Quad socket board communitarian bulk buy

[Duh]

how about PMing the guys on the list to alert them we are almost closing this buy?

[pawmadsen]

ok, i have recieved my gfx, and set everything up.

but i cant get it to post. i have tried with 1 cpu and 4 cpu, (different ones), i have tried ram in all dimm0+1, in dimm0+1 on cpu 1 and 2 only and so on.

what are the most basic setup you can have with this board and still get post ? 1 cpu, 1 stick of ram ? and where should that be located ?

i used a pcie ati 5450 passive, brand new, i might have to test it in another machine to rule it out.

remember this board i have is from ebay, not here

[shoota]

Most basic I believe is cpu_0 and all four dimms of dimm_0

[Jacka]

Did you manage to get a UK shipping estimate for however many boards are likely to be destined here?

[shoota]

Its kinda hard without knowing exact details. Let me get in touch with old chap, the next couple of days are busy for me with family in town.

[Jacka]

No worries. Have a nice time with the family.

[Rise]

man i thought we would have 20 people by now :/

[MrMojoZ]

man i thought we would have 20 people by now :/

I'm surprised to have 16, people scatter when it is time to pay the bill.

[stangracin3]

i wish i could get in on this but i just gave away the PSU that would be able to power it about a month ago and dont have any more money

[Jacka]

The below memory modules are available to me at a very reasonable price.

I'm unsure as to what type of memory is compatible (FB/Registered).

Vendor	Manufacturer	Description			Type
Sun	Micron		2x1GB 2Rx8 PC2-5300F-555-11-A1	Fully Buffered
Sun	Samsung		2x1GB 2Rx8 PC2-5300G-555-11-A0	Fully Buffered
IBM	Samsung		2x1GB 1Rx4 PC2-5300P-555-12-H3	ECC Registered

I can't decider whether to:

Buy 8 sticks for 1 motherboard.
Buy 16 sticks for 1 motherboard.
Buy 16 sticks for 2 motherboards.

If I think about it, I don't really need 2, but this is XS after all, and I'm conscious that this may be the only chance I ever have to buy the boards without having to re-mortgage my house.

Thank you all in advance.

[Deluded]

Just buy 8... Or hell, buy 4, one per processor. You will be fine. So long the total amount of all rams are around 4-6Gb, you will be ok. There is that screenshot right here on this thread which shows a 16-core setup on F@H using only 500Mb of ram.

EDIT:

All sixteen kicking cancer in the rear:



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did you notice? only 560 mb with all sixteen crunching, woulda guess way more than that..

Guy has 4Gb total. You'll be fine with 4Gb.

[gusamurai]

Hello;

Pretty configuration !!! 16Cores... Incredible ^^.
I have one of this motherboard but i cant see realy the pinouts of PSU. She need only 16x 12V + 16x Gnd ? no 3.3 no 5v... etc ?

Thank you !

[Jacka]

Are there any people in the UK wanting to buy some 8347s for $27 each?

Shipping is $28 per order, so it would be cheaper to buy together and forward once they've arrived in this country.

[metalop1g]

You want ecc registered. FB-DIMM will not work

The below memory modules are available to me at a very reasonable price.

I'm unsure as to what type of memory is compatible (FB/Registered).

Vendor	Manufacturer	Description			Type
Sun	Micron		2x1GB 2Rx8 PC2-5300F-555-11-A1	Fully Buffered
Sun	Samsung		2x1GB 2Rx8 PC2-5300G-555-11-A0	Fully Buffered
IBM	Samsung		2x1GB 1Rx4 PC2-5300P-555-12-H3	ECC Registered

I can't decider whether to:

Buy 8 sticks for 1 motherboard.
Buy 16 sticks for 1 motherboard.
Buy 16 sticks for 2 motherboards.

If I think about it, I don't really need 2, but this is XS after all, and I'm conscious that this may be the only chance I ever have to buy the boards without having to re-mortgage my house.

Thank you all in advance.

[MrMojoZ]

Something I thought was interesting: one of these quad setups costs as much two sossman builds, but it will put out twice as many points as those two sossmans. Oddball form factor and higher watts/heat being the drawbacks, the point difference is just too big to ignore in my opinion.

[Jacka]

With prices of $85 for motherboard, $27 for CPUs and $20 per 2x1GB of memory, and the PSU I'm looking at costing $100, I'm still undecided as to whether or not to get 8 or 16 DIMMs for a system cost of $440 or $520 respectively.

[MrMojoZ]

You only need 4 for a dedicated cruncher, so that'd depend on what else you had in mind for the setup to be doing.

[metalop1g]

I might strive for 4 8360 instead of the boring 8347 anybody got a deal on them?

[Rise]

Something I thought was interesting: one of these quad setups costs as much two sossman builds, but it will put out twice as many points as those two sossmans. Oddball form factor and higher watts/heat being the drawbacks, the point difference is just too big to ignore in my opinion.

you forgot to mention - this build has exactly 2x the cool factor

[Sparky]

I might strive for 4 8360 instead of the boring 8347 anybody got a deal on them?

That's what I'm thinking... I'm building this semi-slowly so I'll keep my eyes open for the fastest supported chips I can get at the best reasonable price.

[MrMojoZ]

you forgot to mention - this build has exactly 2x the cool factor

16x by my math, these cores can run 64bit OSes.

[boostin4hp]

You guys are aware of the price drop of this board right? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813151085

[NKrader]

Something I thought was interesting: one of these quad setups costs as much two sossman builds, but it will put out twice as many points as those two sossmans. Oddball form factor and higher watts/heat being the drawbacks, the point difference is just too big to ignore in my opinion.

but they are more fun i wana build 2 sossi's and one of these


so if i wanted to order one like next month?

[MrMojoZ]

You guys are aware of the price drop of this board right? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813151085

Very nice, $110 nicer though?

[shoota]

well guys we seem to have stalled out on the orders. i'm going to email the seller and see what we can work out. keep your fingers crossed.