Best bang for buck CPU for F@H?

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My current rigs are an ML115 which is a quad core Opteron 1354. No overclocking potential and it is designed for stability rather than speed.
I'm getting about 750ppd off the CPU.
The second is a C2D e6400 @2ghz and I'm getting about 350ppd from it.

Between my 2 8800GS's I'm getting about 8k ppd so I'm happy on that count.

I've got a spare s775 board with an old P4 processor. I know the cpu is naff for folding so I'm not going to waste the electricity.

What is the best bang for buck cpu at the moment? Reuse the s775 or move to another platform?

I have no budget for this at the moment, but will pick up bits off the MM over a period of time.
 
Cheap low power 775 cpu and another graphics card? Graphics cards are always going to give more ppd per cost I think.
 
A Q6600 will give you somewhere in the region of 5-6k ppd overclocked.


My phenom II @ 4ghz is good for 7.5kppd on the correct units.

AFAIK an i7 and a Phenom II X6 will both give similar PPD at a given clock speed however the AMD option will be a touch cheaper. I'll let one of the other guys spec something proper as Im on my phone. The other thing to account for would be the ability to fold bigadv on an i7 which will equate a lot more PPD, although bigadv is only practical on dedicated rigs.
 
frozennova: Actually I fold bigadv on my regular machine, bigadv and gpu :)

to the OP are you running the SMP client on that? 350ppd sounds like the single core client.
 
HFM.NET or FAHSpy calculate bonuses.

I'd say best bang for buck CPU is a second hand i7 920, GA-X58-U3DR and some 1600 memory and clock the nuts off it (well at least stable to 4.0Ghz)

Around 13K on a regular A3 WU and 30K on a bigadv.
 
Just installed FHM and the Opteron is giving about 3k ppd which is better then I had thought. The C2D is about 1k ppd.

I'm going to concentrate on GPU folding I think!
 
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