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vlado101
Senior Cruncher Joined: Jul 23, 2013 Post Count: 226 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi all,
----------------------------------------I was hoping to address some of the long running crunchers to help others who are interested in building their own crunching machines. I recently found out about pc part picker and thought it would be a good platform to find out how to build a cheap, but powerful and maybe all the way to really good cruching machine to be devoted solely to WCG. https://pcpartpicker.com/ Has anyone have an account and wish to share their opinion, or maybe know machines on the site that would be good? I am thinking maybe splitting into three categories: 0 < 300$ 301$ >= 800$ $800 > X Let me know what you guys think :) ![]() |
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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 want to get cutting edge chips for a reasonable price, the best route is buy ES/QS chips. These are advance releases of new chips that are either engineering samples or quality assurance samples. ES is more common than QS.
----------------------------------------You can usually get these for as little as a quarter or less what the retail price for the production models are. But you need to buy from a reliable vendor so that you can return the chips if you have problems. ![]() ![]() |
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Not wanting to ruin the spirit of this post, I would like to point out that there is a Hardware Chat Room forum that was recently created for HW discussion. I'm sure you'll get plenty of responses there.
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Good point. I tried to report the thread so that it could be moved to the proper forum but for some reason it prefills my email address with an old one and won't let me change it.
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ErikaT
Former World Community Grid Admin USA Joined: Apr 27, 2009 Post Count: 912 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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This thread is being moved to the Hardware Chat Room.
Thanks, ErikaT |
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