After reading about youngpro I had an idea.

[Movieman]

There are many thousands of you here at this forum who have recently read about our member Youngpro being diagnosed with Leukemia.
Nasty disease to get and to see this happen in one so young and full of promise is a sad thing.
As many of you know my passion in life is in doing medical research with the hope that the work we do today can help the next generation.
I also sit back and see 80,000+ members here but only a small fraction of those participate in the work we do.
I wondered why and thought on this quite a while.
Some think the work is useless as it doesn't give an instant response to the work done and I can understand that a little.
It's like building a house and we've just completed the foundation.
I also thought that many here aren't interested in or financially capable of having "electrical sucking, heat producing" machines running 24/7 in their homes.
I have an answer to that problem.
If you are capable of spending app $300.00( and have some common parts laying around) then read on.

A while back I happened onto a little system that intrigued me.
It was a dual socket server quality board that used what are essentially 2 Yonah laptop cpu's.
31w each and at 100% load run at 34C, draw 117w and can run quietly and generate essentially no heat.Even if a cpu fan failed it will run passive.
This is literally one of those systems you can sit on a shelf and forget it.
The problem at the time was cost. Server boards aren't cheap but times change.
I found a supplier for the boards at $29.00 shipped( Yes, $29.00) out in California. I've bought from them and straight to do business with.
http://www.centrix-intl.com/details.asp?productid=4675
The cpu's come in two flavors: 1667 and 2000mhz..
The 1667's can be found here for $120.00/pair:
http://www.itxchange.com/itxchange/p..._no=39Y6598-02
The special stepped heatsinks for these are available from OEMXS:
http://oemxs.us/shopping/index.php?t...oduct_id=29943 for $10.00 each plus shipping BUT they tend to charge $25.00 to ship 2 heatsinks.
The good part is that they are 19 miles from my home and I can do a "pick up"
I just recently grabbed 8 of them.
Last is memory, the board uses DDR2-400 ECC REG and thats available from Newegg for $72.00 shipped for 2x1 gig.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820134272
Now you will need a EATX case,and a PSU with 24 and 8 pin board connectors.
When complete you have a machine with app 60-65% the computational power of a Q6600 at 3600mhz.
mhz for mhz it is actually dead equal to the Q6600, just has 1/2 the mhz.
It makes almost no heat, runs dead quiet,is server grade dependable and it's cheap to build.
I have built two of these, one I sold to a member and one I have running in my unairconditionaed office.
I stuck a 36 gig raptor I had sitting around in it for the OS and I doubt I'll have to touch it for months if at all.
I use this on the WCG(World Community Grid) that does aids and cancer research amongst others.
If you want to make a positive contribution then this is a way that is doable.
Hixie here at the forum has started an account at WCG in Youngpro's name.
You can contact either he or I, or actually anyone in the WCG section if you have questions.
Thanks for reading.
Dave
Edit:
Here's a pic of the system. I call it 'Sammy" ..
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...5&postcount=24
The cpu's are technically Sossaman's so Sammy Sossa the baseball player came to mind.