jeffg Posted September 28, 2004 Posted September 28, 2004 Well, I have gone nuts this year, building new machines. I kept my old dual 550 celeron for 5 years. But, after Christmas, I have built one after another. A couple of weeks ago, I found my old case, complete with psu and drives, missing only the motherboard, cpu and ram. And yea, the first thing I thought of was folding. So, I went to newegg, yet again. I picked up a refurbished motherboard and a new Sempron 2200 processor. So, I got my new toys in the mail yesterday and couldn't wait to play. I was anxious to see what the Sempron would do. It's a Thoroughbred core, stock is 1.5Ghz, 1.6volts, 166x9. I was thinkin it would be a good overclocker. I was right, well, except that the multi is locked at 9! I pushed it to 225 FSB with no voltage increase. I had it up around 234, but my mobo and ram can't handle that. I ran Prime95 for 4 hours and its been folding since then. I'm getting just over 2GHz, from a $49 processor, not bad at all. It's overclocked 35% higher than stock speed, at stock voltage. I'm impressed. (The Sempron didnt work at all in my refurbed Biostar M7NCG Pro mobo. I put in a Shuttle AN35N Ultra, and the Shuttle didn't like it either, at first.) My problem was, I had no monitor, keyboard or mouse. I do have extra harddrives, network cards and cables. I didnt want to buy (another) kvm switch. So, I Googled and found plenty of info regarding 'headless servers' or no monitor. All I did was; load Win2000 on the new machine, set the bios to "Halt On - NO ERRORS' at startup, and installed VNC (for free). I connected that machine to my WinXP machine via crossover cable and setup internet sharing, loaded VNC viewer onto the XP machine. Then, disconnected everything but the power cord and network cable, and it works. VNC allows me to completely control the folding machine remotely, while Windows running. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stachman31 Posted September 28, 2004 Posted September 28, 2004 Very interesting. I am sure a lot of people here might benefit from your finding. I had bought a kvm $20 and a used 17" $42. If I would have know this was possible, then I could have used that extra $62 to buy some more ram or something. Good find!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
road-runner Posted September 28, 2004 Posted September 28, 2004 Well its not much but I just added the other P2 Compaq 450mhz it may help a little Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemo Posted September 28, 2004 Posted September 28, 2004 I finally got rid of the PIII 866MHz machine at the client site where I work and replaced it with a P4 2.8GHz. The first thing I did after the installer left my desk was load folding on it! JeffG - that's a great idea. I have more rigs folding than I have KVM ports now, so I've been running some rigs with no monitor or keyboard. I always set them up to not halt on errors. Guess I need to take the time to load up terminal servies or VNC. Also have a dual Opteron 240 in the works. May take me a couple of weeks to e-bay everything I need. I've got the CPUs, one stick of RAM, motherboard (courtesy of ZipZoomFly) and bids out on more RAm and a couple of SATA drives. Stay tuned for more details. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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