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Usually not, but some mad crunchers such as UL1 have something like 3-4 HD5000 series GPU's in his machines and are capable of doing in the region of 600k per day.. Per machine! :shock:
Although you can just imagine the electricity meter!
Take a look at these top hosts RAC (recent average credit):
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/top_hosts.php :!:
Although you can just imagine the electricity meter!
Take a look at these top hosts RAC (recent average credit):
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/top_hosts.php :!:
I doubt whether any of my rigs would rate as 'top' since the best of mine is no more than a desktop with a duo processor in it, and a HD4870. I have a couple of HD4870s and some HD4850s but mostly in crappy old PCs which I saved from landfill dumps because they had a PCI express slot.
Electricity costs are certainly a factor, but I've tried to crunch on a budget by managing to get hold of old PC's and investing in one or some ATI cards.
It was about this time last year that I figured out that if I had one PC with one ATI card I could get rid of all my other PCs, have reduced electricity cost, but still have the same credits as all those PCs. I would say that this still holds true, except that I kept getting another ATI card and started up another mothballed PC. And now I'm on a 100 million a year later after being on just 3 or 4 mill.
It's really doesn't take much to be a 'mega cruncher' and to help to haul this team up a bit higher
Electricity costs are certainly a factor, but I've tried to crunch on a budget by managing to get hold of old PC's and investing in one or some ATI cards.
It was about this time last year that I figured out that if I had one PC with one ATI card I could get rid of all my other PCs, have reduced electricity cost, but still have the same credits as all those PCs. I would say that this still holds true, except that I kept getting another ATI card and started up another mothballed PC. And now I'm on a 100 million a year later after being on just 3 or 4 mill.
It's really doesn't take much to be a 'mega cruncher' and to help to haul this team up a bit higher