Thinking about making a comeback

[booyaka]

hmmmmm - tempted to return as well - not got a high end setup now but does lie idle for large parts of the day.

Hit the million mark and then stopped. Will have a scout around and see what suits my hardware.

i5 750 and 6970 ati card - will see what can be pumped out of that.

 

[ozaudio]

Are you still thinking of a come back, or has the excitement dropped of now lol

 

[booyaka]

Are you still thinking of a come back, or has the excitement dropped of now lol

started my own comeback thread - will get a sig sorted as well!

 

[FMTopfan]

The effort I see from others is what inspired me to start folding and have now reached 1M. Going to get started on my new Folding build on Tuesday, I kept in mind energy efficiency followed by cost as there will be no GPU

Put it this way - my electric bill would probably cover a small mortgage

Hope your on a fixed tariff Regarding energy costs, my household lecky consumption is £900 pa, running a dedi will probably add £250 pa and bring it up to a worrying £1150 - I may only overclock the 3570K to 4.2GHz but at least I can turn a radiator off!

 

[Stan_Lite]

Running my triple 670 beast may well double my monthly power bill

Only a week until I get home. Can't wait to get started

 

[FMTopfan]

Running my triple 670 beast may well double my monthly power bill

Only a week until I get home. Can't wait to get started

What PSU you using to run 3-way SLI?



GTX 670s has very reasonable energy consumption but temps do hit 80c under full load. Maybe point another 120mm casefan towards the top GPU which will be hottest and use a side panel fan for exhausting the hot air out completely, when you wash your hands you can use this additional free heat to completely dry your hands and compete with Dyson

 

[Stan_Lite]

What PSU you using to run 3-way SLI?

OCZ ZX Series 1250W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply [OCZ-ZX1250W-UN]. Plenty

670s has very reasonable energy consumption but temps do hit 80c under full load. Maybe point another 120mm casefan towards the top GPU which will be hottest and use a side panel fan for exhausting the hot air out completely, when you wash your hands you can use this additional free heat to completely dry your hands and compete with Dyson

Thanks for the tip. I was thinking about airflow. I'll try your suggestion. It is my intention to watercool the 670s eventually (CPU is already watercooled) so airflow won't be an issue after that.

 

[Biffa]

OCZ ZX Series 1250W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply [OCZ-ZX1250W-UN]. Plenty



Thanks for the tip. I was thinking about airflow. I'll try your suggestion. It is my intention to watercool the 670s eventually (CPU is already watercooled) so airflow won't be an issue after that.

Still need good airflow

 

[loudbob]

I've just made a minor upgrade too - with the addition of another two 660's which now brings my total to:

3 x GTX 680's
4 x GTX 660's
4 x GTX 570's
1 x GTX 480

Due to further upgrades and RMA's fulfilled I should be up'n'running with the following by Thursday

4 x GTX 680's
2 x GTX 670's
6 x GTX 660TI's
1 x GTX 660

Happy Days are here again

 

[FMTopfan]

Due to further upgrades and RMA's fulfilled I should be up'n'running with the following by Thursday

4 x GTX 680's
2 x GTX 670's
6 x GTX 660TI's
1 x GTX 660

Happy Days are here again

Are all your rigs with those GPUs in the same room? You must have amazing air con - I use a single 12K BTU for 2 rigs but it's very noisy - how you manage in the summer I don't know but congrats on your efforts

 

[kerrgreg]

possibly not AC but WC Ive had 4 gpus running in one small room without ac just needs ventilation to the rest of the house.

 

[loudbob]

Are all your rigs with those GPUs in the same room? You must have amazing air con - I use a single 12K BTU for 2 rigs but it's very noisy - how you manage in the summer I don't know but congrats on your efforts

Nay - all rigs in different rooms

 

[ozaudio]

i do belive today you * should * be home if it was 2 weeks when you returned home from when you made this thread? lol

 

[Stan_Lite]

i do belive today you * should * be home if it was 2 weeks when you returned home from when you made this thread? lol

In Heathrow at the moment. Won't be home until 19:00. Might get up and running tonight, depending on whether I can be bothered after traveling since 05:00. If not, tomorrow will do.

 

[diogenese]

Noooo! wait a few days more then I can stomp a legend if only for a moment
I've just got a single 66ti folding and 25k estimated ppd gives me 3 days to catch up!

 

[Stan_Lite]

Noooo! wait a few days more then I can stomp a legend if only for a moment
I've just got a single 66ti folding and 25k estimated ppd gives me 3 days to catch up!

I'm assuming you're talking about the stan_lite account. You can have that one, I'll be Folding with the original Bigstan account

 

[Stan_Lite]

The sleeper has awakened

Got it up and running now. Tried originally with GPU Tracker but it wouldn't run the GPU clients properly so I binned that and went with FAHControl which seems to have worked fine. I just started it up and let it do its own thing.

Current estimated PPD is about 88,500. From what was posted earlier I was hoping for a bit more. Don't know if it requires tweaking or if it's just the WUs. The SMP client is Folding a p7034 and is estimating 12,800 PPD (3770k at 4.4GHz). Two of the 670s are Folding p8072 and estimating about 25,000 PPD while the third GPU is Folding p8073 and estimating 26,000 PPD. The GPUs are at stock.

Temps seem fine - max CPU temp is about 73c (watercooled with fans turned right down) and max GPU temp about 83c. Bit of a racket but not as bad as I was expecting tbh. Will be better when I get around to watercooling the 670s.

 

[kerrgreg]

Looking good

Any pics?

 

[Stan_Lite]

Looking good

Any pics?

The internals:



The outside:



Screenshot:

 

[loudbob]

The sleeper has awakened

Got it up and running now. Tried originally with GPU Tracker but it wouldn't run the GPU clients properly so I binned that and went with FAHControl which seems to have worked fine. I just started it up and let it do its own thing.

Current estimated PPD is about 88,500. From what was posted earlier I was hoping for a bit more. Don't know if it requires tweaking or if it's just the WUs. The SMP client is Folding a p7034 and is estimating 12,800 PPD (3770k at 4.4GHz). Two of the 670s are Folding p8072 and estimating about 25,000 PPD while the third GPU is Folding p8073 and estimating 26,000 PPD. The GPUs are at stock.

Temps seem fine - max CPU temp is about 73c (watercooled with fans turned right down) and max GPU temp about 83c. Bit of a racket but not as bad as I was expecting tbh. Will be better when I get around to watercooling the 670s.

Not sure if you've already done it, but.....

Restrict your CPU to six cores (in the client and using something like Bills Process Manager) and dedicate the remaing two to the GPU's (using Bills Process Manager - use two HT Cores for the GPU's).

I've found using GPUTracker for the CPU and FAHControl for the GPU's works better - this way the CPU should get between 18k to 20k and the GPU's should get 25k to 26k (not the best wu's available for the GPU's atm but the better wu's will increase the GPU's ppd upto around 35k).

Also, maybe better if you run your rig without the side panel off and manually set the GPU Fan's (EVGA Precisionx or MSI Afterburner) to run at 90% at around 70c (trial and error with this to find a happy medium).


My 670's (oc'd) are currently averaging around 28k on the 807x's and the 3770k (oc'd to 4.7GHz - Noctua D14 with temps at 60c) is averaging 24.6k on the 6981's.