debro

Now I'm curious just how good an XP1800+ is compared to an X2-3800 .... by some rough calcs, the X2 can crunch a WU on each core at twice-thrice the speed that the 1800 can (running linux).
And on that, the primary X2 core crunches at about 30% faster than the secondary core. Anyone else notice that?

I'll know more when the 1800 actually finishes it's first WU

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I know different WUs take different amounts of time even if the point values are the same, time to complete can vary

between my 2GHz P4 and my A64 3700 (at stock 2.2GHz speed) the A64 is about double the speed on the same WU, and when my A64 is clocked to 2.6GHz it is about 20-25% faster than stock on the same WU

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debro

Don't forget to install the CLI client for your shiny new second core

(download it, cut & paste into a new folder like c:\Program files\Folding@homeCLI, then right click & create shortcut. Right Click on the shortcut, properties & add " -config" to the end of the target after the "". In the advanced options set the queue to 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 [anything other than 1]).

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Oh man!

The servers at work are still crunching their first WU's! The slowest seems to have 20,000,000 steps & is only 15% thru after an entire weekend! ... and the fastest server only has 5,000,000 ... but 95% finished ...
And they're both sooo much slower than my home PC, even though my poor Home PC has to deal with me throwing video encodings, HD churning, games, general internet surfing & hardware reconfigurations & restarts at it.

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Make sure to set the affinity to run them on different cores also. It does make a difference. Have to do it everytime you start it up though.

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debro

I've got my work PC running them as services & Task Manager won't let me assign affinity

But, on the other hand, one of them is running at 50% & the other sways between 37-45%, so I guess I'm using practically 100% of my CPU bandwidth, and they are running on seperate cores anyway (maybe)

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I have Core 0 running at 100% and Core 1 running between 90-98%. No lags whatsoever while doing anything.

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debro

Aye .. but the sum total can't exceed 100%
The second core at work is maxxed out at 100%, the primary at 70-90%.

Task manager only reports the process summaries as 50% & 35%-45% respectively

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yowzza ccbadd, what all are you folding on ...what ever it is, it seems to be working

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And we have another completed WU! That's 3 from me (all in the middle of the night, which is strange...)

Still can't believe how fast your PCs are all doing this!

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15 hours left on my current one (#5) and then I will let my PC take a day off. It deserves it.

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Hehe, that'll give Slowpoke of the Year (me) a chance to get one it

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debro

Yeehaw!

Although now I've noticed that every single machine I'm running FAH on has copped a 20mil step WU, so they're all chugging away in the name of science, and not for my score

I'd complain .. but that'd be rather slack

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Great...I've got 2 machines running this, and I'm all out!

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woohoo! I think I finally got my over clock folding stable *knock on wood*! (F@H is really OC sensitive) I just had to drop the HTT a smidge and bump voltage to +50mv...so now I'm running 2.64GHz @53c when folding (I've been at stock 2.2GHz running @49c since I started folding because my old OC would always choke on the bigger WUs...so I should speed up a little now )

now if only I could OC my P4...damn locked mobos

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If only I could overclock my X2.

It just refuses to overclock at all, even if I set the HTT to a multiplier of just 4, instead of the 5 it is at stock speed.

And my RAM is DDR466 ... running at DDR400

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You must have a POS (piece of S**T) mobo if you can't overclock your 3800X2 .

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bummer! what mobo is it?

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It's a gigglebyte GA-K8N Pro-SLI I picked up in Japan at the start of the year after my GF dragged me to Hong Kong, Shanghai & Nagoya

It's stable ... (I've only need to install WinXP once this year ) but overclocking .. just doesn't seem to work ...

I can get the FSB up to 202.5/405MHz ... but anything above that and the system refuses to boot
Anything above 205/410Mhz and the system refuses to post

Even after I've set the ram to CL3 and relaxed all the timings so that the RAMS running slower than the postal system to no avail.
Same with the HTT multiplier .. from the default 5, back to 4.5 or even 4 ..
I've upped the voltage to the HTT bus, RAM & CPU .. and still no difference.
And the CPU doesn't seem to get any hotter than 47degC .. ever, even when slightly overclocked & under FAH load (on both cores) for more than an hour.
Arctic Silver 5 with this (err ... the SI-120) on top.

Absolutely no idea wtf is going on ....
Maybe time to check for a new bios .... nope, already running the latest ... maybe I should downgrade

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weird

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A quick question for you guys. Does it often take a little while for a WU to be credited to your user statistics/team stats?

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Could that be read as you having finished one?

Grats if you have!

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