December what's happening thread.
- Thread starter Bleeder
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Come and get me! 
absolutefunk
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If you only fold on one computer, but it has a 4 core CPU, does that count as a folding farm? 
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Ryoko
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that's not a box, that's a filing cabinet!
http://martinsliquidlab.org/2011/06/10/xspc-h2-tower-case-preview/
its a 580 they are both in I like them at 900mhz but I only have a monster 2 fan rad. waiting on a quad rad.
the rad in the top looks awesome but performance not to sure of ,I don't have anything to compare it to .the 2nd rad Alphacool NexXxoS UT60 Full Copper Quad should be here fri or sat . I will try to do a build thread
its a 580 they are both in I like them at 900mhz but I only have a monster 2 fan rad. waiting on a quad rad.
the rad in the top looks awesome but performance not to sure of ,I don't have anything to compare it to .the 2nd rad Alphacool NexXxoS UT60 Full Copper Quad should be here fri or sat . I will try to do a build thread
Bleeder
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Picked up another GTX 670 on Boxing Day for ~$320 (13% tax included) and it's paired with my other GTX 670 sitting in my FX-8150 dedicated folding rig.
Got my fx 8150 up to a disappointing 4.4Ghz stable OC. Can't get it any higher without random BSoD's. Memory is stable but it's just the 8150 that's having issues. 4.5Ghz is running at only about 63c so it's not the temp and I'm worried about adding too much voltage to it (about 1.35 right now). Oh well.
This box is pulling in about 85k to 90k PPD so I'm pretty happy with it so far.
Also tweaked a server at work that's running Windows. It's got 24 threads available but when I configure F@H to use all 24 threads it gets about 10k to 12k PPD. If I cut F@H back to use just 12 threads the PPD jumps to over 20K PPD. SMP folding doesn't look to scale very well - at least in Windows.
It's good to see the team PPD up over 1.4M again.
Happy new year everyone!
Got my fx 8150 up to a disappointing 4.4Ghz stable OC. Can't get it any higher without random BSoD's. Memory is stable but it's just the 8150 that's having issues. 4.5Ghz is running at only about 63c so it's not the temp and I'm worried about adding too much voltage to it (about 1.35 right now). Oh well.
This box is pulling in about 85k to 90k PPD so I'm pretty happy with it so far.
Also tweaked a server at work that's running Windows. It's got 24 threads available but when I configure F@H to use all 24 threads it gets about 10k to 12k PPD. If I cut F@H back to use just 12 threads the PPD jumps to over 20K PPD. SMP folding doesn't look to scale very well - at least in Windows.
It's good to see the team PPD up over 1.4M again.
Happy new year everyone!
Ryoko
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i'm not sure about the 8150s, but my 32nm sandy bridge chips are 1.38 to 1.4v, running just fine.
if 1 thread is being hit hard by another process, all other threads will have to wait on it, bringing down ppd substantially. try running 20 or 22 threads, and see how it does.
Bleeder
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It does seem that I was being very conservative with the volts of the 8150. I just found this:
http://sites.amd.com/us/Documents/AMD_FX_Performance_Tuning_Guide.pdf
Looks like the max volts is 1.5 and the guide says that at 4.5Ghz I should be at around 1.35 volts - which I'm just at. So, going to add some more juice and see what the temps get to.
Going to try your suggestion with the server and threads... The only thing is there is almost no other workload on the box at all. There is a nightly backup that runs for maybe 30 minutes and that's it. But I will try it and see because I should be getting more PPD out of that box than I am.
jima13
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no pressure.
None at all
I had actually planned on cutting back when I hit 100mil, but since I can still afford my electric bill I've kept them running. Also, the 3 in the garage keep it from freezing during the winter I will celebrate when you pass me in a few months
