This is a question that would need to be asked in the future for us to get the parts for the blades.

After we start laying down the ground work for our board and have that set up we will need to focus on collecting money.

But even when we have money to buy the parts we would still need to know what parts we should go with.

I thought it would be a good time to start collecting data on the CPU's, Mobo's, etc, needed to make the blades.

Also a list of some places we could go to purchase them might also be a good start.

R/ Slava

from my experience, it seems the AMD is the cheaper route to go and they seem to crunch more than Intel.

ECS makes cheap mobo's that seem to be pretty good. I think they used this brand on the crunchenstein.

www.newegg.com is where i buy all my parts from and they are awesome. never had any problems with them and the shipping from CA to TX only took 3 days.

these are just suggestions and subject to be changed.

I agree with you Jason on both counts as far as production and cost.

My arsenal has included both P4's and AMD and it seems that for UD and TSC the AMD is the better of the 2.....

Unless maybe we get into the high end P4's 2.66+ not even to mention the hyper threading that the 3.06 now offers.

But what I'm wondering is would heat be a big consideration for us?
I believe the AMD's heat up much more then P4's.

I'm sure someone could inform me more on this :wink:

I think we should base what we get on what Crunchenstein has if it's worked well for them.

I would think AMD cpu's since they give the most bang for the buck and a cheap but stable motherboard. The rest doesn't make too much of a difference I don't think.

John I was just over at the Crunchy site
http://www.crunchenstein.org/hardware.html
They seem to be using AMD 1800's.....
Is that what we should go with?

This hardware was gathered a little while back;
maybe we can get a little faster CPU now for the same value that they did back then.

Another question where Mrspec3 (a.k.a Steve) would probably say a very quick yes.
Is do we overclock these blades after we finally get then up and running?

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I don't know what the latest prices are, but we should find the sweet spot and get whatever it may be.

I think we should overclock them, but just conservatively so we don't cause more trouble than its worth.

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Just something to remember. Whoever only runs TSC (me?) can run on Linux and thus would only need 1 harddrive if they're doing the diskless boot. Maybe a 2nd cheapo drive for backup purposes?

Also, we'll need to consider monitors. I don't know if they'll be necessary for all hosts. Unless someone is offering up a nice flat panel display, I wouldn't need one. :-) Monitors are a big cost, even if it's just shipping.

Also, we should probably go with cheap accessories like video cards, although there are probably people who can just donate those.

Just some random thoughts since I'm getting sick watching the Wings lose right now.

For CPU's I would go with the new batch of AMD XP1700+. They are something like $45 US and they overclock like mad. With some very very simple overclocking you could run them at 12.5*166 at stock voltage or perhaps 0.1V higher. That means the stock heatsinks which are both quite and included with the chip's would be more than enough to cool them.

To overclock them all we would need is a board that supports DDR333 memory with a 1/5 diver which all new boards do. Pair that with a 512MB stick of PC2700 ram (Kingston value ram comes to mind) and you have a 2075Mhz CPU right out of the box.

I have one computer setup running just like that (1GB of ram instead of 512) and it crunches 5-6WU a day and gets close to 800 points in a day.

I will do some looking around for low priced mother boards that would fit the bill

Steve

In the fluid world of computer component pricing, I find that tring to figure out how much something will cost is difficult.
With the introduction of Intel's new P4's at 800mhz FSB soon, we will see a drop in the price of more reasonable items.
I like Asus MoBo's, but I don't know much about AMD based platforms.