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Default Best Bang For The Buck Folding Machines

In the spirit of the Overclock.net Community Folding Project, let's start the discussion about what type of setup will give the project the best bang for the buck.

We have a KVM at our disposal, so don't worry about factoring in a display. Running caseless is not really an option. Other than that, the sky is pretty much the limit
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The best bang for the buck for folding I would have to say is... the PS3

If not, a Q6600 and some other cheap parts...
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Ahh yes. Forgot the GPU folding

Ok so...

#1. PS3
#2. x1900 series
#3. Cheap quad core machine
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The best bang for buck? I would say a Xeon 3210 at ~3 ghz, on a fairly inexpensive motherboard with onboard sound with butt cheap ram and loading 64 bit linux from a flash drive. PSU can be a earthwatts, or virtually anything that's cheap.

I'm expecting no more than $400 for everything and it will pull more than twice the PPD of a PS3.
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The best bang for buck? I would say a Xeon 3210 at ~3 ghz, on a fairly inexpensive motherboard with onboard sound with butt cheap ram and loading 64 bit linux from a flash drive. PSU can be a earthwatts, or virtually anything that's cheap.

I'm expecting no more than $400 for everything and it will pull more than twice the PPD of a PS3.
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And points don't measure exactly how much folding gets done.
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I thought folding was for the benefit of helping cancer/disease research and protein folding/misfolding, not for points...
Well, it wasn't really specified, but yes if it's about curing cancer then it's no doubt four used 1950 pros in my case with a couple of opterons pulling in whatever they can via smp.

My system $1000 + four used GPUs $480-600.

PS3 is weak stuff compared to a ATI 1900 series GPU.

That will be the best use of $1600 possible. A dozen PS3's couldn't perform more raw calculations.

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with a q6600 or with a 3210 price with 3210 is 408.42
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what if we got some cheap quads (b3s used?) with some supported ATi cards to fold with...(I have a 9550 SE lying around (AGP) that I'd donate) these units could churn out some REALLY good ppd, @ a cool 3.3 GHz I turn out about 3000-3200 PPD (depends on assigned WUs, I have a B3) plus the additional GFX ppd would send this thing into orbit best way to build cheap units, skip the HD, use a USB thumbdrive with linux/windows preinstalled. Get about 1GB of RAM, no real need for anymore, cheap cases (maybe mod for airflow), and you can run them w/o a GFX card if you need...but SMP is where the points are.
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