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fivemack
01-07-2005, 07:50 PM
Could someone tell me a CEMS/sec figure for 2.3.0 on Celeron D?

At the moment I reckon a bare-bones system with

CeleronD 2666
cheapest available case
single stick 128MB PC3200 DDR
cheapest available S478 motherboard
cheapest available 20G hard disc

costs £160 and should offer ~1.6M CEM/second; so you could build quite a decent farm for a thousand pounds.

[of course I haven't accounted for energy costs, which aren't completely trivial - maybe 200 watts = 25p/day/system, which costs more than the system within two years]

What dumb mistake have I made here? The processor farms I know of tend to be of much higher-end machines, but even accounting for cost of surrounding components, it seems that the slowest available Celeron-D is the way to go here.

Tom