Suggestions on where to buy 4P hardware

Skillz

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So I've got my first 4P G34 that I got from a member on the [H]ardForums, but I want another 2 or 3 of them.

Where do you guys normally search to find parts for these rigs? Buy new? eBay?

I don't see many people selling them on forums.
eBay prices seem to be a bit high (only looking through the first 5 pages or so)
Can't really find them new though I'm sure I wouldn't like the prices.
 

TennesseeTony

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I had to Google 4P G34 to have an idea of what you were asking about. Then I did a bit of shopping. Ouch. Would a dual Xeon E5 v3 setup not be more cost effective for similar performance?
 

Kiska

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4P G34? Is that a CPU setup?
4P usually refers to 4 CPUs on a mobo is that accurate?
Or how about wait for those 2P naples processors
 

Skillz

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I had to Google 4P G34 to have an idea of what you were asking about. Then I did a bit of shopping. Ouch. Would a dual Xeon E5 v3 setup not be more cost effective for similar performance?

Cost effective where?

To get close to 48 cores you'll need two 18-core Xeon's and they're like $3k+ each for the processor alone. While I imagine the IPC of the Intel processors are a bit better than the AMD's and what point will X number of Intel cores be faster/better than 48+ cores of an AMD quad CPU setup?

For the record the setup I have now the CPU, MB, RAM cost me less than $500 total. Got a really good Seasonic 1050W PSU for ~$220 and that's not even half of what a single 18-core Intel Xeon E5 processor would cost. Even a 10-core would be over $1k per processor.

4P G34? Is that a CPU setup?
4P usually refers to 4 CPUs on a mobo is that accurate?
Or how about wait for those 2P naples processors

Yeah that's correct. My 4P has four 12-core AMD processors. It can fit 16-core processors, too. Been eyeing them on eBay and they've been around the $100 each range. Not sure it's worth upgrading my 12-core CPUs to 16-core, but I believe my next 4P will be the 16-core processors. I've found boards in the ~$500 - $600 range. Seems kind of pricey though.
 

Markfw

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I have a 2P G34 system. Not much in DC does that well anymore using CPU, now its mostly GPU. Those 24 cores do less than 1/5th the work of the worst video card I have in F@H.
 

Skillz

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I already have a few GPUs doing a little work for F@H. Not a whole lot, but it's working.

Starting to build a presence in WCG and CPUs seem to be the main focus for those projects.
 

VirtualLarry

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Yeah, a 4P rig would be killer for WCG. They haven't had a GPU project in a while now, it's all CPU projects lately. So, cores are king when it comes to DC CPU projects it seems. Or at least, just WCG. Heard that AMD FX 8-core consumer CPUs do well at that.
 

Markfw

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I already have a few GPUs doing a little work for F@H. Not a whole lot, but it's working.

Starting to build a presence in WCG and CPUs seem to be the main focus for those projects.

I have both my big cpu rigs doing WCG, and 44 cores only gets me about 8% or 10k points per day. in F@H the points are more, but it still seems like all those cores should do more.
 

Skillz

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I just got it setup yesterday. Was waiting on some thermal compound as I had ran out. So yesterday I'm not sure what the total was, but so far today it's generated 33,825 WCG points. I think the next update is in an hour or two so I'll see what a full day looks like.
 

Skillz

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Stats have updated. Final number for today was 145,585 on my 4P rig with 302 total results returned. Not too bad. Doubled my daily production with a single rig.
 

TennesseeTony

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Wow. Is that WCG points or BOINC points? (BOINC points would be divided by 7, for 20,798 points).

Indeed a lower end 2011v3 dual-Xeon setup would probably NOT match that. I only get (up to) 40,000 Boinc/ 280,000 WCG points daily, out of 3 2011v3 Xeons plus a 2011v3 i7 (46 cores/92 threads total).

I wish you luck in finding another system or two! Sorry we haven't been able to help. I always try ebay, maybe Amazon, for used parts. It just may be that you won't be able to build another one for the awesome low cost of the original, but it does sound like it'd be worth it, even even if it cost a bit more dough.
 

Skillz

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WCG points.

Today it produced a little over 201,000 points. Leaving for work the next week or so, but when I get back in gonna mess around with overclocking them.