What was the first machine in your farm?

[Strebor]

Mine was my trusty Athlon64 3200+

Started out on classic SETI.

Despite it being the original Clawhammer variant I managed to get it up to 2.4ghz.

Still running strong, and it's now my backup gaming comp.

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: Strebor

Mine was my trusty Athlon64 3200+

Started out on classic SETI.

Despite it being the original Clawhammer variant I managed to get it up to 2.4ghz.

Still running strong, and it's now my backup gaming comp.

pentium 233 mmx, on original seti.
it's now toast

 

[PCTC2]

Mine was a P4 1.6GHz Skt 478 on F@H. No longer crunching, but a backup storage server for all my stuff.

EDIT: Almost forgot I had a Pentium 133 for years. SETi Classic!

 

[KifArU]

A 486 DX2-66 on the first RC5 (I believe 56-bit, so RC5-56)
It was my first computer and doesn't run anymore.

A quick search shows it must have been around 1997.

 

[Neurodog]

Celery 300 and also a PIII 500 for Seti Classic back in 99.

 

[networkman]

Although not my very first rig for DC, my oldest & most impressive rig was an ALR 6-way Pentium Pro 200 running for the RC5 project.

Those were the days!

 

[mrwizer]

The first that is not running... probably a TBird 750MHz or a 233 Pentium. Both would have been on Seti Classic.

Oldest still running, P4 1.6GHz.

 

[Philippart]

May 2006 with a A64 3000+ Venice; projects: SETI@Home and Rosetta@Home.

I loved this CPU 34°C idle and only 45°C while crunching with the stock cooler! It still rests in my bedroom

 

[RaySun2Be]

June '98, using an Abit BH6 MB with a Celeron 300a OCd to 450mhz (never could get that to 500mhz). I modified a Dell 486 Server case from AT to ATX. Started running RC5 on it. And no, it isn't running. The BH6 bit the dust after a couple of years. I continued to use the Dell case until finally I upgraded to an Antec Sonata I, which I still use for my main PC. I moved the Cely to another MB, then not long after that, built a PC for my mom using the MB/Cely300a. They used it for awhile, until it locked up one day. Never to be used again.

 

[Insidious]

I think my first cruncher was an AMD T-Bird

-Sid

 

[Alyx]

Mine would have been a P4-1.6Ghz running F@H.

 

[caferace]

Pentium 133, eventually upgraded to a Pentium 233. RC5 crunching with distributed.net in '97, I believe? Donated the box January of last year....

-jim

 

[Freewolf]

First machine- dx2 33
First cruncher k6 233 Seti 1

Correction - First machine was a TI 99 4A

 

[biodoc]

First machine was 180 MHz pentium pro on Distributed.net RC5.

cheers!:beer:

 

[legoman666]

p2 350mhz running Seti@home. The machine is still running 24/7 as a file/print server, but not folding anymore.

 

[Spacehead]

500Mhz Celeron running SETI classic.

Not running anymore

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Dual Xeon 2.66GHz--I got into crunching late. And no, it isn't crunching under my name anymore. It made the office too hot to run where we live.

 

[caferace]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Dual Xeon 2.66GHz--I got into crunching late. And no, it isn't crunching under my name anymore. It made the office too hot to run where we live.

Far too late to the party. :thumbsdown:

Someone needs to bust you back down to intern status. :laugh:

-jim

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: caferace

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Dual Xeon 2.66GHz--I got into crunching late. And no, it isn't crunching under my name anymore. It made the office too hot to run where we live.

Far too late to the party. :thumbsdown:

Someone needs to bust you back down to intern status. :laugh:

-jim

What can I say, I married into crunching (Liz got me started on it)

:laugh: Intern can do stats too I guess. I hope to make up for my lateness with devotion.

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: Strebor

Mine was my trusty Athlon64 3200+

Started out on classic SETI.

Despite it being the original Clawhammer variant I managed to get it up to 2.4ghz.

Still running strong, and it's now my backup gaming comp.

That's a new rig

Though my 1st rig was a Pentium 166MMX (just over 10yrs ago!:Q), my 1st cruncher was my trusty ole Celeron 366 @550MHz (with 192MB RAM,16 MB TNT2) which I originally built in Aug 99 ,I started crunching SETI on it in Oct '99.

I've still got the CPU (which is in a different case & mbrd etc) but I sold the Soyo 6BA+III mbrd it came with a few years ago.I still have the case & FDD from that build which I retired only a few months ago.
Atm the Celeron PC is around a friends house, it was being used as a net PC up until about 2yrs ago, it hasn't crunched any DC in about 3yrs & it probably never will again, well maybe just to benchmark it.I'm keeping it primarily to run older games.

 

[Strebor]

Ya, sadly I didn't get into overclocking and thus distributed computing till college.

 

[biodoc]

Originally posted by: Strebor
Ya, sadly I didn't get into overclocking and thus distributed computing till college.

When I was in college, we didn't have personal computers and most of us didn't have calculators (too expensive).

I was just thinking about DC with slide rules or using the university central computer with punch cards!!::laugh:

A "quad slide rule"!!:shocked: Now that would be real competition!:evil:

I guess this may be appropriate for the "old man" thread too.

 

[Orange Kid]

486sx-25 that was later upgragede to a p-60 overdrive chip------man that was some speed!!!!!!!!

 

[JonB]

A pair of Tyan Tiger (BX100 chipset, I believe) motherboards. They were dual socketed, running Celeron 300a processors, overclocked by 50% to 450mhz.
Used for the RC5-64 contest run by Distributed Computing. I ran Windows NT 4.0 on them because it recognized dual processors.

I'm sure they'd still be running if I hadn't tossed their slow, power hungry butts into the trash 4 years ago.

 

[Assimilator1]

RC5-64 contest run by Distributed.net

You binned them!?, I would of at least given them away myself.