Folding Rig Musings

[BigDom]

Thinking of throwing the following into a folding rig.

CP-116-IN Intel Pentium 4 805 Dual Core "LGA775 Smithfield" 2.6GHz (533FSB) - Retail (CP-116-IN)
£84.95 £84.95
MB-109-AS Asus P5LD2 Intel 945X (LGA775) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-109-AS)
£69.95 £69.95
MY-030-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB5300DC) (MY-030-GL)
£64.95 £64.95
CA-007-TG Tagan TG430-U15 430W ATX2.01 Easycon SLi Compliant Modular Silent PSU (CA-007-TG)
£46.95 £46.95
Subtotal £266.80
VAT £46.69
Total £313.49

Any thoughts/comments? I plan on overclocking and would like a nice quiet effective cooler so that will need adding but not sure which to choose.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

That rig would get you a load of points, especially when QMDs come back online. Perhaps if you can afford it go for another gig of RAM.

Though I'm not as experienced as some of the spec'ers on thos forum it seems that the
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775) (HS-017-AR)
is rather popular. Seems like a pretty good deal at £14.98 Including VAT.

 

[monkeypants]

The Freezer 7 is very good value. Keeps things nice an cool, I had one and it was ace, very quiet.

 

[BigDom]

That rig would get you a load of points, especially when QMDs come back online. Perhaps if you can afford it go for another gig of RAM.

Though I'm not as experienced as some of the spec'ers on thos forum it seems that the
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775) (HS-017-AR)
is rather popular. Seems like a pretty good deal at £14.98 Including VAT.

Thanks - what's QMD btw?

I had my eye on the Freezer 7 as I use a 64 in one of my rigs.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

A QMD is a WU that used the QMD core, FahCore_96.exe. They are the WUs that get the highest ppd of any WU in all of foldy-dom. They're for Intel Netburst based CPUs only and they have huge system requirements. They use around 350 MiB RAM and 65 MiB disk space. When running them it's easy to see 400+ points per day.

They're currently on hiatus pending the Pande group's analysis of the previous results and the creation of new projects. Look foir them to return in around a month.

EDIT: Look at me. I've gone and made this forum look like TOSAH!

 

[BigDom]

A QMD is a WU that used the QMD core, FahCore_96.exe. They are the WUs that get the highest ppd of any WU in all of foldy-dom. They're for Intel Netburst based CPUs only and they have huge system requirements. They use around 350 MiB RAM and 65 MiB disk space. When running them it's easy to see 400+ points per day.

They're currently on hiatus pending the Pande group's analysis of the previous results and the creation of new projects. Look foir them to return in around a month.

EDIT: Look at me. I've gone and made this forum look like TOSAH!

hehe, hence you suggesting more ram.. although if I run Linux I'd be ok on 1gig wouldn't I given a console only Linux is low on resources.?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

512 per core is a fi ne amount for the QMDs that we've had in the past. There are rumors about newer WUs that will need a gig. 1024 MiB is fine for now but if you're looking for future-proofing 2048 is the way to go.

Maybe get a gig now then upgrade when it's necessary. Then you get batter, faster memory new then benefit from falling prices later.

Oh yes, deffo go with the Linux command-line. It can be a bit inconvenient sometimes but I think it's worth it for a few more ppd. I'm hardcore like that.