Mini Crack Box Advice and Help Neded

[Jimbo]

In my travels I have acquired a BP-6, Two S370 Alphas, a spare ATX case, a 6.4 GB Seagate HDD, a floppy, 64 MB stick of SDRAM, a NIC card and even a cheesy Tsing Labs 4 MB video card.
I only need the CPUs.
What do you guys recommend for turning this into a dedicated RC5 box that wil put out the maximum amount of work if left on 24/7 with nothing else running on it?
Will I get more keys/second if I am running Linux as opposed to NT4?
Are the new Celeron IIs (I'm thinking 566 @ 850)worth the price and effort? If I use the adaptor does that affect stability?
Is anybody out there actually doing this set-up right now?
I want to contribute a bit more to the team. Right now I only have my daughters machine (P-III 667), my main machine (P-III650@936), My work Machine (P-III 800) and the Ex-Wife's Celeron (366@550). All of these are on 24/7. Yes and I still need MORE Work Units!

Jimbo

 

[Wolfie]

Jimbo. I would run linux on that thing. That would be a good linux box. You plan on getting rid of it? I know someone that would like to have it.

Wolf

 

[UmbrAC]

Well unless things have changed within the last week. The BP6 cannot use the flipchip celerons in smp ( no matter what adapter or hack that you use). So you are stuck with a ppga celeron for now, which goes up to 533. But in general the limit for the overclock for that core seems to be around 600 or so.

Check out http://www.bp6.com

 

[mechBgon]

Furthermore, the Celeron2's themselves are reportedly not SMP-capable. How about getting some 433's and runing them at 75MHz for an easy 525MHz per CPU, or if you feel like playing Celeron Roulette, you could pick up some 366's and try for 550MHz. With Alphas, you have the cooling for it... and you can lap the Celerons if you want, it is actually easy and not that risky, and it will help the thermal transfer from CPU to heatsink. The worst risk in my mind is the risk of bending/breaking a pin. A word of advice: I don't plug my Alphas into the motherboard because the fans draw so much power. If you don't want to get 3-pin<>4-pin adapters, at least make sure to plug them into different headers instead of using a Y-splitter.

 

[Jimbo]

Thanks for the help people.
In light of the limitations I'm facing with this setup it is probibly time to sell the board and leave the rest of the parts on the shelf for now.
Next stop For Sale/Trade
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=45&amp;threadid=196062


Jimbo

 

[Mandrill]

you guys are killin me! hehe All these great deals and I am always at work when they go down

 

[Jimbo]

This appears to be sold for 75 BIG ONES!
Maybe the new owner will be able to do some RC5 love on it, hopefully for OUR TEAM.
It was a cool RC5 fantasy if things would have worked out.