Most crucial hardware for brute force and data processing?

[Xavier Donnelly]

What components are the most instrumental for brute force cracking and simulation/algorithm testing (avg 1.2 million variations at the end of each test). I am wanting to upgrade from a laptop I have now and build my own setup, my budget is $10,500 AUD. I just have too many mixed answers on saying what is most important from CPU to GPU and RAM. I just want to make as much processing power possible I don’t really care about anything else. Thank you for your advice in advance. PS I have already decided on the motherboard and CPU. I have attached them to this post

 

[Bruce]

$10.5K is an unusual limit.

when you are wanting such critical processing power, all components become important.
in such a system, there will always be a bottleneck, you just have to decide where you are comfortable with where that ends up.

for example: slow CPU? - upgrade it, then memory is the limiting factor. upgrade that, then graphics is the bottleneck. get a SSD then you're back at wanting a better CPU. it's a vicious circle.

so to answer your question, it's the best of everything that your budget can afford.
and realising that there will always be better!

 

[Bruce]

@Xavier Donnelly - any update?

 

[Xavier Donnelly]

@Xavier Donnelly - any update?

I’m currently saving for the components so I won’t have an update on the build for 14 weeks (goal timeframe) unfortunately. But once I have built it what updates would you like?

 

[Bruce]

no updates necessary unless you have further issues.
let's close this for now, and if you have further questions, PM any staff member to have the thread re-opened.

be aware - when you mention phrases like brute force cracking - alarm bells ring!