F@H Cruncher Slug Out - Mk. II ** In Progress **

Joe42 said:
Total Price: price new or current value, entire system or cpu mem board?
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I suppose it would be most relevant to count just the purchase prices of the greasy bits, i.e. RAM, mobo, CPU, and PSU. Having a GPU setup worth thousands won't help you in this competition. Having a two TiB disk array might be sweet but it won't make FAH any quicker.
 
Gar I think I'm gonna have to build me one of these machines. I'm using my girlfriends AMD 3800 X2 (@2.5ghz) DDR500 OCZ Gold and I can't stop staring at CPU-Z :rolleyes:

Even Norton Internet Prohibitor 2006 is fast :eek:
 
Fair enough.

I've already added a column for L2 Cache, I'll add one for approximate cost for the "greasy bits" (nice term that :p ).
 
I thought there were others going to use two machines? If theres no one else i'll take one of the machines off. :p

specs

Name: CSO2_B0rked
CPU Type: dual Prestonia Xeons with Hyperthreading
CPU Speed: 2627 MHz (wont boot at 200 FSB unfortunatly :( )
L2 cache: 512 kiB
RAM Qty: 1024 MiB
Type: DDR400
RAM Speed: 205 MHz
RAM Timings: 2-3-3-5
Motherboard: Asus PCH-DL
Total Price: approx £270

Name: CSO2_B0rked_Again
CPU Type: AMD Athlon X2 4400
CPU Speed: 2310 mhz
L2 cache: 1024 kiB
RAM Qty: 2048 MiB
Type: DDR400
RAM Speed: 210 MHz
RAM Timings: 3-3-3-8
Motherboard: Asus A8N SLI Deluxe
Total Price: approx 700 GBP (CPU, MB, PSU, RAM)

I may get off to a slightly late start as im a folding noob and it may take some time to set up the machines. :)

Am i likely to be able to run 4 processes on the xeon with that amount of RAM? It will only be running XP at the same time.
 
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BillytheImpaler said:
Wait a minute. What am I missing here? It won't boot 200 MHz but it will boot 205 MHz?
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It wont boot at 200 FSB only 164

At the moment its running FSB:DRAM 4:5 so its running at 164 FSB and 205MHz. The 4:5 seems to be the default setting which i was always a little confused about but even when i had the RAM running at 166Mhz it wouldnt boot with an FSB higher than 164. Maybe im missing something drastic but i dont think so.
 
Ran dual prime on the 3800 for 4 hours with no problems - less than an hour running two folding clients, she packed up on me.

Just goes to show that Prime isn't as good a stability test as some people seem to think.

I've knocked it back to 2800, see how it gets on with that :(
 
Name: CSO2_duncandonuts
CPU Type: Intel Xeon Irwindale (Dual with HT)
CPU Speed: 3200 mhz
L2 cache: 2048 KB
RAM Qty: 2048 MB
Type: DDR2 400
RAM Speed: 200 MHz
RAM Timings: 3-3-3-12
Motherboard: Dell
Total Price: approx 800 GBP (Everything, bought assembled)
 
Service all set up and ready to go on the press of the "Start" button :cool:


I'll leave the specifics until later on - the system was stable enough to run Prime for about 15hours (much longer than I'd normally bother with tbh) but then when I moved the window around the screen the thing went and locked up :p
Think it's either something to do with the graphics card/drivers or the USB hardware/drivers rather - shouldn't be a problem as remote access is now set up anyway :cool:


Have also saved the stats at 19:30 as planned - just starting the news and keeping an eye on that 20:00 to roll around - infact I might set an alarm just incase :p
 
Name: CSO2_PotNoodle :p
CPU type: AMD Athlon 64 Winchester
CPU speed: 2400Mhz (240x10)
L2 cache: 512KB
RAM Qty: 1024MB
RAM type: DDR400
RAM speed: 480Mhz
RAM timings: 2.5-3-3-10
Mobo: MSI K8N Neo2 Plat
Total price: ~600GBP

Gonna be an hour late - my current WU on my normal account is at 97% so might as well let it finish. Ah well :)
 
how's that for timing? :p

[19:00:01] - Ask before connecting: No
[19:00:01] - User name: CSO2_newsmeister (Team 10)
[19:00:01] - User ID: 1DA4FBAA35EFFE81
[19:00:01] - Machine ID: 1
[19:00:01]
[19:00:01] Work directory not found. Creating...
[19:00:01] Could not open work queue, generating new queue...
[19:00:01] + Benchmarking ...
[19:00:03] The benchmark result is 6168
[19:00:03] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[19:00:03] + Attempting to get work packet
[19:00:03] - Autosending finished units...
[19:00:03] Trying to send all finished work units
[19:00:03] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[19:00:03] - Autosend completed
[19:00:03] - Will indicate memory of 511 MB
[19:00:03] - Connecting to assignment server
[19:00:03] Connecting to http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/
[19:00:04] Posted data.
[19:00:04] Initial: 40AB; - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.130).
[19:00:04] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[19:00:04] Loaded queue successfully.
[19:00:04] Connecting to http://171.64.122.130:8080/
[19:00:12] Posted data.
[19:00:12] Initial: 0000; - Deadline time not received.
[19:00:12] - Receiving payload (expected size: 555175)
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yeah I know I lost a vital second - I'll thrash myself with birch twigs later :rolleyes: :p
 
I see Rich is online, so I'll guess he's got the stats. Therefore...

Cry havoc and let slip the Dogs o' War :cool:

/reboots crunchers.
 
Both cores up and running. One at about 10 seconds past 8 and the other at about 1 minute past.

Let battle commence.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
You could've done better if you'd used a batch file along with a scheduled task, tbh. :p ;)
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i'm not taking any grief from the man who started a day early :p :D

depending on how this stock Barton goes I may have to make a substitution at some point, the XP1700 will be waiting in the wings and that thing's not afraid to go fast! :cool:
if it comes to that I'll set it up with a II on the end of the name - might even add that for the second week even if this rig stays steady
 
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