Killer of PPD

Bleeder

Bleeder

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So, I get some new parts for my main rig. i7-2600K, Asus Maximus IV Gene/Gen3 and a Corsair H80. This replaced my Asus Crosshair V, Phenom II 975@4Ghz and stock air cooler.

I'm lazy and do the 1 button OC in the Asus AI Suite II after I have everything loaded up But, it does a pretty good job of bring the 2600K to 4.4Ghz using 1.3volts - could be better, I know, but I'm happy so far.

So I fire up the F@H client v7 and let it run. After 5 full days of varying WU's I see that this is crunching the same amount of PPD as my Phenom. Needless to say I wasn't very happy.

After checking everything but the obvious, I finally fire up the Windows 7 performance monitor this afternoon to see what's happening there. I see that the Asus AI Suite II s using about 11% to 12% of the CPU cycles. Not sure why this would need so much but whatever - I killed it.

At the time I killed it I was running a 7002 project at about a 5 minute TPF and an estimated PPD of about 8600. I now check the TPF after letting it run for about 45 minutes and it's down to about 1 minute and 50 seconds with an estimated PPD of about 34,000.

I find it hard to believe that some process using only about 11% of the system could have such a huge impact on PPD. I guess the F@H cores are VERY sensitive to who is playing in the sand box with them.

Needless to say that I'm very happy with my system now and I'm in the process of checking to make sure I have no other crap running on my other systems.

So if you are folding make sure you check for crap running on you rig. :-)
 
Bleeder said:
So, I get some new parts for my main rig. i7-2600K, Asus Maximus IV Gene/Gen3 and a Corsair H80. This replaced my Asus Crosshair V, Phenom II 975@4Ghz and stock air cooler.

I'm lazy and do the 1 button OC in the Asus AI Suite II after I have everything loaded up But, it does a pretty good job of bring the 2600K to 4.4Ghz using 1.3volts - could be better, I know, but I'm happy so far.

So I fire up the F@H client v7 and let it run. After 5 full days of varying WU's I see that this is crunching the same amount of PPD as my Phenom. Needless to say I wasn't very happy.

After checking everything but the obvious, I finally fire up the Windows 7 performance monitor this afternoon to see what's happening there. I see that the Asus AI Suite II s using about 11% to 12% of the CPU cycles. Not sure why this would need so much but whatever - I killed it.

At the time I killed it I was running a 7002 project at about a 5 minute TPF and an estimated PPD of about 8600. I now check the TPF after letting it run for about 45 minutes and it's down to about 1 minute and 50 seconds with an estimated PPD of about 34,000.

I find it hard to believe that some process using only about 11% of the system could have such a huge impact on PPD. I guess the F@H cores are VERY sensitive to who is playing in the sand box with them.

Needless to say that I'm very happy with my system now and I'm in the process of checking to make sure I have no other crap running on my other systems.

So if you are folding make sure you check for crap running on you rig. :-)
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the fah smp client threads are highly dependent on each other for data. since a 2600k has 8 threads, windows reports 12-13% cpu usage if one thread is maxed. maxing one thread will effectively tank the whole smp client, as it's trying to work off of data from the dead thread, and not getting anything in response.

that aside, my 4.4ghz 2600k averages 29k ppd, so your numbers are actually pretty good!
 
This is something I wondered about. My i7-990x folds WAY better when it's just sitting in the corner as an HTPC and hardly ever used over when I was using as my daily PC. You pretty much solidified that folding is highly effected by other seemingly small processes.
 
Well Lord love a duck... either I'm getting some REALLY GREAT WU's or this processor just flat out rocks. The current WU is a 7004 and PPD is now up to ~46,000. I'm thinking that it's a mix of both though. :)

I'd also like to say that the H80 is really nice. It's keep my processor at a nice and cool 48c running full out.

This is my first Intel in my main rig sense a Pentium II something-or other and I'm really happy. I'm a along time AMD whore but this chip is top of the line for sure and well worth the money.
 
anything running with the v7 really takes a hit on smp . I stoped running the gpu this month to see what impact it has .

the sandys just rock bottom line .:drool:

id put 4cores running 8 threads intel aginst amds 8 real cores anyday , just sayin
 
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Yep, just like the Bulldozer cores? Or does that do well with folding?
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the 8150 at stock (3.6ghz) averages around 13.8k ppd. the 2500k stock (3.3ghz) averages 12.5k ppd. the 2600k stock (3.4ghz) averages 19.5k ppd.

the bulldozer has 8 integer cores, and 4 FPUs each capable of 2 simultaneous operations. however, the folding client only uses one operation per FPU. clock for clock, the 2500k is roughly equal in production to the 8150.
 
Also to add to making sure nothing else is running is hot on the heels of, recently found out (yesterday), that Windows update will reboot your computer :P

Not an issue if you're about but if you aint hours of sitting doing nothing. hehe.
A setting I forgot to sort after my reinstall. lol
 
one of the reasons i set my clients to run as a service...

and caveman... you still fold too :p
 
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