Im back! + New farm project!

Boycie

Boycie

Boycie

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Hey Guys,

I've been in and out of this forum and F&H in general for the past 5 years however due to other commitments i've had to give up my contribution for the sake of other things. However I am pleased to say I am back and have also started a new project, to create a folding farm with a grand total budget of 0 pounds :eek::D here is the first computer i have managed to conscript:

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Its a semperon 2200+ and 1GB of RAM, as you can see its all been bolted to a sheet of wood and will be added to the rack that has yet to be built out of an old bed that will sit in my garage. Over the next few weeks I will be adding the following:

AMD 64 3200 w/ 2GB
AMD XP 3200 w/1GB
2 x Dual PIII w/2GB (formally a pair of HP LP2000r's that have been saved from the skip when a local company that went belly up)

Sorry to say there are no quad cores et al but im sure every little will help, being very out of touch with things means i have yet had the chance to look into using GPU's PS3's and diskless farms however I now have the time to do some reading into it.

I'll be adding even more machines as and when i can beg/steal/borrow them however it is of the upmost importance that the entire project costs me absolutely nothing.

So once again... Greetings

B
 
if you pay the electric bill, it's not going to be a £0 project with spec's like that.

Sell the lot bar HHD and PSU, get a paper round - buy a budget C2D - whole folding system shouldn't cost more that £70 (chip, board & Ram) from MM

With smp client it will net you the same as 20 or more pc in that spec bracket using less juice that one of them.

Just my 2p worth

Edit: don't let me burst your 'project' bubble as there's a lot to be said for building and testing pc's but old tech farms are not sustainable
 
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Maybe worth offloading the lot and buying a PS3? I could easily get 100 quid a piece for the LP2000r's on the bay

Seems like the days of running pap machines are over hehe :D
 
...as you can see its all been bolted to a sheet of wood and will be added to the rack that has yet to be built out of an old bed that will sit in my garage.
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Ah man if only I had the room in my sig for a quote :D
 
Right having discovered that my lowly C2D E2160 can pump out an amazing 1200PPD (wasnt expecting that sort of performance, the AMD chips were pumping 200PPD max which i thought was OK) i have decided to ditch the rubbish computer idea and actually spend some money. I've experimented with both diskless nodes running notfreds diskless folding suite and i have also tried out a PS3 and i'm seriously considering buying up a few PS3's on a well known auction site and using these and if/when i want to sell them again it will be a case of sticking them back on the bay. They are also easier to keep neat and tidy and they are also quiet and power consumption *i think* will be a lot less. Has anybody else ran a PS3 farm so to speak or should i consider something else?

Thanks

B

P.S Also what can I expect PPD wise from a PS3?
 
For your contemplation

C2D @ 3Ghz = ~2500 PPD (1x Linux 6.02beta SMP)
C2Q @ 3Ghz = ~4000 PPD (1x Linux 6.02beta SMP, ~4500 PPD running dual SMP Linux clients)
PS3 = ~900 PPD (Locked)
HD 3870 (Single) = ~1900 PPD (w/1x 3Ghz Intel Core)
HD 3870 (Dual) = ~2500 PPD (w/2x 3Ghz Intel Core)
 
shadowscotland said:
For your contemplation

C2D @ 3Ghz = ~2500 PPD (1x Linux 6.02beta SMP)
C2Q @ 3Ghz = ~4000 PPD (1x Linux 6.02beta SMP, ~4500 PPD running dual SMP Linux clients)
PS3 = ~900 PPD (Locked)
HD 3870 (Single) = ~1900 PPD (w/1x 3Ghz Intel Core)
HD 3870 (Dual) = ~2500 PPD (w/2x 3Ghz Intel Core)
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That will make a heathly score. All be it, I'm about to shutdown my PS3, as it runs HOT, points are low, but the real reason is ... well ... I'm suffering DT's from not being able to play !! Resistance Fall of Man !! :)
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