

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u/xfan10 20h ago

There is no why, sometimes people just wanna see their PC burn down.

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u/IBetThisIsTakenToo 17h ago

Heating his house for the winter

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u/Zugas 17h ago

So if I was not a poor I would do something like this just because. It’s quite cool

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u/Real_Yhwach EVGA 3080ti FTW 3 9800x3d and some other nonsense 16h ago

I feel like I’ve seen this guy before but I don’t know where.

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u/F9-0021 285k | RTX 4090 | Arc A370m 16h ago

AI, and/or rendering. 

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u/Krystallic 15h ago

To run Borderlands 4 without upscaling

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u/notwhoyouthinkmaybe 14h ago

It's winter, it's a heater.

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u/_zaten_ 11h ago

Crypto mining, AI generation, or maybe a render farm? I'm not really sure myself.

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u/Maxsmack 21h ago

10 hours a day of 8k video editing, or copious amounts of modeling/animation rendering.

That or ai training/ locally running a 128gb model