Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 15th February 2007

joeyjojo said:
Get this in you :)



Qx6700, nice 680 mobo, 2gb geil, 3x 80gb, raid, 620w corsair, cnps9700. :D

Edit: woops, thats 1315 inc, only 1100 plus vat

Another edit: no graphics on that board, you'd have to get a budget board for that :o :p
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680 mobo might not be the best thing in the world. From my reading it is incredibly unstable and the consensus seems to be that nVidia shouldn't have released it at all.
 
Ive managed to lower my frame time..

dropped my cpu multi to 7 and put 435fsb into it giving me faster ram while losing 150mhz from the cpu..

i tested that 435 is my max for ram at 2.1v so hopefully when i get my 6600 i can put that in on an 8x multi and see if i can push my ram a little further and try and squeeze 3.6 out of it.. but i doubt my ram will be up for that

if all else fails 400x9 would do.

** my luck with overclocking components isnt great so knowing my luck i'll not be able to get any more out of it than i can with my current e6400 **
 
babyface uk said:
quick Q for these guys?
1 . Unforgiven - 16,527
2 . Cob - 16,100
3 . Concorde_Rules - 15,893
4 . dangerousdave - 14,470
5 . LordShadow - 13,723
6 . StevenG[OCUK] - 11,209

Can you guys tell me set ups you are running to get such a highpoints per week from a single box.

Ta

Babyface UK
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An e6600 @450x8
2gb of the Geil PC6400 and 2gb of the OCZ PC6400 (well when I collect it from the Post Office in half an hour :D )
Gigabyte DS3
All running in x64 XP Pro
 
beh....core2 users.....

*grumbles*

just got my paycheck and withdrew a few bob, got £600 sitting here and im about to head off to overclockers.

Now, originally i was going to get a c2d but with ddr3 and native 1333fsb stuff on the way very soon my x2 looks very hardy, instead im going to blow it on a dell 2407 and a wrt54gl

*reconsidered* im going to save my money :)

Thanks for the stats as usual rich and another awesome week of folding for the men of team 10. :cool:

Fold on!
 
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Well i just bought my 2nd xp-120 off the bay, this time to go in the family pc. I loved the first one so much i though i'd have another. Got two d12sl12s on the way too, so i'm aiming to go back to silent 24/7 operation of the opty and a bigger clock on the family pc.

I'm also quite fancying the idea of building an x2 3800+ based fileserver... i would need an am2 board, which must not be asus, must have decent enough clocking options to utilise the full potential of an x2 3800+ and it should have some decent fan controller options... can anyone recommend anything?

I'm liking the abit kn9, what are abit like these days?
 
using a AW9D-max at present - really like it, but not the best clocker for allendales (but i got it for a future conroe upgrade)

Read a few review so going to try again to get my e6400 to 3.0 or above - as it looks as if i need more Volts to the north/south bridge (never needed to do that with by previous Asus boards - so didn't try last time :o )

Also use a xp-120 and really like it - bit fiddley to fit via the 775 bracket but keeps temps and noise down nicely :D
 
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Joe42 said:
I'm also quite fancying the idea of building an x2 3800+ based fileserver... i would need an am2 board, which must not be asus, must have decent enough clocking options to utilise the full potential of an x2 3800+ and it should have some decent fan controller options... can anyone recommend anything?
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\o/ an AM2 fileserver. If I didn't know you wanted the dual core to fold on, I'd be seriously considering your mental state.
 
I have just received an order from a client requesting not one but 2 top end quad core machines, they wont be picking the machines up for around 1-3 weeks after i finish them! :D

can you say holy freakin' smp output batman? :D


*hugs rich people*
 
lay-z-boy said:
I have just received an order from a client requesting not one but 2 top end quad core machines, they wont be picking the machines up for around 1-3 weeks after i finish them! :D

can you say holy freakin' smp output batman? :D
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Awesome! So do you build machines or what?
lay-z-boy said:
*hugs rich people*
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Get off me :p
 
A.N.Other said:
\o/ an AM2 fileserver. If I didn't know you wanted the dual core to fold on, I'd be seriously considering your mental state.
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C'mon, they're only 60 quid. :p
I could get an athlon xp bundle or something off the bay for that, but it'll be old and slow, i can do an am2 dual core bundle for £200ish, that's a months wages.
The only problem is the power consumption.

shadowscotland said:
using a AW9D-max at present - really like it, but not the best clocker for allendales (but i got it for a future conroe upgrade)
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I like the look of their uguru stuff, ten times better than asus q-fan.
Also use a xp-120 and really like it - bit fiddley to fit via the 775 bracket but keeps temps and noise down nicely :D
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With the amd bracket its a dream to fit. Just hook two clps in the bracket and push the heatsink down till the other two click in. Easiest heatsink i've ever fitted, better even than the stock coolers. It still hold its own against the top heatsinks of today performance wise too, beats the thermaltake big typhoon and its not far off the ninja/ultra 120 either.
 
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Joe42 said:
C'mon, they're only 60 quid. :p
I could get an athlon xp bundle or something off the bay for that, but it'll be old and slow, i can do an am2 dual core bundle for £200ish, that's a months wages.
The only problem is the power consumption.
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Yeah, but my point was that a fileserver will never even use 5% of the CPU power of that. You can run a firewall / router linux system on an ancient P1 without getting above about 10% usage.

Still, I'd do the same, so I can't reallt blame you :D
 
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A.N.Other said:
Yeah, but my point was that a fileserver will never even use 5% of the CPU power of that. You can run a firewall / router linux system on an ancient P1 without getting about about 10% usage.

Still, I'd do the same, so I can't reallt blame you :D
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Well, as it happens its currently on a celeron 800 and its cpu limited, the harddisks never get to 100% utilisation because the system they're connected to is too slow.
If i want a warranty then i'd be looking at a low end sempron system, but tbh for the extra core and a few better bits it doesn't cost a lot more.

Edit: How can i get rid of my irrational disliking of gigabyte boards?
Its the colours, combined with a feeling of general tackiness that's putting me off... are they generally good boards?
 
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joeyjojo said:
Awesome! So do you build machines or what?
Get off me :p
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Yup, mini-part time job of setting up/fixing networks and computers, allows me to keep in touch with hardware i cant afford. :big grin:

On the file server front a good quality nic and cpu work wonders for them, i had a p4c 3.2 as my file server up utill the other day, i moved it over to my 930d and the speed increase for file transfer was phenomenal, so was its ability to multitask. :smile: (both had gigabit connections not on the pci bus and same hdd's)

http
mysql
ftp
2*css servers
bf2124 server
file server
tv streaming server

all can be tasked at once without lag and/or slowdown problems. :smile:
 
lay-z-boy said:
On the file server front a good quality nic and cpu work wonders for them, i had a p4c 3.2 as my file server up utill the other day, i moved it over to my 930d and the speed increase for file transfer was phenomenal, so was its ability to multitask. :smile: (both had gigabit connections not on the pci bus and same hdd's)

http
mysql
ftp
2*css servers
bf2124 server
file server
tv streaming server

all can be tasked at once without lag and/or slowdown problems. :smile:
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Well i think its fair to say its my celeron 800 thats the bottle neck, that or the 128mb of ram :o
It works, but fast it aint.
Just re-juggled my numbers and i'm looking at £192 for an X2 3800+, abit kn9 nf4 ultra, 1gb of ram and an enermax 380w psu.
I'll be putting the board in the family pc and using my a8n sli deluxe in the fileserver as it has 8 sata ports. Got dual onboard gigabit nics too.
Should work nicely and will fold 24/7 with any luck. Just gotta get my garage wired up so i can move it in there and then i can bung all my rubbishy noisy fans in it.
 
Well I had a good week, just managing to pip Cob in the singles league.

Things have however gone a bit pear shaped over the weekend. It looks as if my VMWare install (among other things) was lost due to my old backup drive finally deciding to call it quits. I've reinstalled and am back crunching SMP again but next week will take a bit of a hit.

Oh, but I did get this to ease the blow:

certsi6.jpg


:cool:
 
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