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- Fri May 04, 2012 8:30 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: 6,000,000 points
- Replies: 23
- Views: 41061
Re: 6,000,000 points
Yay!
- Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:27 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Hot hot hot !!!! 80xx projects
- Replies: 3
- Views: 14990
Re: Hot hot hot !!!! 80xx projects
My temps didn't move any, but the PSU fan has been having a grand 'ol time...
- Sat Jan 07, 2012 8:45 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
- Replies: 1664
- Views: 1655752
Re: SPCR Folds Team Blog
Looking for a new wireless router; this one keeps going out when it gets multiple connections + ethernet (phones, lappys, kindles, PS3, whateva).
Any suggestions? I promise a healthy PPD increase if I get one that works...
Any suggestions? I promise a healthy PPD increase if I get one that works...
- Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:05 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: GPU recommendations?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16633
Re: GPU recommendations?
Awesome! That's going to be one killer folding setup!cmh wrote:Just an update. After much reading and probably too much thinking, I abandoned both my budget and my fanless requirement and ordered a GTX 560. I'll report back when I get it all set up. Thanks again for your advice and counsel, all.
- Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:51 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: GPU recommendations?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16633
Re: GPU recommendations?
Thanks warriorpoet, good post ! I would emphasize the overclokability of the 4xx and 5xx cards too, even when you've never done it before. Look online at what other people are doing with their cards, pick what looks like a good number (I usually pick a bit lower to be on the safe side), move the cu...
- Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:03 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: 600,000 points up to 999,999 points!
- Replies: 104
- Views: 138993
Re: 600,000 points up to 999,999 points!
Hear hear!frenchie wrote:Congrats all !!!!!!
- Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:00 am
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: The search for the perfect radiator fan
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6899
Re: The search for the perfect radiator fan
Scythe Gentle Typhoon fans have won their share of radiator-mount fan comparisons because they blend excellent pressure characteristics, airflow and acoustics. These are quiet fans with VERY smooth ball bearings and an unobtrusive noise profile. My preference is the 800 RPM version for their top spe...
- Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:52 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: GPU recommendations?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16633
Re: GPU recommendations?
Whatever you do, try to get a card that will take the 7620 GPU units. They're VERY demanding and will push your cooling to the limit, but give me around a 3-5k boost using GPU3 (Fermi). What's the minimum card that will take those? I'm not much of a gamer, so I'd love NOT to drop 3 bills on a GPU. ...
- Fri Sep 16, 2011 8:43 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: GPU recommendations?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16633
Re: GPU recommendations?
Is that ~35k ppd all from your i7 ubuntu box? No, that's from both boxes. The i7 does a WU about every four hours, and the i5 does one about every 7. Although the i5 just picked up a project 10126 that looks like it's going to take about 17 hours...we'll see what sort of points that's worth. Yeah, ...
- Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:21 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: GPU recommendations?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16633
Re: GPU recommendations?
Is that ~35k ppd all from your i7 ubuntu box? If so, leave it be. You'll enjoy several benefits: 1. lower power consumption 2. lower noise 3. ubuntu- need I say more? ;) If you are getting all those points from a single i7, I'm going to ask for lessons :D If you're folding on both and are looking fo...
- Fri Sep 16, 2011 5:58 pm
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: Did people abandon watercooling for their silent PCs ?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12694
Re: Did people abandon watercooling for their silent PCs ?
For your next PC, unless you are going for Crossfire 6970s or SLI 580s. There's no need to pick watercooling for noise or performance. You will find it hard to beat the performance of a thermalright archon + Shamon. Even warriorpoets PC doesn't NEED watercooling I do if I want to record next to the...
- Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:08 am
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: Did people abandon watercooling for their silent PCs ?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12694
Re: Did people abandon watercooling for their silent PCs ?
There is less activity here because there are less active watercoolers (for whatever reason) on this board than others. I tend to frequent Xtremesystems and lurk Overclockers for my watercooling fix. The amount and quality of posters here is just not what it is at those other places. FWIW, I would n...
- Wed Aug 24, 2011 8:21 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: So, Team Latvia...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4583
Re: So, Team Latvia...
Of course. Stupid mistake on my part, but worth a chuckle. At least my kids laughed at me :pNeilBlanchard wrote:...and you've now corrected the problem, I presume?
- Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:36 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: So, Team Latvia...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4583
So, Team Latvia...
Good News: I just recorded >31k points in 36 hours
Bad News: It was for Team Latvia (31754)
Bad News: It was for Team Latvia (31754)
- Mon Aug 22, 2011 4:10 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Big PPD drop: ~15,700 to ~ 5500!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7807
Re: Big PPD drop: ~15,700 to ~ 5500!
Eh nuts. All was well, then I rebooted.
Now F@H tops out at 50% load on the GTX. Wondering how to fix this...
edit: somehow my CPU priority was resetting itself to "Real Time". That'll put a dent in your PPD :p
Now F@H tops out at 50% load on the GTX. Wondering how to fix this...
edit: somehow my CPU priority was resetting itself to "Real Time". That'll put a dent in your PPD :p
- Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:36 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Big PPD drop: ~15,700 to ~ 5500!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7807
Re: Big PPD drop: ~15,700 to ~ 5500!
Found the culprit. nVidia Driver 280.26 caused:
1. a PPD drop of 10k points
2. a WEI score drop of 0.8 points
3. Fallout New Vegas instability
I rolled back to the last WHQL 270 driver and all is well.
1. a PPD drop of 10k points
2. a WEI score drop of 0.8 points
3. Fallout New Vegas instability
I rolled back to the last WHQL 270 driver and all is well.
- Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:08 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Big PPD drop: ~15,700 to ~ 5500!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7807
Re: Big PPD drop: ~15,700 to ~ 5500!
Nope, no downclocking.... The only thing I noticed was 7xxx projects. And when I check my client performace, I do see 7620 and 7621 units that yielded 1500 points less per day than the regular WUs. Back to "normal" WU for now it seems... warriorpoet, do you have a way to check the WUs you were work...
- Sun Aug 21, 2011 5:14 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Big PPD drop: ~15,700 to ~ 5500!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7807
Re: Big PPD drop: ~15,700 to ~ 5500!
Temps are actually a bit lower (?). Both my GPU and CPU are under water blocks, so temps are hardly a concern; the GPu maxes out at 56c and the CPU at 62c.
I could understand a 10% drop, but less than 50%? Yikes.
I could understand a 10% drop, but less than 50%? Yikes.
- Sat Aug 20, 2011 7:03 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Big PPD drop: ~15,700 to ~ 5500!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7807
Big PPD drop: ~15,700 to ~ 5500!
Everything's the same. Same clocks, same FAH Control version, same OS. Same same same. Why, then, is my GPU PPD dropping by 10k points? One other note: desktop behavior has been a little weird lately. Windows Aero dropping in and out of operation, soft-locks and clunky video performance. I fired up ...
- Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:35 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: 100,000 Point Club
- Replies: 202
- Views: 347175
Re: 100,000 Point Club
Thanks, frenchie and warriorpoet. Is it just me, or does anyone else find that their hardware decisions are influenced (crazily) by Folding? I just built a new machine to replace my main office PC. I was planning to turn the old box into a low-powered file server or something (really I was), but no...
- Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:44 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: 100,000 Point Club
- Replies: 202
- Views: 347175
Re: 100,000 Point Club
Welcome cmh!
- Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:34 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Antec Kühler H20 620 & 920 CPU Water Coolers
- Replies: 31
- Views: 24695
Re: Antec Kühler H20 620 & 920 CPU Water Coolers
A decent kit will still best these all-in-ones by a pretty fair margin. I'm thinking specifically of the Swiftech kits, but there are others available as well (EK, XSPC, etc.). The problem is price of entry, but once you're in, the block, rads, fans and pumps will most likely be compatible with sev...
- Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:34 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Antec Kühler H20 620 & 920 CPU Water Coolers
- Replies: 31
- Views: 24695
Re: Antec Kühler H20 620 & 920 CPU Water Coolers
There's also the issue the cpu will draw more power if it's hotter hence another reason why ambient temperature matters. ... I remember my E6600 Delta to be around 5°C worse with ambient around 35C and beyond that summer. There was a kind of threshold, passed which, the temps drastically raised. I ...
- Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:30 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Antec Kühler H20 620 & 920 CPU Water Coolers
- Replies: 31
- Views: 24695
Re: Antec Kühler H20 620 & 920 CPU Water Coolers
I appreciated this review for the rigorous SPL noise measurements, but it is obvious that all these coolers are NOT intended for silent systems. I also doubt that traditional custom watercooling is, at least regarding the cpu loop. Huge towers cool already good enough for 99% of the setups. While t...
- Wed Jul 20, 2011 7:07 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Antec Kühler H20 620 & 920 CPU Water Coolers
- Replies: 31
- Views: 24695
Re: Antec Kühler H20 620 & 920 CPU Water Coolers
When you look at it, these are really only air coolers with a displaced fin array and active circulation through the heatpipes. An oversimplification, yes, but so is referring to these awful things as water-cooling (especially considering the likely composition of the coolant contains far less water...
- Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:35 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Back in the Fold
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9252
Re: Back in the Fold
Wow, you were getting 100 ppd? Yeah, that ain't right. Glad it's going more smoothly now. But on the bright side, the stats are listed only for the last 4 days, and it looks like you're already #12 in production! I look forward to seeing how much higher you end up! :D Hopefully high enough to provi...
- Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:04 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Back in the Fold
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9252
Re: Back in the Fold
Figured out part of the CPU problem- it was giving way to everything (and I mean EVERYTHING), so I elevated importance and PPD estimates tripled. Since I'm not sure how to set core affinity with the new client, I went ahead and set GPU's core affinity to core_3 using ye olde process lasso. PPD estim...
- Mon Jul 18, 2011 7:09 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Back in the Fold
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9252
Re: Back in the Fold
Just a thought: now that we have a PS3, can I add that to the team as well?
edit: nm. I added the PS3. Another machine for Team SPCR!
edit: nm. I added the PS3. Another machine for Team SPCR!
- Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:39 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Back in the Fold
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9252
Re: Back in the Fold
Ah, that's right, I was thinking that you had 8 cores instead of four. Well, you may want to keep -smp 3, but you'll probably want to do a little checking first. Try running just the gpu with no smp folding for an hour or so, keep an eye on cpu usage. If it's nowhere near 25%, then just run with -s...
- Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:09 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Back in the Fold
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9252
Re: Back in the Fold
Welcome back! Well, first suggestion would be to get the new client, here's the installation instructions https://fah-web.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/wiki/ClientUserGuide#Windows although those are for windows, I'm assuming that's what you're running. The new client will allow you to control gp...