Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 23rd November 2006

mikeymike · 24 Nov 2006 at 13:52

lol i might, although i dont want phone calls "why is my CPU usage constantly at 100%??!?", i dont think its guna be on for that many hours per day anyway, but you never know, my bro seems to be sending me a GPU WU per day so far which is far better than i had hoped for, i was thinking it might even miss the 4day deadlines, CCBBE 0616 this stepping is, i think he's lucky as that stepping looks pretty much guaranteed to hit 3ghz, only got an arctic pro to cool it but hopefully that will do

dunc · 24 Nov 2006 at 14:18

Can't wait for some decent wus. I have also been stuck with the dreaded 212x wus all week.

Thanks for the news as always Mr 99million Sah :cool:

Dunc

SiriusB · 24 Nov 2006 at 14:20

mikeymike said:
lol i might, although i dont want phone calls "why is my CPU usage constantly at 100%??!?", i dont think its guna be on for that many hours per day anyway, but you never know, my bro seems to be sending me a GPU WU per day so far which is far better than i had hoped for, i was thinking it might even miss the 4day deadlines, CCBBE 0616 this stepping is, i think he's lucky as that stepping looks pretty much guaranteed to hit 3ghz, only got an arctic pro to cool it but hopefully that will do

The Arctic Pros are awesome, *should* keep your opty cool

SiriusB

mikeymike · 24 Nov 2006 at 14:57

i know they are good, i always suggest tp people on forums to get them

i bought four at the same time last time they were in this week only, so far ive used three, two on xp4000+'s, one on an opteron144 which i currently am using myself, this is my last one, i know they do a really good job on single core athlons, just i always take the IHS off but he doesnt want me to take it off this and its dual core aswell, still obviously aiming for 3ghz+ just as long as temps dont become an issue

mikeymike · 24 Nov 2006 at 15:42

not long till im on the 1st page now

SiriusB · 24 Nov 2006 at 15:54

My 64 Pro is cooling my overclocked 4400+ and is pretty quiet even though it is running at 100%. Can't hear it over my case fans and GPU cooler anyway

SiriusB

lay-z-boy · 24 Nov 2006 at 18:03

Uber slakz0ring this week, laptop and server are the only folders.
Sleep > folding (my computers make a huge amount of noise)

nfoulger · 24 Nov 2006 at 18:44

Great week for me - switched 4x3GHz Mac Pro processors to SMP beta and achieving around 1,800 ppd. Still dropped several 587 pointers on comms problems back to Stamford though.

LordShadow · 24 Nov 2006 at 21:07

Good week overall for all, up on last week is always good!
Soooo close to first page now, rank 104 and climbing hehe.
Concorde still just ahead of me (heavy gaming weeks for both of us i think).
Lets keep getting new people in and keep that score rising

.

joeyjojo · 24 Nov 2006 at 23:43

nfoulger said:
Great week for me - switched 4x3GHz Mac Pro processors to SMP beta and achieving around 1,800 ppd. Still dropped several 587 pointers on comms problems back to Stamford though.

That's incredible tbh. Good job!

SiriusB · 25 Nov 2006 at 02:40

For the first time in my life I have a small horrible urge to own a mac pro. I feel so ashamed. Who would want to own anything by Apple!?

SiriusB

lay-z-boy · 25 Nov 2006 at 07:54

SiriusB said:
For the first time in my life I have a small horrible urge to own a mac pro. I feel so ashamed. Who would want to own anything by Apple!?

SiriusB

Been thinking the same thing since they had xeons in them.

Might settle for a core/core2 duo mini at xmas, my hackintosh just doesnt cut it anymore.

aceface57 · 25 Nov 2006 at 12:42

Not too bad a score for me since i've been slacking a lot these recent weeks. Running my own tests for genetic algorithms...

Anyway how much of a boost would adding a fx55 make?

lay-z-boy · 25 Nov 2006 at 12:54

aceface57 said:
Not too bad a score for me since i've been slacking a lot these recent weeks. Running my own tests for genetic algorithms...

Anyway how much of a boost would adding a fx55 make?

Get folding on it and find out

aceface57 · 25 Nov 2006 at 12:59

lay-z-boy said:
Get folding on it and find out

Thats what i was thinking

Have to fix the machine first, it certainly is a beast has sli cards aswell

Just wonder if my uncle will let me fold on it.

joeyjojo · 25 Nov 2006 at 13:27

SLI and an FX55, that's a manly machine. None of this "core 2 duo crossfire" blah blah rubbish

Or "ooh I'm all white a pretty" macs

Pilgrim57 · 25 Nov 2006 at 21:57

Seems a good a place to start. I have used to auto settings in the BIOS & got a stable 8% o/c. Can anyone spot something wrong &/or suggest where to go from here.

Corsair 3200 RAM 2 x 512MB

Thanks guys

VeNT · 25 Nov 2006 at 23:37

8% oc?
makes me realise how uber these core duo 90-100% over clocks are!

rich99million · 26 Nov 2006 at 00:20

Pilgrim57 said:
Seems a good a place to start. I have used to auto settings in the BIOS & got a stable 8% o/c. Can anyone spot something wrong &/or suggest where to go from here.

Well the first thing I can see is that your HT Link should really be under 1000MHz, there should be a divider somewhere so you can set it to 4/5 or something like that to give you more room for clocking higher

I've got my Bus speed at 240MHz and a 4/5 divider on the HT Bus to make it 960MHz, also got my RAM on a 5/6 divider so it runs at 200MHz as I think 240 would be pushing my stuff

joeyjojo · 26 Nov 2006 at 00:54

Turn off all the auto overclocking and auto speeds and such.

First you might want to give it more volts, as this will increase the oc a good deal. 1.45 or 1.5 are safe. Next, to limit the memory speeds so they are not a factor, set a really low divider, like 1:2 memory:htt. Then, set htt to 216 (or any starting point). HTT multiplier to 4x (to keep it less than 1000, as 4*216 < 1000). Test for stability for a little while, 10 minutes of orthos is enough for this preliminary test. Then increase HTT a few notches. Test. Increase etc.