What shall I crunch/fold?

TheTross said:
Unfortunately your 6450 won't run Milkyway@home as it's not capable of performing double precision arithmetic, which Milkyway needs. Collatz Conjecture would be suitable, but I'm not sure if that project is of any interest to you.
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Ah, ok, as I said I'm not too familiar with ATI cards as I haven't had one for years heh. Thanks for that.
I'll fire up Collatz tonight in that case then, it doesn't particularly interest me as a project in the same way that F@H and R@H do but I'll do it for the points and the team - sure it will be a huge boost to production :D
 
OK, well, I'm crunching away happily on Rosetta and Collatz now, I'm getting a bit more used to the way BOINC works. One more question that's come up though - Collatz at the minute is getting two units, one that runs on the GPU and a "mini Collatz" that crunches on the CPU, which I don't want. I've gone into the Collatz preferences and told it not to use the CPU, and also unticked mini Collatz, but every time it finishes one of those units it's grabbing another. Is it meant to do that, or is it some kind of bug? I know I might be better off asking on the Collatz forums, but I thought I'd ask here first in case I'm just doing something wrong :)
 
Hmm, not sure why it's doing that as when I ran Collatz I also told it not to use the CPU, which it didn't. Have you also got the If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications? option set to no? Might be worth setting that option just in case, then update the preferences and also manually update the Collatz project within BOINC to make sure that BOINC is using the new preferences.
 
At least that confirms what I thought, and it's not me just reading it wrong. I have that preference set to No at the minute, I've just checked it, saved preference, unchecked, saved again and manually updated from BOINC to make sure it's definitely No, and I'll see how that goes. If it's still crunching Collatz on the CPU tomorrow, I'll try resetting all the settings back to default, manually update from BOINC, and set them all again, see if that makes any difference.
 
OK, removing and re adding Collatz as well as checking all CPU related preferences, updating, then unchecking them again seems to have fixed it, now it's only downloading GPU units. Woo!
I don't know how the credit and RAC stacks up between projects so I think I'll have to wait till the team news to see how well it's doing, but so far my lil' 6450 has done 12654 credits for Collatz, RAC of 1197 - well, with a bit of CPU help, but not that much. I'm planning on re-applying thermal paste and rigging up a little fan to help out the passively cooled card though - temps are fine but, as with anything, I want to overclock it :)
Does RAM speed/timings have much effect on Rosetta? Obviously my CPU is locked but I'm running my 1600MHz RAM at 1333 right now because my board was having some problems at first, turned out it was a bad BIOS flash rather than memory instability but I haven't bothered tweaking it yet. If it makes a decent difference I'll clock it back up, though,
 
Not sure about the RAM speed, although I wouldn't have thought it would make much difference. That said, there's no harm in getting it to run at stock to see what happens - if you've got it, you may as well use it ;)
 
Well, the Celeron doesn't appear to like me changing any RAM settings, it's actually at 1066MHz because that's the maximum officially supported speed - I forgot the Celerons have a lower max than the other SBs. Changing the speed to 1333 even with relaxed timings and pumped up voltage results in a no POST, so it'll just have to stay at 1066. Ah well, I'm sure it wouldn't have made much difference anyhow.
I'll rig up a fan and get the 6450 clocked tonight, just for the fun of it. I'll also get myself a shiny new sign to replace my F@H one, as I won't be doing any folding now till I get my new PC which will be a long time.
 
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