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polluxmr2
10-29-2007, 02:36 PM
http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=184

what kind of results do you think you could get with a setup like that?
NeoGen
10-29-2007, 02:48 PM
That would give some pretty good numbers I'm sure! :)

But I can only wonder how much it would raise a room temperature to have a setup like that running 24/7.
polluxmr2
10-29-2007, 03:18 PM
That would give some pretty good numbers I'm sure! :)

But I can only wonder how much it would raise a room temperature to have a setup like that running 24/7.

I live in MI, about 15 miles from the college that built that (oddly enough). Also, winter is coming up so keeping that cool wont be a problem for the next 6 months. and if you leave it in a large room in a basement, i don't imagine it would get too bad.

another thing you could do is over clock it a ton, then set it in your garage (mine is insulated just enough to keep it above freezing in the winter) then decimate all in whatever race is taking place. Also, then i wouldn't need to use my space heater if i want to do some woodworking out there or something.

UPDATE:

I was able to price it to 1200$ shipped with a brisbane 65W 2.1 ghz cpu and only 1x2gig ram per mobo since anything more for BOINC stuff would be pointless.
Frederic Brillouet
10-31-2007, 11:30 AM
does anyone know if you can run wine on that thing? i like the idea
drezha
10-31-2007, 02:35 PM
does anyone know if you can run wine on that thing? i like the idea

Why would you want wine?
Many projects are linux compatible:icon_wink:

I'd love one of those to run some fire simulations:)
Frederic Brillouet
10-31-2007, 03:02 PM
Why would you want wine?
Many projects are linux compatible:icon_wink:

I'd love one of those to run some fire simulations:)
idk, to run dpad or something. its clear that gaming on this thing is not possibble
Nflight
11-02-2007, 04:45 PM
This article is actually 3 pages long, and there are some neat pictures of the device working. Two different views of the working model.

When I was in school just 3 years ago I wanted to build a Beowulf cluster with some friends, this idea was great then everyone figured who was going to front the cost of building it in the first place. I would have if I known computers were going to stop in development. Beowulf Clusters are ok except that as soon as you build one, its outdated! :sad5:
Frederic Brillouet
11-02-2007, 05:51 PM
This article is actually 3 pages long, and there are some neat pictures of the device working. Two different views of the working model.

When I was in school just 3 years ago I wanted to build a Beowulf cluster with some friends, this idea was great then everyone figured who was going to front the cost of building it in the first place. I would have if I known computers were going to stop in development. Beowulf Clusters are ok except that as soon as you build one, its outdated! :sad5:
wait for am2+ mobos. they will be able to cope with am3 processors as well as am2 and am2+ processors. go ffor dual coores now, ugrade to quads when they get cheaper. sounds easy to me