> A basic PC with a Celeron chip definitely seems to be best performance/$
> 400 MHz Celeron 140 k / $600 = 233 iters/sec/$
The dual-Celeron systems that Sam Simpson mentioned easily beat this.
A dual Celeron 466 should deliver about 300 k iterations/s and could cost
less than $800 (assuming minimal configuration -- no monitor, low-end
cards, etc -- and assembly by yourself). This translates to a
whopping 375 i/s/$.
The funny thing is that you'd still need 1000 of those babies to
deliver the 20000 points/day that we currently achieve. So, the
combined efforts of all ECDL participants is, in a way, equivalent to
$800000 of the cheapest possible commodity hardware available today.
(The actual cost of all the participants' hardware is certainly much
higher.) The mind boggles.
- Xavier Leroy
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