Yeha, I was bored also and start on studying computers hardware, linux software and other complementary stuff. I am tired of passing for a very stupid guy concerning this computer thing.
I was bored, so I am builting a farm, with 3 computers with 14 cores and 3 GPUs, in about a week I will send all the pictures, I will detail it on the pictures that is what I am doing now, not time to make the usual posts with carefull graphics, I am preparing the detailed transformation, step by step.
Rocket computers with old and new stuff on the way
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You will see the Duke Offensive ... in a flash.
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Strange thing happened actually. I got it running and found a 2.2GHz CPU to replace the 2.0 GHz CPU. 10% faster, but the WUs completed 3% slower, even after going from 512MB RAM to 2GB. I need to look into it a bit more to see what's going on. Ordered a 2.8GHz CPU which should be on it's way, but coming from China so who knows when it'll arrive. Only $10 though so can't complain.
Enjoy reading your story here John.
I have discovered that reusing/rebuilding old computers can be quite fun because it gives us the chance to add newer technology to older problems.
Will start posting my computer rebuild stories soon!
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Was it the same "version" of P4? They changed the pipelines quite a bit on some of the revisions, so if it's a longer pipeline revision of the P4, that 10% MHz gain might have come at a 13% IPC cost, so your net was -3%. Not sure that would be the answer, but it's possible.
Yeah was the exact same kind of P4. The chipset only works with the P4s that have the 400MHz FSB. No wiggle room there at all.
Before:
P4 @ 2.0 GHz
30GB HDD
512MB RAM
200W PSU
Crunching power: 6.16 GFLOPS FP32
After:
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P4 @ 2.8 GHz
64GB SSD/FDM
2GB RAM
750W PSU
Crunching power: 277.62 GFLOPS FP32
Last edited by John P. Myers; 04-05-16 at 05:45 AM.