Mobo

[Dirk Broer]

Why Phenom II X4 965's? That is, assuming the worst, a 140 Watt tdp CPU from 2009 (or, when you are in luck, a 125 Watt CPU -depending on the stepping)
It could of course be that you've ordered them dirt-cheap (they do about a mere 75 Euro's here) and use them only as stop-gap CPUs till either Steamroller or Excavator has shown to be a better performer both in Performance/Watt and on the power intake. There's a wealth of AMD CPUs that will fit in a AM3+ mobo at the moment - including the 95 Watt AMD Athlon II X4 640 that goes here for only 60 Euro's.

Looking at other AMD platforms you can buy yourself a FM1 quad for 60 Euro's as well (the 100 Watt AMD Athlon II X4 641), while a FM2 Quad can be bought for a mere 63 Euro's (the 65 Watt AMD Athlon II X4 740).
No-brain choices as the FM1 A8-3850 -with free running Graphic as compared to the X4- only does 70 Euro's and the FM2 A8 series is only 84 Euo's -including the 65 Watt A8-5500.

The cheapest six-core around here is the 95 Watt AMD Phenom II X6 1045T, that goes away at a little over 90 Euro's.

[Terry1953]

You got it in one! "It could of course be that you've ordered them dirt-cheap (they do about a mere 75 Euro's here) and use them only as stop-gap CPUs till either Steamroller or Excavator has shown to be a better performer both in Performance/Watt and on the power intake." I got them for $47 apiece on Ebay and they go on some $41 mobo's I picked up just to run a couple of GPU's for a short time. I have a 6850 in a 939 board getting 60,000 a day when I know it gets around 200,000 a day in a better rrig and a 6670 in the same situation in an old celeron rig that should be getting about 175,000 a day and is getting about 50,000. I'll use them until AMD comes up with something and then just give them to a place in town that gives them to low income students.

[Dirk Broer]

And another thing: it's an almost complete line of products (select TUF Series), only the FM1 and FM2 mobo's lack.
There are three AMD 990FX Sabertooths, but also a Z77, a P67 (both butt-ugly socket 1155), a X79 (socket 2011), a X58 (socket 1366) and a Sabertooth 55i (socket 1156)
We should perhaps -with the aid of photoshop- send a proposal to ASUS for a FM2 Sabertooth...with CeraM!X Heatsinks, extra fan pin-outs and PCIe 3.0

And yet another ugly duckling in the Sabertooth-clan: the socket 1150 Z87 variant

[Terry1953]

LOL They really are ugly but they're hard to beat for specs for the price.

[Dirk Broer]

If I win the lottery I might be tempted to try a socket 2011 Sabertooth with an Ivy-Bridge 6-core.
But I might use the same amount of money to buy me the three top FM2 Mobos (ASUS, Asrock and Gigabyte), which will also run 12 WUs together

[Terry1953]

Dirk I found and have this Radeon XFX HD 6970 2 GB Graphics Card coming so now I just need to find 1 or 2 more to have my I7 rig complete. And I have most of the rigs up and running Moo on the GPU's and Simap on the CPU's. One more Quad to put together. On the shed I decided to have a separate electrical service and meter run for it with a 200 amp service panel. That way each pair of computers will have there own circuit all wired with 10 gauge copper.

[Dirk Broer]

Hi Terry,

Meaning you're moo-ing even further away from me! The power of an added HD 6970 and yet more to come...I think I stop at 25 Million.
If they can't program OpenCL at Collatz I might as well try it myself. Used to score big credits there, till they adopted OpenCL.
Even Moo! seems to think about OpenCL in order to get the HD 7000/8000 series running, so we might want to give aid to the projects in order to get it running good.