Vietnamese tycoon installs 700 million VND computer for personal work

The expensive PC was assembled by a tycoon to do office work and secretly support scientific research.

The most expensive component in this machine is the professional graphics card.Quadro M6000, priced at 130 million VND. The rest are also expensive products, such as dual-core processor (Dual CPU Intel Xeon) priced at 100 million VND, water cooling components priced at 82 million VND,case 40 million VND, two GTX 1080 graphics cards 40 million VND, two20 million VND power supply... Another highlight of this PC that also surprises many people is the 10 TB SSD drive priced at over 90 million VND. Not to mention, the accompanying computer monitor is also a 40 million VND 27-inch Dell Ultrasharp, with high-end 5K resolution.

A PC worth 700 million is being installed by staff at the tycoon's house.

This machine meets all requirements in terms of technology, graphics, and gaming... but in reality, its owner, a 40-year-old businessman in Hanoi, only uses it to handle modest work and run an application to analyze cancer cells.

The application he runs is Folding@home, a project that builds protein structure models. This algorithm consumes a lot of computer resources, so computer users around the world have joined in to support it by installing Folding, a hidden application that runs in the background, allowing them to take advantage of idle or underutilized CPU times to process simulations of protein cells.

That's also the reason why the 700 million VND machine is built on a 22-core and 44-thread CPU solution. Two GTX 1080 graphics cards will serve work and gaming, while the Quadro M6000 is dedicated to supporting background processing for the Folding application, which is always set at maximum configuration.

The value and scale of this machine was so great that those responsible for its initial design and installation were surprised."We have never done a project this big and believe that no one in Vietnam has ever assembled such a huge PC for personal use," said Duc Tien, representative of An Phat Company, the unit that assembled the machine. "The configuration is based on the criteria of performance and the suitability of the components, not just assembling the most expensive things together.", he revealed.

Talking about his powerful PC system, the owner of the machine only hopes that "there will be more people supporting the research community, simply by sharing the system's performance".

According to VNE