So, I have a friend that works in IT at UVA Medical Center and they're throwing out a bunch of Dell Desktops.
The sticker says Core i5 Windows 7 Professional. He said he could grab like 5 of them for me.
I didn't have time to check the model but the case is relatively small about 6-7 inches wide.
What is the best case scenario as far as CPU? I wanna salvage a decent i5 because I have an FX-6300 right now and single core blows.
Think it may be a 4590?
>>54954263
Probably sandy or ivy bridge at best.
Nobody is going to throw out haslel.
>>54954263
>memePad
>beats
No wonder you live in poverty. You should probably take that pistol and become an hero.
>>54954382
The MemePad was a gift, and those aren't beats, dickwad.
>>54954263
>He said he could grab like 5 of them for me.
Make a cluster computer
>>54954389
They're Bludio T2+
>>54954402
How does that even work? I'd assume it's problematic like crossfire or SLI.
Take the 5, sell them and upgrade your mobo and CPU.
>>54954263
Sell the parts and make a super rig from the money.
>>54954436
This is smart. I didn't think about that! I could sell the i5s and my FX-6300 and MoBo and get a nice CPU/MoBo.
>>54954418
No, as it actually works, but every one of the PCs has to be the same(I think), but it just links the CPUs like a dual socket motherboard, although there are some limitations
But I dunno
>>54954263
Is that a hi-point?
>>54954817
No it's a FAMAS.
Hard to say. The hospital I just did IT work at had I5-4690 on a LOT of their machines. More then likely it will be a Sandy Bridge i5.
>>54954817
Lel, yeah. It's a poorfag gun but it's built like a tank. I had to do a few small mods to it because it failed to feed occasionally at first.
>>54954837
Either would be better than my FX, though. Right?
>>54954418
>>54954473
clustering is nothing like SMP or SLI
all you need is a network and software like PVM or OpenMPI, doesn't matter for shit what the hardware is as long as your code parallelizes, will even work across different architectures