Take one P4 prescott 3G processor(~$150), add one Albatron PX865 PE pro motherboard($35 on ebay), stock intel heatsink, and 2x512 pc3200 ddr($99 after rebates from fry's).

set fsb to 260, cpu voltage to +.3, memory multiplier to 1.6, and boot suse 9.1 live cd.

This is what I got.

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 3897.776
cache size : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni monitor ds_cpl cid
bogomips : 7733.24


RC5 benchmark


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[Mar 30 22:50:05 UTC] Automatic processor type detection did not
recognize the processor (tag: "6547:0F41")
[Mar 30 22:50:05 UTC] RC5-72: Running micro-bench to select fastest core...
[Mar 30 22:51:13 UTC] RC5-72: using core #6 (GO 2-pipe).
[Mar 30 22:51:49 UTC] RC5-72: Benchmark for core #6 (GO 2-pipe)
0.00:00:32.08 [8,738,643 keys/sec]
[Mar 30 22:51:49 UTC] OGR-P2: Running micro-bench to select fastest core...
[Mar 30 22:52:07 UTC] OGR-P2: using core #0 (GARSP 6.0-A).
[Mar 30 22:52:46 UTC] OGR-P2: Benchmark for core #0 (GARSP 6.0-A)
0.00:00:32.77 [20,288,991 nodes/sec]

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