Folding@home News 24th September - 1st October 2010

didgemaster · 4 Oct 2010 at 12:34

I have one of these and have it clocked to 850/1700/1800. I imagine you would be able to squeeze a little more out of the Hawk but personally I wouldn't get one.

If your willing to pay the difference for a little more performance thats all well and good but you should ask yourself should I pay more again and get a GTX470?

Biffa · 4 Oct 2010 at 12:48

For folding/seti the 768 one is fine I reckon the memory footprint of gpu apps can fit multiple times into 768MB and by the time they change that we will probably think a 480 is old hat.

Pilgrim57 · 4 Oct 2010 at 16:43

didgemaster said:
I have one of these and have it clocked to 850/1700/1800. I imagine you would be able to squeeze a little more out of the Hawk but personally I wouldn't get one.

If your willing to pay the difference for a little more performance thats all well and good but you should ask yourself should I pay more again and get a GTX470?

Thanks for the feedback, didgemaster. That one is more to my liking, now if I could get it running with my 260? but that's a topic for another thread.

Biffa said:
For folding/seti the 768 one is fine I reckon the memory footprint of gpu apps can fit multiple times into 768MB and by the time they change that we will probably think a 480 is old hat.

That confirms what I thought about not needing 1GB memory. Ta

didgemaster · 4 Oct 2010 at 17:03

Pilgrim57 said:
now if I could get it running with my 260? but that's a topic for another thread.

I believe that GPU2 and GPU3 clients don't work with each other. GTX460 will only run GPU3 so you will have to run GPU3 on the GTX260 which will result in your GTX260 having a lower PPD than it would have with GPU2

But as you said a topic for another thread

miniyazz · 4 Oct 2010 at 17:45

I wouldn't worry too much about me, Pilgrim57! I've come to the demoralising conclusion that nothing I do with my PC justifies i7, so I've decided to sell it while it's still worth lots of money and have just downgraded to a Phenom II X4 965

It'll be many months now until I overtake you, if I do!

I won't put up much challenge to NightmareXX either

RAM is all posted off as per email

Sorry RJK!

This might be flying close to the wind as per the above but since any sale would take place through MM I think it's OK RJK? If not please let me know/delete it! But since I've got this i7 860 and P55-UD6 mobo floating around now I'm planning on listing it in MM when I get round to it, in case anyone's looking out for a shiny secondhand i7 bundle! Will be up for £250 to give you a ballpark, I'll post back here with the link when it's up if RJK doesn't object?

Good folding all

Biffa · 4 Oct 2010 at 18:02

Anyone know what the phenoms like at crunching A3s if you overclock the nuts off them? Are the Quads like Q6600 speeds and what about the hex cores? Almost i7 speed in PPD?

Pilgrim57 · 4 Oct 2010 at 18:08

didgemaster said:
I believe that GPU2 and GPU3 clients don't work with each other. GTX460 will only run GPU3 so you will have to run GPU3 on the GTX260 which will result in your GTX260 having a lower PPD than it would have with GPU2

Thanks for the info. TBH & admit heresy I planned to use the 260 for Seti :eek:

miniyazz said:
I wouldn't worry too much about me, Pilgrim57! I've come to the demoralising conclusion that nothing I do with my PC justifies i7, so I've decided to sell it while it's still worth lots of money and have just downgraded to a Phenom II X4 965
It'll be many months now until I overtake you, if I do!

Sorry to hear that

Hope the Phenom II X4 965 works out for you.

Biffa · 4 Oct 2010 at 18:32

Oooh oooh... just got a prezzie for weebeastie that should let it crunch bigadv AND 4 fermis at the same time

Woah.. massive heatsink in the box, I was wondering why it was twice the size of a normal box

verbal · 4 Oct 2010 at 18:35

does this mean we're going to see a project log at some point soon?

Biffa · 4 Oct 2010 at 19:05

Shhh... wife might hear you

Frozennova · 4 Oct 2010 at 19:20

Biffa said:
Anyone know what the phenoms like at crunching A3s if you overclock the nuts off them? Are the Quads like Q6600 speeds and what about the hex cores? Almost i7 speed in PPD?

My Athlon II X4 @ 3.6 Would return around 7.2kppd at best (5-6k p6701/2), however this was an athlon that unlocks the L3 cache as it is on the deneb core so its effectively a phenom II

Speed · 4 Oct 2010 at 19:55

Biffa said:
Speaking of speed, your giving me a run for it this week.

Indeed, thanks!

The lack of BigAdv WUs is slowing me down tbh, but now I have both my dedicated systems overclocked and in cases it should hopefully be more consistant.

Looks like you have the big 20 mil coming up soon! Would be a good time to pack it in!

didgemaster · 4 Oct 2010 at 19:55

miniyazz · 4 Oct 2010 at 20:51

Biffa said:
Anyone know what the phenoms like at crunching A3s if you overclock the nuts off them? Are the Quads like Q6600 speeds and what about the hex cores? Almost i7 speed in PPD?

frozennova said:
My Athlon II X4 @ 3.6 Would return around 7.2kppd at best (5-6k p6701/2), however this was an athlon that unlocks the L3 cache as it is on the deneb core so its effectively a phenom II

That seems good, mine @ 3.8GHz using three cores is on 4.5kPPD (P6024). I seem to be using 40-60% of the remaining core for other things so I can't see that PPD improving with more cores!

joeyjojo · 4 Oct 2010 at 20:55

Biffa said:
Gotta remember that its dumping the equivalent of 1200W into the loop (215x4+300) which is then getting exhaused out into the room, sort of the same as running one of these in the room 24/7

yikes! Who's paying the leccy?

Biffa · 4 Oct 2010 at 21:29

Me at the moment

Biffa · 4 Oct 2010 at 22:54

frozennova said:
My Athlon II X4 @ 3.6 Would return around 7.2kppd at best (5-6k p6701/2), however this was an athlon that unlocks the L3 cache as it is on the deneb core so its effectively a phenom II

Hmm.. I thought I saw a review where the Phenom II spanked a QXXXX and gave a stock i7 a run for its money when it had 6 cores

didgemaster said:
970?

*cough*

miniyazz said:
That seems good, mine @ 3.8GHz using three cores is on 4.5kPPD (P6024). I seem to be using 40-60% of the remaining core for other things so I can't see that PPD improving with more cores!

Thats about the same as a Q6600

Speed · 5 Oct 2010 at 01:36

Biffa said:
Me at the moment

Indeed, it isn't cheap.

From a pair of those cheap plug-in energy monitors I'm using approx 36kWh total for my two i7 systems everyday. Which is about £3.74/day, soon adds up! :rolleyes:

Frozennova · 5 Oct 2010 at 08:31

Phenom II Quads seems on par with the Qxxx chips and the X6 seems to be roughly i7 performance

dekez · 5 Oct 2010 at 09:45

frozennova said:
Phenom II Quads seems on par with the Qxxx chips and the X6 seems to be roughly i7 performance

I'd love to get a 1055T 95W for my rig, it's a real pain it can't be sold without a motherboard here yet