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Seeking The Best Performance per Watt for Folding@Home
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Our High-Performance Setup

Below you can see all systems we built to run Folding@Home. Please see previous page for a detailed explanation on consumption, cost and performance/score.

System #

CPU

Video Card

Motherboard

Memory

HDD

Power Supply

1

Core 2 Extreme QX 9650 (3 GHz)

None

MSI G31M3-F

2 GB DDR2-800 Kingston KVR800D2N6/1GB

160 GB

Antec EarthWatts 500 W

2

Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4 GHz)

XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX

Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R

4 GB DDR2-800 OCZ

200 GB

PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610

3

Phenom 9600

GeForce 9800 GT 1 GB

Sapphire PI-AM2RS780G

2 GB DDR2-800 Kingston KVR800D2N6/1GB

500 GB

Zalman ZM600-HP

4

Phenom 9700

Radeon HD 4870
Radeon HD 4850

ASUS M3A32-MVP

2 GB DDR2-800 Kingston KVR800D2N6/1GB

500 GB

OCZ ProXstream 1,000 W

5

Core 2 Extreme QX 9770 (3.2 GHz)

GeForce GTX 280
GeForce 8800 GT
GeForce 8800 GT

EVGA nForce 790i Ultra

2 GB DDR3-2000

500 GB

OCZ EliteXstream 1,000 W

6

Playstation 3

     

Now we are going to do a detailed analysis of our systems.

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