I've had enough - again.

[Stan_Lite]

Woke up on Saturday morning to discover the Bigadv machine that had been running fine for over a week had decided to stop working for no apparent reason. It took me most of the morning to get it back up and running again and, while I was doing that, the likewise, apparently stable, gaming rig blue screened in front of my very eyes.

This is one of the reasons I keep getting fed up with Folding. I seem to have very little luck with hardware and it's a constant pain having to diagnose and fix problems with rigs that suddenly decide they don't want to work after runing flawlessly for weeks beforehand. I'm also aware of the amount of electricity I'm burning.

The upshot of it is that I've decided to take a break for a bit. I know that'll be a bit of a blow for the team output and I'm sorry for that but I have to consider my sanity and my bank balance for a bit. I'm probably going to sell off a couple of the Q6600 rigs and keep the other one along with the two i7 rigs.

I'll probably be back some time (when I've forgotten about the hassle and the leccy bills) but for now, I'll leave you to get on with it for a bit.

FOLD ON TEAM 10

 

[Stan_Lite]

I have a few projects underway at the moment which require a lot of my attention but, once I get one of the i7 rigs completed (working on watercooling setups at the moment), I'll set at least one of them going on (hopefully) A3 WUs just to keep ticking over

And no, I don't have any graphics cards going - I only had one GPU client running before and that was on an 8800GTX and I'm keeping that as it's the best gfx card I have ever owned Seriously, it's nearly 3 years old and I only upgraded for gaming in December - it can still play any game I want - most of them at damn good settings. I'll never sell this card.

Edit: Sir Les. I see from your sig, your average ppd is about 18.5k. I can do that on A3 WUs on one i7

 

[Stan_Lite]

Shocking behaviour though it is, best bet for your sanity is probably to slacken off the overclock at bit.

Heretic

 

[Stan_Lite]

Quit pushing the envelope and then complaining. Either stay on the extreme and shrug it off to experience or if you need something to be stable 24/7 then drop it back to stock and run it that way, or a slight overclock.

I run months at a time without a hardware glitch on F@H

Not much you can do about the electricity however other than scale back on your efforts.

A couple of points.
Firstly, none of my rigs are "pushing the envelope". I overclock them all until I find the maximum stable overclock and then drop them back a bit. All my Q6600s are capable of running stable at 3.6GHz but they all run 3.4GHz. The gaming rig is capable of running stable at 4.2GHz but was running at 3.8GHz.
Secondly, the machines that fall over usually do so after running fine for weeks and run perfectly well when rebooted for many weeks again. They are stable, they just decide to take a break every now and then.

FYI, it turns out the problem with the gaming rig was one of the graphics cards dying and nothing to do with "pushing the envelope" but, hey, don't let that stop you making assumptions.

 

[Stan_Lite]

Maybe you can fold like one of use mortals now

Don't bank on it

I've decided, once I've got the watercooling set up properly, I'm going to run my gaming rig as a single Folding machine as a compromise. It's an i7 that'll probably be running at 4GHz .................




............... Oh, and I'll probably run GPU clients on the GTX295 I bought off the members market today

 

[Stan_Lite]

I don't do an awful lot of gaming anyway so I'll just be switching the clients off for a short time when I do. When I'm away, they can run all the time - unless, of course, it all goes breasts up

It'll probably be the weekend before I get it set up. Should get the bits and pieces tomorrow and Thursday and spend Thursday and Friday setting it all up and testing.

 

[Stan_Lite]

I'm a massive fan of Gigabyte motherboards. Nice to work with, efficient and easy bios to OC with.

The Foxconn Bloodrage in my gaming rig is beautiful to look at but a real pain to OC - especially since it was my first i7 rig. The Gigabyte UD3 I bought for my second i7 rig is an absolute dream to work with. I just set all the voltages to auto and set the bclk to 200 - it booted straight in at 4.0GHz. A little bit of fiddling later (about an hour) and it was running at 4.3GHz - rock solid. If only they'd make them a bit prettier