What foldy/SETI upgrade

[Pilgrim57]

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

 

[Pilgrim57]

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

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.

 

[Pilgrim57]

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 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

 

[Pilgrim57]

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.

 

[Pilgrim57]

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.