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I bought 23 CPUs off craigslist for $20 for all of them, I've tested them and they all work. I bought them out of impulse because it was such an amazing deal. They are all (18)Pentium D's and (5)Pentium 4's. I now want to build a server or (not so super) super computer. But I don't know where to get started or how to do it. Anyone got any articles or how to's or anything on making one of these.

EDIT: I also bought 7 Intel Xeon W3503 for $20 from the same guy, anything I can do with those?

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Cluster them in webmin?

 

 

Or really just get a pentium G3258 or some AMD quad core which will smoke all of them combined

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Recycling will cost more than you paid to buy them after you find out they are useless.

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Alternatively, you could turn them into keyfobs...

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Just those Xeons take 130w each... Do you really want to build a supercomputer that will draw several kilowatts from the wall?

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The best your going to do with the W3503's is get a 4p board and possibly get those working, but by the time you do the money and time you put in could be better spent on actually decent hardware 

 

None of the CPU's you bought are great performers, especially today

 

The Xeons Perform almost 9x worse than a newer E3-1231 v3 

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I bought 23 CPUs off craigslist for $20 for all of them, I've tested them and they all work. I bought them out of impulse because it was such an amazing deal. They are all (18)Pentium D's and (5)Pentium 4's. I now want to build a server or (not so super) super computer. But I don't know where to get started or how to do it. Anyone got any articles or how to's or anything on making one of these.

EDIT: I also bought 7 Intel Xeon W3503 for $20 from the same guy, anything I can do with those?

make something cool out of them, their performance isn't worth it IMO

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1. Send those CPU's to @Tithonius

2. Buy some E5 2670 chips for under $100 each on ebay.

3. Make a badass dual-cpu system with 16 cores and 32 threads.

That will wipe the floor with just about anything for price/performance.

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Tape all Pentium D together and you can build yourself a fusion reactor! :P

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1: Buy an Athlon X4 860k

2: Have a better computer than all of those combined

3:...Profit?

You really are a stupid Tigger

Those 23 pentiums would beat an athlon x4 860k.

 

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i would love 18 pentium d's they all do 5ghz :P

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1. Send those CPU's to @Tithonius

2. Buy some E5 2670 chips for under $100 each on ebay.

3. Make a badass dual-cpu system with 16 cores and 32 threads.

That will wipe the floor with just about anything for price/performance.

 

I bought 23 CPUs off craigslist for $20 for all of them, I've tested them and they all work. I bought them out of impulse because it was such an amazing deal. They are all (18)Pentium D's and (5)Pentium 4's. I now want to build a server or (not so super) super computer. But I don't know where to get started or how to do it. Anyone got any articles or how to's or anything on making one of these.

EDIT: I also bought 7 Intel Xeon W3503 for $20 from the same guy, anything I can do with those?

 

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TDP != Power consumption.

The character you were looking for is: ≠

 

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@TheRandomness *Under full load :P It wouldn't be a good choice to build a supercomputer with those Xeons anyway...

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If you can get a mobo that'd survive, those Netburst Pentium are only good for overclocking records, they are too slow for anything else+lack multi processing support.

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Just so you know, != means "does not equal" as well...

I did not know this.

 

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I did not know this.

In a lot of the programming languages(C/C++, Java, javascript... all C syntax based languages in general + some others) it means not equals. 

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You really are a stupid Tigger

Those 23 pentiums would beat an athlon x4 860k.

 

Alright show me a 23p board jackass 

 

Do you actually fucking think I was serious? lol

 

Because I != serious ;)

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1: Buy an Athlon X4 860k

2: Have a better computer than all of those combined

3:...Profit?

Alright show me a 23p board jackass

You just said combined, doesn't matter if the board exists or not.

 

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