I just bought two HP DL 380 G5's for a project. Server cost was under $500 for 32GB RAM, two quad core XEON CPU's, and four 73GB SAS drives with hardware RAID in a 2U package. That's 8 real cores of processing for $300 and they were quiet, too - it didn't sound like a turbine engine like most servers. At this point, I would shop for 3 year old hardware coming off lease rather than building a cluster. Just a thought. Regards, George Toft On 3/19/2014 2:51 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > actually.... I have another use for the hardware if the bit coins > become worthless so I am not overly concerned. > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Brian Cluff > wrote: > > Look into ASIC based bitcoin mining it's way way way faster than > using standard computers to do the mining. > > That being said, I would wait a little while and see how bitcoin > plays out. It's on rocky ground right now and you might find that > you have purchased a bunch of hardware and burned a ton of > electricity to mine a bitcoin that turns out to be worthless. > > Brian > > > On 03/19/2014 02:35 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > > what I'm thinking of doing is buying a bunch of used computers and > turning them into a super-computer and using that for the bit-coin > mining. What is super-computerizing called? > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Michael Havens > > >> wrote: > > how do I get involved with this? Any pointers... how-tos? > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss