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[H-kon]

Went to the local landfill here to get rid of a couple of really old and worn CRT's that couldn't even reproduce accurate color anymore and what did i find?

Socket 478 FIC VC37 produced for Medion. 845G chipset, integrated 8MB Intel VGA, LAN, Audio. No AGP.
One Pentium IV Williamette 1,5 Ghz,
Soundblaster Live 5.1 Digital,
Turtle Beach Vortex 2 soundcard
512MB DDR PC3200

Bought the cheapest case with an included PSU for it which was a Q-tec and replaced the cpu with one of my spares, a Celeron 2,66 (Northwood) and my last stick of DDR a 256MB upping it to 768MB.

One of the onboard IDE connectors has a broken pin, so i can only attach a disk drive and one optical unit to it, but other than that it is running great.

So now you decide what i should do with it

[Elf]

You tossed out a couple of CRT's and came home with a socket 478 board that works! I don't get that lucky.

With a Celeron 2.66 cpu you could run folding@home or seti with it.

What does Jette think you coming home with another computer?

[H-kon]

She just shakes her head usually when i bring something like that home. It has been a while since i got that lucky I think i'll take another trip tomorrow just to see what i can find. It does not seem like the landfill is a target for "junk computing" people hehe.

On second thought, the Celeron 2,66 is a Celeron D 330, but the motherboard think it's a regular Celeron.  I also have a regular P4 2.0 ghz and a regular Celeron 2,60 Ghz. Which one would be faster?  The board does not offer any overclocking options either.

One vote for folding/seti then

[H-kon]

It's running seti, although slowly. the lack of cache makes it a slow seti@home'er

It still boggles the mind though that people throw perfectly working computers out the door. I am glad i do not work at a computer recycling plant. i'd go nuts.

[Elf]

If the Celeron D 330 is been recognized as a Celeron 2.66 maybe there is a bios update for the board.
A Celeron D 330 runs at 2.66ghz, has a bus speed of 533mhz, 16k of L1 data cache and L2 cache 256k.
A "Northwood" Celeron 2.66ghz has a  bus speed of 400mhz, 8k of L1 data cache and L2 cache of 128k

According to this site Celeron 2.66ghz is slightly faster than a P4 2 ghz. So a Celeron D 330 would be faster again.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/common_cpus.html

Does Seti make use SSE3?

[H-kon]

Ooops. didn't see this one.

I came home with a complete computer, sans case and psu

My mom is actually using it now (bought a case for it)

Seti uses both sse 2, 3 and 4, 4,1. using the optimized clients posted in the boinc thread. My E8400 manages 2900+ credits a day where it on the standard x86 client would have returned around 1200 credits.

I never got the Celeron D to use its second core as i only seem to have 400fsb motherboards, but i installed into the computer my mom uses.

Anyone need a Northwood Celeron 2,2, Celeron 2,66 or a Pentium 4 2.0 (400 fsb). I'll ship them for free.

[Elf]

Anyone need a Northwood Celeron 2,2, Celeron 2,66 or a Pentium 4 2.0 (400 fsb). I'll ship them for free.

I have 3 socket 478 boards in my family. One with Pentium 4 2.0ghz and 2 with Pentium 4 1.6ghz. Putting faster chips in them will give them a boost.

Not sure of postage cost to Australia, if you can find someone closer than me that's ok. 

[H-kon]

Which of the chips would you like?

[Elf]

I'm guessing the Celeron chips run at 2.2ghz and 2.66ghz?

Edit: I just read your other thread, It looks like they do.

Do you want to move this discussion in the "My excess hardware pile" thread?

[H-kon]

2.6Ghz and 2.2, both 400 fsb models.

2,6 - Sl6VV -Costa Rica
2,2 - SL6SX - Philippines.

[Elf]

The chips I would like are (if you still have them):
Celeron 2.2ghz
Celeron 2.6ghz
Pentium 4 2.0ghz

Thanks

[H-kon]

The P4 2.0 is gone. Got the two others though.

PM the address these goes to and i'll send them over the weekend.

[H-kon]

Got the address.
I'm probably putting the cpu's in the mail tomorrow, just need to figure out what i need to do since it's exporting, and cpu's i believe has some special rules internationally.

[H-kon]

it's in the mail.

[Elf]

Thanks H-Kon.

I received a cpu from a friend in the usa no problems a few months back.

[H-kon]

I just dropped them in an envelope and sent them:) Hope they get there

[Elf]

I'm sure you wrote down the address correctly, they should get here. The cpu I got a few months back was in a small padded bag.

[H-kon]

I sandwiched both of the cpu's and put them in a padded envelope. Hope you get them soon

[Elf]

I finally remembered to check my po box and the cpu's where there.  Haven't tested them yet as the computers I was going to put them in are friends computers.

[H-kon]

Great I was worried customs had taken them They'll get a better home there than here.