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nickoli
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 28, 2005 Post Count: 167 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi Y'all,
----------------------------------------So, after selling two of my multi-core servers a few months ago, I'm considering buying something else to put to good use at World Community Grid. The servers were so loud, used a lot of power, and were getting older and older. My new system, if I do decide to buy it will be built around an 8-core AMD clocked at 4.0ghz. It would have 8 GB ram, a 128GB solid-state hard drive I have lying around, and a liquid cooler for the CPU. Here's the list of the parts I'm thinking about: http://amzn.com/w/2V6VREVQLRKBH Total cost: ~$430. Thoughts? Will I be better served by getting fewer cores and a lower clock speed, but a Intel chip?  |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I would get the FX-8320 instead and overclock it to 4.0 GHZ.
----------------------------------------You may want to look into used server parts.  - AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W - AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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nickoli
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 28, 2005 Post Count: 167 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I would get the FX-8320 instead and overclock it to 4.0 GHZ. You may want to look into used server parts. Hi Falconet, good idea as far as the overclock to save the money. I would look a bit more seriously at used server parts, but I really like the idea of a portable little crunching cube that doesn't take up a ton of space and I can move around with me. |
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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If you could get an i7-3770 at a decent price, that uses a little more than half the electricity of an 8350 (77w vs. 125 watts). Both are before overclocking though. If you're lucking enough to have cheap power where you are, that's not a consideration, but running a machine 24/7 can add up so you might want to figure what the difference in energy costs would be over 1-2 years.
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OldChap
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Jun 5, 2009 Post Count: 978 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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My move to xeon E5's was for just that reason ...cheaper to run for greater output both points and wu's.
----------------------------------------stock e3 1245's or better can be the cheaper end of intel but still not in amd price band and you can get something like Dell MB's for these cheap too. No overclocking = less stress on components and lower electric costs  |
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Just out of curiosity, I figured the additional cost per year at a difference of 55w and electricity at 20 cents per kwh. That comes to roughly a hundred bucks. So the difference can be significant depending on your situation.
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Norton01
Cruncher US Joined: Feb 19, 2012 Post Count: 41 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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They don't make mini ITX motherboards that support AM3+ and the only mATX boards that support AM3+ are pretty weak.
----------------------------------------If you still want to try an FX-8350 you should get a decent quality 970 chipset ATX board at a minimum. An 8350 you should get around 5k ppd using Windows but for the same budget you may be able to get a 2600k Intel chip and a mini ITX board for about 20% more ppd and around 50w less power.
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