Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 19th October 2006

[shadowscotland]

well football manager 2k7 is out now and ive been playing it non-stop at work and home for the last few days, so my folding is taking a dive

 

[mikeymike]

i have my own cubby hole office so no-one can see what im doing

 

[rich99million]

X1900XT @ 3D clocks [though often ATI Tray Tools reverts back to 2D for some reason]

Sirius you can solve this by using the latest ATI Tray Tools beta (v1.2.6.949) and in the overclocking tab select "Driver Level" as the overclocking method.

Mine was doing the same everytime I played a divx until conc clued me in

 

[Zip]

4400+ @ 2.6GHz [one core]
X1900XT @ 3D clocks [though often ATI Tray Tools reverts back to 2D for some reason]
3700+ @ stock
1.6GHz Celeron - part time only.

4 x P4 machines, anywhere between 2 and 2.6GHz lol

Upgrading to an E6600 by Christmas, to replace the 4400+. The 4400+ may find its way into my file server or may replace the 3700+.

One of the P4 owners is getting his E6400 machine in a few weeks, so will see a boost there [his current PC is being given to his dad, so it may carry on crunching]

SiriusB

Have you got one spare that i could have?

 

[SiriusB]

Sirius you can solve this by using the latest ATI Tray Tools beta (v1.2.6.949) and in the overclocking tab select "Driver Level" as the overclocking method.

Mine was doing the same everytime I played a divx until conc clued me in

Ahh cool, cheers for that. Will get that done later on.

Have you got one spare that i could have?

mmm... no!

SiriusB

 

[divine`]

I'm happy now. Though 2.5GHz looks mighty nice

 

[joeyjojo]

I'm happy now. Though 2.5GHz looks mighty nice

Don't be a pansy, give it 1.55 or 1.6 volts and get some proper speeds out of her

Got my opty at 1.55 under water, it loves it. Thermal diode in nextsensor doesn't go above 44, usually below 40.

 

[SiriusB]

Wow a waterproof opty!

SiriusB

 

[divine`]

No more volts for this one, it's hot enough already and I can't really afford a new HSF, nevermind a whole new CPU if this one were to frazzle cos I blitzed it with too many volts

 

[joeyjojo]

What have you currently got in terms of cooling? Might be worth getting a cooler (<£30) and getting another few hundred mhz. Never know, might be an immense chip and do 3 ghz +

 

[FreeStream]

Heh

Been pushing my Conroe on 1.25V (1.35V = stock )

and now im at 435x7, 3050mhz.

Yummy.

 

[divine`]

What have you currently got in terms of cooling? Might be worth getting a cooler (<£30) and getting another few hundred mhz. Never know, might be an immense chip and do 3 ghz +

pair of 120mm drawing in at front and exhausting at back, 80mm intake at side blowing over CPU area, stock HSF arrangement, and I think two 80mm in my Tagan, but I doubt they achieve much...

I am proper skint though at the moment, as in I actually have just £1.24 in my account and a £20 in my pocket

Might put away some pennies and see if I can afford a Ninja or something similar in a month or two

 

[Stan_Lite]

pair of 120mm drawing in at front and exhausting at back, 80mm intake at side blowing over CPU area, stock HSF arrangement, and I think two 80mm in my Tagan, but I doubt they achieve much...

I am proper skint though at the moment, as in I actually have just £1.24 in my account and a £20 in my pocket

Might put away some pennies and see if I can afford a Ninja or something similar in a month or two

Arctic Freezer Pro 7 > Ninja and half the price and easier to fit and smaller.

Stan

 

[joeyjojo]

Arctic Freezer Pro 7 > Ninja and half the price and easier to fit and smaller.

Don't listen to him, he has ladies' feet on his sig :/

6 of one, half a dozen of t'other tbh. Can't argue with the price of the freezer though.

 

[divine`]

Arctic Freezer Pro 7 > Ninja and half the price and easier to fit and smaller.

Stan

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775)


That wouldn't fit my S939 A64 would it?

Would I need Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) instead? (and £16 is far more appealing than £35)

 

[joeyjojo]

The S939 one yeah. Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro

 

[Stan_Lite]

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775)


That wouldn't fit my S939 A64 would it?

Would I need Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) instead? (and £16 is far more appealing than £35)

Sorry - forgot to check which socket

Yes you're right. I also have a Freezer 64 and it is an excellent cooler.

Stan

 

[rich99million]

My Arctic Freezer Pro on my X2 does an amazing job especially for the money.
With stock cooling mine was reaching temps of 60C+ and now it's sitting at 42C most of the time

I'm sure there's something to be said for replacing the standard thermal goo with some semi-decent stuff in an extremely thin layer though. When I removed the standard stuff it had gone all dry and crusty

 

[divine`]

I'm guessing they won't be generous enough to supply me with a bit of TIM would they? I'm gonna need some AS5 too...

 

[rich99million]

I'm guessing they won't be generous enough to supply me with a bit of TIM would they? I'm gonna need some AS5 too...

I think they come with some (maybe pre-applied) - mine was 2nd hand so I just used some Akasa stuff I had sitting around (seems to have done the job anyway)

edit:

Thermal Compound
We ship our coolers with the ARCTIC MX-1 thermal compound. This compound hardens during the first 200h while the performance improves steadily. With heating up the paste / heatsink the process can be shortened. The performance is even from the beginning good enough to cool your CPU reliable.