Got a new dell for work today and it came with the super budget E2140 "pentium" class core. Basically a severely pwned C2D which gives each core 512k cache and runs at a meagre 1.6ghz (no overclocking possible here!)
I stuck SMP client on it last night to see how fast it could fold, it got a 2652 and is folding at a PPD of just over 400
I know these CPU's can OC a lot, there's many reviews where people have got a 100% speed increase to 3.2ghz+ with absolute ease, unfortunately I have not go this choice, so at stock this cpu is a very poor SMP folder unfortunately (from my single experience anyhoo)
As its going into the office today i have replaced win SMP with 2 standard clients which are both getting ~120PPD with 3403 WU's. Not sure how this compares but I guess the tiny cache and low stock speeds really kills this one off, i'd have liked to OC it just to see its potential with a higher clock but no tools i know of can seem to handle the custom dell motherboards (plus the cooling system in dell optiplexes uses 1 low RPM fan to cool the entire PC, the cpu and everything else)
*EDIT*
Also I am now monitoring the 2 clients via fahmon but very often i get one client go red and say it has "hung" when it obviously hasn't and the log below is still showing the steps etc. I am not sure whether it is how i have set the client, I set the client to write every 10 mins and set fahmon to update every 10 mins as well. (Don't know if this would help fahmons accuracy but whatever, it seemed neat at the time
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I stuck SMP client on it last night to see how fast it could fold, it got a 2652 and is folding at a PPD of just over 400
I know these CPU's can OC a lot, there's many reviews where people have got a 100% speed increase to 3.2ghz+ with absolute ease, unfortunately I have not go this choice, so at stock this cpu is a very poor SMP folder unfortunately (from my single experience anyhoo)
As its going into the office today i have replaced win SMP with 2 standard clients which are both getting ~120PPD with 3403 WU's. Not sure how this compares but I guess the tiny cache and low stock speeds really kills this one off, i'd have liked to OC it just to see its potential with a higher clock but no tools i know of can seem to handle the custom dell motherboards (plus the cooling system in dell optiplexes uses 1 low RPM fan to cool the entire PC, the cpu and everything else)
*EDIT*
Also I am now monitoring the 2 clients via fahmon but very often i get one client go red and say it has "hung" when it obviously hasn't and the log below is still showing the steps etc. I am not sure whether it is how i have set the client, I set the client to write every 10 mins and set fahmon to update every 10 mins as well. (Don't know if this would help fahmons accuracy but whatever, it seemed neat at the time
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