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 <br...@snaptek.com <mailto:br...@snaptek.com>> 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
        <bmi...@gmail.com <mailto:bmi...@gmail.com>
        <mailto:bmi...@gmail.com <mailto:bmi...@gmail.com>>> wrote:

            how do I get involved with this? Any pointers... how-tos?
            :-)~MIKE~(-:




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