FAH Long...ish range PARP to Shady

[dunc]

Figured I would give Shady a bit of advance warning of his inevitable stompage

Kinda a cool, and yet 'tinged with sadness' moment that I am PARPing Shady. He was a benchmark for crazy home farming in his day. I looked up to his dedication to the cause, especially in the seti classic days.

Oh well, get your stuff packed S'ah as I am a coming through

Dunc

 

[Stan_Lite]

I must confess to having similar emotions when I barged my way past him - a legend within team OcUK

Nevertheless - STOMP THE SLACKER

Stan

 

[shadyseti]

Just shows how fast things have changed since I had the farm running!! I might be staying in one place long enough to set up a vegetable patch later in the year!!!

Good to see that the team is still going strong and I encourage as many people as possible to try and stomp me as its all for the good of the team.

I still have quite a few socket A AGP machines gather dust in someones loft that might be worth getting 1950 pro's for eventually as I assume that when running the graphics client the processor does not effect the speed very much ?

Shady

 

[Stan_Lite]

I still have quite a few socket A AGP machines gather dust in someones loft that might be worth getting 1950 pro's for eventually as I assume that when running the graphics client the processor does not effect the speed very much ?

Shady

I don't think it makes a huge difference but I'll find out when I get back home in three weeks or so - you've put the idea into my head now and I might get some decent output from that old XP1700 yet (I was planning to retire it but if the 1950 gives it a new lease of life, I might just spare it).

Stan

 

[rich99million]

odd - thought I'd replied to this thread already
Stomp the slac.... oh there he is

The CPU doesn't matter at all really - apparently a 500MHz CPU could keep the GPU fed with what it needs as long as it has 100% of a CPU it could be downclocked and undervolted as much as possible to save heat/power issues.
The XP1700s would be ideal since they were designed to be low power anyway IIRC - hence having so much headroom

I also don't think that 4x/8x AGP makes much difference to folding on GPU though I'll try to find more data to back that up.

 

[shadyseti]

The CPU doesn't matter at all really - apparently a 500MHz CPU could keep the GPU fed with what it needs as long as it has 100% of a CPU it could be downclocked and undervolted as much as possible to save heat/power issues.
The XP1700s would be ideal since they were designed to be low power anyway IIRC - hence having so much headroom

I also don't think that 4x/8x AGP makes much difference to folding on GPU though I'll try to find more data to back that up.

Thats what I was thinking , I know I have some 1.4 durons that can be underclocked and undervolted and as I already have the motherboards, processors , ram , psu and hard drives , getting a batch of 1950 pro's would probably make more sense than buying one or two new conroe machines.

Shady

 

[Stan_Lite]

Hmmm.

It's a pity there isn't a Linux GPU client. I have a stock of old K6s and P3s kicking about and also some RAM that I could get cheap mobos and 1950s for but I'm not buying Windows XP for them all.

Stan

 

[dunc]

And STOMPIO!!!!

Dunc

 

[rich99million]

Congrats Dunc


With reference to Shady's possible GPU based farm it's probably best holding off until the changes to the points system which will be coming with v6 of the client have been announced - http://forum.folding-community.org/ftopic18095.html