F@H - What am I up against?

Just ordered the following value dual core system.

CP-116-IN Intel Pentium 4 805 Dual Core "LGA775 Smithfield" 2.66GHz (533FSB) - Retail (CP-116-IN) 1
£72.95 £72.95
MB-137-AS Asus P5VDC-MX VIA P4M800 Pro Micro ATX (Socket LGA775) Motherboard (MB-137-AS) 1
£34.95 £34.95
OS-001-MS Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk (N09-01528) (OS-001-MS) 1
£51.95 £51.95
CA-008-AS OcUK Value Aspire X-Qpack Cube Case - Silver (CA-008-AS) 1
£51.60 £51.60
MY-030-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB5300DC) (MY-030-GL) 1
£54.95 £54.95
HD-025-SA Samsung SpinPoint P HD040GJ 40GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-025-SA) 1
£24.50 £24.50
Subtotal £290.90
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £9.95
VAT £52.65
Total £353.50

Not too shabby for £350.
The board probably won't clock that well but if I can get a bit of an oc on it and it folds well, I may well invest in 1 or 2 more :D
 
At less than half the cost of the X2 3800, the PD 805 makes a great value cruncher :D I have one but have only managed to get it to 166x20 due to a crappy cheap mobo, I shall be rectifying this soon though :) and most likely getting another 805 to go in the old mobo, wouldn’t want it going to waste now… :D :D :D
 
Other than my farm which ranges from early P3 era celerons up to P560's, are my old seti crunchers.

Celeron Northwood @ 2.4Ghz 256Mb DDR 333
P4 Northwood @ 2.4Ghz 512Mb DDR 400
P4 Northwood @ 3.0Ghz 512Mb DDR 400
3 X P4 Prescott @ 3.2Ghz 1Gb DDR 400
Xeon @ 2.8Ghz 1.5Gb DDR 400
Dual Xeon @ 3.0Ghz 1.5Gb DDR 400
Dual Xeon @ 3.2Ghz 2Gb DDR2 400
P840EE Smithfield @ 3.6Ghz 2Gb DDR2 800

and i might get some conroe chips when i get the money.
 
Bigstan said:
Just ordered the following value dual core system.

*spec snipped*
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I'd love to know how this system turned out Bigstan. Particularly:

1) What cooling are you using, and how are temps?
2) Whats the mobo like? Tried clocking it?
3) Whats that little case like? Enough space for a hefty heatsink? (eg Ninja, Big Typhoon)

Thanks a lot
 
joeyjojo said:
I'd love to know how this system turned out Bigstan. Particularly:

1) What cooling are you using, and how are temps?
2) Whats the mobo like? Tried clocking it?
3) Whats that little case like? Enough space for a hefty heatsink? (eg Ninja, Big Typhoon)

Thanks a lot
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1) Using stock cooling as there isn't room in the case for aftermarket coolers (or at least none that I've seen). It runs cool enough (about 42 degrees full load) since I can't up the vcore and it only clocked a little bit
2) Mobo's not up to much, no option in the bios (latest version) to alter the vcore. Only got it to 150x20 before it crapped out on me :(
3) See 1).

This system is good enough for folding or Boincing (pardon my language ;) ) but if you need a system to be able to do anything else then you'd be better of spending a few more quid and getting a bigger case, better PSU, better mobo and an aftermarket cooler - although by the time you do all that, you've probably doubled the price :(

It'll give me around about 1ppd per pound spent on it so it's not too bad as I have plenty other better rigs to do other stuff with.

I think I'm just going to build another couple of high end rigs and then any others will be like this one - purely for folding.

I quite like the little case, it's neat and has a neon fan at the back but it's a bit cramped so big coolers are a no no and if you wanted to put a gfx card in you'd be struggling a bit for airflow. Also, I don't think the PSU is the greatest and maybe dual core and a gfx card would be too much for it.

Hope that's of some help to you mate :)
 
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