I need to put together a cheap-ish system for some heavy duty number crunching. Mostly floating point calcs done with a large (1.5GB) in-memory data set. I'm trying to decide on the best cpu for the buck. I guess I have about $250 to spend on a CPU and motherboard. Any suggestions? BTW I would be willing to overclock providing it was easy and stable.
Best value in 64-bit number crunching?
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Athlon64 3400+ www.pricewatch.com - $155
$10-$20 bucks for a decent fan
Visit www.newegg.com and see what kind of 754 Motherboards they have and get the best for the buck. I think they start around $55 Bucks.
$10-$20 bucks for a decent fan
Visit www.newegg.com and see what kind of 754 Motherboards they have and get the best for the buck. I think they start around $55 Bucks.
The Sempron 64 line is very overclocker-friendly, and amazingly cheap. You can get a Sempron 2500+ for $60 (retail) and overclock it to the level of an Athlon 3300+ or 3400+ on standard air. The Venice 3000+ for socket-939 is more expensive (and requires a more expensive motherboard, too), but it can get to about 2.7 GHz (4000+ish performance).
If you're not overclocking, the 3400+ for socket-754 seems to be the best bang for your buck.
If you're not overclocking, the 3400+ for socket-754 seems to be the best bang for your buck.
If this number crunching is affected by dual channel memory, bigger L2 cache, and higher clockspeed, it might be worth it to get the cheapest venice and overclock it.
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