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Former Member
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Hey retsof
Your right. That's why I noted that things change quickly.  We'll have to wait for performance/cost numbers to emerge on these machines. I was specific about the E6400 as Bang for buck. It isn't the fastest available by any means. I imagine that prices will get another shake-up now so we'll wait for the dust to settle. Cheers. ozylynx |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The dust DID settle. It's in my fans, and I have to blow it out now and then.
---------------------------------------- For RAM, I would say at least 2Gb. 1 Gb could be constrained if you are running more applications in conjunction with some of the projects. 3 Gb or more may be overkill, but memory's cheap and it would depend on what else is in there. 1 Gb would be sufficient for a crunching-only machine. My solo cruncher has 1.5Gb, because 512Mb was insufficient. I left it in there and added 1Gb. One of my computers has a nice ASUS memory board with 3 Gb in it and 4 Gb capacity. I'm chasing some ancestors and cousins, which takes advantage of it. The new Microsoft Vista OS from early reports chews up more memory. 2 Gb minimum on that one for best results.
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Sekerob
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Just read over a Duration Correction Factor post by a BOiNC developer who was sighting the bottleneck ram speed was constituting v.v. CPU speeds, so no neglectable issue when crunching large size HDC's......have some Xtreme stuff and 1.5gb, which made a difference on the HDC's particularly.
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recomend u wait for the 4X4 mobo realese witch has
----------------------------------------2 am2 sokets for a dual cpu config, u can fit 2 upcoming amd quad cores in them, works with only one the u can upgrade later with a second cpu way to go:) for a nice 8core rig [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Nov 18, 2006 8:46:16 PM] |
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cafn8ed
Cruncher United States Joined: Oct 3, 2006 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I'm a relatively new distributed computing contributor (with BOINC running in Ubuntu Linux), and I have it installed on two machines, but only running on one (long story). That one has been really productive for me, so here are some stats to give you a real-world example:
----------------------------------------My grid summary: cafn8ed summary My new computer at work: Dual dual-core-Xeon - 3GHz, 2MB cache 2GB RAM SATA hard drive I think that should cover the critical elements. The dual-core-Xeon is hyperthreaded, which means each core is doubled, and there are two cores per processor, and two processors = 8 virtual CPUs in the machine. Unfortunately I can't configure things to use different numbers of CPUs at different times, so I have it set to run 24/7 using 6 of my "CPUs", leaving two idle. I may bump that to all 8 at some point. In any case, with only those 6 (i.e., 1.75 actual CPUs), on just that one computer (since I'm not on a team), I'm turning in a steady 27 results per day, which seems to be pretty decent. I'm up to 14000-something in points rank, after only being a member for a month. So that's been a good experience for me. The machine is a Dell Precision Workstation 690.
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Former Member
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From: cafn8ed
Post on: Nov 17, 2006 ...I'm turning in a steady 27 results per day , which seems to be pretty decent. ...after only being a member for a month. So that's been a good experience for me. The machine is a Dell Precision Workstation 690. That's closer to what I'd like to do. The Results/day seems to be a good measure of a system's capabality since it will average out most variation over a period of time. I'm going to wait and see any stat's on AMD X2 on dual Mobo's for a comparison. Thanks for the info. PaulT |
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