good cruncher for the price

[narreth]

http://configure.us.dell.com/d...&l=en&oc=DDCWDA2&s=dhs

upgrade to the Q6600 and take off the monitor. That's a good deal right?

 

[Strebor]

Only about $50 more than buying the pieces, but probably no overclocking :/

 

[networkman]

Yeah, I'd rather go the component route and stick with my trusty XP Pro. 😉

 

[her209]

Check out the Outlet store

 

[Foxery]

Depends on whether you want to use it for anything else, and whether you're confident enough to build one from components. And like Strebor said, you can't overclock Dells. A custom built one will be faster for less money...

A quad-core CPU with a huge hard drive but no graphics is a strange system for ordinary home or office use. If it's anything but a dedicated folder, think about your requirements. If it is a dedicated folder, you can do better.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

are you buying a brand new PC JUST For F@H???

 

[networkman]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
are you buying a brand new PC JUST For F@H???

You say that like there's something wrong with that. 😕

Then again, I am the guy that paid $610 for 22k of SETI@Home WUs on eBay to advance our TeAm in the standings. 😀

I suppose it's all relative. 🙂


edited for spelling and correct numbers

 

[VirtualLarry]

You can pay for WUs? That's news to me. Why am I crunching DC for free, when I could be charging people for it...

How much does compute time cost? (IOW, how much could I be making, renting out quad-cores?)

 

[networkman]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
You can pay for WUs? That's news to me. Why am I crunching DC for free, when I could be charging people for it...

The trick is in finding people crazy enough to pay out real cash for crunched work units in the first place. 😛

Edit: I dug around in the message archives.. let's see if this LINK works.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

Originally posted by: networkman

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
are you buying a brand new PC JUST For F@H???

You say that like there's something wrong with that. 😕

Then again, I am the guy that paid $610 for 22k of SETI@Home WUs on eBay to advance our TeAm in the standings. 😀

I suppose it's all relative. 🙂


edited for spelling and correct numbers

nope, no problem.

Q6600's are good for folding.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

how can i sell my folding WU's?

 

[Fardringle]

You can't sell your personal CPU time for anything remotely worth the effort. To put it into perspective, I had about 20 computers running almost non-stop for more than 4 years to get 33K SETI credits. Networkman bought someone's old SETI classic account and joined that account to the team to give us a boost. That account had 22K credits (about 2.5-3 years of work with my computers at the time) and he paid $610 for it. $610 wouldn't pay the electric bill for 6 months on my 20 computers, even less the amount of processing power it took to collect those 22K credits.

In effect, you would be paying a bunch of money to the power company (not even considering the cost of PC upgrades and replacements) in order to give your DC credits to someone else and end up with nothing to show for it.

 

[Evadman]

$350, not bad. They got any smaller form factors?

 

[Smoke]

Originally posted by: Evadman
$350, not bad. They got any smaller form factors?

Dave,

What are you referring? I've looked through the thread and I'm not sure what you are calling "$350, not bad." 😕

 

[krnmastersgt]

Originally posted by: Fardringle
You can't sell your personal CPU time for anything remotely worth the effort. To put it into perspective, I had about 20 computers running almost non-stop for more than 4 years to get 33K SETI credits. Networkman bought someone's old SETI classic account and joined that account to the team to give us a boost. That account had 22K credits (about 2.5-3 years of work with my computers at the time) and he paid $610 for it. $610 wouldn't pay the electric bill for 6 months on my 20 computers, even less the amount of processing power it took to collect those 22K credits.

In effect, you would be paying a bunch of money to the power company (not even considering the cost of PC upgrades and replacements) in order to give your DC credits to someone else and end up with nothing to show for it.

Perhaps s/he did the folding just to help the cause, had a bunch of WUs done and decided to make money off of it to regain what he could? Just my theory.