Dear Santa,

[Tattysnuc]

Dear Santa. I've been a very good boy this year as I'm helping mankind to cure altzheimers and cancer.

I know last year yyou said that the winning 6 numbers were not possible then, but if they aren't again, then I'd like a new computer to play on.

Please would you bring me......

eVGA SR2 with waterblocks
2xXeon X5680
G.Skill 48GB Memory Kit For EVGA SR-2
Little Devil phase change kit
Some sort of case
4 x GTX 580's with waterblocks
plus a nice monitor or 3...
Boot Drive

I'll save you some money and I'll re-use my BD-R/RW Optical Drive along with my PSU's (1kw Corsair HX1000 plus thermaltake Express Power 650 Watt), CPU waterblocks, reservoir and sound card

This will enable me to work for another year and also get Hexus within the top 100.

Many thanks to you and your little elves.



To think that lot will get me about 200k-250k ppd on a single machine. (150k on the processors, 18k per '580) - I also think it will play crysis.... just not at the full resolution of 3 of those 30 inchers.

Nice to know I wont need to throw all of my current stuff away eh... How considerate of me

That lot flowed far too easily. Guess you could say that I've been window shopping FAR too often.

[Rob_B]

Get real.....




How is Santa going to fit 4 GTX 580s in your stocking?

[Tattysnuc]

Get real.....




How is Santa going to fit 4 GTX 580s in your stocking?

You're right - I'm being greedy. I'll drop something.

I only need 24 gb of Ram

[joshwa]

Whats the cheapest / performance / cost ratio? chips vs gpu system?
How do the 6core AMD's do?
and what is Raven running?

[Tattysnuc]

Wonder if we could ask Hexus to do a feature on that? I only have Intel Core i7 and Core 2 Quad to work with presently but will work with others if anyone will send them out for testing...

I know that 1stRaven's using his exchange server and others for folding on.

I believe that you need to have a minimum of 8 cores to fold the BIGADV units on, and Intel's can get round this on quad cores and six cores (with HT Disabled) somehow, but I've not looked into that yet.

My understanding is that AMD's are not quite as good as the Intel chips for folding, but don't quote me on that. I'd gladly go back to an AMD platform if I could overclock anywhere near as well as with my Intel setup. I Moved over to Intel when Core 2 Duo's came out from my Opteron 146 so I don;t consider myself a fan boy - more a pragmatist. Buying a PC is like steering an ocean liner. The bigger and faster it goes, the more difficult it is to shift direction!

A bit Like Emile Heskey.... 'cept he never get's going in the first place!

[1stRaven]

To think that lot will get me about 200k-250k ppd on a single machine. (150k on the processors, 18k per '580)

150K on the processors? I have servers running dual 5650's (slightly slower ghz but not much) and I am only getting 30-40kppd on them.

[Tattysnuc]

150K on the processors? I have servers running dual 5650's (slightly slower ghz but not much) and I am only getting 30-40kppd on them.

Only quoting what I've read elsewhere. It does seema bit high though now you mention it...

i'm getting 30k-50k (or was) on my single 980X at 4.17 Ghz. I'd at least be plumbing for a 4.5Ghz clock speed if I were going to spend that kind of money on kit.

[scaryjim]

... My understanding is that AMD's are not quite as good as the Intel chips for folding, but don't quote me on that. ...

My current folding is all being done on a 2.5GHz Opteron (basically a Phenom II) but my understanding is that the extra cache makes very little difference for folding. Looking at my previous check ins and the length of time I know various units take, I'd guess that I'd average about 3.5Kppd if I was folding 24/7.

Whats the cheapest / performance / cost ratio? chips vs gpu system?

Based on my performance, I'd be inclined to think that a £75 Athlon II X4 640, running at 3GHz, is likely to produce ~ 4Kppd and present good value for money - just stick it in a dead cheap AM3 mobo with a couple of GB of cheap as chips RAM (my folding rig doesn't use anywhere near half of its 4GB, so 2GB should do the job ). I reckon you could get a 4Kppd rig for < £200 on that basis. Presuambly a Phenom II X6 could get you another 2Kppd, but it'd cost an extra £70ish...

As I understand it a GTS450 can churn 8k - 12k depending on work units (and presumably subsystem) and they're about £95, but then you'd need a machine to put it in. However that's quite a lot of points for the money: stick one in a cheap as chips AMD build with a Sempron 140 and an HT1 mobo (< £40) and you could probably build a 10kppd machine for ~ £250, with judicious cost cutting Whether it'd be worth the extra ~ £20 to get a GTX460 768MB instead I'm not sure.

For points per watt you've surely got to go with an Athlon II X4 605e - should churn > 3Kppd and if it undervolts at all you could get that for < 60W from the wall for the whole system. The 605e is currently £96 at ebuyer, so again with a cheapish mobo and RAM you could build that for ~ £200

[Tattysnuc]

Any idea what the production rate when attempting BIGADV units are on the Phenom II 1090 or whatever the 6 core varient is now...?

I'm off in search... slow day here in the office...

[Tattysnuc]

This appears to be a list of scores...

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?k...2Wk1zQmc&gid=0

taken from

http://www.overclock.net/overclock-n...-database.html

[Tattysnuc]

As this appears to be nothing more than a pipe dream, I've decided to buy myself one of those uber-overclockable i7 970's. I know I shouldn't have but a Sandy Bridge upgrade means I'll have to bin off everything that I've built and we're not even sure how many cores etc and the performance they'll yield. 6 physical cores @ 4Ghz definitely yields good results, so we'll see how that gets on.

It's now official. 1stRaven My new years resolution is to catch ya! Not sure HOW, but by jiminy I'm gonna try!

[Englander]

As this appears to be nothing more than a pipe dream, I've decided to buy myself one of those uber-overclockable i7 970's. I know I shouldn't have but a Sandy Bridge upgrade means I'll have to bin off everything that I've built and we're not even sure how many cores etc and the performance they'll yield. 6 physical cores @ 4Ghz definitely yields good results, so we'll see how that gets on.

It's now official. 1stRaven My new years resolution is to catch ya! Not sure HOW, but by jiminy I'm gonna try!

Good for you! Do keep us updated on how your 970 goes.

[nibbler]

I suppose while it's still 2010 you can buy as much kit as you like, new year's resolution doesn't start till 1st of January. Stock up ;D

[1stRaven]

As this appears to be nothing more than a pipe dream, I've decided to buy myself one of those uber-overclockable i7 970's. I know I shouldn't have but a Sandy Bridge upgrade means I'll have to bin off everything that I've built and we're not even sure how many cores etc and the performance they'll yield. 6 physical cores @ 4Ghz definitely yields good results, so we'll see how that gets on.

It's now official. 1stRaven My new years resolution is to catch ya! Not sure HOW, but by jiminy I'm gonna try!

I've just fired up the gpu client on my home pc. Hopefully that just chuck in a few more points my way.



I've also just set up a test schedule folding task on a couple of the other servers at work to see if folding at the weekend will work at all.

Keep trying to catch me though.....

[nibbler]

A Phenom II x6 1055T will do 11-13k ppd when overclocked to 3.5Ghz and above.