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30th November 2002, 23:26 | #1 |
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| Folding farms Imagine you had a budget of a €1000, how would you spend it to build a folding farm? VIA C3 procs are slow, but you can't beat the price! My first attempt: VIA C3 all-in solutions with 128mb sdr ram. Folding doesn't use much mem, so I think 128mb is enough. + SNOGARD® K7-M787 CLR, INCL. VIA 1Giga PRO CPU und KÜHLER, LAN, SOUND, VGA onboard, ATX 79.90 EUR + 128MB-SDRAM, PC-133, 7ns, OEM 15,90 EUR + recycled PSU 0 eur + old floppy 0 eur => 86 eur a piece Folding rigs: 10*86 => €860 Home-mad alu rack with plexi front: 20 + 8 => €28 4*120mm silent papst to cool the whole thing down: 4*21= €84 cheap keyb & mouse => €10 Old 14" CRT => 20 eur Grand total: 1002 eur. How would you build your Folding farm? Cheap durons? Affordable 2000+'s? Or just 2 killer P4's? Let your imagination go wild! |
1st December 2002, 01:00 | #2 |
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| I would just place an add : "I'll buy your old mobo + cpu + memory + graphic card + floppy + PSU. Must be PII300 and up and at least 64MB RAM. You can keep the case + cdrom + hd if you want." .... and see what comes in Don't know the performance of a via 1ghz, how quick does it fold ?
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1st December 2002, 01:04 | #3 |
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| Hmmmm... no idea whatsoever. It must be quicker than a P3 sub 500Mhz... no? So it must be better price/performance wise.... i think. This would be a far less destructive ans more usefull hobby than hardcore overclocking. = D Edit: Hmm... according to Sisoft, a VIA C3 1Ghz performs less than a P3 500Mhz, and a bit more than a P2 400Mhz. Damn that's slow. :wtf: An XP2000+ is 4x as fast, but not 4x as expensive. Oh well, i'm just dreaming.
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| 1 GigaPro != VIA C3 as far as I know
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1st December 2002, 01:31 | #6 |
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| VIA C3 is the only available product they have for the moment... i can't imagine what else this would be. They'll prolly mean it uses the PROsavage chipset from via.
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1st December 2002, 01:38 | #8 |
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| How do you derive that out of that link? ??? I can't find "733 mhz C3" anywhere?
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There are several other googlelinks with the same 733 mhz in the title ... the one posted being the most nerdish :^) | |
1st December 2002, 01:48 | #10 |
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| 1GigaPro is very , uhm , confusing, since it is NOT a 1ghz CPU at all! UPDATE: Beim aufgelöteten Prozessor handelt es sich mitnichten um einen 1GHz-Prozessor. Vielmehr ist es ein 667 bzw. 733MHz Samuel 2. Die verwirrende Bezeichnung 1Giga Pro wurde vermutlich vom Hersteller des Boards (PC Chips) zum Kundenfang gewählt.
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