Fair enough, serves you right for buying glorious foldy machines
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On a good note, one of the P2684's is done, heres hoping it doesn't get another one!!
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On a good note, one of the P2684's is done, heres hoping it doesn't get another one!!
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On a good note, one of the P2684's is done, heres hoping it doesn't get another one!!
Its all in jest though.
Looks like im going to be averaging about 10-14k ppd with the gts450 in a clocked up.
It doesnt seem as CPU hungry as some has said fermi is though.
Yay
Nice one R5GTT.. thats a impressive tiffe for sure
Good news is that while faffing around I discovered I had NUMA turned on which is a no-no when crunching on the SR-2 so that should hopefully boost output back to what it was before 6.34 came out.
Having said that I've got two P2684, one on the SR-2 and one on the 2600K now
So.. the P2684's are both done, 2600K is on an A3 WU for some reason :confuseD:
But Gemini is running a P6900 now, with NUMA turned off the difference is fairly dramatic.
Frame time dropped from around 00:14:15 to 00:11:55, so around 2 minutes avg.
Doesn't sound like much, but it equates to a PPD change from around 115K to 148-150K average.
Still on Windows tho
Apparently Linux can drop even more minutes per frame pushing the output closer to 200KNot up to BaBa's beastie but then that has 4 times as many real cores to play with
It would be interesting to see what a quad 6 core HT Xeon box does compared to the quad 12 core AMD
I'm suffering with my ppd at the minute. As well as my i7 machine that crunches bigadv 24/7, I was relying on bigadv's on a dual xeon mac pro. Unfortunately the OSX client hasn't been updated yet so no A5 for me and no bigadv.
Another problem I have is my GPU client causing my machine to come to a crawl for some reason. I'm not exactly sure what's caused it though. It's either recent windows updates or gfx drivers/cuda drivers.
I'm left now with only 300k per week instead of around 430k because of those two issues
I've toyed with the idea of running virtual box on osx but not sure which linux distro would be best. Probably just best waiting for the new client instead.
Another problem I have is my GPU client causing my machine to come to a crawl for some reason. I'm not exactly sure what's caused it though. It's either recent windows updates or gfx drivers/cuda drivers.
I'm left now with only 300k per week instead of around 430k because of those two issues
I've toyed with the idea of running virtual box on osx but not sure which linux distro would be best. Probably just best waiting for the new client instead.
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BaBa is running a quad G34 Opteron with 4 x 12 core Magny-Cours chips @ 2.5Ghz or thereabouts.
Heh.. and heres what you'd have to pay at todays money to build one if you were starting from scratch and didn't have access to some lucky ebay specials on cpus
All prices incl VAT for us mere mortals
OK basic hardware:
1 x Motherboard: £787.50
4 x Opteron 6164: £3732.05
16 x 2GB DDR3 Registered: £687.17
Case: Aprox £150
Total: £5356.72
Then the watercooling gubbins:
4 x Aquacomputer Cuplex Kryos Delrin for Socket G34 - G1/4 £121.68
1 x 12V Laing D5 Vario Pump (Swiftech MCP655) £72.99
1 x XSPC Acrylic Tank Reservoir for Laing D5 (MCP655) £29.78
1 x Swiftech MCR420 - QP 480mm radiator £60.43
4 x Yate Loon D14SH-12 (2300rpm) 140x140x25mm £24.16
3 x Primochill tubing PrimoFlex Pro 19/13 (1/2\"ID) black - 1m £15.84
8 x 1/4" BSPP - 1/2" ID - 3/4" OD Compression Fitting - Black Nickel £24.24
4 x 19/13mm Compression Fitting 45° Rotary G1/4 - Knurled - Black Nickel £15.12
Total £437.08
Grand Finale: £5793.80
And I thought I was mad
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The new engineering samples i have from the bay cost less for all four than one of the 6176's i was running (total £525)
I chose the motherboard so i could run non-ecc ram so that also saved me some money
Ive also just upped the clocks between wu's to 2.8, then i get a 2684 for my troubles
On the plus side 2684 frame times are 7.40, hope to break 500k on 6901's
)I chose the motherboard so i could run non-ecc ram so that also saved me some money
Ive also just upped the clocks between wu's to 2.8, then i get a 2684 for my troubles
On the plus side 2684 frame times are 7.40, hope to break 500k on 6901's
