Garage Cruncher

OC to 3.8 should be easy enough with a decent cooler. Freezer 7 has always been a low to mid range performer as far as I was aware, but I'm not big on air cooling, perhaps someone else could chip in :)
 
You should be able to get cheaper RAM than the stuff in bundle 1 without compromising on performance :)

Also, did you get my email perchance?
 
One thing i haven't factored into the build is the cost of an OS, there isn't an smp client for linux is there?

miniyazz, got your email, i'll reply when i get home. Where are you in the country?
 
Good news for the foldy cause! I should have a second hand i7 (clocked to 3.65 i believe) and mb heading my way today for the garage folder, yay!

I'll be ordering the case, fans, etc tonight. I need to order a graphics card as the mb doesn't have one on board, so question is do i order a shiny gtx460 to go in it, or do i get a cheapo card and keep the folding strictly on the cpu so all the cores can be used for bigadv's? What will produce more ppd, bigadv's on a single i7 cpu, or a gpu + smp on the cpu?

Over to you origami oracles!
 
OC to 3.8 should be easy enough with a decent cooler. Freezer 7 has always been a low to mid range performer as far as I was aware, but I'm not big on air cooling, perhaps someone else could chip in
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I got up to 3.8 on my trusty Baram, even with pretty terrible high rpm fans. If you trawl around the i7 OC thread from way back, the result should be there somewhere for temps and such. There are much better middle range and budget air coolers floating around the 25-35 quid margin these days, though.

Titan Fenrir Evo seems to be the fad of the month, and there is the Venomous X and Akasa Venom? Spoiled for choice really. All within a few degrees of each other, and like many air coolers, they heavily rely on good general case airflow for best results.

I would go with a GPU + SMP combo myself. Stanford was always gagging for massive parallelism, and I suspect the GPU client will just keep getting better and better. :D
 
Been putting the new machine together tonight, should be able to finish it off tomorrow.

Apologies for the quality of the phone pics.

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Soon my pretty, soon :)
 
Ok guys, i finally built the garage cruncher and have installed Windows 7 64. It's an i7 860 running at 3.65 with 4GB ram.

I'm going to run the SMP (not bigadv) client and a gpu client on the GTX460. My question is what combination of client types will i be best off with?

I run the command line client for smp and the systray client for gpu on my main rig and that seems to work ok. But what should i go for on this dedicated cruncher?
 
I'd do the same, but you have to configure winders to auto-login and lock. But you can run the smp cli as a service.

For my main rig thats what I do, smp as a service, gpu as a systray.

With weebeastie I run smp as a service and cli gpu clients.

Why not bigadv? Should be able to finish in the time limit with an [email protected] obv better if it was 3.8 but hey :D
 
To be honest Biffa, i was wrestling with the choices. I decided to go with smp + gpu as i'm not an experienced overclocker and wanted stability and reliability as the box will sit in my parents garage. From what i read, bigadv's need a little more tlc than i plan to give this box, so I will add more gpu's in time which will out-ppd a bigadv setup (i hope), whilst still being relatively reliable.

Next year, depending on finances, i might make build a bigadv i7 box. For now this box will give me a reliable (again i hope and prey!) introduction to bigger numbers.
 
We have lift-off!! :D

HFM reckons just over 26k PPD with the first 2 wu's, and temps are ok - 66-69 for the four cores on the cpu and 57 for the gpu, all on air and in my nice cosy study with my main rig. Should be a little better in a nice cold garage! :)

Its early days but i'm happy so far!

Fold on team 10!!!!!
 
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