AMD Cluster donations

[Bionic_Redneck]

Special thanks to these team member for their contributions
vaughan: $200
spjeff69: 6 floppy drives
Daphyl: 2 XP 1800+'s (one of them is dead and the other I haven't tried yet)

[vaughan]

Come on team, support us on this one. Even a couple of dollars via PayPal will help if we all contribute.

[chaz]

what can you still use, as far as hardware goes?

[Jeff]

I know we could use some sticks of DDR RAM. We also need motherboards, PSUs, and heatsinks.

BR-please reply with any more details

[jlangner]

Hey don't forget my $10.00 I sent back in Nov. for the A64 project. lol.

[jlangner]

Could you post an address to send to or PM us address if ya don't want public. Also what is minimum cpu u want? I have a Duron 700 available. Very overclockable.

[numibesi]

i could help with a:

- AMD T-Bird 1 Ghz
- Motherboard soltek....(not sure)
- Box with power sup.
- cpu heatsink and fan

Ofcourse the group weights alot, don't know about 10 kg, depending the destination to send the cost's could be very high...

I also donated $5 by Paypal some time ago, we only had the old site and were in some way...little... , just joking offcourse

[Bionic_Redneck]

For those that did send money via paypal to amd64 project the reason I never knew about your donation is these are two different paypal account. the other was spjeff's account

Shipping would be very expensive for non US folks.

I have been using Biostar m7vig proD Motherboard it comes with onboard lan and video and I made a mistake and they don't need floppies to boot. I found out that all that needs to be done is change boot sequence and enable boot rom. I want to continue using this board since I know it works well for this purpose and are cheap plus rack is made to house MATX form factor.

About cpu's I can't see the point in using lower speed cpu's I went to apc's website this morning and for 10 node it's going to draw 1100w add that with what the server draws and it would be atleast another $60 month added to power bill if not more and I want to get the most for the money.

I am even considering upgading the XP's we have now with 2400+'s. If I sell these cpus I believe all I would have to do is add $20-40 per a cpu. That would be about a 2.5ghz difference for $100-200. Seem like that would be the ideal way to go.

So now that I have this sort of figure out the parts we do need are ddr 2100+ better, 200w or higher psu, and possible heatsinks (I have found hardcorecooling has thermalright slk-700/ fan for $17 plus shipping and got two already. I could use any heatsink though presently have one using stock hsf and tops out around 50c under full load.

The list of hardware I have for ws005 is:
motherboard(ordered lastnight)
XP 1800+(yes the other 1800 Daphyl does work)
Heatsink
thing I need are ram and psu

address to send any parts is:
Ralph Kitchens
8470 shumock ave.
Northport,FL 34287

[jlangner]

I have a Thermaltake Golden Cyclone Heatsink/fan I used for AMD 1.2 ghz I can send if you need it. I am upgrading my 350 W PSU in about 2 weeks, so then I can send you that as well. Will see what else I have. Let me know if you would need either of these.

[Bionic_Redneck]

I could definitely use them