Folding@Home News 14th - 21st Jan 2011

Richy1204 · 25 Jan 2011 at 22:27

Whats the Cyclone cooler like for noise/temps dekez ?

dekez · 25 Jan 2011 at 22:36

Really good, temps are around 50-55 and pretty quiet, I had 2 of them folding in my living room 24/7 and it was fine.

Biffa · 26 Jan 2011 at 00:46

dekez said:
Not much overclocking for me, seems there are some issues with the bios on the board I have (P8P67-M Pro), most notably the fact that there is no simple way to change the cpu voltage
I don't want to spend loads of time overclocking only to have to do it all again once a bios update is out, so have just set it to 4Ghz for now.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/showthread.php?t=265765

That looks like a big cpu vcore uplift on the same board!

dekez · 26 Jan 2011 at 08:37

Ah I've not installed that, just been going into the bios the old fashioned way. I've got windows home server installed on it, which has been a pain as none of the drivers or utilities would install from the CD as it didn't recognise the operating system.

There are some things I really like about whs, like the drive extender and the fact that I can run gpu folding as services and still remote in. But this move has been a right PITA, and transferring data was nowhere near as easy as it would have been if I had just installed server 2003 or 2008 in the first place.

Richy1204 · 26 Jan 2011 at 11:28

Was going to get a Msi GTS450 which there around £95/105
But u can get a GTX460 for £10 more. I cant deside between Msi or Asus, both seem to have good coolers on them

Im still sorting out the rma for 9800GT

dekez · 26 Jan 2011 at 11:29

I've switched over to bigadv now, picked up a P6900, TPF is 32:55, PPD - 43,466

With the 460 as well that makes 54,867 PPD, not too shabby, I just hope nothing falls over, it was folding at 4Ghz overnight fine so fingers crossed!

dekez · 26 Jan 2011 at 11:55

Richy1204 said:
Was going to get a Msi GTS450 which there around $95/105
But u can get a GTX460 for $10 more. I cant deside between Msi or Asus, both seem to have good coolers on them

Im still sorting out the rma for 9800GT

I don't know much about the Asus, there doesn't seem to much in it between them. Any difference in warranties? I'm sure you've already read a ton of 460 round up reviews, but for me this swayed me to MSI (I was going for cool and quiet, that and it was cheapest at the time

).

MSI has the coolest-running card, likely due to its huge GPU cooler. Yet its full-fan tests weren’t as spectacular. Asus’ fan supports higher-speed operation, resulting in a relatively chilly GPU temperature that’s available to anyone who can tolerate its higher full-speed noise.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-460-roundup-gf104,2714-18.html

edit: my temps currently are at 55 with the fan speed on auto at 64%

BaBa · 27 Jan 2011 at 02:03

Got to issue a quick PARP to SiriusB might even happen before the morning :eek:

You may pass me back when i take Hydra down to water cool her

Richy1204 · 27 Jan 2011 at 19:22

Biffa, What clocks are your 470's running at ?

Biffa · 27 Jan 2011 at 20:42

Uhm.. good question

Speed · 27 Jan 2011 at 20:43

Didn't you say something about 850 in another thread?

Biffa · 27 Jan 2011 at 20:46

Yeah but I can't get to them to check

Frozennova · 27 Jan 2011 at 20:50

New rad is being delivered tomorrow so I'll be back upto normal clocks again, went for another EK as the bank balance is lower that I would have liked

Biffa · 28 Jan 2011 at 00:36

)$*&%)&£")& SB keeps getting 2684's

Just finished one of the *&!))$£ things this arvo.. nice one

[17:24:26] Completed 250000 out of 250000 steps (100%)
[17:24:37] DynamicWrapper: Finished Work Unit: sleep=10000
[17:24:47]
[17:24:47] Finished Work Unit:
[17:24:47] - Reading up to 52629024 from "work/wudata_07.trr": Read 52629024
[17:24:47] trr file hash check passed.
[17:24:47] - Reading up to 42712204 from "work/wudata_07.xtc": Read 42712204
[17:24:48] xtc file hash check passed.
[17:24:48] edr file hash check passed.
[17:24:48] logfile size: 213777
[17:24:48] Leaving Run
[17:24:50] - Writing 95722949 bytes of core data to disk...
[17:24:52] ... Done.

Well no.. bluescreen just there. :eek:

and then:

[20:37:47] Error: Missing work file=<>
[20:37:47]
[20:37:47] Folding@home Core Shutdown: MISSING_WORK_FILES
[20:37:50] CoreStatus = 74 (116)
[20:37:50] The core could not find the work files specified. Removing from queue
[20:37:50] Deleting current work unit & continuing...
[20:37:54] Trying to send all finished work units
[20:37:54] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[20:37:54] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[20:37:54] Cleaning up work directory
[20:37:54] + Attempting to get work packet

So bugger that, it didn't report anything, so I've restored the folder to the last system restore at 2am last night, yes its probably 8 hours to finish the WU from 77% but its better than starting one from scratch and getting zilch for that lost one.

BaBa · 28 Jan 2011 at 01:47

2684's are a real pain they knock about 75k ppd off Hydra.

But then to loose one :eek:

Biffa · 28 Jan 2011 at 12:32

Yeah, lost it then got another one! FFS.. grrr. anyway its still processing the restored one. (96%) I also upped vcore on the 2600K by 0.05v and its been stable for 12h so far.

On other news gemini sr2 just got a 2686 and is currently pushing 150K PPD :eek:

Looks like we are having a decent battle this week BaBa, stats put about 1 bigadv between us

Biffa · 28 Jan 2011 at 14:01

Richy1204 said:
Biffa, What clocks are your 470's running at ?

Speed said:
Didn't you say something about 850 in another thread?

Just checked, its 800/1600/[email protected]