@ Mr Impaler

[dunc]

I have now firmly beded my new dual xeon in by giving it a good Boincing. It is currently has a RAC of 2,000 +

It is time to have a go at Folding

I could not find the thread (must have been pruned), but I remember a challenge, my beastie against yours to see who had the best ppd/$.

Are you still up for it?

I am currently running down my cache in Boinc (should take about 30 hours) and I am ready to go.

Dunc

 

[dunc]

Ah! I'm being summoned. I'm usually up for a challenge but could we perhaps wait a week? The Team Hackaday forum ran into a bit of trouble over the weekend and I'm using the rig to host the backup database ATM. It should be all done by this coming weekend though.

I can wait a week. I fired the rig up on folding to see how it would do in preparation

BTW the Howto is excellent Mr Impaler Sah

Let us use the mean time to generate some rules. What counts in the price, the full rig or just the greasy bits (seeing as the case, drives, et al. make little difference in the rig's performance)? How long shall we compete? How shall we guage performance?

I would say the whole lot, greasy bits and all. I bought mine off the shelf, whole, so I am unsure what the components would have costed.

The easiest way to monitor the performance may be to create a new account each for the beasties, under Team 10 of course. I guess we should open it to the floor...

EDIT: And I just made a new sig to celebrate it...

Let us see your spec guys, so we can place our bets

I have a dual 3.2mb 800mhz 2mb cache with 2gig DDR2 beastie.

 

[dunc]

Rules sound good to me. Mr 99million can be the adjudicater (sp) and define the new accounts. I will have to look up the cost of my rig, but it was somewhere in the $1,500 region. It is made by a well known manufacturer so overcloking is impossible (ish). I hope to replace the mobo at sometime in the near future

Dunc

 

[dunc]

Sorry to hear of the demise of Spare HD no 5. Luckily my rug has Raid 1 on it

Do you want me to stop crunching until you can get re-organized?

Or do you feel that you can catch me with your super duper overclocked rig

I may need all the head start I can get though on the cost/performance basis.

Dunc

 

[dunc]

you want to watch out for him - he's got incredibly secure floor-dressings
"Luckily my rug has Raid 1 on it"

Got to love them typos

Glad to hear that you got the HD sorted Billy. I've had the old freezer trick work a couple of times too

Fold on

Dunc

 

[dunc]

Billy seemed to have had more than his unfair share of problems, I think a rematch should be on the cards

I am up for a rematch

The_Alabama_Slamma_2

I think it was a little one sided. However, that plays into the cost/performance ratio. I have Raid1 whereas Billy has recycled HD. I think my machine cost 2.5 times as much as Billy's.

Based on that I have 11316 points and Billy has 9892.5.

Dunc