Is this machine going to be used for anything other than crunching?
What OS are you anticipating using? Win XP?
The "mainstream $$" HT (Hyper Threading) Pentium 4 CPU's will do more
WU/day/$ than Athlon because of their ability to do 2 WU (Work Units) at the
same time.
I have several 2.8-3.2  P4 machines that are each doing 16-20 WU/day.
Of course, my Pentium-M 1.7GHz notebook can do  >12/day......
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"franco" <fisley@carolina.rr.com> wrote in message
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like to know my fellow crunchers opinions and ideas on this subject
what is the most inexpensive but at the same time powerful cruncher....say
between 40 and 100 wu's a week?

tia

Franco