Two Fair 24/7 dedicated Folding Rigs coming very soon to team: 32

[DOCTOR EVIL]

I have 2 old systems in the works for dedicated 24/7 [email protected]! These two PCs will be on all the time because I don't care for them as much as my 2 precious Athlon XP super mega rigs that only Fold when I'm using them.

My Old spare Rig #1:

Main Processor and Mobo: An original Intel (no L2 cache) Celeron 300Mhz now @ 338Mhz (4.5X 75Mhz FSB) Slot 1 CPU w/ an adaquate HSF on a Rise baby-AT and Micro ATX Mobo with intel's old EX 66Mhz FSB chipset.

RAM: 2 32MB sticks of unknown PC66 SDRAM (64MB total)

Graphics Card: An old Real3D Starfighter PCI w/ intel 3d chip w/ 8MB Framebuffer and 24MB of onboard texture memory.

NIC: D-Link 10/100Base-TX PCI Fast Ethernet card

Drives: An old but still perfectly working WD Caviar 1.6GB FAT16
HDD. An old Lite-On 24X CD-ROM drive. One 3.5" Floppy drive of course.

Case and PS: An old beat up baby-AT case w/ 250W AT P8, P9 PS.

The O/S: Windows 98SE w/ all old and new security updates patches dled and [email protected] Windows Client Version 2.19 to be installed very soon.

I have a spare AT keyboard and a good PS/2 mouse to use with this system, but I have no spare CRT monitors laying around.

Spare Folding Rig# 2:

Main Processor and Mobo: An Unlocked Athlon T-Bird 900Mhz w/ 200Mhz FSB ocable to 1200Mhz or maybe higher at max V-Core settings and a good old FIC AZ11E VIA KT-133 Socket A mobo w/ great OCing features VIA dip-switches.

HSF: A Modified Antec Jet-Cool Priemium w/ a 60mm 7000RPM Cooler Master fan blowing hot air out, not sucking air in.

RAM: A 256MB stick of Corsair PC133 SDRAM CAS: 2-2-2

Graphics Card: I still need to buy a cheapo 4X AGP video card for this rig (Coming Soon).

NIC: Still need to buy one for this rig.

Drives: A Maxtor 4.3GB FAT32 5400RPM E-IDE HDD. A spare 32X CD-ROM drive and a 3.5" Floppy drive of course.

Case and PS: I Still need to buy both! Getting a good quality mini-ATX case with a good quality 300W PS soon.

The O/S: MS Windows XP Home w/ all security patches and updates already installed and activated on the Maxtor HDD listed above.

I have a spare PS/2 keyboard and a scroll mouse for this rig, but no spare CRT monitors laying around.

What do you guys think of these folding setups???

 

[David]

Looks nice

Should boost the stats a wee bit.
I should be getting a Duron 650 system up over the next few weeks.

 

[Jeff Bolton]

sounds good, but why don't you leave your other rigs folding 24/7? we could really use the extra WU's...and besides, if you are afraid of your computer crashing while you aren't there due to folding, you'll know the OC isn't very stable anyways but i'm sure you have your reasons,lol

jeff

 

[funnyperson1]

nice.. the Celly should pump out a WU or two every week while the Athy will pump out a LOT of WUs....like 5-10 a week (depending on which ones you get).....also newegg has a couple midtowers in the 40-50$ range they seemed pretty nice.....

 

[DOCTOR EVIL]

Thanks for the input guys! I got my old Celeron system up and running today since it was a complete system. I just needed to put it all back together again and install Windows 98SE, all the H/W device drivers, download all the Windows Updates from MS to keep the system a little more safe from internet threats, and finally I installed and setup the [email protected] Windows Client V2.19. It is Folding some kind of protienA right now and it has completed 2/100 Frames so far. Not bad for an orignal Celeron so far aye?

My planned Athlon T-bird dedicated folding rig will take a little longer to get up and running since it is an incomplete system that needs a few nonexpensive parts listed above. I will be getting all the things that I need this week coming up from CompUSA.

Stay tuned!
Mike