Min specs for ECCP cow...

[caddmannq]

I don't do ECCP now, but I've got a couple old PCs that might work. I just don't know if it's worth it.

What's the practical minimun spec for such a machine?
What O/S is required?

It pains me to se 'em just sittin' there idle. ;)

[Herb]

I've a 200Ppro doing around 12 DP/s the day. What is worth, is to manage a herd of them:D
I'm cracking for www.romulus2.com , the majority here does for www.gmtachess.com , some others do for www.techimo.com ;)

Hurry up the contest may soon be over:D
http://webwi.de/eccp/eccp1.html

Forgot, there are all flavours of win-clients a linux client and a sparc source around

[caddmannq]

Hmmm...I've got sitting idle:
A Pentium 200
A Pentium Pro 180
A Pentium 150
A Pentium 133
Two Pentium 90s
three 486 Dx2 66s

But not a lotta ram in any of them, & only one spare monitor for the bunch.

[skuz]

At least a Pentium.

I ran ECCp for about 3 months on a DX4/100 with an amazing 40 DPs found. Not work keeping working.

[caddmannq]

What's a "DP"? :confused:

[Pshawn5]

a dp = distinguished points
those are what you turn in basically
umm you can run eccp on every windows platform i belive and linux too!
currently there isn't a mac client.

[RK]

The 486's and the P90 probably not worth the power bill. The PII's are worth giving a try :)

RK

[caddmannq]

Sorry, none of them are even PII's.

[cyclone2]

Its up to you you but all those together will not add up to much compared to the latest greatest and the latest greatest will consume the same power as only 1 of yours = not worth it in my bank acct. :(

[caddmannq]

I think that subconciously I knew that, which has kept me out of ECCP.

[Pshawn5]

maybe it's good for ud? *shrugs* maybe surreal could help u out on that :)

[caddmannq]

Hmm...I kinda assumed that the requirements were pretty much the same. Perhaps not. I'll look into it some more.

[Herb]

These old dogs will still perform good with RC5, as a choice:)