yep intel are expensive, its not so much amazing cpu i want its just something half decent for devving (sick of 4-6hour+ compile times for android.) but i ideally need system to be pretty quiet (one i have at min is near enough silent once the hdds spin down)

Steve, do you think next week's MeeGo for N900 release would have some useful stuff for you? Both MeeGo and FroYo are using same kernel version (2.6.33).

I figure why not, since I'm not using them, and probably never will...
If you're willing to get a dual processor socket 771 motherboard (they cost ~$200 last time I checked), I have 2 (yes, two ) Quad Core Xeon processors, running at a speed of 2Ghz each... Forget i5's and i7's, when you can have make -j9.

I'll even throw in 4GB of FB-DIMMS... These things are cool running too... I used them with just a passive heatsink, no fans.

quite possibly yes if we have aworkign kernel their

much as would love to take a quad quad core theirs no way id be able to afford a dual s771 board at min lol

AMD coolNQuiet...its a feature pretty much every single AMD CPU has now a days...and they are pretty darn quiet! Lets just say, you can most probably get a quad amd for the price of a duo Intel...so, if you're budget is tight, go for a duo/tri core amd...really good, and you can overclock the hell out of them

But dude, thanks again for working on this! Once i get my money, ill shove some of into your paypal

yea C'n'Q is running on this sempron, this cpu is crazy though even on full load it NEVER EVER breaks ~40 degrees temps - my x2 runs at 40 idle lol

at min though if anyone can find any cheap duals id be interested to have a look (dont mind second hand either)

Well it would only require like 40 people to chip in 5 dollars, or 20 to chip in 10 dollars, and if we cant find that many people you would at least be helped ALOT on the way.

I'm willing to donate! And im turning my pennies these months, I'll just ask mom if I can please have some more money to help me, heck if she would chip and by me food even one time I can easily donate 10 dollars, maybe even more! IF you can get that double quad core rig!!

lol id happily go for said system but cheapest mobo i saw on ebay is £150