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Welcome to the story of the most powerful BOINC rig on this planet:
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Ok here are the specs:
 
Intel pentium M @1400Mhz (single core/32bit) OC to 1680Mhz
ATI Radeon 9000
512Mb DDR1 RAM (Upgraded to 1GB) 
CD/RW+DVD/R  
2xUSB 2.0
WLAN 802.11a/b (is dead)
 
Awesome so far, right?
 
Now let's see some closeups:
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Ok, some cool details about this beast: This was my work PC for over 5 years. Now we changed to Macs here at Work. As I got my Mac I bought this PC from my work  for 60€.  I also upgraded the RAM to 1(!)GB
I used it as Linux PC to try out my Linux knowledge and play around with it.
Was funny but now I've got an other PC for my Linux experiments.
So this PC was in the shelf for almost a year.
As I now started boincing (in the LTT team!!) I thought I could use this PC to boinc until… well it dies. I don´t need it anymore.
 
Let's get started:
 
Probably I could use Linux for BOINC. I tried to install Ubuntu 13.04 32bit. But: My CPU is not compatible to pea...

FAIL
Good old Windows XP: 
Do you remember the days when you got your OEM windows on a CD/DVD? Better than this silly restore partitions. So I installed windows XP and SP3+274(!) Updates+30Drivers.
I was not able to activate my WLAN card... It's dead.
But I found a old WLAN802.11b stick which came with my very first WLAN Router I ever bought (see the crack in the edge of the laptop and the display „assembly“? Sweet!).
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We have got a decent 12.5down/2up (MB/s) over WLAN ac here. With the stick it turns into 3down/0.5up. Anyways...enough for down and uploading some Work units.
 
 
I know what you are thinking: WTF? Is this guy a complete dumb? BOINC with an Pentium M@1,4Ghz...
NO! I'll overclock the SHIT out of this Machine! (Not really)
But this OC is a bit different. 
This  laptops BIOS has almost no options... I can't change my voltages or multipliers. But with ClockGen I am able to change the Clocks by OCing the FSB:

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Finally got around of an 20% boost of performance. Everting stable at 70-80°C running Prime.

When I try to reach higher clocks the system instantly freezes or BSOD. But I am pretty happy with a 20% OC without canging VCore and stuff.  
 
The cooling is ultra loud now so what do we do?

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A little bit dusty in here? No way!
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This is why I absolutely hate cheap WLP:
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After some Cleaning and Noctua NH-N1 we have around 62°C and a much lower fan noise.
 
So now this thing is running BOINC 24/7 but how long will it take to kill it? And which part is going to die first?
 
Taking bets below… who is correct about the part that fails first gets a cookie from me! 
 

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cookie!!!!, i think it will be the CPU dying.... but it will take 2 years or so....

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cookie!!!!, i think it will be the CPU dying.... but it will take 2 years or so....

Na… I am only doing BOINC on the CPU. The GPU is not supported by BOINC.

But if so you will get one!

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Na… I am only doing BOINC on the CPU. The GPU is not supported by BOINC.

But if so you will get one!

i will make you hold that promise :P

ITX Monster: CPU: I5 4690K GPU: MSI 970 4G Mobo: Asus Formula VI Impact RAM: Kingston 8 GB 1600MHz PSU: Corsair RM 650 SSD: Crucial MX100 512 GB HDD: laptop drive 1TB Keyboard: logitech G710+ Mouse: Steelseries Rival Monitor: LG IPS 23" Case: Corsair 250D Cooling: H100i

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Mobo, just have a feeling. Oh and 5 months until it happens

 

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If it isn't working absolutely perfectly, according to all your assumptions, it is broken.

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Mobo, just have a feeling. Oh and 5 months until it happens

 

i wasnt sure about the CPU or mobo first, we'lll see

ITX Monster: CPU: I5 4690K GPU: MSI 970 4G Mobo: Asus Formula VI Impact RAM: Kingston 8 GB 1600MHz PSU: Corsair RM 650 SSD: Crucial MX100 512 GB HDD: laptop drive 1TB Keyboard: logitech G710+ Mouse: Steelseries Rival Monitor: LG IPS 23" Case: Corsair 250D Cooling: H100i

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I see an iMac............................................

There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.

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I see an iMac............................................

Yap… it´s also Boincing. And my daily PC. But for gaming I have an PC. Don´t like Apple?

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I'm thinking the power brick will pop about 2 caps in a month.

Come fold while not gaming! http://linustechtips.com/main/forum/37-foldinghome-boinc-and-coin-mining/

Gaming Rig: i7-9700k 5GHz all core, GTX 1070, 16GB TridentZ, Buncha ssds...

Stream Machine: R7 1700, GTX 660 (lol), 16GB Corsair Somethingoranother, 120 GB SSD i've had since 2012. 

Mobile Workstation: MSI-ALPHA :R7 3750H, RX 5500M, 16GB of some ram, 500GB SSD.

 

 

 

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Cooling fan will die, whole system dies like the government.

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that overclocking method  :D  i used to do that when i had a laptop with single core centrino on it  ,just remove everything but cpu cooler and hdd overclock it more  :D

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that overclocking method :D i used to do that when i had a laptop with single core centrino on it ,just remove everything but cpu cooler and hdd overclock it more :D

What shall I remove?

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As I got my Mac I bought this PC from my work  for 60€.

 

What a rip-off :P...

BTW no driver for your WLAN-card that would amaze me... Can you give me the DEV_XXXX (Hardware ID) & VEN_XXXX (Vendor ID) from your WLAN-card?

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What a rip-off :P...

BTW no driver for your WLAN-card that would amaze me... Can you give me the DEV_XXXX (Hardware ID) & VEN_XXXX (Vendor ID) from your WLAN-card?

There are no VEN ore DEVICE numbers but:

Its a BCM 94306MP rev 4

And I do really think it broke... Even the bios says "unknown pci device"

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