What foldy/SETI upgrade

Pilgrim57

Pilgrim57

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Hi Guys - doubt I could go the Biffa route.

The SSD upgrade has meant a loss of 380MHz from my overclock to get PC stable. Don't want to fry the CPU{Q9550} just yet with more than 1.36v.

So what's on the horizon for crunching? Ivybridge & Bulldozer? as I'm on a quad I would want at least a hex-core, no?

The P67 & Z68 mobo's are having a bad time with the SSD Sandforce controller so not interested in a cheap Sandybridge upgrade.

Got a 560Ti & that seems to handle SETI well but I understand GPU folding is not so good for gt ppd.

This won't be a dedicated folder/Seti cruncher.

Suggestions welcomed:) Time frame end of this, start of next year.
I think all I'll need is CPU + HSF, mobo & ram: 6-8GB
 
I'm considering this myself at the moment, I was hoping that bulldozer would be out by now, I'm umming and aahring between:

Sandybridge then drop in an ivybridge cpu later
AM3+ plus hex then drop in bulldozer
or doing something mental
 
dekez said:
I'm considering this myself at the moment, I was hoping that bulldozer would be out by now, I'm umming and aahring between:

Sandybridge then drop in an ivybridge cpu later
AM3+ plus hex then drop in bulldozer
or doing something mental
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Put off current Intel boards due to Sandforce SSD issue & all talk of Bios Orom updates.

Would be temped back to AMD though if bang for buck was good.
 
Fair enough if I had any patience I would wait for bulldozer, I've been holding off buying for a while telling myself - after the wedding, after the wedding, now I don't have the will power to wait any longer lol.

I went for an Asrock Gen3 motherboard, apparently they are already Ivybridge compatible but we'll have to see about that in time. If not I'm not looking forward to updating the bios if I need to, somehow I've managed to avoid ever doing it before!
 
What Model? Asrock used to be the poor man's Asus but I think the have made quite a few leaps forward in recent years. PCIE 3.0:)

Never updated a BIOS:eek: Its not a bad as all that & with the new UEFI ones I think it has been made even easier. Goodbye floppy disk & DOS screen;)
 
I know it's shameful :o

The board is:
Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3

To be honest I'd heard very little about Asrock before today, was planning on getting a gigabyte board as I've never had one and people always rave about them but apparently they've skimmed on the Z68 features. This one has pretty good reviews though and there is a nice thread on here with lots of bios shots so hopefully I will have an easy time overclocking :D It also looks pretty mean :D
 
Where would you be in the days of flaky floppy updates, dekez? :P Hehe, Asrock has been around for a long time in one form or another. I can recall them exporting boards as far back as early P4 days. In the Chinese market they have been around even longer. But the push towards the upper market segments is something of a recent move, probably due to Asus coming on board.

Decent value for money and the software team is genuine enough with frequent fixes. :) I guess it is just me left hanging around for the mighty Bull to arrive, then. XD Mind, I'm tempted to get a Llano HTPC and funds may dwindle shortly. -.-'
 
Looks good;) but is that a com(serial) port on the i/o rear panel:(

Keep us posted with yr progress.

What chip drives the SATA3 ports? Hopefully not Marvell.
 
Will do, although it's just going in my old 902 so I won't bother with a build log.

Intel and Marvell for the sata ports, is Marvell bad? I'll only have the os on disk so will use the intel ones if so.
 
There seems to be a compatibilty issue with the Marvel controller & the Sandforce controlled SSD's at present but for hdd should be fine.

Just interested in the o/cing as I believe the with the UEFI bios you can make changes in windows & not reboot.
 
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