"Apostolos" <am59@ath.forthnet.gr> wrote in message
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"ytrewq" <ytrewq@poiu.com> wrote in message

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I would give serious consideration to the following:
Intel P4 2.4GHz / 800 bus overclocked to slightly above 3GHz.. This CPU

has

hyperthreading enabled (appears as 2 CPU's to XP-Pro)
This is is easy overclock for this CPU on 865/875 motherboard (I have

used

Abit boards).
Use ($$) RAM that will run 1:1 @ overclocked FSB speed (I have used

Corsair

and Kingston). To save $$, use slightly slower RAM at 4/5 speed (set in
BIOS).
This will produce >16 WU/day.

Here  is what I bought:  Pentium 4 at 3.4 with asus raid 4c800  board
with multi raid function, 2 SATA 10k 74gig hard disks, 2 kingston 512
mb ram modules

My current home system an p4 3.3 (overcloacked) produces 13 to 14
wunits per day., which is current with what I have read about
hyperthreading (i.e 30% increase).  Have you heard otherwise  (60%)???

DVD burner - Plextor, Pioneer, Sony, LiteOn

waiting for a black one, plextor are white, looking:)

CPU cooler - I have had good performance w/Thermalright. For quiet, look

at

Zalman and watercooling (I am usoing a Corsair water unit on 1 box with
success).

zalman rox

Sound - built into mobo

yeah , with the asus mobo

Video - Saphire ATI 9600 or above w/HeatPipe cooling (no fan)

got a 9600 pro

LAN - built into mobo

yeap built in

Case - I am partial to Lian-Li 60/black, but there are many options

here.

You might also consider a Shuttle XP SFF (Small Form Factor, aka

"Shoebox")

system. I have SN75G with 865 chipset with heat-pipe video card, 200GB
7200RPM HDD, DVD burner that works fine.

I am an AMD fan, but with Hyperthreading, P4/800 is CPU of choice for

SETI,

IMO.

Thanks!

Sounds similar to my system (the essential bits):

Windows XP Pro
Intel P4 3.00GHz 800 FSB (no o/c yet )
ASUS P4P800 w/RAID 0
Twin 512MB Corsair XMS DDR 400
2x80GB Seagate SATA as RAID 0 160GB
ASUS Radeon 9600XT
Enermax 460W PSU
Lian-Li PC-61 case
Linksys 4-port cable router model: BEFSR41
USB 2.0 enclosure (WD 40GB 7200 IDE for backup)

My machine can do 2 wu's in 3 hrs. If I left the machine alone then it would
do 16 wu's pre day. However, I don't leave my baby alone! :)

I have a P3/450 that now does 1 wu in 9-13 hrs. compared to the 16 hrs. with
the GUI client. I was thinking of making a new system that I can afford,
like a 1.x GHz machine, and turning the P3 into a barebones.

Regardless, I calculate that in less than a year I will have reached 10,000
wu's. sweet, huh?  :)

-sweet
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