Folding Chit-Chat

[Tattysnuc]

I'm surprised that it's struggling to keep up. You're at 3.6Ghz, and architecturally there wasn't much difference between a Q9650 and an i7 920 at their respective stock speeds if I recall, just the number of cores. It was when you overclock the 920 that it really came into it's own.

You really appear to be at a crossroads. I've been advised by someone in the know (who cannot tell due an NDA so they say..

"If you really want to spend a grand on getting yourself an excellent, and sustainable high clock, then wait til January and grab yourself an unlocked Sandy Bridge set up. I can't go into the figures because of the NDA, but I will say that you will see a better return on your investment by doing this as far as clock speed and overall grunt goes."

Quoted by the all knowing Clunk: http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/cooli...r-chiller.html in response 2.

Just thought I'd correct myself before someone else does. Architecturally there's a world of difference between the two chips. I meant to say that despite their architectural differences, the real world performance differential was negligible.

[nibbler]

Stress testing at 3.6Ghz and 1.4vcore now. Fingers crossed!

[nibbler]

WU now won't budge from 49%
Hmm...

[Terbinator]

WU now won't budge from 49%
Hmm...

This is why I've stopped pushing for maximum OC because if its 'breaks' it means you lose all your progress, Feelsbadman.jpg

On the other hand, for those of you folding on i7's does the client benefit from a higher BCLK or all out CPU speed?

[nibbler]

lol
Prime 95 was still running

[scaryjim]

Finish it already!

Yeah yeah, keep your hair on! I need to pick up about another £50's worth of bits and bobs, and probably won't have the money for that until February now, but we'll see how things look after christmas

Whats in your machine your using at the minute, just a quad-core?

The work machine is a quad core 45nm opteron @ 2.5GHz - it's basically the same as a 2.5GHz Phenom II. That's churning a fairly steady 4kppd, or at least was before I stopped folding on it today. This weekend I've also been GPU folding on Kali's single stock 8800GTX, which appears to also churn out around 4k ppd. I can't remember if I left the 8400GS folding too: if I did that churns about 500ppd (as nibbler correctly estimated).

Looking forward to seeing the worklogs updated. Hope you're feeling better soon.

Cheers mate. Lemsips beat off the the worst of the symptoms, but I still feel pretty grotty. Probably have another day off work tomorrow, then try to get in on Wednesday so I can tidy projects up before christmas...

[1stRaven]

I'm just setting up a few additional servers for the Christmas break. Got to keep Tatty off my ass lol.

Been doing some more reading and it looks like the cpu issues I am hitting is down to gaming at 1680x1050 on a single 22". Knock that up to 3 x22" monitors and the cpu seems to handle it better.

I did price up an I7 bundle today and it came to over £500 for a motherboard, ram, cooler and processor. that crap is expensive!

might be worth an upgrade to a quad core before then I think. Hopefully they'll drop in price some more too

[nibbler]

DDY is selling his i7 setup which managed 30k ppd.

[Terbinator]

Tatty is as well...

[nibbler]

Up at 3.72 GHz and 1.45vcore stable atm with 1600mhz cas7 Ram.

[DDY]

DDY is selling his i7 setup which managed 30k ppd.

Unfortunatly so, the selling part that is.

Gonna miss this rig



The machine in it's hayday:

[nibbler]

What/where do you study that is so time consuming?
Is that my nvidia 8400GS I see there?

[DDY]

Yeh, that's the 8400GS you sold me! I've taken the fan and tiny heat sink off and replaced it with something bigger that can run passively.

I'm doing Civil Engineering, Level 2 at the moment... Lots of coursework and exams for January

[nibbler]

Ah, is this in London then?
That card will not die btw! It's just one of those components that soldiers on. Stock hsf was rather noisy though.

[1stRaven]

DDY is selling his i7 setup which managed 30k ppd.

I wish I could afford it but it'll be the end of Jan before I can can buy anything else.

[Englander]

Bah! Just lost a WU on 92% whilst trying to sort out my memory issue!