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Message 14197 - Posted: 3 Dec 2007, 23:59:45 UTC

Please read this entire message before posting.

Goal: Run BOINC as efficiently as possible to get the most speed for the money - the initial purchase price and the price of ownership, such as power requirements.

Post your best criteria to determine the best value of computer parts. My criteria, so far, are CPU wattage and CPU speed per dollar.

By CPU speed, I mean the CPU features that are most common to all BOINC projects, not just one CPU feature for one project.

When replying, please make your post relevant to the goal I outlined in this post. Your post must help people to make the best purchasing decisions for running BOINC as cheaply as possible. Again, I have no specific BOINC projects in mind.

Your post should apply to as many projects as possible (lowest common denomination of features), and apply to as many people as possible, not just techno-geeks with supercomputers in their basements.

If you post something technical, make sure it's actionable information for the buyer.

If you post an acronym such as FPU, spell it out as FPU (Floating Point Unit) once and explain to the buyer how to look for that feature in a CPU.

If you say MHz is misleading, tell us what else we should look for in a CPU that would apply to as many BOINC projects as possible.

If you say a bigger cache is better, tell us the best size for the dollar to be affective to as many BOINC projects as possible.

Please don't post a negative message without also posting a positive, results-oriented message that's useful for the buyer.

I hope this message and the replies to it will encourage the purchase of more computers for running BOINC projects.

Thank you.
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