New livestock for the farm - duel xeon

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Update on the farm and a bit of help needed to reach full potential.

Biggest 24h crunch yesterday at 1600+ points (average up to 1000 now :) )
been getting so many 56 pointers it's untrue, so theirs room for a higher max

in order of 'observered' crunching potential.

1x P4 1.7GHz / 512MB
1x P4 1.8GHz / 768MB
1x P4 2.0GHz / 512MB
1x P3 1.2GHz / 768MB (tualatin core oc to 1.5) :D
4x P4 2.7Ghz / 512MB
4x P4 3.0Ghz / 512MB
1x P4 3.2Ghz / 512MB

all the above are running well (most on 116 pointers :( )but I'm as yet unable to get the duel xeon server to crunch. could be a firewall issue, but don't know how to reconfigure it.

new rig - 805D on P5WD2 premium - I'll be happy with 3.6 but going for more
 
What's the FSB? When there are huuuuge Wus about you might find that running 4 processes can saturate the FSB trying to access main memory. At that point some systems can get laggy.
 
Keep an eye on it. At high CPU speeds my Xeon machine can get laggy with a 133MHz FSB when running 4 QMDs at 350 MiB physical memory and another 500 MiB virtual memory each.

It probably won't be a problem but you should be wary. :)
 
will do, thanks for the warning - gave the case a good hoover to - don't think it's ever run at 100% for more that an hour before but 'redundent' psu fan still not active so temps not that bad in case yet.
 
new rig up and running - in a rubbish old case (no fans except heatsink and PSU :o ) so as you can imagine I've not OC'ed yet in this heat.

Posted it's first WU this morning (9 hours crunch) and was half way through another WU on the other core :D
 
shadowscotland said:
new rig up and running - in a rubbish old case (no fans except heatsink and PSU :o ) so as you can imagine I've not OC'ed yet in this heat.

Posted it's first WU this morning (9 hours crunch) and was half way through another WU on the other core :D
how do they do at stock? just out of interest?
 
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