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10/29/2007 6:35:59 PM

Defrag

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I'm getting bored around the house, and.....
(United States)

I'm thinking about building a "cheap" rackmount system just for crunching, Any suggestions on parts, or things to look out for? Maybe even a place (other then newegg) to find parts I'm looking at not breaking the bank, but starting small with room to grow, but at the same time getting more bang for the buck.

10/29/2007 7:03:08 PM

anonymous

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Re: I'm getting bored around the house, and.....
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Come to the chat room (linky on the right side of the page). It's not like we don't have a zillion builders and oc-ers on the team.

10/29/2007 8:31:01 PM

Defrag

19 posts

Re: I'm getting bored around the house, and.....
(United States)

I tried, link doesnt seem to work here at work, either its a java thing, or they have it blocked somehow. Eitherway ill check it out here in an hour when i get out of work :) i got alot of OC questions, as im thinking of overclocking my pc that i have now.

10/30/2007 4:43:35 AM

anonymous

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Re: I'm getting bored around the house, and.....
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I see you made it there!

10/30/2007 12:09:45 PM

paul

1024 posts

Re: I'm getting bored around the house, and.....
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Well the computers we are building whose sole purpose is to crunch is not much different than one you would build for yourself, save for maybe more memory and a hot gpu.

There's nothing out there that comes close to the power of an Intel Core 2 Quad. Sure it cost $280, but you double your output for just a little more money. 2 GB of good ddr2 memory is dirt cheap for months now, can be had for $50-60. Motherboard, we've been loving the Gigabyte DS3 line, wether it be 965P or P35 chipset based. Asus boards work well, too.

I'll post more later when I have a bit of time. There are some pitfalls you'll need to avoid from the start. As Cyberschnook said, there's a group of 7-9 of us that OC our quads in the 3300-3600 mHz range 24/7, that hang out in the IRC channel. Last I heard our java chat client didn't play nice with the last big JRE release, 1.6 I think. There's always mirc, chatzilla, Trillian, etc. etc. that require a bit more IRC knowledge, tho.

Co-owner, the Group of 10 ~~100~~ ~~200~~ 300

10/30/2007 2:28:07 PM

Kinguni

2106 posts

Re: I'm getting bored around the house, and.....
(Canada)

paul wrote
Last I heard our java chat client didn't play nice with the last big JRE release, 1.6 I think. There's always mirc, chatzilla, Trillian, etc. etc. that require a bit more IRC knowledge, tho.

Java is fine now actually. Defrag popped in for a while last night.

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