F@H on 1055T

Luke

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Lots of talk about the i7, but for those of use with AM3 boards is there much scope for decent figures off the AMD 1055T?

Can it run bigadv?
 
AMDs 6 cores will clock for clock be on par with an i7s 8 threads while folding so around 12-14k ppd IIRC.

unfortunatly there is no scope for bigadv as 8 cores/threads are required.
 
Hmm... That's annoying.
So to get to 30k ppd on CPU would cost about £400, whereas to get to 15k ppd would cost only £120.

I just can't justify an i7.
 
I know what you mean thats why I'm running AMD I cant justify the extra for something that I use to browse and occasinally game. Just looking a 4ghz i7 950 bundle will set you back £230 more than a 1055 @ 3.8. i know which I'd rather have.

multi gpus is the best ppd per £
 
But you get to the situation I'm in where I'm running a pc with 2 x 8800GS and an Athlon 3800+ which is about 10k ppd total.
I could go for 2 x GTS450 which would give an increase of possibly 20k ppd and would cost £200. Looking at Phenom prices I'd be looking at a further £150 for a 1055T which would probably add 10k ppd.
I'd hope that my total would be about 40kppd having spent £350 but I'd have reached the limitations of my board/CPU for further growth.


The cheapest I can see to put together an i7 950 bundle is £428 which would give me maybe 30k ppd on bigadv plus my 9k on the GPUs. I'd then have an extra GPU slot to fill and the option later of going to GTS450's.
Theoretically I could get to 75k ppd having spent £720 and as I'm typing this I can feel how insane it is to be considering it.

You know what? I think I'll just keep my 10k ppd and not spend anything!:p
 
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eh? theres only £70 difference between an i7 860 on Gigabyte full size mobo and a 1055T on a full size AM3 Gigabyte board.

Everything else is the same price for both.
 
Fair point there biffa, I completely forgot i7 exists on LGA1156. No need for triple channel memory or 16x/16x Sli for folding.

Oh off topic slightly but will running a card in a 4x slot affect its folding performance
 
To run an 1055T I only need the cpu.
To run the i7 I need cpu, board and memory.

That's where the cost comes in.
 
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