inexpensive computer source
1 Sep 2024 8:55:51 UTC
Topic 231453
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For all you crunchers that live not too far from a University do a search and see if they have regular surplus sales. I live within a reasonable once a month or so driving distance from Iowa State University. They have a regular surplus sale. I have purchased in ones and twos over time 6 Dell Desk top computers. They are all Intel i7’s. About 3/4 of them had 16GB of memory. I paid $50 each for them. I added some memory to bring them all up to 16GB. I removed the HD and installed a 240GB SSD. Since einstein@home is pretty much all they run they do well with this setup. I installed Linux then boinc and einstein@home. This gave me a lot of hardware for einstein@home without spending a fortune.
I live out in the sticks in a sea of corn and soybean fields. The wonderful small coop telephone company has run fiber to my house. I installed a low end commercial grade gigabit router / firewall and three 8 port gigabit switches and I am off and running. That gave me enough ports for the einstein@home computers plus all my and my wifes computers.
Stephen Hawkins
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Great idea thanks!!
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Nice work! Now if you could add a small used GPU to each one of your rigs (1060?1650?1660?) you could run the O3AS search and the BRP7 search too.
Hurray!
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Hurray!
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