[Phantom]

for 50$ I can get a Dual P2 450 with 256mb ram, no harddrives but scsi based 90pin I believe. It's actually 2 Netfinity's each one with 128mb ram and one p2 450, but I'd rip one apart and make it a dual. for 25$ sound like a good deal. Now there's no harddrives so i'd have to find cheap scsi drives, or buy an ide card for 50$.

Also he told me that "servers" use more power per month than your regular desktop. I don't see how that would be possible if I'm running equal or better goods in my desktop. Advice needed.

[NOS2Go4Me]

They're hugely outdated. If you're looking at them for the F@H team, look for at least a Pentium-III chassis / T'Bird. The P-IIs are nowhere near as fast and don't support SSE, a crucial component to actually finishing WUs sometime relatively soon.

Otherwise, for pissing around the price can't be beat.

Go nuts :D

[Phantom]

so then the dual p2 450's, or one 550 p3, or one 700 celeron. Outta those 3 which would be the fastest, I woulda thought the dual p2's.

edit Or can I mix them up, like take my one p3 550, and one p2 450 and dual that in the same board, or do the cpus have to be identical.

[NOS2Go4Me]

The CPUs have to be identical. The P2s are the fastest, MHz wise, but they lack the extended instruction set support needed to complete the F@H WUs efficiently.

I'd go for either the P-III 550MHz (cache size) or the Celeron 700MHz Coppermine core. I'm honestly not sure what would win for F@H out of those two. The Celeron is a newer core design than the P-III (possibly, if the P-III is a Katmai core), but the P-III has more cache.

I've got a P-III 450MHz doing F@H right now, and it's loads faster than my Celeron 466 Mendocino core tower. That monstrosity only has 64K of L2 cache IIRC, so I'm not suprised.

[Phantom]

well I picked the two up, I will be making it into one box with dual cpus. can't pass up 50$ for both. Now how can I benchmark which will be faster the p3 550 or the dual p2 450's. Ohh did I mention they are running Mandrake 10 So once I get some scsi 90pin drives to load an o/s on you'll have to tell me if I can benchmark and see wat's faster.

[DD1]

I prefer a flux capactior in teh hard unit

[Phantom]

DD1,Aug 9 2005, 06:06 PM Wrote:I prefer a flux capactior in teh hard unit
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haha so funny, gonna need 1.21 jigawatts of electricity tho, don't think my mom would like that electrical bill :D.

Anyways here's some pics of the big burthas. These cases measure 17in high, 9 in wide, and 24 in deep. And are freakin heavy prolly close to 60lbs.


Nevermind the rest of the crap there :D, storing in garage now.


That's room for 5 hotswappable scsi drives(speaking of which anyone got some spares :D)


Lotsa room in there, and 2 freaking 120mm fans.

hmm dual cpus.

[DD1]

xool

[NOS2Go4Me]

If they're duallies, you're laughing.

Run the F@H console software from two separate folders on each box, and set the machine ID to "1" and "2" by setting the advanced options when prompted on each console window. It'd be a safe bet to assume you're going to run each as a service? :)