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    £250 Quad Core PC...

    Found this on scan:

    Case (inc PSU) - Asus TM982 Black MicroATX Case with 400w aPFC PSU £27.50 £32.31
    CPU (includes heatsink) - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 SLACR, Kentsfield Core, Socket 775, 2.40 GHz 1066MHz 8MB Cache, Retail £99.49 £116.90
    RAM - 2GB Dane-Elec Celenade Major, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 6, Retail £18.99 £22.31
    Motherboard (with VGA, Sound etc on board) - Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L iG31 Express, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, uATX, VGA £31.00 £36.43
    HD (sata) - 160 GB Maxtor STM3160211/15AS DiamondMax 20, SATA II, 7200 rpm, 2MB Cache, 9 ms £21.33 £25.06
    DVDRW (sata) - Samsung TS-H653N 20x DVD±R, 8x DVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, x12 DVD-RAM SATA Lightscribe Black OEM £12.49 £14.68

    You could get this cheaper if you went for a smaller HD or if you used a HD or DVD drive you already had. Although I'd be tempted to spend about £10 more on ram and get 2x1gb Corsair or similar for dual channel. You should also be able to O/C to 3ghz with just the stock cooler.

    Would make a great folding at home machine

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    Re: £250 Quad Core PC...

    Quote Originally Posted by joshwa View Post
    Found this on scan:

    Case (inc PSU) - Asus TM982 Black MicroATX Case with 400w aPFC PSU £27.50 £32.31
    CPU (includes heatsink) - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 SLACR, Kentsfield Core, Socket 775, 2.40 GHz 1066MHz 8MB Cache, Retail £99.49 £116.90
    RAM - 2GB Dane-Elec Celenade Major, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 6, Retail £18.99 £22.31
    Motherboard (with VGA, Sound etc on board) - Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L iG31 Express, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, uATX, VGA £31.00 £36.43
    HD (sata) - 160 GB Maxtor STM3160211/15AS DiamondMax 20, SATA II, 7200 rpm, 2MB Cache, 9 ms £21.33 £25.06
    DVDRW (sata) - Samsung TS-H653N 20x DVD±R, 8x DVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, x12 DVD-RAM SATA Lightscribe Black OEM £12.49 £14.68

    You could get this cheaper if you went for a smaller HD or if you used a HD or DVD drive you already had. Although I'd be tempted to spend about £10 more on ram and get 2x1gb Corsair or similar for dual channel. You should also be able to O/C to 3ghz with just the stock cooler.

    Would make a great folding at home machine
    Not overclocking with that board!

    Be better with an e2180 and an 8800gt

    It's 4.98*

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    Re: £250 Quad Core PC...

    Very nice

    Add a £15 Freezer Pro, clock it to 3.4GHz and watch those WU's roll in!

    Hmm maybe some ear defenders as well?
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    Re: £250 Quad Core PC...

    Quote Originally Posted by PeterStoba View Post
    Not overclocking with that board!

    Be better with an e2180 and an 8800gt
    How much would that cost?
    I've got a Gigabyte motherboard (G33?) overclocks fine to 3ghz

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    Re: £250 Quad Core PC...

    I've had a similiar board in another machine and it's options were very low

    It's 4.98*

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    Re: £250 Quad Core PC...

    Yup gpu folding > smp folding and you can game on it too
    e2180 is about £25 second hand, 8800gt is about £80

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    Re: £250 Quad Core PC...

    Quote Originally Posted by SiM View Post
    Yup gpu folding > smp folding and you can game on it too
    e2180 is about £25 second hand, 8800gt is about £80
    What's the PPD on a 8800GT?
    My 9450 @ 2.66GHz is running 2300-2800ppd with the right WU's if I run 2xSMP.
    A clocked q6600 should push 3000+.

    2 things I've been wondering about GPU folding:
    Are GPU's geared for prolonged operation at 100% usage?
    What's more power efficient, CPU or GPU folding?

    Besides all this it proves £250-300 buys a damn fine folding beast regardless of methodology!
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    Re: £250 Quad Core PC...

    8800gt gets up to 5000 ppd plus you can probably get 1000 from the cpu when clocked

    http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=3193

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    Re: £250 Quad Core PC...

    Its an ideal build for a childs first computer.

    Not to bad starting point either if you just want a half decent build, stick a GeForce 9800 GTX+ in there and a TFT screen. If you don't want to overclock (I'm one of those people) it could turn out to be a nice system that will run everything that you throw at it at present.

    For what I have added it will cost around the £600 mark and you have a full build.

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