Are these worth using

Boycie

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Hi Guys,

I've got my hands on 2 Dell Poweredge 1U rackmounted servers running 2 L5410 Xeon's in each (8 cores per server) and 8GB of ram in each.

They will be used first for a big video encoding job for the father-in-law but then I really dont have any use for them.

Work have very kindly allowed me to host them in one of our comms rooms hooked up to a broadband connection if I wanted. Question is are they worth folding with?

Cheers
B
 
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well that's interesting...........i may not make sense i am thinking out loud............
two L5410 old tek 2core duo........at 2300mhz.........= 8 core = 25000PPD.........my old AMD 8150 = 8 core at 4300mhz=1300PPD.........so intel 8 X 2300mhz = 18400mhz......... AMD 4300mhz x8 = 34400 that makes the old intel over 3 times better at folding than the much newer AMD

happy i have a new i7 2700k ........still in its box
 
the bonus comes from the multithreading multi cpu part the L5410s are real 4cores per cpu and much more cache than the AMD, even though they do spec well having run f@h on some E5420s i find the PPD is more around 20k rather than 25k.

Remember that the L5410s are server grade cpus and are built to crunch data the technology feeds through to the consumer CPU but takes time before the investment is paid off and the technology passed down.
 
Those chips are amazing - the L must be low power because they're essentially 2.33 GHz socket 771 versions of the Q9x50 but consume half the power (50W v 95W TDP)! Comparison.

They're well worth using considering the points/W alone.
 
Hi Guys,

Just an update I've ditched the two Poweredge boxes, they were CS23-SH's if anyone is interested and swapped the RAM and CPU's into two HP DL360 G5's that I acquired. Currently got them sat in my loft while I'm doing a video encoding job for the Father in Law, the Dell's were silly noisy and drew more power than the DL360's must be all the fans?

So i've currently got 1 of the DL360's running enigma@home to help with DC Vault and the other is going to be powered on today... Hopefully. I was originally going to use 4 of the Dells but as I haven't got them into work yet they are sat having a quite moment.

In total theres 2 DL360's with 2 L5410's each and 8 gigs of RAM each. Then 4 Dell CS23-SH's all with the same spec as the HP's except one that has 2 5150's in it

Here's a link to my Lack Rack build thread in case anyone is interested:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18495550

Thanks
B
 
The DL360's are very quiet, even on full load the fans don't go above 37% I can comfortably work in my office with one running. The Dells on the other hand on boot are louder than my dyson, they do quieten down but not by much and the vibration from the fans is appalling.

I realise that using rackmount equipment is not the most efficient way of doing things but they were extremely cheap and the lack rack was something tht I had been wanting to do for a while. I imagine that once I've finished encoding all these DVDs ill move them on and get something a little cheaper to run with a higher initial cost considering when both DL360s are running they draw 500w on full load.

Thanks
B
 
Finally got folding working, think I was just being a bit impatient and not reading the logs properly. I'm currently using the FAH GPU tracker v2 is this the best standalone client to be using? Currently getting 13000ppd a piece on the dl360s and I've got an i3-2100 doing 5000ppd does this sound about right?

Thanks
B
 
Right im running 7.1.52 standalone with HFM.net for monitoring remotely currently giving me around 12700 ppd on both. Is this the best setup? Also the config is pretty much standard I've only added details for username, team and remote access is there anything else that needs to go in there? Presumably to run on startup I just create a shortcut in startup program's?

Thanks
B
 
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