Folding@Home News 22nd - 29th December

Rizo-UK · 1 Jan 2012 at 14:31

No problem, Try to reduce your OC and lower the CL of the RAM.

Now on a 8004 WU
Base Credit: 88.59
Estimated Credit:1495
Estimated PPD:42,140
TPF: 30 Secs

Rizo-UK · 1 Jan 2012 at 16:09

New Year Spirit is here

BIGADV!!!! Yay!!! 6900 WU

Base Credit of 7164 points

Crunch On

Edit: core a5 is using 1000mb RAM and 99% CPU x 8

DAnDan · 1 Jan 2012 at 16:34

Bah, it's fine for some! Keep getting really bad SMP WUs recently, 16k PPD instead of the 32K I get on the better ones.

Rizo-UK · 1 Jan 2012 at 17:23

Not meaning to brag but im well happy now.

Estimated credit 92,000

ETA 21 hours. 13 min 31s per frame.

98,000 PPD

Temps are a little higher on this one... circa 65*c

DAnDan · 1 Jan 2012 at 17:36

Rizo-UK said:
Not meaning to brag but im well happy now.

Estimated credit 92,000

ETA 21 hours. 13 min 31s per frame.

98,000 PPD

Temps are a little higher on this one... circa 65*c

Mmmmeh, *mumbled grumble*

Rizo-UK · 1 Jan 2012 at 18:21

mmmmmm OCUK have EVGA GTX 460 in this week only

Help me to stop spending

could fit 3 of them in my rig

MGP · 1 Jan 2012 at 18:36

Someone is just trying to rub it in now

Still at least I've just given a certain ToxicTBag a New Years Day eviction. Trouble is I can see where the toxic bit of the name came from. This cell needs more than just a deep clean

hanluc · 1 Jan 2012 at 20:13

Rizo-UK said:
Not meaning to brag but im well happy now.

Estimated credit 92,000

ETA 21 hours. 13 min 31s per frame.

98,000 PPD

What!? is this on the 2600K @ 4.2?? :eek:

Rizo-UK · 1 Jan 2012 at 20:17

hanluc said:
What!? is this on the 2600K @ 4.2??

4.4 now, overclocking via turbo now and not base multi. needs less volts and that means less heat.

Rizo-UK · 1 Jan 2012 at 20:23

Scrap that, just checked on the V7 client and it dropped to 40kppd

WTF!

Back to a4 SMP for me on this rig. thats netting me 48kppd.

hanluc · 1 Jan 2012 at 20:26

Rizo-UK said:
4.4 now, overclocking via turbo now and not base multi. needs less volts and that means less heat.

That's incredible, normally with that sort of overclock on windows you'd expect to see +20 mins TPF for a p6900. Think I'll see if I can snag one on my 2700K and see what happens.

hanluc · 1 Jan 2012 at 20:30

I was going to say .... that original TPF was more like an SR2 with dual hexes.

Rizo-UK · 1 Jan 2012 at 20:32

Sorry for the confusion

I let it do 7% and thats what the V7 said then i checked it on 9% and it dropped

Im happy with between 44-48k on A4 SMP WU's for now.

Still deciding if i want to purchase 2 of the EVGA 460's on "this week only" lol

Will they the 2600k take a massive hit with those?

They should pull 20k between them.

hanluc · 1 Jan 2012 at 20:41

Rizo-UK said:
Sorry for the confusion

I let it do 7% and thats what the V7 said then i checked it on 9% and it dropped

Im happy with between 44-48k on A4 SMP WU's for now.

Still deciding if i want to purchase 2 of the EVGA 460's on "this week only" lol

Will they the 2600k take a massive hit with those?

They should pull 20k between them.

I don't know nowadays, Biffa says that with the new Nvidia drivers the hit is very small. I used to use two 460s with an i7-950 the hit was about 4K if I remember corectly, when I upgraded to an i7 hex it was about 10K which meant one card was wasted, so i stopped, plus i found them expensive to run.

Rizo-UK · 1 Jan 2012 at 20:43

Ok, maybe ill just sit it out and stay with cpu folding as its pretty efficient.

only need another board and 2600k to get another rig going

Wonder what an 2500k will bring in?

DAnDan · 1 Jan 2012 at 21:56

hanluc said:
I don't know nowadays, Biffa says that with the new Nvidia drivers the hit is very small. I used to use two 460s with an i7-950 the hit was about 4K if I remember corectly, when I upgraded to an i7 hex it was about 10K which meant one card was wasted, so i stopped, plus i found them expensive to run.

My 2700k @4.5GHz turns out around 32K-34K max on a good (as in good for PPD) WU, and my 580 hovers at around 17k.

I've stopped the client folding on the 580 while I watched Sherlock (very good btw!) and the TPF has dropped from 1:56 to 1:41 so far, giving a new PPD estimate of a little over 42K. I'll let it run for a while longer and see where it levels out.

loudbob · 2 Jan 2012 at 09:44

AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!

Just as things were getting settled - with a nice +270K PPD...........

My Silverstone Strider 1500W PSU decideded to burn-out one of the pins from the 24pin Motherboard Cable.

Checked the purchase order - purchased 29/12/10 - just over a year ago.........thankfully, there's a 2 year warranty on it.

RMA time - back to Scam.

So Dekez - you may get a reprieve

Frozennova · 2 Jan 2012 at 11:28

sounds like a stroke of luck there loudbob, what was it powering?

loudbob · 2 Jan 2012 at 11:33

Was running:

I7 990x
3 x GTX 560 Ti's (448 core)
1 x GT 430
4 x 2TB HDD's
4 x 60GB SSD's
3 x 120mm fans
1 x Water Loop

Not much - handled it ok.

When I checked the cable - it looks as tho' one of the 24 pins had come loose (totally out of the connector) so it had either shorted on the one that blew or too much power was being drawn through it to compensate the one that had come loose.

Luckily, no damage has been done - other than the PSU cable.

loudbob · 2 Jan 2012 at 12:11

hanluc said:
I don't know nowadays, Biffa says that with the new Nvidia drivers the hit is very small. I used to use two 460s with an i7-950 the hit was about 4K if I remember corectly, when I upgraded to an i7 hex it was about 10K which meant one card was wasted, so i stopped, plus i found them expensive to run.

Can't speak for Biffa......

I found that no matter what drivers I used for the GPU's the i7 990X does take a big hit.

So much so, I dropped the cpu folding down to 10 cores:

CPU nets around 78K - 82K PPD
GPU's net 16K PPD (not using advmethods)

Thus the 990x rig was worth around 128K - 132K PPD (prior to PSU going POP!!!)

The two 2600k's are at 4.8GHz and netting around 76K ppd - if I were to add a single GPU the increase in PPD would be marginal at best (if not a loss).