build me a bad a$$ cruncher 800-900 budget

[John P. Myers]

The only thing from AMD that'll beat an i7 is a dual Opteron. Plus it would be great for wuprop hours

[dave c]

the dual opteron is apealing and not bad money wise , have to see how my luck plays out the next few days , i may just end up with that quad opteron

[zombie67]

Do you care about power consumption? Dual amd will consume way more power than an i7, 2x-3x. Long term, that will cost more than you save on hardware purchase.

[dave c]

Do you care about power consumption? Dual amd will consume way more power than an i7, 2x-3x. Long term, that will cost more than you save on hardware purchase.

right no i dont power is free , but i may in the future , but the goal is buidl the most powerfull cruncher i can , i have so many ideas floating around in my head ( everythng form a rack full of xeons to the dual/quad opteron to maybe an fx packed with gpus ) i really need to price out all my options and figure out whats going to be the best bang for the buck

[Fire$torm]

right no i dont power is free , but i may in the future , but the goal is buidl the most powerfull cruncher i can , i have so many ideas floating around in my head ( everythng form a rack full of xeons to the dual/quad opteron to maybe an fx packed with gpus ) i really need to price out all my options and figure out whats going to be the best bang for the buck

Well, Zombie has a really good setup for CPU projects...

[dave c]

Well, Zombie has a really good setup for CPU projects...

build thread?

this is hard so many ways i could go with it , so far ive only managed to purchase water cooling for the current fx machine and a new mobo with multiple pcie 3.0 slots but no gpus yet, though i have been searching for a good deal on a dual or quad opteron , im going to take a look at some dual xeon options as well

[zombie67]

I use used mac minis with 8 thread i7s each. You can get them used for ~$600. They pull about 75w each. Each has a native BOINC client, as well as a windows and linux VM running BOINC as well. So they can crunch any CPU project. They also have either ATI or HD 4000 graphics chips that can also crunch.

[Fire$torm]

^^^ That is the most compact farm I've ever laid eyes on ^^^ Just wish they weren't i-puters.... (yes, I'm a hater)

[dave c]

^^^ That is the most compact farm I've ever laid eyes on ^^^ Just wish they weren't i-puters.... (yes, I'm a hater)

ever since i got my ihone threw work ive been an apple hater as well , but it actually looks like a decent option

[John P. Myers]

ever since i got my ihone threw work ive been an apple hater as well , but it actually looks like a decent option

You can get similar sized computers that aren't Apple. And of course the non-Apple ones offer faster processors with faster on-die graphics. Some may even have GPUs built in. I recall seeing a Zotac Zbox with a GT 640 and a Gigabyte Brix with a GTX 760.