My good lord biffa, I'm guessing you didn't like speed beating you on the PPD front. I had my suspicions after you other thread. What's the planned gpu setup for Gemini or is it going to remain CPU only. Would be a waste of a 4 slot board.
Heh, no this was all ordered before this week started, speed and I swap PPD places quite often according to the vaguaries of bigadv allocation.
ChrisB had the big cahoonas last week, but no its not because someone might be catching up, its more to do with efficiency and my own curiosity taking advantage of an opportunity.
And no I won't be putting any GPU's in this one.
That looks seriously.....serious. Don't stop there man don't we get to know whats going in it, 24 threads 4 x ??? gpu, o/s damn this is more exciting than an nvidia launch party.
Nope, CPU only on this one.
One question: Does it smell good?
No but its huge, I thought the case box was massive, it was only when I got the motherboard box out that I realized how enormous that was!
The CPU boxes were a huge anticlimax, I initially thought they had forgotten to send them but then they were wrapped in bubble wrap at the bottom of the box.
Thats a i7 920 box, a i7 970 box (big cooler on those) and the X5650 box, now given the X5650 was around the same price as the i7 970 I was a bit dissapointed with the box size
To answer the GPU's question. OK this build is about folding efficiency. I've done the 6 core (12 thread) CPU and 4xGTX470 build with weebeastie and that pulls in around 90K PPD on average with a bigadv running on 10 threads and 2 threads dedicated to the GPUs. It pulls near 800W from the wall its good but not *that* good.
Problem is that GPU3 is a nightmare for getting in the way of the CPU and bigadv production does suffer badly.
According to results from other teams I should be able to push between 140-160K PPD from the one rig with decent bigadv WU's and for under 600W, well thats the theory
So with regular 160K PPD pushing out on Gemini I'll have more options to spread the load of projects to my other kit thats perhaps not optimised for folding. I've got some C2Q with 9800GT's in that seriously underperform for Folding that might be better used on Seti@home. Also my main home rig is not really best suited to run bigadv on folding.
I may switch weebeastie to bigadv only, and put the fermi's to work on Seti or another boinc project.
Plus if I feel like it I may consolidate my lead in Folding, and then I've let you boys pull ahead in S@H recently and I fancy getting my place back
You need a case that can take the depth of the motherboard, currently there are only 2 or 3 stock cases that can do it, or you can get a custom MM mobo tray and hack it into a Corsair. The only other options are to buy a MountainMods case itself or a DangerDen Plexi case. Neither of which rock my world.
