Cheap folding machine

Delboy

Delboy

Delboy

Soldato
Joined
10 Sep 2003
Posts
2,814
I need help spec'ing a machine (mb, ram, psu, 2 x gpu & a cpu) that will sit on a shelf and crunch. How little do you think i can spend and still get decent ppd?
 
Ok, i've managed to snap up the following:-

Asus P5E x38 Mb
Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 LGA775 2.66Ghz
Kingston 2 Gb DDR 800
2x GeForce™ 8800GTS PCI Express 320Mb
PSU

All for about £250 from a certain auction site.

What PPD should I expect? Can't wait to build it and find out! :)
 
If i don't want a hard drive, how do i run xp from a usb stick? What size? Do you go through the normal install and just pick the usb stick as the destination for XP?
 
oceaness said:
Yes the power consumption would make a difference, a HDD consumes about 20 watts when its working flat out, which it wouldn't be doing. But I think the cost of constantly replacing a USB stick would be greater than the electricity cost of a HDD.
Click to expand...

Yeah, i'm probably going to see if I can get a cheap small sata drive. I've got permission to run this rig in our test lab at work in the corner (nicely air-conditioned as well so gonna run it as fast as poss :) )

What PPD do you reckon it will bring?
 
Do you reckon I can run 3 8800 GTS off a single core duo processor or will it not be enough the feed the GPUs? (i.e. only 2 cores therefore only 2 GPUs).

The reason I ask is a mate is getting rid of a mobo with 3 PCIEx16 slots and I feel the need to buy it off him :) Trouble is I wasn't able to get the E8200 I wanted and brought a cheap Core 2 Duo instead.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom