Want pair Pentium III Tualatin-S 1.4GHz

drasnordrasnor Starship OperatorHawthorne, CA Icrontian
edited March 2005 in Trading Post
Anyone got a pair to spare? I really don't want to shell out full retail price for these, so I'm looking for a pair of used processors for some dual PIII action in my new workstation.

Alternatively, if you don't have any but know someone that knows someone else that works for a company about to retire some PIII servers, can I have a hook-up? :D

-drasnor :fold:

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  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited February 2005
    I just looked at e-gay, and they had 1 offering selling a pair of them (oem) for $319 in bidding and $325 with "Buy it Now". I don't know if that's much lower than retail though.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    Retail is ~ $250/chip
    Ebay is ~ $160/chip

    I was kinda hoping for somewhere in the ballpark of $100/chip.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited February 2005
    Good luck finding them that cheap. I've never seen the price on either the 1.26 or 1.4 server chips get anywhere's near that kind of pricing.

    I also looked on pricewatch and starmicro has oem 1.4's for $150 shipped too. That's about the best price I've ever seen on the 1.4S.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    I know. Sigh, maybe I'll be able to talk myself up another $50.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited February 2005
    Yeah, those P3S procs were great procs in their day and will still make a nice comp, but they were just too pricey. The 1.26S I used to have was able to do over 1700 MHz when on a 120 watt pelt and watercooling.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    I just bought four at $140 ea. $40 more per proc than I was hoping for, but still significantly less than the going rate for the things.

    Anybody higher in the FAH rankings needs to ph34r, because all four are going straight into Folding machines and displacing processors that are going into other Folding machines.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • AnimalAnimal
    edited March 2005
    you spent $560 on cpus just for folding rigs? Dedicatioin i suppose.....
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    -animal- wrote:
    you spent $560 on cpus just for folding rigs? Dedicatioin i suppose.....
    Not quite, I spent $560 on CPU's for my OpenMOSIX cluster which does encoding and finite element analysis work. Oh, it folds too ;D

    -drasnor :fold:
  • AnimalAnimal
    edited March 2005
    i was gonna say! What is OpenMOSIX? $560 is still a lot of cash which ever way you look at it...got anymore you don't need?
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    -animal- wrote:
    i was gonna say! What is OpenMOSIX? $560 is still a lot of cash which ever way you look at it...got anymore you don't need?
    No more money until payday and you can't have any :rarr:

    OpenMOSIX is clustering for the rest of us. An OpenMOSIX cluster behaves essentially like one big SMP machine; it migrates processes from nodes under high load to ones under low load. OpenMOSIX works with normal Linux software so you don't need to write cluster-specific code like with Beowulf (MPI) clusters. The usual SMP caveats apply: it won't auto-parallelize existing code so only SMP-aware applications really like it. Coding for it is as simple as just having your program spawn lots of child processes during execution.

    OpenMOSIX clusters lend themselves quite nicely to batch encoding where each node can work on a different file. They also do well in vector math with large matrices where each child process is a row operation (such as those commonly found in engineering analysis). They're not as fast as Beowulf clusters, but you don't have to code a lot of custom stuff to get an OpenMOSIX cluster to work.

    If you think this sounds cool you should give it a try: http://openmosix.sourceforge.net

    Gentoo users just need to type a couple of commands to install it on their machines.

    -drasnor :fold:
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