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Stan_Lite

Stan_Lite

Stan_Lite

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As some of you may have noticed from the last weekly news thread, I got the second quad Folding last week.

In a last minute attempt to get more output before I head back out to Egypt (today :(), I decided to get one of the Duos working yesterday. I went out yesterday and bought a cheapo motherboard and PSU locally, which I combined with RAM, HDD etc I had lying around and got the E6600 up and running. It's a really crappy, cheapo Abit board which won't let me OC the thing (pity as it used to do 3.15GHz) but at least it's working. At the moment it's running SMP on Ubuntu and giving about 1700 ppd for a 1760 pointer.

So up to now, I have the two quads - one at stock (approx ppd = 2800), one at 3.0GHz (approx ppd = 3300), the E6600 (approx ppd = 1700) and the M1710 running two Windows console clients (approx ppd = 200 :() - total ppd should be in the region of 8000 whilst I'm away (ppd is down a bit whilst home due to having to run Windows on the gaming rig and usage by me).

That should keep some of the heat off my tail for a bit until I can get things built back up properly :D - assuming it all doesn't go **** up whilst I'm away. Should be ok, all rigs set to auto log on and to resume from power loss with all clients running as a service.

When I get back in a month's time, money will not be abundant enough to build up too much but I will get a better board for the E6600 and I will be getting bits together to build a fileserver/Folding rig using the E6300 I have in the "bits box".

By spring, finances should be looking up and I should be in a position to restart my plans for world domination :p

One slight niggle at the moment is that Ubuntu doesn't seem to be interested as far as the integrated graphics on the cheap boards is concerned - it simply refuses to display the GUI. Once I get the file server set up, it won't matter as I'll be organising VNC for everything but at the moment, in order to monitor things, I'm having to use the two power hungry and noisy X1900XTs from my "bits box" - anybody have any ideas how I can get Ubuntu to work with the onboard graphics?
 
Which Abit board is it? (needed extra volts on the chipset to get a decent OC with mine)
This would also help identify the onboard graphic - know next to nothing about ubuntu's gpu preferances but I guess the newer ones need their own downloads.

Nice to know that your thinking about retaking your old 'mental' status and omg what kind of bit box do you have....

List so far inc:
2x 1900XT,
E6600,
Ram,
HDD,
E6300,
monitor or two?
etc, etc*
 
shadowscotland said:
Which Abit board is it? (needed extra volts on the chipset to get a decent OC with mine)
This would also help identify the onboard graphic - know next to nothing about ubuntu's gpu preferances but I guess the newer ones need their own downloads.

Nice to know that your thinking about retaking your old 'mental' status and omg what kind of bit box do you have....

List so far inc:
2x 1900XT,
E6600,
Ram,
HDD,
E6300,
monitor or two?
etc, etc*
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It's an Abit SG-95. The overclocking options are very basic but it does allow me to alter the bus speed. I change the bus speed but when I boot the machine, it automatically reverts to default speed. I suspect it may be something to do with the fact that it's an 800MHz board with a 1066MHz CPU.
The other board, for the purpose of the graphics question is a Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2.

Other goodies in my "bits box" include a P5WDH, a GA-965P-DS3, a GA-945GCMX-S2, a 530W Tagan, a 700W Seasonic, a 900W Seasonic, a 400Gb Seagate Barracuda, a Creative SB X-Fi mX Xtreme Gamer, a 5.1 Trust sound card and various other bits and pieces. I suspect one of the PSUs is faulty and has damaged all of the motherboards as I can't get any of the boards to work with any of the PSUs after trying them all in every combination :(

That's the stuff I have down here, I still have a load of stuff in storage back up in Peterhead, including all of my old AMD crunchers.
 
Bigstan said:
It's an Abit SG-95.
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The Abit site say it only support 800fsb CPU's (but further in the compatability chart say bios rev17 support all the 1066 C2D's) be thankful it runs at stock.

Our new E6550 pc here has the same issue - it's on a cheap Asus board - some oc'ing options but rubish chipset.

Bigstan said:
The other board, for the purpose of the graphics question is a Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2.
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Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 (Intel® GMA 3100)
Google 'GMA 3100 ubuntu' looks like your not alone

Bigstan said:
I suspect one of the PSUs is faulty and has damaged all of the motherboards as I can't get any of the boards to work with any of the PSUs after trying them all in every combination :(.
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I know you've no time now but if you ever want boards or chips tested (and can afford the postage) I'll happily help you out. - Spend half my life doing it anyway (instead of designing building) but can't test PSU, can't risk blowing up my kit ;)
 
Heavyweights? - Are you calling me fat? :mad: :p

I'm not going completely mad this time as I have to pay the leccy bill. Last time, up in Peterhead, the company paid the leccy so I had 10 rigs running at a time. I'll probably limit it to 6 or 7 this time 'til I see what the leccy bill is like but I'm hoping to get up around the 20k ppd mark :D
 
Always great to hear about your Folding antics - reminds me why it's so great you're back :D

You have enough stuff in your bits box to build something faster than my main rig! :( :D
 
'Ear 'ear :D :o

This looks a bit better now:

Graph.JPG
:D
 
<--- goes off sulking at that mental output and wonders if Bigstan has a funny farm he could check into :p
 
If you can live without the fancy GUI, Ubuntu Server is the way to go. Text console only and no bloat whatsoever. :cool:

More relevant for the VMWare folks though than running native.
 
Berserker said:
If you can live without the fancy GUI, Ubuntu Server is the way to go. Text console only and no bloat whatsoever. :cool:

More relevant for the VMWare folks though than running native.
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I would like to do that but I like to keep an eye on things with FahMon. To do that without a GUI, I would need to set up Samba and stuff with the shell in order to monitor the clients remotely and quite frankly, that scares me at the moment - maybe one of these days........ :o

Oh, by the way....
















PARP :D
 
One word - Meh. :p

Spotted several duty free Whiskies on the way home from Bulgaria today. Shame I don't drink it (and couldn't buy it anyway as Bulgaria is in the EU). :p
 
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