Hi All, I'm looking to add a reasonably cheap cruncher to my lineup, an I have found something that I think is suited to my expectations.
Core 2 Duo - Trademe

What would you expect to pay for this rig? (Considering it has no monitor, although I have a spare one here, and no OS installed)
NOTE: NZ$100 = US$71.00

Also, I don't really care about the GPU, if it runs SETI it runs, if it doesn't, it doesn't.

And if anyone could take a rough guess at the RAC output of this machine, It'd be greatly appreciated. (with opti apps of course ;)

Thanks everyone.

- Luke.

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- Luke.

Also, I don't really care about the GPU, if it runs SETI it runs, if it doesn't, it doesn't.

It's an ATI, it doesn't.

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Also, I don't really care about the GPU, if it runs SETI it runs, if it doesn't, it doesn't.

It's an ATI, it doesn't.

Overlooked that, thanks for the pointer. I just browse through listings and add the ones I like based on price and specs alone. :)

- Luke.

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- Luke.

>> a rough guess at the RAC output <<

FWIW, I have E6400 (2.13GHz) running @ 2.9GHz
80% SETI
SETI RAC ≈ 1,200

Here's my RAC graph for my E6700 2.66Ghz (oc to 3.1Ghz) I think I was RACing about 1500 before I started Cudaing.

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Hi All, I'm looking to add a reasonably cheap cruncher to my lineup, an I have found something that I think is suited to my expectations.
Core 2 Duo - Trademe

What would you expect to pay for this rig? (Considering it has no monitor, although I have a spare one here, and no OS installed)
NOTE: NZ$100 = US$71.00

Also, I don't really care about the GPU, if it runs SETI it runs, if it doesn't, it doesn't.

And if anyone could take a rough guess at the RAC output of this machine, It'd be greatly appreciated. (with opti apps of course ;)

Thanks everyone.

- Luke.

Hey mate. Unless you live in Aucks, the postage will be a pain for that rig.. Having said that, in all honesty, I've seen similar setups go on TM for well over $600 without the case; add an extra $80 for it (remember, TM really does have some inflated prices sometimes :( )

In all honesty, if you're not actually wanting to upgrade your current setup (I see you're running a Celery 2.6), then you're -much- better off getting a GTX260 new for under $300, shipped. On my single core AMD (which would only be slightly better than your celery, for this purpose), I can pull 11.5k RAC with a single GTX260.

Having said that, if you want to upgrade your rig, then its a fairly decent setup, and $600 isn't -too- bad.. and it'll be one hell of a boost in speed compared to your current pc. Then chuck in a GTX260! You'll be rocking it up! :)

GL on the auction, mate :)

I had an E6700 running at 3.1GHz. With careful memory tuning it would pull an RAC of 3k to 3.5k, BC (Before CUDA). Virtually the same machine with a GTS250 on board now pulls an RAC of 10.5k. So you have potential there.

Brodo

That's not a bad machine & depending on postage could be pretty cheap as well.
I have two machines running that are E6000's. An E6400 & E6300. They run about 1800 and 1600 RAC respectivly.

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Hi All, I'm looking to add a reasonably cheap cruncher to my lineup, an I have found something that I think is suited to my expectations.
Core 2 Duo - Trademe

What would you expect to pay for this rig? (Considering it has no monitor, although I have a spare one here, and no OS installed)
NOTE: NZ$100 = US$71.00

Also, I don't really care about the GPU, if it runs SETI it runs, if it doesn't, it doesn't.

And if anyone could take a rough guess at the RAC output of this machine, It'd be greatly appreciated. (with opti apps of course ;)

Thanks everyone.

- Luke.

Hey mate. Unless you live in Aucks, the postage will be a pain for that rig.. Having said that, in all honesty, I've seen similar setups go on TM for well over $600 without the case; add an extra $80 for it (remember, TM really does have some inflated prices sometimes :( )

In all honesty, if you're not actually wanting to upgrade your current setup (I see you're running a Celery 2.6), then you're -much- better off getting a GTX260 new for under $300, shipped. On my single core AMD (which would only be slightly better than your celery, for this purpose), I can pull 11.5k RAC with a single GTX260.

Having said that, if you want to upgrade your rig, then its a fairly decent setup, and $600 isn't -too- bad.. and it'll be one hell of a boost in speed compared to your current pc. Then chuck in a GTX260! You'll be rocking it up! :)

GL on the auction, mate :)

Hey Careface. I live in Welly, so I am expecting a inflated postage price, if I win of course ;).

I am planning a cost-effective i5/i7 system setup over the next 6 months as well, and I would like to have a modest cruncher increase my RAC a bit (I usually am at about 500-600, but I have topped 1000 once) before I wait for said system build above...

The Celeron I have is barely used at all, I use my Dell M1530 (that's the C2D lappy you see) for work now, I only keep it because it was my first rig crunching SETI. :).

Thanks for the positive comments mate!
- Luke.

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- Luke.

Hey Careface. I live in Welly, so I am expecting a inflated postage price, if I win of course ;).

I am planning a cost-effective i5/i7 system setup over the next 6 months as well, and I would like to have a modest cruncher increase my RAC a bit (I usually am at about 500-600, but I have topped 1000 once) before I wait for said system build above...

The Celeron I have is barely used at all, I use my Dell M1530 (that's the C2D lappy you see) for work now, I only keep it because it was my first rig crunching SETI. :).

Thanks for the positive comments mate!
- Luke.

Ahh, Wellington. I love that place. I only went there for the first time in April this year, and I just loved it. I live in Dunedin, and Welly seems to be a bigger, better version of Dunedin. I've since been back to welly twice this half of the year, and I always remember to bring my "Dunedin <3's Manners, too!" tshirt I made :)

I'm piecing together an i7 rig myself; Will be sad to retire my 5 year old 3000+ single core, but the time for more RAC has come!

Cheers~