Fried a m/b this morning.

[NeoGen]

It's still early days for GPUs but in a couple of years I'm sure that at least half of the projects out there will have GPU support.
Betting on a GPU now may restrict the number of projects you can run, but with the developments in the boinc platform, the future is promising.

[Brucifer]

At this point in time, I don't get involved with much in the way of projects other than nplb, rc5, ogr, and d2ol/tsc. Lately it's been more distributed.net than anything.

Who knows, I may just spend some bucks on a new m/b, and hope the cpu is okay. And if it is, then the 9850be can go back to work. If it isn't, then I guess I can either pick up a new Phenom II's or just get one of the fast low power duals...

The new way they rate the things really has befuddled my mind.... what one of the new one's is better and lower power consumption than the 9850be, and what board too that will still use the DDR2800 memory?

[Bok]

Bruce, I picked up a combo PhenomII 940 (3Ghz) + Asus mobo from newegg last week. Just brought it online last night.. Combo deal

Black Edition, so the multiplier is unlocked. Looks like it overclocks nicely, though I've just got it at stock right now.

I'm using some DDR2800 I had laying around. Goes in fine.

I tend to install CentOS on my boxen, but for some reason the latest 5.2 did not find the sata drivers on this one. Wanted to get it going quick so I just used Ubuntu 8.10 and that worked ok.

Nice processor and mobo so far

Bok