OC's F@H team?

miniyazz · 11 Jun 2010 at 00:16

Hmm, I have a dual-slot 9800GT running at currently 56ºC under load. To put that in context, my HDD (which in theory gets air from the front of the case over it on its way to the 9800) is at 38ºC, and my other two graphics cards are both over 80ºC (8800GT and 8800GS). If your 9800 was single slot and you didn't mind dual-slot, I'd have been up for a swap as I have minimal space for dual-slot cards

coolamasta · 11 Jun 2010 at 10:04

A quick run down of my hardware is below, I have 5 dedicated rigs and my main rig which is only part time folding as I need to work and game on it (Rig 1)
All rigs belong to me although 3 are in work and 3 are at home.

Rig1: i7 920 @ 4.2ghz & Overclocked GTX295 (All Watercooled)

Rig2: i7 920 @ 4ghz & 2 x Overclocked GTX260's (Watercooled CPU)

Rig3: i7 920 @ 3.8ghz & 2 x Overclocked GTX260

Rig4: Athlon 7750BE @ 3ghz & 3 x Overclocked 9800GX2's

Rig5: Phen II 950 @ 3.4ghz & 3 x Overclocked GTX260's

Rig6: Q6600 @ 3.4ghz & 9800GT & 9600GSO

2 of the i7's run Bigadv's, everything else now over to Win SMP client with the A3 cores, used to run the Notfred VM before the A3's started making decent points

I will check back in the distributed project section here and there and if I see any questions I will be happy to try and help you all out as I've sort of been there and done that, trial and error with lots of different hardware / windows OS's etc although not really a linux person, might be able to help you out a bit etc

miniyazz · 11 Jun 2010 at 11:17

Want

dekez · 11 Jun 2010 at 12:34

Very nice, i remember reading about you in custom pc folder of the month a little while back, excellent set up.

SiriusB · 11 Jun 2010 at 15:36

Your leccy bill must be enormous :eek:

Richy1204 · 11 Jun 2010 at 20:14

miniyazz said:
Hmm, I have a dual-slot 9800GT running at currently 56ºC under load. To put that in context, my HDD (which in theory gets air from the front of the case over it on its way to the 9800) is at 38ºC, and my other two graphics cards are both over 80ºC (8800GT and 8800GS). If your 9800 was single slot and you didn't mind dual-slot, I'd have been up for a swap as I have minimal space for dual-slot cards

dam, too late now I've just fitted the new cooler but yea we could have swapped

Its so quiet compared to the stock XFX cooler its the one where the fan is at the back of the card and pushes hot air to the front. From what GPU-Z was telling me at load it was running over 105'C at 100% fan speed. Its been running in my rig for about 4/5 weeks, took the cooler off and their was hardly any Thermal Compound on the gpu

Now its at 71'C atm happily with some mx-2 :cool:

Not bad for a £10 cooler

What about having a thread for general F@H talk ?

miniyazz · 12 Jun 2010 at 00:14

Hmm, toasty. I like to keep mine below 100ºC

Psypher5 · 13 Jun 2010 at 14:56

just set up my ps3 folding, ill try and keep her on as much as possible (at uni so no leccy bills) and will get my pc running soon (i7/gtx 280)

will try and get a couple of others in the flat do do it too (another 2 ps3's and another i7 pc)

whats a ps3's performance compared to say a stock i7, or in relation to gpu's?

Biffa · 13 Jun 2010 at 15:48

Psypher5 said:
whats a ps3's performance compared to say a stock i7, or in relation to gpu's?

900 PPD PS3
14,000 PPD i7
8,000 PPD GTX 280

Psypher5 · 13 Jun 2010 at 15:56

thanks

will defo try and get the two i7's up. ps3 hardly seems worth it

Will keep the kitchen warm anyway!

if you know, whats an ati 4870 (1gb) good for?

verbal · 13 Jun 2010 at 17:01

I think around 4000 points per day for a 4870.

If you're interested there's another project called "Collatz Conjecture" which is really suited to 4870s.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

Biffa · 13 Jun 2010 at 19:25

coolamasta · 14 Jun 2010 at 18:32

SiriusB said:
Your leccy bill must be enormous

Err its not the cheapest mate but like I say 3 of the rigs are in work in the air-conned server room, but can you guess which 3? Yes the ones with all the GPU's! (Rigs 3,4 & 5) I'm not silly haha

coolamasta · 14 Jun 2010 at 18:38

Biffa said:
900 PPD PS3
14,000 PPD i7
8,000 PPD GTX 280

An i7 with at least an 3.8ghz OC on the A3 work units should be capable of around 18,000 PPD (depending if you run a GPU as well) but they are best left running the BigAdv projects which will make around 26,000 PPD as long as you leave it for the 2.2 days it takes to complete!

Biffa · 14 Jun 2010 at 19:39

coolamasta said:
An i7 with at least an 3.8ghz OC on the A3 work units should be capable of around 18,000 PPD (depending if you run a GPU as well) but they are best left running the BigAdv projects which will make around 26,000 PPD as long as you leave it for the 2.2 days it takes to complete!

Re i7: Depends entirely on the work unit old chap, not often you see an i7 averaging 18K, in a completely optimised situation where the machine isn't doing anything else with the right work unit I've seen high 16-17K but not often.

Nowdays its between 9 and 14K with the nasty P6701's they are handing out.

And he was asking about a stock i7.. so say max 3.2Ghz?

Bigadv is a bit hit and miss these days, with the A3 bigadv's starting to be distributed which are nasty unstable and taking so long that i7's at stock aren't returning them in time to get bonuses. Gone are the 26K PPD's. And even then bigadv isn't a beginners sport, you can crunch for 2 or even 1 whole day, lose a work unit and its a complete waste.

I have one real 8 core machine crunching bigadv, gave up on it for machines that are actually in use, I'd rather have a reliable 16K than a maybe 25K

coolamasta · 15 Jun 2010 at 11:49

Biffa said:
Re i7: Depends entirely on the work unit old chap, not often you see an i7 averaging 18K, in a completely optimised situation where the machine isn't doing anything else with the right work unit I've seen high 16-17K but not often. Nowdays its between 9 and 14K with the nasty P6701's they are handing out.

And he was asking about a stock i7.. so say max 3.2Ghz?

Bigadv is a bit hit and miss these days, with the A3 bigadv's starting to be distributed which are nasty unstable and taking so long that i7's at stock aren't returning them in time to get bonuses. Gone are the 26K PPD's. And even then bigadv isn't a beginners sport, you can crunch for 2 or even 1 whole day, lose a work unit and its a complete waste.

I have one real 8 core machine crunching bigadv, gave up on it for machines that are actually in use, I'd rather have a reliable 16K than a maybe 25K

Yes very true mate, its always down to the WU & core to the amount of PPD you get and whether the machine is dedicated or used while folding etc.
Was just putting down roughly what I get from my i7 machines @ 3.8-4.2ghz

Bigadv's were always the golden egg for big points but with more and more A3 core Bigadvs coming in im dropping to around 20,000ppd from 26,000ppd on a Bigadv

Yes I agree Bigadvs are for dedicated rigs or even light use rigs but they do need to be left on 24/7 without interruption but also they will give the best PPD per £

Suppose it all depends how serious you are about folding really, some do it part time to help out and others have dedicated machines etc what ever we do its all good for the science!