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elec999 Send message Joined: 24 Nov 02 Posts: 375 Credit: 416,969,548 RAC: 141 |
I have the opportunity to get myself a lot of seven 7 p4 2.0ghz systems. Are they worth anything for seti. Or will a single quad core cpu kill them off. Thank you |
KW2E Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 346 Credit: 104,396,190 RAC: 34 |
They will score you less than 500 RAC each. That's a lot of (electrical) power consumption for very little return. A single quad (6600) will smoke all 7 of those by 2 to 3k RAC. I had a couple of those running for a while. Just wasn't worth it to me. $.02 Rob |
Westsail and *Pyxey* Send message Joined: 26 Jul 99 Posts: 338 Credit: 20,544,999 RAC: 0 |
PCIe slots? "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, 'hmm... that's funny...'" -- Isaac Asimov |
Ianab Send message Joined: 11 Jun 08 Posts: 732 Credit: 20,635,586 RAC: 5 |
I have the opportunity to get myself a lot of seven 7 p4 2.0ghz systems. Are they worth anything for seti. Or will a single quad core cpu kill them off. A single Core 2 Duo would have a 50/50 chance of beating them. If you need to keep your room warm and like blinking lights, fine. But for serious crunching, any quad core will smoke em. Ian |
Chelski Send message Joined: 3 Jan 00 Posts: 121 Credit: 8,979,050 RAC: 0 |
A single Core 2 Duo would have a 50/50 chance of beating them. If you need to keep your room warm and like blinking lights, fine. But for serious crunching, any quad core will smoke em. Absolutely - my E6200s with ~2.4k RAC will lose, but I'm certain the E6550 will be able to beat them, at about 1/5 or better of the electrical budget. Make sense only in winter, and have it turned on to replace a 1kW electric heater so something similar. |
elec999 Send message Joined: 24 Nov 02 Posts: 375 Credit: 416,969,548 RAC: 141 |
Thank you for the advice. I guess ill look into adding another quad core cpu. |
Paul D. Buck Send message Joined: 19 Jul 00 Posts: 3898 Credit: 1,158,042 RAC: 0 |
Thank you for the advice. I guess ill look into adding another quad core cpu. Or an i7 ... :) |
AlphaLaser Send message Joined: 6 Jul 03 Posts: 262 Credit: 4,430,487 RAC: 0 |
Thank you for the advice. I guess ill look into adding another quad core cpu. That's fundamentally quad-core too, but with each having two threads, there's effectively eight "cores" seen by the OS. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Thank you for the advice. I guess ill look into adding another quad core cpu. An i7 is out of My reach, So I'll stick with My two LGA775 cpus(Q9300 M1 stepping and a QX6700 B1(ES) stepping) as they both will run at 3.51GHz and 3.52GHz each. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
elec999 Send message Joined: 24 Nov 02 Posts: 375 Credit: 416,969,548 RAC: 141 |
Ill be adding a 252 x 2 opteron soon, and a 1.9 x 2 quad core opteron socket 1207. I hope they are good. Thank you |
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