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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Walmart.com is offering the Optimus Zone 2 for $12.99 shipped to store right now. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Verizon-LG-Optimus-...p;wmlspartner=lw9MynSeamY
----------------------------------------Edit: specs link http://www.phonearena.com/phones/LG-Optimus-Zone-2_id8588     [Edit 1 times, last edit by Coleslaw at Jul 13, 2015 5:10:04 PM] |
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mymbtheduke
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I have been running an Odroid XU3 Lite for a couple months and its screaming thru work units. Just got the new XU4 for $75 and it is even faster. Plus it only takes 10 watts. 8 WUs at a time for 10 watts. The procs run at 1.4 and 1.8Ghz.
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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Family Dollar local ad has the ZTE Whirl 2 (dual core) advertised for $10 USD until end of the month. YMMV
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Former Member
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I found 2 LG Optimus Fuel phones (Dual core 1.2 with 512mb memory) at Family Dollar for $10 each.
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Win a Quantum Access Mini PC https://wn.nr/3Tx7H
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Still Alive
Advanced Cruncher Germany Joined: May 27, 2013 Post Count: 69 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hello mymbtheduke ,
----------------------------------------What kind of projects are running on your ODROID XU3 Lite and how long they need to about computation time? I'm just a ODROID to buy XU4.  AMD 3900X - 21 Threads @ 4,00 GHz - 24/7 Samsung Xcover4 - 4 Threads @ 1.43 Ghz - 24/7 |
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Eric_Kaiser
Veteran Cruncher Germany (Hessen) Joined: May 7, 2013 Post Count: 1047 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Within wcg you only have the choice to run oet or fah, where fah is close to the end.
----------------------------------------Runtimes vary in a broad range, from 30 minutes up to 12 hrs and sometimes more. Specially oet has longer runtimes on android.  |
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Coleslaw
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Family Dollar still has Whirl 2 and Optimus Fuels on sale. I saw that Dollar General in my area had both on sale for $10 as well. YMMV
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mymbtheduke
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Still Alive: I am running an XU4 and XU3 Lite. A7 procs generally take 8-10 hours and A15 procs take 5 -6 hours. Frankly, these little computers are screaming through the WUs. The $74 XU4 is a WCG dream. I wish more projects would run on it. I was running FAH and OET for awhile but now it is only OET. Still 8 procs at 1.3Ghz for 10 watts is really good. I also have 4 high end cell phones and two tablets crunching. So I am doing about 26 days per day.
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Still Alive
Advanced Cruncher Germany Joined: May 27, 2013 Post Count: 69 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks for the answer mymbtheduke.
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