KWSN Orbiting Fortress

JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

...which system should I build? (I will build one, but probably not until the end of the year)

The goal is to get 3,000 credits/day out of it, with overclocking, and to kick butt on games. These parts lists also aren't all-inclusive, but they cover the major components.

The price is lowest - highest - when I lasted updated [price that day]

mohrorless · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject:

You should see what you can get out of a nice Commodore 64...
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KWSN Sir CADCAM · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject:

Maybe you could afford some of these:-

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mohrorless · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 8:51 pm Post subject:

Oh, I doubt he could afford those.... Rolling Eyes

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ohiomike · Prince Joined: 20 May 2007 Posts: 858 Location: Sometimes

The Ohio Scientific stuff makes me wish I had pictures of my old S100 system from the 70's. A sixteen slot rack to support an 8080 CPU- ram was on cards that held 4K each... But there was worse stuff out there! Some of the old CNC machines I worked on had discrete semiconductor memory- ie a transistor with a big cap on it to hold the value (1/0), usually a memory card would be 8 bits. You generally took a handful of 2n2222a's and 2n2907's with you when you got a call.
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jbyram2 · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:12 am Post subject:

Best bang for the buck is diskless.

Once the server is set up, stack up the client mobos on threaded rod.

Each client is a mobo (w/ integrated graphics), CPU, memory and Power supply. Don't buy the fastest mobo, but go for the lowest $/GHz for the whole client kit.

I was getting about $150/GHz, using refurb Athlon components from Newegg. I had 7 clients, before the power bill became an issue.

You don't get the gaming capability, but the tech coolness factor is up there.
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KWSN - Sir Brian C....... · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject:

We're talking loto win right....

option 1

http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4600/

option 2

http://www.sun.com/servers/blades/8000/

option 3

http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/1UTwin.cfm?pg=2

Ni!....
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