Decent cruncher for little money from Dull

[Yomama]

Sorry if this is slightly off topic, but I saw this on www.techbargains.com, and wanted to make all performance crunchers aware of this deal .

Anyone who can afford it will get a 3hr/wu machine (according to benchmarks) for $618+tx - NO Shipping

This deal is at Dell Small Business:

Dell Dimension 8200 P4 2.40GHz, 256MB PC800 RDRAM System for $618 Shipped (after 10% coupon & rebate)!

Click Desktops, Dimension, Featured Systems under 8200, Customize the one for $909. Leave everything, Continue, Add to Cart. Apply the 10% coupon code..... for 10% off.

Total: $909 -$90.90 (coupon) -$200 (rebate) =$618.10 + FREE Shipping!


Here is what this system includes:

Dell Dimension 8200 Series: Pentium® 4 Processor at 2.40GHz with 533MHz system bus/ 512K L2 Cache DS824B [220-9707]
Memory: 256MB PC800 RDRAM 256M82 [311-1770]
Keyboard: Dell® Quietkey® Keyboard QK [310-1582]
Monitor: No Monitor N [320-3000]
Video Card: New 64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce4™ MX Graphics Card with TV-Out 64NV420 [320-0440]
Hard Drive: 40GB Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive 40 [340-3615]
Floppy Drive: 3.5 in Floppy Drive 3 [340-1927]
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition WHXP [313-7222] [412-0189] [420-3079]
Mouse: Dell® 2-button scroll mouse SM [310-1871]
Broadband Ready/ Ethernet Network Card: 10/100 PCI Fast Ethernet NIC CNET [430-5353]
Modem: No Modem Requested N [313-3607]
CD or DVD Drive: 48x Max CD-ROM Drive CD48 [313-2561]
Sound Card: Integrated Audio with Soundblaster Pro/16 Compatibility IS [313-2758]
Speakers: No Speaker Option N [313-4514]
Productivity Software: Microsoft® Office XP Small Business¹² XPSB [412-1200]
Virus Protection: Norton AntiVirus™ 2002, 90-day introductory offer NAV2002 [412-0259]
Digital Photography: Dell Picture Studio, Image Expert Standard DPS [412-0271] [412-0273]
Limited Warranty, Services and Support Options: 1 Year Limited Warranty plus 1 Year On-site Service B111YOS [950-1230] [950-9797]
Internet Access Service: 6 Months AOL,Featuring the Netbusiness Service for Small Business AOLSMB [412-0280]
Mail-In Rebate Offer: $200 Mail In Rebate (Free Memory Upgrade Offer not available) REBATE [461-5534]

For another $90 ((80+20)-10% you can add a GF4 4200 and 4 port PCI 2.0.

I have several machines (o/c and plain) but I could not resist...

Yo

[JigPu]

That's some value!!! I don't think I've ever seen something that cheap that boasts so many WUs!! If I had a spare 600 lying around, I'd definatly get this!

(actually, I'd probably do something else with the money, but you get the idea :D)

Looks like the good folks at Dell can make a descent cheap pooter!

JigPu

[Yomama]

Originally posted by JigPu
That's some value!!! I don't think I've ever seen something that cheap that boasts so many WUs!! If I had a spare 600 lying around, I'd definatly get this!

(actually, I'd probably do something else with the money, but you get the idea :D)

Looks like the good folks at Dell can make a descent cheap pooter!

JigPu

Yeah I think parts and software alone if bought separately would be around $1200.

Yo

[Demont]

you could get a couple stripped down AMD systems for that much though. its a good deal for what it is, but it has lots of unneccesary crap, at least, for a seti cruncher that is.

[Yomama]

Originally posted by Demont
you could get a couple stripped down AMD systems for that much though. its a good deal for what it is, but it has lots of unneccesary crap, at least, for a seti cruncher that is.

Only if you define "Seti cruncher" as a bare bones system that does nothing but crunch... :)

[TC]

Originally posted by Yomama


Only if you define "Seti cruncher" as a bare bones system that does nothing but crunch... :) I could add about 5 "computers" to my seti cluster for that kind of money, but of course yes it's a nice deal for what you get.

[Yomama]

Is there a comprehensive instruction set somwhere about how to build one of them clusters ??

Thanks

Yo

[TC]

Originally posted by Yomama
Is there a comprehensive instruction set somwhere about how to build one of them clusters ??

Thanks

Yo You betcha - our very own team instructions right here:

http://www.ocsetiteam.com/index.php?targetframe=/other/cluster.htm