I've decided i like athlon XP processors 
. So a quick search on an internet auction site found me a motherboard for only £25 including delivery. I got a 2800XP processor for around £30 and an arctic cooling fan and heatsink for a few pounds. I already had some high performance ram lying about along with the graphics card, soundcard and heatsink.
So whats my point your wondering???
Well I run distributed.net on my computer and acheive a rate of 8.5 million keys per second using this machine. I know its not the best computer available but it also didn't cost the world to build. I'm not sure how it would peform against some of the latest 64 bit 4800 dual core athlons but anyone wanting a high performance budget computer this seems to be a gd setup.
I'd be interested to see the keyrate of distributed.net on higher spec machines to see how it compares.
I am now using this as my main machine to replace my aging pentium 4 2.6ghz machine. I am very happy with its stability and i'm sure it could run anything i throw at it.
. So a quick search on an internet auction site found me a motherboard for only £25 including delivery. I got a 2800XP processor for around £30 and an arctic cooling fan and heatsink for a few pounds. I already had some high performance ram lying about along with the graphics card, soundcard and heatsink. So whats my point your wondering???
Well I run distributed.net on my computer and acheive a rate of 8.5 million keys per second using this machine. I know its not the best computer available but it also didn't cost the world to build. I'm not sure how it would peform against some of the latest 64 bit 4800 dual core athlons but anyone wanting a high performance budget computer this seems to be a gd setup.
I'd be interested to see the keyrate of distributed.net on higher spec machines to see how it compares.
I am now using this as my main machine to replace my aging pentium 4 2.6ghz machine. I am very happy with its stability and i'm sure it could run anything i throw at it.