New PC advice - E5200

LupoLover · 4 May 2010 at 23:02

Ok, just got given a PC to fold on. Its a E5200 stock clock 2.51Ghz, has a frezzer 7 pro

. Il try and clock it a bit, have 2gb DDR2 Geil RAM. GFX is a ATI thing (non fan heatsink).

Il try my best with clocking it but questions for you guys is

What clients shall I run and which OS? XP on at min, shall I just do a fresh install or change to windows 7? 32bit as only 2gb RAM or 64bit? I presume just fold on CPU as GPU will be pointless and just create heat :confused:

Cheers

Frozennova · 4 May 2010 at 23:21

1) Fresh install of XP, 7 uses more resources
2) Overclock it till its begging for mercy
3) Install the SMP client with a passkey and -advmethods

That will have it producing around 1500-2500ppd once you start getting the bonuses after 10 A3 units returned and what you've got it clocked at.

For reference my rig will hit 2500ppd @ 3.6 and c2d offer virtually the same performance clock for clock

LupoLover · 4 May 2010 at 23:37

Cheers. Whats difference between -smp and -advmethods flags?

Frozennova · 5 May 2010 at 01:52

You will need both. Smp tells it to use multiple cores and advmethods tells it to grab a3 units which give a higher ppd

LupoLover · 5 May 2010 at 06:58

How do you add both? -smp -advmethods

Frozennova · 5 May 2010 at 08:41

You would be correct.

You should run the same on your Q6600 in sig if that folds aswell as that will produce 5-6k ppd on a3s

dekez · 5 May 2010 at 09:22

E5200 are great little chips, I had mine at 3.6 on a freezer 7 pro 24/7, if you're lucky and have a really good clocker you might be able to get it to 4Ghz

LupoLover · 5 May 2010 at 09:39

Sorry Sig very old. That was my old beast, Water cooled and folded at 3.8Ghz, sadley all sold now tho as had to sell house and downgrade to a smaller place and it was in a HUGE MM case. Have a lappy and now this E5200 rig

Frozennova · 5 May 2010 at 10:07

As said by dekez, the E5200 will produce a fairly reasonable amonunt of points, you could try and pick up a Q6600 in the MM for £60-70 to pretty much double your output.