YA Critique my DC farm thread!

[OverVolt]

Well when i save up enough money from my job i'll probably try blowing $1400< on some crunchers, i plan on 6 and here's how.

XP 2400+.....................$73
KM266 Mobo..............$48
Knstn DDR266 Vlue....$25
Speeze HSF.......6+ @ $9
Case Fan.....................$4
Case + PSU..............$32 + shipping
EDIT: oops forgot to add i'll be using cluster knoppix to network boot the machines from a Duron1.3 machine with HD i have lying around here, then share whatever DC project in separate directories on the HD for each cruncher. Im prolly leaving about $150 for networking stuff

 

[Unforgiven]

i dont know if you have a fry's electronics near where you live but they have cpu/mobo combinations for $49 most weeks with the xp 2400 being one of the prime chips they push. ecs motherboards but hell for $49 im thinking of getting 10 and some materials for farming myself 🙂

 

[Coquito]

i so need a fry's near me. all i have is compussr.🙁 i would have to go through a trusted member on the west coast whenever i need something. forget about ever getting 10, let alone 2 of those combos by the time i hear about it.

 

[OverVolt]

Originally posted by: plankton
i dont know if you have a fry's electronics near where you live but they have cpu/mobo combinations for $49 most weeks with the xp 2400 being one of the prime chips they push. ecs motherboards but hell for $49 im thinking of getting 10 and some materials for farming myself 🙂

sounds like a great deal 😀 too bad im east coast so no fry's here. Do they have a website so i can get the combo shipped to me?

 

[HayHauler]

Their website is outpost.com. I don't know
if they have those mobo's on the web for sale, but you can always try...

Hay
Good Luck.
:beer:

 

[Unforgiven]

yeah i think the cpu/mobo combos for that low of a price are only good in store, but i could be wrong on that.

 

[BofRA]

For best performance/price ratio I would look at :

Shuttle AN35N Ultra...........$62
Barton 2500+ ..................... $79
Mushkin PC3200 Basic...... $43

Price difference $32
Wu difference 5-6/day

 

[onelin]

you're my hero.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Something you might want to consider is if there isn't a Fry's nearby, you can talk with some of the other AT'ers involved in DC willing to have you pay them to buy it for you and ship it to you.

Also, they have a nice 2.6C deal: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=1247787

That might be a better price/WU ratio system there.