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I got a server but is it worth folding on it

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ok i god a dell poweredge 2650 for 50 bucks from csu and i orderd a 50GB hdd for it. i am wondering if it is worth folding on because how much power it takes.
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ok i god a dell poweredge 2650 for 50 bucks from csu and i orderd a 50GB hdd for it. i am wondering if it is worth folding on because how much power it takes.
can you give us the exact specs on it?
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well its got 2 x Xeon 2.4Ghz with HT 50gb hdd and 3gb of ddr ecc
Xeons are great for folding, they're especially good OC'd, but I'm not sure if you'd get that functionality on an OEM board.

How the hell did you get one for $50?
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well its got 2 x Xeon 2.4Ghz with HT 50gb hdd and 3gb of ddr ecc
Might as well try and see what PPD it pulls, a GPU [email protected] rig would be more power efficient but every bit counts.
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Xeons are great for folding, they're especially good OC'd, but I'm not sure if you'd get that functionality on an OEM board.

How the hell did you get one for $50?
Same place I got my dual Xeon server for $50, surplus at the University.
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csu (Colorado state university) gets rid of a lot of stuff every day at the csu surplus i could go and pick up 5 more of these serves if i had the cash and i would.
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Same place I got my dual Xeon server for $50, surplus at the University.
ya he got his the same day i did but he got one as is and he needs to put in a new psu but i got ming and it works because it was a dell he refused to git one that worked.
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Id say its definitely worth folding on. Since they are quad cores with HT, could you run a vmware with 16 CPU's(8 physical, 8 HT)? That would be some VERY quick ppd.
no they are not that new they are pent 4 xeon so its only 2 with ht
i will still try it never hearts to help people and especially because my uncle died from cancer. i would be folding on my hd 5770 but the program will not work on it its to new
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no they are not that new they are pent 4 xeon so its only 2 with ht

oh my fault. Well still 8 threads will be very quick. And for 50 bucks, easily the highest ppd/money folding rig.

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i will still try it never hearts to help people and especially because my uncle died from cancer. i would be folding on my hd 5770 but the program will not work on it its to new

Actually you can, i will list the steps:
Run the [email protected], you will get the error, DONT CLICK IT!
Go to your icon bar and right click on the [email protected] logo and click configure
Go to advanced and under the flags put: -forcegpu ati_r700
Click OK and restart the client.
Happy folding
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i say i will try its for a good reason especially because my uncle died from cancer i would be doing this with my hd 5770 but it will not work for it its to new and its not compatible with the program
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csu (Colorado state university) gets rid of a lot of stuff every day at the csu surplus i could go and pick up 5 more of these serves if i had the cash and i would.

Next time you see some stuff go up for cheap and you aren't planning on buying it, hit me up(I live down in Parker, Colorado) I might have to go pick some stuff up
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i say i will try its for a good reason especially because my uncle died from cancer i would be doing this with my hd 5770 but it will not work for it its to new and its not compatible with the program

It will work if you add the -forcegpu ati_r700 flag to the shortcut. :> That's how I got my 5850 folding.
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Next time you see some stuff go up for cheap and you aren't planning on buying it, hit me up(I live down in Parker, Colorado) I might have to go pick some stuff up


well there is plenty of stuff going for cheep right no there are like 5 more of those servers left for 50 bucks each
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How much PPD did people say those servers should pull? I might be able to convince my school to buy them all.
well it pulls 200 watts idle, or 600 under lode and it has hot swop pcu to
Wow my i7 rig uses less power.
lol i just signed up for my universities surplus dept. will c if i can find n e thing nice xD doubt it tho
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