Here's mine:

Here are some results:

Stock [email protected] Windows SMP (60W power consumption):
2610: 8.7 PPDW

OC'd Q6600 [email protected] 2x Linux SMP (176W power consumption):
2604 (1816PPDx2): 20.6 PPDW
2605 (1823PPDx2): 20.7 PPDW
2608 (1223PPDx2): 13.8 PPDW
2609 (1235PPDx2): 14.0 PPDW

aristide1 wrote:

and 23W with LAN disconnected.

So how do you send/receive WUs?

It was just to demonstrate that the integrated gigabit lan does use a measurable amount of power (in this case, 10% of total system power). I leave it connected to the LAN all the time.

aristide1 wrote:Vg, are you starting to reduce the # of servers folding?

Yep, they're steadily rolling off - down to 8 now. However if all goes well, I should have a g0 q6600 by the end of this week.

If the "whoosh" was louder, the CFM - and the S-Flex's RPM - was greater. Do you have any way to confirm the RPM of the A-C and the SFlex? Because to my ear, they sound exactly the same at the same RPM. (I'm unfamiliar with the actual Nexus 120.) The Biostar tool reads the A-C PWM fan speed at 502r...

I recently picked up some AC PWM fans up for a PWM only motherboard and have been a little disappointed. At the lowest setting of around 500rpm, they sound louder than my old set of undervolted Nexus + low speed SFlex fans. I can hear a distinct low whoosing from the AC fans and a slight clicking as...

aristide1 wrote:Hey, why not use a flash drive as a C:\ drive?

I had a laptop drive lying around... besides at idle I don't think a laptop drive draws more than 1W.

Looks like the travelstar I'm using is around 0.5W idle: http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage25 ... &chart=156

Well, I upgraded from my Asus M2NPV-VM to the TF7050 and idle power consumption went from 40w to 34w. On a side note, I decided to try swap out the 3.5" drive for a 2.5" laptop drive and use just a single DIMM. Idle power dropped to 27W with Integrated LAN connected and 23W with LAN disconnected. Th...

aristide1 wrote:Vg, what's the X2 PPD? And why does the wife even have to know she has a Q6600

I believe it was right at 1k ppd at 2.5ghz running linux smp. I am in the midst of reworking some machines at home so it's not folding at the moment. I'm holding out for a G0 Q6600 .

How can that be? You're memory should be running faster as well, no? Or did it reset to a slower speed? How much voltage do you need to take the FSB to 250MHz? Appx 2.45GHz? What OS? You're right, I probably had the mem underclocked or perhaps it was unstable. I have some new numbers for project 26...

I have an old Athlon XP 2500+ and I'm thinking about a cheap upgrade. Both of your choices look nice but I need a DVI Output. What do you think about the ASUS M2A-VM HDMI. It's even cheaper than the Biostar and has a lot more features. Are there any drawbacks? The Biostar 7050 has a HDMI to DVI con...

I just upgraded my home server from a Socket 370 celeron to a machine similar to what aristide1 posted. Since I'm running Windows, I went with the 7050 board. Specs are: AMD X2 3600+ 65nm Brisbane Biostar TF7050-M2 Thermalright Ultra 120-Extreme (will be moved to a different system soon) Corsair 2GB...

I did a quick comparison between the Q6600 + ECS motherboard against a Brisbane x2 3600+ & Biostar TF7025 motherboard. The mildly overclocked Q6600 numbers are mine while the X2 numbers are taken from another post on the board. I estimated the x2 3600+ PPD numbers based on what I got from my X2 3800...

I'm not sure if dual channel RAM does much for folding. When I was testing the Q6600, I was using 512MB DDR2 RAM in single channel mode and it was getting roughly the same numbers as other people were posting on the net. From what I've read, cache does make a difference - Ryboto can probably attest ...

well aparently the SMP client isnt for every box yet. my xeon box has 2 hyperthreaded cpu's and the smp client thinks thats 4 cpus.. and loads it up accordingly. thus it takes 6 days to do a 5 day WU.. thus missing the deadlines. and it seems this is a known bug on the FAH forums. so I go back to r...

I tried running 2x xubuntu FAH SMP clients under vmware with my q6600 but it wasn't as fast as a single Windows SMP client. A single Linux FAH SMP session was producing around 1300ppd (100% cpu usage on 2 procs) but when I fired up the second session, both dropped to ~750ppd (100% cpu usage on 4 pro...

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aristide1 - thanks for the link. They do have some nice stuff at really great prices.

Noticed the same thing with the VRMs on my gigabyte mobo. Saw them reach the lower 70's according to the infrared thermometer during a memtest with a 40% overclock and fans on low. It's probably a little cooler with speedfan controlling the fans in Windows. I've had to remove FAH from one server goi...

I can't say that I've seen your particular error but here are some incidents where I've seen SMP bomb out on me: 1. Network connection drops and/or when establishing a VPN connection 2. Attempting to restart FAH when FAH processes are already running or MPICH2 service isn't started 3. Group policy o...

well after letting the SMP clients run on overnite friday, sat & sun on my 2 PCs, it seems much slower. Gauging by the number of percent points complete, 2 copies of the FAH client run 1.5 to 2x as fast as the smp version on the same PC. anyone else see stuff like this? SMP may run slower but it sh...

Amourek - thanks for the excellent review. I am very impressed by the 34W idle power consumption figures. The best I can manage with my Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard + A64 3200+ and laptop brick is 40W.

Has anyone tried undervolting a Q6600 with RMClock? I’m wondering how well it works and if EIST is also fully controllable using RMClock! I have a SL9UM 105W TDP Q6600 overclocked and undervolted with RMClock. It is rock solid stable running FAH 24x7 even with the cheap ECS fry's combo motherboar...

I have my doubts Intel would be so kind. Looks like the price drops have already begun. Q6600 + ecs mobo for $299: http://www.marketplacelocal.com/portalWeb/portal.aspx?groupid=58&pagename=itemdetails&channelid=9&categoryid=79&subcategoryid=639&itemid=39840751 Edit: Bought the combo morning... init...

I've run my x2 3800+ on a stock Antec NSK2400 power supply (su-380 I believe), a S12-380 and an overkill corsair hx-620w psu. In all 3 configurations, I never saw max power consumption exceed 150w and all 3 power supplies ran the machines just fine.

Hope that helps...

Sadly I've had several SMP WU's take >5 days on a dual proc Xeon 2.4GHz machine. From what I have read, I would get no credit for these units as they are over the final deadline. I have been forced to run 4x individual instances on these machines.

I have FAH running on a few test & non critical servers at work that are otherwise idle 99% of the time. I also use FAH as a test/burn in utility on new servers to ensure stability prior to deployment. These servers vary from DL380 G2/G3/G4 (dual Xeons) to ML585's (quad opteron). At home, I have a X...

skj wrote: I'll say--you've just become our top daily producer. Thanks for joining up!

Don't worry, the high ppd output won't last long . I'm running fah on some idle test servers but they'll be in production soon enough. When that happens, my ppd will be dropping off quite dramatically...

I know it's over your budget but the Q6600 Intel Quad Cores should be dropping to the mid $200's at the end of July. One of those should be able to crank out ~2K ppd running Windows SMP, possibly 3K+ ppd if you're willing to overclock and/or run it under Linux SMP.

Thanks for the tip Neil. I just started running the linux SMP version in a vmware/xubuntu session. It is a lot more stable and surprisingly faster than the windows version even when run under vmware.

Next step will be to try it under a full linux install or perhaps under vmware esx server.

Nope, these are bone stock machines. I found a very long thread on the 0x7b error I experienced and it seems to be somewhat common with the SMP beta client. [22:24:41] Warning: long 1-4 interactions [22:24:41] Gromacs cannot continue further. [22:24:41] Going to send back what have done. [22:24:41] ...