"franco" <fisley@carolina.rr.com> wrote in news:NtkFd.19070$dt3.1431506
@twister.southeast.rr.com:

thats inexpensive?
i think i could beat that...


franco 

I built a couple SETI-only units recently.  Nothing special, was bored and 
needed to actually complete a project (unlike what I to do for a living 
;-)). 'Twas therapeutic.

I'm using a PC Chips ECS M825G V9.2A microATX board, AMD XP2000+ CPU, CPU 
FAN is AMD, 256 MB Crucial DDR (PC2100) memory, Windows 2K Pro (SP4), 40 GB 
HD, video/ethernet adapter/audio are all embedded, cheap but well 
ventillated case (ATHENATECH|A100BB.200), Outpost (Free) Firewall and a 
corporate version of an antivirus program.  All for around $250-350 USD new 
(without the OS). Have two of these running 24/7.  All fancy M$ display 
stuff is disabled.  No monitors, using UltraVNC. Hooked up CD-ROM only for 
cloning the OS. 

Each does about 40 a week, probably faster if you use a faster CPU and 
overclock (board allows some) and use Linux.

Dr.Mike
SETI@home member since	23 Aug 1999
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