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Former Member
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Just a general question, is there someone who could advice the most cost effective platform for BOINC ?
I mean if never you use an AMD Athlon X4 3,1 GHz, an Intel core I7 3,33 GHz, or an AMD Phenom ... which platform (not only CPU) would be the most cost effective regarding BOINC calculation ? |
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Former Member
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Just a general question, is there someone who could advice the most cost effective platform for BOINC ? I mean if never you use an AMD Athlon X4 3,1 GHz, an Intel core I7 3,33 GHz, or an AMD Phenom ... which platform (not only CPU) would be the most cost effective regarding BOINC calculation ? If you are not fussy about the actual project you crunch for, then GPU projects (Collatz, Milkyway, GPUGrid) are far more 'rewarding' in terms of credit than CPU projects. I don't do them myself, but a good Graphics card in an old ('90s) machine will out perform anything you can get your hands on CPU wise.  Ignoring the GPU issue, the Intel i7's seem to be topping the charts at the moment, along with the Xeon's. |
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Former Member
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I know than GPU is more powerfull, but all the projects do not use GPU calculation.
An other way to ask for my question, is there a benchmark to measure the CPU performance ? |
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mikaok
Senior Cruncher Finland Joined: Aug 8, 2006 Post Count: 489 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Depends how efficient is defined. If the processor should create lots of points in short period of time, then probably the i7 980X. Another option could be dual socket board (evga SR2) with xeon processors. I'm not saying which would be better as I'm not sure (the rest of the components make such a big difference).
----------------------------------------Here's something you can begin with link Edit. Forgot to take into account the purchasing price. Just thought that you would find it from the thread behind the link. And thus, be able to do calculations that best suit for you. I hope this helps.
to infinity and beyond
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martin64
Senior Cruncher Germany Joined: May 11, 2009 Post Count: 445 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Just a general question, is there someone who could advice the most cost effective platform for BOINC ? IMHO your youestion is a bit too generic to answer. Maybe you should define what you mean in terms of "cost effective": 1. output metric - do you measure BOINC credits, CPU time (badge hunting), other? 2. Which BOINC project? Obviously WCG, otherwise you would likely have asked somewhere else, but still within WCG the projects have somewhat different performance on the various platforms 3. What's cost, in your terms? The cost for the hardware + OS only? Or how about OPEX, i.e. maintenance, power? A generic hint would be to use 64-bit linux, this seems to have the best performance in all the projects. Regards, Martin  |
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codes
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Don't forget about heat, power consumption, and fan noise if those will factor into your decision.
I like using this site for researching benchmarks . |
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Former Member
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Hello fdeniel,
It is almost impossible to keep up with current prices for a large number of CPUs to compare the. If by cost-effective, you mean cheap, relatively low heat dissipation and reasonable speed, you might look at the AMD Athlon II x4 640. It is a Phenom II that has had the L3 cache removed. This slows it down noticeably, but also cuts power and heat a lot since AMD uses small caches anyway. Intel uses large caches, making them much more powerful than AMD CPUs, but they gobble power. Lawrence |
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Movieman
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Sep 9, 2006 Post Count: 1042 Status: Offline |
If your criteria includes:
----------------------------------------cost of purchase and electrical consumption against points generated( or work done, easier to use points as it's a constant) then a Intel i7-930 bought from Microcenter for $200.00 is by far the best "bang for the buck" Now forgetting initial cost and just including electrical usage vs points generated then the top 95w Westmere( X5670) in one of the good dual socket 1366 boards like the Supermicros will draw app 300w from the wall while making app 82,000PPD while running at 3060MHz( on turbo) The top X5680's will do more but not proportionately more as they are 130w chips running at 3460on turbo.  |
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