On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 23:35:59 +0100, Barry Walsh
<bwalsh@SPAMMERSAREVERMINindigo.ie> wrote:

f/f george wrote:

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:12:35 +0100, Barry Walsh
<bwalsh@SPAMMERSAREVERMINindigo.ie> wrote:

f/f george wrote:

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:52:37 +0100, Barry Walsh
<bwalsh@SPAMMERSAREVERMINindigo.ie> wrote:

Patrick Vo wrote:

Does anyone know how fast the Athlon FX-53 would process a unit?  How about 
the Athlon 3800+.  Thanks for your help. 

My Athlon 64 3200 at 2.0GHz and socket 754 does a Classic unit in 90 to 
100 mins and a BOINC unit in 130 mins give a take a few either way. Both 
the FX-53 and 3800 should be about 15% - 20% faster.

My Classic is about 20 or so minutes slower, are you overlocking?
What MB are you using?

The motherboard's a Gigabyte K8NNXP with a nForce 3 150 chipset. I 
normally do run overclocked with the bus at 220MHz, the memory at 440MHz 
and the cpu at 2.2 GHz. I've been running like that for some time and 
now I can't remember if those times I quoted are pre-overclocking or 
not. Adding on 10% to account for the overclock puts them more or less 
on a par with yours, so I'd guess they're probably overclocked times.

Okay that works for me, I have a Soyo K8USA Dragon Ultra socket 754
motherboard with an ALi M1687/M1563 chipset, not overclocked. 
The memory is of course ddr 400mhz, 512meg.
I do have a slow hard drive in their right now so Classic and Boinc
will run on a faster one after I get it up and running the way I want
it to. I do have a 133 speed drive but not in their right now.
Eventually it will have 4 hard drives and 1 dvd/cd/r/rw drve.
It may have more hard drives later on but not in the near future. It
can handle up to 8 drives total with the SATA and Raid, not counting
the floppy.

Is that ALi chipset any good? I know it's really and AMD one that they 
bought, but I'm skeptical about them given their lack of new products 
are drivers.

I'm seriously tempted by a SATA raid array as well. Adding in two 250 
Gbs to give a quick half terabyte of space would be real welcome.

I have only had the system for about 3 weeks or so but have had NO
problems with it. I have NOT stressed it but it has been running
Classic since the day I brought it home, except for a short stint when
Boinc was working. I am still using my old machine but will probably
switch over this coming week.
I bought it barebones, case, mb, power supply, chip with fan, and
512meg memory for about $700.00.
I have all the other stuff laying around since I fix peoples computers
and they give me their old stuff.
As I said I do not overclock, but on the mb box it says it supports
overclocking.
The case I got has the 120mm fans, I only got one, in the rear and
will go back and get a front one soon. It is NOT overheating but I
think it is better to be safe than sorry. The 120mm fans are VERY
quiet!