Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 2nd June 2006

BillytheImpaler said:
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These parts would make for a killer overclocker. All it needs is a PSU and a hard disk.

I'll see if I can trade down on the mobo and get it all in for less than 300 quid.
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The non-premium P5WD2 is a bit cheaper (£119 inc vat).
 
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I'm going to end up with 3 computers in my room crunching away. Good job I find the sound of the fans quite relaxing :), helps me get to sleep.
 


Gettin' there. It might be worth it to get a very old nasty HDD and use it. I know I have a stack of 10-20 GiB drives laying around.

Mikey1280 said:
The patriot 1gb kit is cheaper at £65 inc vat if the price still needs to come down
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The OCZ's low latency makes up for the extra money, I think.
 
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sr4470 said:
If hes going to be clocking it to 4ghz, he'll need a good PSU too...
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aye, a tagan 480w 2force should do the trick, or a higher rated tagan.

Reason is, they dont make any noise at all and are rock solid.
 
That board is way to expensive. You can get very good asrock boards for next to nothing.
This one is £40
This one is £52
This one is £31
Not sure which chipsets overclock well, would have to do a little reaserch.

If i were you i wouldn't bother with a cd drive, borrow one from your main system.
Tagan psu is way to expensive, a 400w fsp would do fine for £30
No need for a case, £27 for a 40gb maxtor hdd and thats it. Same cpu and ram.
 
Good call on the FSP. I just realized that I posted the same spec twice. :o

Oh well, I had a Tagan PSU and an 80 GiB HDD for 27 GBP from this week only along with an i955 mobo for 65 GBP from this week only. I too am not sure which chipsets are the best clockers though I assume the newer ones are better becasue they are on a smaller fab process.

EDIT: more good news on the Intel front? http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=a9bSLIkNBj4M
 
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Yeah cpu prices are going to be dropping like a stone very soon.
Netburst because there are massive inventories of them that need to be cleared before conroe and K8 to keep competative with conroe.
An excellent time to buy a netburst folding machine as thats about the only thing they are good for.

Edit: I've just spotted a 172x58mm panaflo industrial fan with 120cfm at 12v and i reckon it would fit in my case... what do you think?
It would give the nexus a run for its money on the noise/cfm front... and it should be quiet at 5v
240cfm at 24v but i'm not sure how i would get 24v.

Edit2: Its started happening on the amd front it seems...
 
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Joe42 said:
That board is way to expensive. You can get very good asrock boards for next to nothing.
This one is £40
This one is £52
This one is £31
Not sure which chipsets overclock well, would have to do a little reaserch.

If i were you i wouldn't bother with a cd drive, borrow one from your main system.
Tagan psu is way to expensive, a 400w fsp would do fine for £30
No need for a case, £27 for a 40gb maxtor hdd and thats it. Same cpu and ram.
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the fps epsilon's are very stable but a bit loud, i have found the blue storms to be pants and loud.
 
added a 3000+ 64 to the cause, only cost me £100 to make , 70 for cpu, 27 for memory. Had an old 8.4gig hdd, 2meg pci gfx and a PSU and i ordered a asrock mobo by accident the other day so thought Id make it into a new cruncher. I will get overclocking as soon as its done a unit of folding.
 
I've installed Windows Vista Beta 2 (it's free by the way, go download it and ask MS for a CD key). The first thing I did was try to get FAH working in it. The built-in service installer definitely doesn't work. It does, however, still crunch but you have to have the commende window open all the time.

EDIT: Rats! I've posted new info in the old news thread. :rolleyes:
 
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BillytheImpaler said:
I've installed Windows Vista Beta 2 (it's free by the way, go download it and ask MS for a CD key). The first thing I did was try to get FAH working in it. The built-in service installer definitely doesn't work. It does, however, still crunch but you have to have the commende window open all the time.
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I didn't bother trying to install FAH yesterday after having read this yesterday but after all the rest of my luck (i.e. not having any problems with Vista) I thgought I'd give it a go. I used the 5.04 client for XP and just set it up as you would on XP. Everything worked flawlessly so I'm now crunching away on Vista. At this rate I won't need XP for anything. Piccy:



Something was using 30% CPU there but I've just checked and FAH is getting it nearly all now so all's good :). I'm just wondering why it didn't work for you Billy though :confused:
 
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