Folding PC

Revision as of 00:09, 13 February 2010

$500 Intel

Part	Model	Price	Case
CPU	Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600	309
Motherboard	Asus P5KPL-VM	83
RAM	1GB Corsair DDR2-667 kit	24
Hard Drive	Spare small hard drive, big enough for OS	-
Optical Drive	-	-
Graphics Card	Galaxy 9600 GSO	98
Sound Card	Onboard from motherboard	-
Case	Foxconn TSAA805	48
Power Supply	Included with Case	-
Cooling	-	-
Additional	-	-
Total Cost	-	464 + Postage

This machine is designed to pump out plenty of workunits for Team 24 for not a lot of cash. Since you don't need a huge hard drive for it (enough for OS and F@H is plenty), I've not included one (most of us will have a small spare, and there's threads in the Distributed Computing forum about cheap small hdds, hell, if you want, you could even set up an OS off a flash drive). Similarly, I've not included an optical drive, since all it'll need is a basic one to install the OS, which can afterwards be removed.

I'm considering adding an ATI video card to it, but I'll need confirmation on this (whether it's worthwhile building a Folding box with an Q6600 and an ATI video card or just buying a PS3).

Folding Hardware

CPU and GPU PPD - Please Update and correct PPD's if you Fold with any of the following.

CPU Clients: SMP (Average), NotFreds (Better), SMP2 A3 Core (Best)

GPU Clients: GPU2 (Standard),