5 New systems needed for WCG, £1320 Budget

[WeatherMan]

Hi guys,

Basically have a budget of £1320, looking at some new systems for Crunching on World Community Grid.

Been thinking about C2D's, but not quite sure yet. Mainly E4400's or E6600's, each system will be at stock as I don't have the cash to buy decent RAM + Mobo's that can OC well.

Anyone got any Suggestions, im all ears

 

[Schonza]

1320 pounds for each system? Just clear that up, then I'll get to work listing specs I think will fit your requirements, do you need a vid card/monitor/keyboard/mouse/speakers etc etc with your builds, or just the towers?

 

[Kornowski]

Crunching on World Community Grid

Whats that?

 

[daisymtc]

Whats that?

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
Not sure what it mean...

 

[WeatherMan]

1320 pounds for each system? Just clear that up, then I'll get to work listing specs I think will fit your requirements, do you need a vid card/monitor/keyboard/mouse/speakers etc etc with your builds, or just the towers?

No monitors, no keyboards, £1320 for 5+ systems, don't want anything like a QX6700 cos I can build up more points with a few cheaper cores put together

EDIT: With the mobo's if theres cheap OCing boards around i'd get one of them and something like a X300, but if not I don't mind onboard, seing as the systems would just be sitting there crunching.

 

[daisymtc]

Still not get you... May be my english is crap...

Do you mean you have £1320 for 5 PC, So £264 each?
Or you need 5 PC, with budget of £1320 each?

I still not understand what is the purposing of system...
And not quite sure what you mean crunching WCG...

 

[Kornowski]

Do you mean you have £1320 for 5 PC, So £264 each?

Thats what he wants... I still don't get what it's for?

 

[daisymtc]

base unit at £264:

Microsoft OEM Windows Vista Home Basic x64Bit (DVD) - 1pk £45.99

Asus M2NPV-MX Socket AM2 Nvidia Geforce 6150 onboard Audio VGA £35.13

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2GHz) Socket AM2 Energy Efficient L2 1MB (2x512KB) Cache Retail Boxed Processor £43.16

Kingston 1GB Kit (2x512MB) DDR2 PC2-5300/667MHz - Non Ecc - Cl5 - 1.8V £28.94

Seagate ST3160211AS 160GB SATAII 2MB Cache 7200RPM - OEM £29.57

Samsung SH-S183 SATA 18x DVD1RW/RAM Black - Bare drive OEM £17.49

Raidmax Black/Silver Mid Tower Case - With 450W PSU £21.26

Ebuyer Extra Value Thermal Compound Silver Grease £0.42

Case Fan Mounting Screws - Pack Of 50 £0.98

Extra Value 8cm Internal Case Cooling Fan 4 Pin £0.39@ x2 £0.78

Cart Total: £223.72 + VAT = £262.93
Free supersaver delivery (within 5 working days)

 

[WeatherMan]

Thanks for that I'l have a little play around with the config.


Forgot to mention, don't need an OS, Optical drives, or thermal compound, or fans n screws, thanks for taking the time to look though ^^

Basically looking for, CPU, Mobo, RAM, HDD, case & PSU, oh im also gonna need another switch in somewhere, as I only have 4 more ports on my 1st hub

Crunching on WCG is like Folding, WCG stands for World Community Grid, I crunch for XtremeSystems, a very competitive team, If I have some cash left over I'll probably look at getting a few X1900GT's and adding them to CF's F@H team

What I have been looking at for Specs is E4400, £50 mobo, £20 ram, £20 case and a cheapo PSU that wont catch the house alite


Have been thinking about 5 E4400 Systems. Was just seing if you guys would be able to put anything together that would perform better than 5 of them

 

[daisymtc]

OK, you can get e4400 with Gigabyte GA-965GM-S2 Socket 775 G965 onboard VGA and audio mATX
Then then other could stay the same.
May be get cheap case with better CPU instead.

 

[daisymtc]

Without OS
You can also choose AMD x 2 4600+ with 2GB RAM.

 

[WeatherMan]

is that a 65nm version?

I have a Brisbane X2 3600 65nm crunching ATM, and for some reason its pushing around half the output than my E6400 does, might be because its only at 2GHz

 

[apj101]

You can also choose AMD x 2 4600+ with 2GB RAM.

should stick to c2d

May be get cheap case

get the cheapest case possible

 

[daisymtc]

should stick to c2d

If he building business PC, he probably not OC it. And with G965 chipset, you can't OC much anyway. He can't go with P965/ 945 + video card, not enough budget.
So, AMD x 2 4600+ with 2GB may better than E4400 with 1GB RAM

 

[apj101]

If he building business PC, he probably not OC it. And with G965 chipset, you can't OC much anyway. He can't go with P965/ 945 + video card, not enough budget.
So, AMD x 2 4600+ with 2GB may better than E4400 with 1GB RAM

who talking about overclocking
e4400
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/127326
plus there are several MSI 945 boards available for ranging £40-67

that leaves him loads left over for gpu + ram

 

[Cromewell]

I still not understand what is the purposing of system...
And not quite sure what you mean crunching WCG...

WCG is like folding@home but they run multiple projects.

 

[apj101]

WCG is like folding@home

but nowhere near as good

 

[daisymtc]

who talking about overclocking
e4400
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/127326
plus there are several MSI 945 boards available for ranging £40-67

that leaves him loads left over for gpu + ram

icic, just forget he can use the 40 pounds msi G945 MB. because I just look through roughly, the MB for C2D seems cost GBP60+
So, now he can use E4400+ Msi 945GZM3-L + 2GB RAM + 80GB HDD...