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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7850 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Yeah, that's got to be BS on the drive. Are those chips single core and have 2 installed? Am curious if those are woodcrest chips in it. If will handle woodcrest chips, and I find some quads to replace my dual core ( lost on the auction), can sell you these chips real cheap so you can have 4 cores crunching. See if those are socket 771. BTW, my new rig is happily crunching away. Love seeing 16 cores crunching on one machine. Going to try and sell the other 2 to fund another westmere box. They appear to be single core hyperthreaded. More info later. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7850 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Welcome to our newest member Halara
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Sgt. Joe
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Welcome halara to the team. When you get a chance, introduce yourself.
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Crunching for humanity since 2007!
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I broke 25 million points today.
---------------------------------------- . With the new box crunching, looks close to 60000 points per day. Boy, these westmere chips are great for crunching.
Crunching for humanity since 2007!
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Sgt.Joe
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I broke 25 million points today. . With the new box crunching, looks close to 60000 points per day. Boy, these westmere chips are great for crunching.WOOhoo !! Go get 'em Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I spent the afternoon and evening at the Southdale emergency room on Friday. I thought I was having a heart attack. It took several hours but all test came back negative for an attack, thank god. <big sigh of relief>
----------------------------------------I have asthma and sometimes they have the same feeling. Hey Bearcat, if I were to build a westmere box from say NewEgg how much are we talking for price? And is this the best out there for crunching right now? Well, at work we just finished rolling out Office 2010 on 600+ PCs around the world. It actually was rather painless. Although it is still an over-priced bloated pig. I would have went with open office myself but we have too may home "groan" databases written with access an VB/.net it just was not cost effective to move from Access, believe it or not. Our next project is rolling out Windows 7. <yuck> Also rolling out GroupWise 8 and ZenWorks 10/11 (yes we are still a Novell shop). 2011 will be busy to say the least.  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 30, 2010 11:22:54 PM] |
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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brink, not sure if you overclock or not, i don't, but the westmere chips are probably on top of the food chain so to speak. I went with quad cores to keep the price down until the hexes drop (probably a year). Drop in replacements. Was looking at a new mac pro but will not pay over 5 grand so built this one. Somewhere between 2500 to 3000 bucks. I did get lucky on the chips though. basically half retail. Am a dually person so i went with a super micro board (recommendation from a friend) instead of asus. Crossed over to the dark side and bought win7 64 pro OEM. If you dont want xeons and duallies, would suggest i7 980. I would rather have more cores per box than more boxes to maintain. Plus, the only way you can overclock duallies (from what I have been told) is evga sr-2. The case alone is huge for this board. PM me if/when your going to do this, might possibly find you a good deal on chips. Otherwise, newegg got most of my money. them and performance pc's.
----------------------------------------Glad everything turned out good for you. Been there myself a few times. If your not exercising, get on it. Helped me allot. Forgot there is no PM here. You can PM our leader. He should still have my email address.
Crunching for humanity since 2007!
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I would like our team to join this challenge ...
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challe...lenge.do?challengeId=3712 |
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Sounds good to me. Let's roll!
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Warpedcow
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Mar 21, 2009 Post Count: 148 Status: Offline |
If you dont want xeons and duallies, would suggest i7 980. I would rather have more cores per box than more boxes to maintain. Plus, the only way you can overclock duallies (from what I have been told) is evga sr-2. There is no way that a dual-socket setup is going to be more cost-effective than two single-socket setups, especially if you're adding overclocking to the mix. The AMD Phenom II X6 overclocks quite well, is cheap, and works fine with cheap motherboards and RAM. This guy is $210 right now http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It...x6-_-19-103-851-_-Product Total system cost based on that is going to probably be around $650 if you skimp on everything else, maybe a bit less. And it will overclock to 3.4ghz easily. Can you really put together a good dual-socket system for $1300? And overclock it? Somehow I doubt it...
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