A little help building another cracker please.

[Dag]

I am toying with the idea of getting a new system, we get 15% off of a new dell from home if I buy it through work, but I really want an AMD system. Basiclly I am looking at a 1gig P3, 40gig hd, 128MB 133 SDRAM, 17" monitor, 12x DVD, 64 MB GeForce2, and a SB live for almost exactly $2k. Can I build a 1gig+ AMD system for less? I still have not got the wife convinced I need it and the last system I built was her 433. My 233 mmx just isn't cutting it anymore.

Oh and how fast would a 1gig p3 or athlon crack rc5?

 

[JHutch]

Well, from a purely RC5 point of view, the Athlon is much better cracker! The P2/P3 class does 2.8 KKeys per MHz. The Athlon does 3.4 KKeys per MHz. So, for 1GHz processors, it would look like this:

P3/1000 = 2.8 Mkeys per second
Athlon/1000 = 3.4 Mkeys per second.

NOTE: Other CPU multipliers can be found on the speed page at the team website:


http://www.teamanandtech.com/speed.asp

JHutch

 

[Dag]

Then I definatly need to build the Athlon.

What is a good stable MB to use? Like I said I havn't built a system in awhile.

 

[Kilowatt]

You can most deffinatly build your own system, using the parts YOU want for a lot less that $2000.

 

[sciencewhiz]

Here are some priceing that I was doing for myself. most of the prices are from mwave.com

T-bird 1ghz and MB: $430
Case (fairly nice one): $130
Geforce2 GT2 (64mb): ~$350
128mb Corsair CAS3 PC133 ram: $140
30gb IBM gxp whatever: $160
DVD drive: $100
Sound Card: $50
floppy $20
Monitor: ~$200
Windows: ~$100
Office 2000 ~$200

Total: ~$1880

For that total you still need to pay either shipping if you buy over the internet or sales tax if you buy locally. Lso the Dell has 1 year on-site support, which is priceless when you don't have time to fix it yourself.

 

[Tetsuo316]

two things. get an enlight 7237 case for $60 shipped and that'll take the price down even more. and second, a good motherboard for the socket a thunderbirds is the asus a7v. super stable and super overclocking-friendly.

 

[Dag]

Thanks guys!

This is what I wanted, just some stuff to go off of. I will do some investigating and see if I can get this thing cracking for the team before christmas .