Building a Sossaman rig?

[Lu523]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Xeon-Low-Voltage...3A1%7C294%3A50

A bit high I think. But may be my only chance to get some.

[Movieman]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Xeon-Low-Voltage...3A1%7C294%3A50

A bit high I think. But may be my only chance to get some.

I'd wait or you can always offer him a $100.00 for the pair..

[Movieman]

Definitely too high... and it's not your only chance, niconoise has more, he usually waits for doctorxeon to end his item before re-listing. If they're not the same seller, they are at least mindful of each other's listings.

If I were you, I'd message him or nico and see if they'll sell you a pair for $100 +ship. I'm sure they'll gladly skip the ebay fees to make a good sale. From what I hear, ebay charges a lot per listing and the sellers would rather have the extra $$$.

I messaged nico last week and he said he had no more..

[CaptMorgan]

Definitely too high... and it's not your only chance, niconoise has more, he usually waits for doctorxeon to end his item before re-listing. If they're not the same seller, they are at least mindful of each other's listings.

If I were you, I'd message him or nico and see if they'll sell you a pair for $100 +ship. I'm sure they'll gladly skip the ebay fees to make a good sale. From what I hear, ebay charges a lot per listing and the sellers would rather have the extra $$$.

This is the guy I bought 2 from sunday morning in an auction-got them for a little under 55. Now he has 6 more but he is selling for over 70?

[tool_462]

Couldn't get ahold of any 478 LV chips, though 771 LV chips are easy to find and very cheap. Not sure how they compare in terms of consumption, but I think the TDP is 25w.

[Movieman]

Couldn't get ahold of any 478 LV chips, though 771 LV chips are easy to find and very cheap. Not sure how they compare in terms of consumption, but I think the TDP is 25w.

45-50w for the harpertown LV's from what I remember

[CaptMorgan]

Supply and Demand-I guess. But from what I remember the main "idea" for this chip is the greater good, this is the World Community Grid area right?

[Movieman]

Supply and Demand-I guess. But from what I remember the main "idea" for this chip is the greater good, this is the World Community Grid area right?

yes, and keeping the cost down, and low elec and low heat..
Now I could go and buy a $450.00 SM motherboard, 2-L5420's and 4x1 gig of DDR2-800FBDimms and it would be a low heat system but not low cost or low elec..

[jcool]

Just a ballpark, but the X7DCA-L with 12GB (!) of Reg ECC DDR2, a HD4850 and 2 E5420's (C0) draws below 180W crunching - imagine some E0 L5420's, a PCI GFX, 2 sticks of ram instead of 6 and less/no HDDs and you'd be looking at a VERY low power cruncher, maybe 140-150W loaded. Kicks out around 22-23k/d too so energy efficiency is actually better than a Sossaman. But the parts usually aren't cheap... Unless you can grab mobo and CPUs used for cheap.

[s0lid]

Just a ballpark, but the X7DCA-L with 12GB (!) of Reg ECC DDR2, a HD4850 and 2 E5420's (C0) draws below 180W crunching - imagine some E0 L5420's, a PCI GFX, 2 sticks of ram instead of 6 and less/no HDDs and you'd be looking at a VERY low power cruncher, maybe 140-150W loaded. Kicks out around 22-23k/d too so energy efficiency is actually better than a Sossaman. But the parts usually aren't cheap... Unless you can grab mobo and CPUs used for cheap.

I'd say it could be around 120W, not much more.

[DanTheBanjoman]

Just a ballpark, but the X7DCA-L with 12GB (!) of Reg ECC DDR2, a HD4850 and 2 E5420's (C0) draws below 180W crunching - imagine some E0 L5420's, a PCI GFX, 2 sticks of ram instead of 6 and less/no HDDs and you'd be looking at a VERY low power cruncher, maybe 140-150W loaded. Kicks out around 22-23k/d too so energy efficiency is actually better than a Sossaman. But the parts usually aren't cheap... Unless you can grab mobo and CPUs used for cheap.

Though it lacks the exclusivity. Having a Sossaman just is interesting, it's a platform many people haven't even heard of. And since you can come across them quite cheap and they are far from obsolete it's a better choice for many enthusiasts. For instance, I paid €40 for my X6DLP, €25 for 2x2GB and another €15 for 2x512MB and like €80 for the CPU's. The rest of the parts are just junk I found around the house. Low budget and fun system.

In fact, it currently serves as my main server, replaced a S5370+5110's. It's a very capable system. Do want a smaller case though, something minimalistic as I only have a boot drive in it. (storage is external)

Long story short, Sossaman is a better toy

[Movieman]

If I didn't have all these crunchers and was a "normal" PC enthusiast I'd have a quad for daily usage and a Sammy for file server/HTPC and would need nothing else.

[alucasa]

Is this a good deal ?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Xeon-Low-Voltage...3%3A1|294%3A50

[Lu523]

I am tempted to go ahead and pick up a pair of those cpus. I could use a file server and a place to store backups. It would alos be put to use crunching of course. Going to give another day or so before I make the call.

[alucasa]

Meh, 77 for one is too high. For a pair, yes, but for per cpu.

[Movieman]

As I understand it, it's the only deal in town at the moment. If nico is out, then docxeon must have bought them up from him. I don't know that you'll be able to talk him down too far, but it's always worth a shot.

EDIT: Does anyone know where I can get the IO shield for the Intel board?

I have looked and looked for one but no luck..
nico said he had found some but that was the last I heard.

[CaptMorgan]

that guy went up 4 bucks a chip; IDK it is so tempting to snatch every SL9HN/2000 up that comes along but I feel that might be over the acceptable limit.

[jcool]

Though it lacks the exclusivity. Having a Sossaman just is interesting, it's a platform many people haven't even heard of. And since you can come across them quite cheap and they are far from obsolete it's a better choice for many enthusiasts. For instance, I paid €40 for my X6DLP, €25 for 2x2GB and another €15 for 2x512MB and like €80 for the CPU's. The rest of the parts are just junk I found around the house. Low budget and fun system.

In fact, it currently serves as my main server, replaced a S5370+5110's. It's a very capable system. Do want a smaller case though, something minimalistic as I only have a boot drive in it. (storage is external)

Long story short, Sossaman is a better toy

So you are saying what I got here ain't exlusive enough?







I beg to differ - Dual socket, Octacore, 12GB Ram on a µATX board in a µATX case (LianLi V350) definitely ain't standard

[WesM63]

So you are saying what I got here ain't exlusive enough?

I beg to differ - Dual socket, Octacore, 12GB Ram on a µATX board in a µATX case (LianLi V350) definitely ain't standard

Woah.. that's what I was planning on doing. What HSF's are those?

[s0lid]

So you are saying what I got here ain't exlusive enough?



I beg to differ - Dual socket, Octacore, 12GB Ram on a µATX board in a µATX case (LianLi V350) definitely ain't standard

Soo shinyyy

[s0lid]

Is that the X7DCA-L?

Arr, It be X7DCA-L, the miniSM

[jcool]

Woah.. that's what I was planning on doing. What HSF's are those?

HR-03 3Us.. has been running for around 1 month now.

Other specs:

- SM X7DCA-L mobo, Dual S771, Intel i5100 chipset, µATX
- 2x E5420 C0 Harpertown @ stock - tried everything, this mobo ain't gonna OC with FSB333 CPUs, no effing way
- 6x 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 Reg ECC
- HIS HD4850 IceQ4 512MB
- WD Velociraptor 300GB + WD 1TB RE3 drives
- DVD-Burner + IcyDock HotSwap Frame for 3,5" drives (for backups)

All in a LianLi V350 cube case. I call it "ProCube09", indicating it is aimed at the workstation-market - just that it's ultra-portable and pretty silent too (2x 120mm 1000RPM Yate Loon intake fans, 140mm 1000RPM Yate Loon inbside the PSU, 1500RPM 80mm rear exhaust for HDD cooling, all controlled by a T-Balancer BigNG).

Currently pending review by a German magazine, will try to find some more pics showing the whole thing.

Now, back to topic, as you guys seem to think Sammies are better than this

[Martijn]

I guess I shouldn't rely on Sammy too much... It's darned stable, but apparantly Boinc screwed up two! weeks ago... It didn't communicate with the WCG servers... I have WUs ready to upload that were due the 27th of February

Oh well... uploading 60WUs now... I might get half of the credit for them... 532 hours of no work though

Installing Boincview as we speak.


EDIT: Sigh, all too late and no credit for any of them... 2 weeks wasted.

[Jaco]

wouldn't have happened with Boincview

[DanTheBanjoman]

So you are saying what I got here ain't exlusive enough?



I beg to differ - Dual socket, Octacore, 12GB Ram on a µATX board in a µATX case (LianLi V350) definitely ain't standard

Seen those boards on the net yes, they're funny. But to be honest installing Thermalright coolers on my Z7S took away all motivation to toy with them again. It's a hell to install