Folding Farms

RichBa5tard · 30th November 2002, 22:26

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!

Bosw8er · 1st December 2002, 00:00

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 ?

RichBa5tard · 1st December 2002, 00:04

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.

Bosw8er · 1st December 2002, 00:09

jmke · 1st December 2002, 00:24

1 GigaPro != VIA C3 as far as I know

RichBa5tard · 1st December 2002, 00:31

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.

Bosw8er · 1st December 2002, 00:35

http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M787CLR.html

gigapro 1ghz = 733 mhz C3

RichBa5tard · 1st December 2002, 00:38

How do you derive that out of that link? ???

I can't find "733 mhz C3" anywhere?

Bosw8er · 1st December 2002, 00:43

Quote:

Originally posted by RichBa5tard
How do you derive that out of that link? ???

I can't find "733 mhz C3" anywhere?

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba.../1gigapro.html

There are several other googlelinks with the same 733 mhz in the title ... the one posted being the most nerdish :^)

jmke · 1st December 2002, 00:48

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.

30th November 2002, 22:26	#1
RichBa5tard [M] Reviewer/HWBot ***** Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,344	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: 1086 => €860 Home-mad alu rack with plexi front: 20 + 8 => €28 4120mm 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, 00:00	#2
Bosw8er Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,711	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 ? __________________ "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

1st December 2002, 00:04	#3
RichBa5tard [M] Reviewer/HWBot ***** Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,344	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. __________________ HTPC (mac osx): Mac Mini \| Core Duo 1.6Ghz \| 2GB DDR2 \| 26\" TFT Development (mac osx): Macbook \| Core 2 2.0Ghz \| 4GB DDR2 \| 250GB HD Games (win xp): E2160 @ 2.4Ghz \| HD3850 OC \| Asrock 4coredual-vsta \| 2GB DDR2

1st December 2002, 00:24	#5
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	1 GigaPro != VIA C3 as far as I know __________________

1st December 2002, 00:31	#6
RichBa5tard [M] Reviewer/HWBot ***** Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,344	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. __________________ HTPC (mac osx): Mac Mini \| Core Duo 1.6Ghz \| 2GB DDR2 \| 26\" TFT Development (mac osx): Macbook \| Core 2 2.0Ghz \| 4GB DDR2 \| 250GB HD Games (win xp): E2160 @ 2.4Ghz \| HD3850 OC \| Asrock 4coredual-vsta \| 2GB DDR2

1st December 2002, 00:09	#4
Bosw8er Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,711

1st December 2002, 00:35	#7
Bosw8er Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,711	http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M787CLR.html gigapro 1ghz = 733 mhz C3

1st December 2002, 00:38	#8
RichBa5tard [M] Reviewer/HWBot ***** Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,344	How do you derive that out of that link? ??? I can't find "733 mhz C3" anywhere? __________________ HTPC (mac osx): Mac Mini \| Core Duo 1.6Ghz \| 2GB DDR2 \| 26\" TFT Development (mac osx): Macbook \| Core 2 2.0Ghz \| 4GB DDR2 \| 250GB HD Games (win xp): E2160 @ 2.4Ghz \| HD3850 OC \| Asrock 4coredual-vsta \| 2GB DDR2

1st December 2002, 00:48	#10
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	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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