So what's the cheapest a person's gonna be able to get into a DECENT duallie setup? I know $11 each for s604s, but something with a bit of oomph and staying power, for rendering, crunching and gaming?
So what's the cheapest a person's gonna be able to get into a DECENT duallie setup? I know $11 each for s604s, but something with a bit of oomph and staying power, for rendering, crunching and gaming?
yesOriginally Posted by NapalmV5
The cheapest decent one would be a dual socket 771 with a pair of woodcrests in it..
Production would be better with a Q6600 single socket rig though.
The board would be close to $400.00
Chips are variable from woods to clovers to harpertowns..$200-$3000
Then memory..$400.00
Good 600w PSU: $160.00+
Last edited by Movieman; 12-14-2007 at 04:24 PM.
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If someone wants to do a low end one show me a NEW sales receipt for a dual socket 771 board and I have a pair of 5120 Extra Special woods that I will let them go for the cost of shipping.
Like these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819117084
With the BSEL mod that would give you 4 cores at maybe 2450/4mb/1400
Even got a pair of Intel HS's for them that will cool them fine.
This is for someone who's going to use them on the WCG team.
Might do close to 10,000 a day at 2450mhz and if you buy the right board you can upgrade later to clovers or Harpertowns.
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which board would allow me to overclock using clockgen or systool??If someone wants to do a low end one show me a NEW sales receipt for a dual socket 771 board and I have a pair of 5120 Extra Special woods that I will let them go for the cost of shipping.
Like these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819117084
With the BSEL mod that would give you 4 cores at maybe 2450/4mb/1400
Even got a pair of Intel HS's for them that will cool them fine.
This is for someone who's going to use them on the WCG team.
Might do close to 10,000 a day at 2450mhz and if you buy the right board you can upgrade later to clovers or Harpertowns.
Yea, Mama Dave will be watching!
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X7DAL-E or X7DAE, but a 5400 chipset might go farther..
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My estimations for a base Skull Trail system is about $10,000, done properly, complete with LiLi 343B, two PCP&C 1.2kW-SRs, two QX9775s, 8 GB of ram, five SAS X15.6s, Areca/LSI, two 1 TB Ultrastars, two Plextors (one Blue Ray), three 9800 Ultras and X-Fi Elite. Sorry.. only air cooling. For water cooling, add $1,000. No monitor included lol Come to think of it, $10,000 may be too low a budget!
Well I can save you a few bucks..
I'll have 2 of these for sale cheap next week..
http://discountechnology.com/Seagate...2&category=309
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Single 1200w psu should do all of that fine. If any question toss a ~500w in to power drives and water cooling equip.. and one gpu if you want.
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yeah... i thought it would only end at the board side $3000-3600 but then realized it took 2 psu's and if your spending that much on a rig, you definitely need 3 gfx cards. 6 raptors in raid 0... and on and on.... So i gave up on skulltrail because i have much better things to do with that kind of cash. :X
10g's might be on the middle side iany from your build. :P
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I really like SkullTrail, but everytime I do the minimum for a projected build, it just asks for more!
I don't think my wallet can get raped that much
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$300 for cpu's (woodcrest 5120's hehe)
$400 memory
$350-600 board
$150 psu
$250-350 gpu(s)
$80 hdd
$100-200 case
$100-200 heatsinks
Not that expensive..
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Just a quick note about Skulltrail. You need a PSU with two 8-pin CPU (secondary ATX) connectors, or one 8-pin and two 4-pin CPU connectors that can be combined. A lot of PSU's don't have this, including some 1000W power supplies. The ones that do (like the PCP&C 1000W & 1200W) are usually very expensive.
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An 8-pin + 4-pin will work.
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I have an OP1200 here I'm looking to move if anyone needs a good PSU. It has 2x 8 pin and a 4 pin.
posted in the news section two, but figured this was wood worthy as well
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...e-inqpressions
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Folks, I can get 2 GB of FB-DIMMs for 60 bucks, I dunno what this 400 bucks is. If you need it, I can PM you the link.
cool, shows the 5400 chipset isnt as limited as the 5000 anywaysposted in the news section two, but figured this was wood worthy as well
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...e-inqpressions
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I got wood!
I just found my next board! Seriously, when, where, and how much?
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Holy crap.. PCH-DL part 2? Close enough and about damn time. Would have liked to see what the maximum FSB was at a 6x multiplier, wonder if 2000MHz would have been possible with better cooling. So many questions and no way to get an answer w/o buying one.
edit: 2000MHz with 1:1 memory @ 5-5-5-15 and praying the FB-DIMMs didn't burn themselves to death.
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