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**Dee-27** · 02-11-2007

@Womble
This might help

**Arachne** · 02-11-2007

^

*drools*

*headquarter84* · 02-11-2007

eats benchmarks for breakfast!!!!

i wanna get an AMD

**jwill427** · 02-11-2007

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Originally Posted by headquarter84

oh! thanx jwill

no problemo

I too have switched from the gui to the client with no ill affects from just pasting the client exe into the gui folder, but backups are always a good idea

*adict2jane* · 02-11-2007

Thanks guys,

I'll back 'em up then switch over

**zevia** · 02-11-2007

Darn, a QX9650. My Q6600 is out of date already.
Wonder how fast it folds.

**Womble** · 02-11-2007

Upgrading is once again on my mind. Could say just for F@H but for Crysis and UT3. Mmmmmmmm

Going to probably go for a Penryn Quad Core. Either that or wait for the Nehalem chip. Double Mmmmmmmmm.

Then a nice new Mobo, and super fast Ram. Triple Mmmmmmmm.

**jwill427** · 02-11-2007

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Originally Posted by zevia

Darn, a QX9650. My Q6600 is out of date already.
Wonder how fast it folds.

I've seen a couple of gaming benchmarks and it performs just slightly better than an equally clocked kentsfield, but because of the smaller 45nm process they get consistently better OCs, 4ghz+ is supposedly a piece of cake on air

the extra cache will probably speed FAH up quite a bit too

*debro* · 03-11-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by zevia

Darn, a QX9650. My Q6600 is out of date already.
Wonder how fast it folds.

I wonder what it costs

**Arachne** · 17-11-2007

Well, I'm only folding on one machine now

The PSU on my Pentium D just blew (at least I'm assuming it was the PSU, it went out with an awful bang, scared the crap out of me, tripped all the power), so I'll need to get another and find out what it took out with it

I've got a 2 year RTB warranty on the machine (11 months remaining), so I'll call the guy in the PC shop (who, luckily I'm friendly with) on Monday.

*Chriso* · 18-11-2007

Ouch Arachne, that's gotta hurt! What PSU was in there? Good quality one or our favorite no-brand type?

I've still only got one PC folding myself, but I also run a client whenever I'm on a computer in school which does work within the deadlines as I have plenty of time at a computer screen through my Computing A Level. I also bring the folding client home on a pendrive if it needs a bit of extra running time to finish.

When I start running my server box I'll throw the client on there, and I'll probably put it back on my dad's PC too...more processing power is always good!

**Arachne** · 18-11-2007

It was an FSP one, so reasonably good quality, although not on a par with the likes of Seasonic et al.

I've decided to heck with the warranty, I'll try and pick up another decent PSU on Monday if I can. I miss my Pentium D

....though I hope the PSU hasn't taken anything with it! Personally I always thought 350W was a little on the low side, and leaving it on every other night going full-tilt folding probably didn't help.

Hehe running the client at school? Naughty boy

*Chriso* · 18-11-2007

I'm using an Enermax Liberty Modular PSU at the moment (in my sig) and for the 3 weeks or so that I've had it it's been good...but that says nothing except that it wasn't DOA. I guess folding does stress the components, but 350w probably was pushing the boundaries of what is a good idea.

On the whole school thing I don't see it as being wrong at all. Essentially I'm logged on to a PC to run some software of whatever kind. This extra piece of software doesn't interfere with anything and I'm not installing it as a service so it's not like I'm doing anything terribly wrong.

**Arachne** · 18-11-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chriso

I'm using an Enermax Liberty Modular PSU at the moment (in my sig) and for the 3 weeks or so that I've had it it's been good...but that says nothing except that it wasn't DOA. I guess folding does stress the components, but 350w probably was pushing the boundaries of what is a good idea.

On the whole school thing I don't see it as being wrong at all. Essentially I'm logged on to a PC to run some software of whatever kind. This extra piece of software doesn't interfere with anything and I'm not installing it as a service so it's not like I'm doing anything terribly wrong.

Yeah, I agree, especially with the power the Pentium D sucks up - I'll probably go for another FSP one (I can get one in Maplin's thank God. After getting 2 DOA Antecs online, I'd rather have something I can return in person!), but this time a bit beefier

I was only teasing you about being naughty, hence the smiley

*Chriso* · 18-11-2007

Hehe, I got mine from...ebuyer I think, not DOA but I guess it's purely random.

I'd love to have the client running as a service on that many machines...potentially 200+ machines folding for me every day for 5-7 hours. That would be absolute bliss...shame they disabled installation as a service.

*Chriso* · 18-12-2007

Woot! My shed PC just turned in its first work unit, just waiting for my dad's to do the same now. Seems that even adding quite low powered PCs to the job makes a difference.

*adict2jane* · 18-12-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chriso

Woot! My shed PC just turned in its first work unit, just waiting for my dad's to do the same now. Seems that even adding quite low powered PCs to the job makes a difference.

Congrats! Unless you are running the SMP client with dual or quad core cpus, it's really the number of rigs you have running that matters.

The only computers I have on the project were pulled from the trash, but I have have 10 running

which makes all the difference.

jhtalisman · 18-12-2007

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Originally Posted by adict2jane

The only computers I have on the project were pulled from the trash, but I have have 10 running

which makes all the difference.

I'd absolutely hate to see your electic bill.

I'll be getting geared up again sometime this weekend or next week with a new quad core rig. You're 100k back, that's too close.

*Chriso* · 18-12-2007

Well I'll be getting a nice lappy for university so I'll be able to fold fairly competitively whenever it's plugged in (obviously I wouldn't want to drain the battery).

For now I'm just installing it wherever and whenever I can (with permission of course, but people seem easy to convince when they hear of it and even surprised that such a potentially good thing doesn't have a wider audience).

*adict2jane* · 19-12-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by jhtalisman

I'd absolutely hate to see your electic bill.

I'll be getting geared up again sometime this weekend or next week with a new quad core rig. You're 100k back, that's too close.

All my rigs are at work so I don't have to worry about the electricity bill. I did just do a calculation, just short of 1KW of power draw for my F@H and WCG computers here 24/7. OUCH!

Enjoy that quad, yes, I will have no chance of catching you with that.

jhtalisman · 21-12-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by adict2jane

Enjoy that quad, yes, I will have no chance of catching you with that.

Especially since it going to double my output over my FX-60 rig. Went from 22-24 minutes w/smp to 12.

*adict2jane* · 21-12-2007

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Originally Posted by jhtalisman

Especially since it going to double my output over my FX-60 rig. Went from 22-24 minutes w/smp to 12.

Sweet, sweetness! What kind of temps are you getting on that Phenom while pholding? Just kinda curious.

02-11-2007	#1052 (permalink)
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02-11-2007	#1053 (permalink)
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02-11-2007	#1055 (permalink)
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02-11-2007	#1056 (permalink)
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17-11-2007	#1060 (permalink)
Arachne Senior Moderator & Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Keeping my media stash safe. Posts: 23,491	Re: Folding@Home Well, I'm only folding on one machine now The PSU on my Pentium D just blew (at least I'm assuming it was the PSU, it went out with an awful bang, scared the crap out of me, tripped all the power), so I'll need to get another and find out what it took out with it I've got a 2 year RTB warranty on the machine (11 months remaining), so I'll call the guy in the PC shop (who, luckily I'm friendly with) on Monday. __________________ Current drives: Pioneer DVR-115D (1.06) + Optiarc AD-5170S (1.12) + Litey LH-20A1H (LL0D) + Samsung SH-S182D (SB06 RPC1) x2 + Litey SHM-165P6S (MS0R) + LG E10N (JE07) + BenQ DW1650 (BCDC) x2 + Litey SHW-1635S (YV6P) x2 + BenQ DW1640@164B (BEFB) + LG 4167B (DL13 TDB) + Samsung SH-S162L (TS08) + NEC ND-4551A (1.Z2) + LG GCE-8520B (1.00) + LiteOn SOHR-5239S (2S0B) Retired: LiteOn LDW-851@SOHW-832 + LiteOn SOHW-1693S + LG 4163B My Review PCs How to delete your upper and lower filters : How to check/enable DMA by Womble Click here to join cdfreaks.com and be part of our friendly community! The CDFreaks Distributed Computing Teams need YOU! Join the Team(s) and help save some lives! Read more here

18-11-2007	#1061 (permalink)
Chriso CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Liverpool, England Posts: 2,061	Re: Folding@Home Ouch Arachne, that's gotta hurt! What PSU was in there? Good quality one or our favorite no-brand type? I've still only got one PC folding myself, but I also run a client whenever I'm on a computer in school which does work within the deadlines as I have plenty of time at a computer screen through my Computing A Level. I also bring the folding client home on a pendrive if it needs a bit of extra running time to finish. When I start running my server box I'll throw the client on there, and I'll probably put it back on my dad's PC too...more processing power is always good! __________________ Videos of me playing piano, would be nice to have feedback from you all! [23:49] <Chriso> !seen Boobies [23:49] <JuPiLeR> I found 430 matches to your query; please refine it to see any output. OS: openSUSE 10.3 and Windows XP SP2 PSU: Enermax Liberty 400w - Modular Mobo: Jetway V266B CPU: AMD AthlonXP 2000+ RAM: 256MB Crucial PC2100 + 512MB Corsair Value Select PC2100 HDD: 120GB Maxtor ATA133 8MB Cache + 320GB Western Digital "RAID Edition" ATA100 8MB Cache Gfx Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 passive cooled Sound Card: SB Live 1024 DVD-ROM Drive: Asus E-616 CD-RW: LiteON 52246S DVD-RW: NEC ND2510A in external Firewire enclosure (Prolific chipset) USB2 Card: ALI chipset (got an NEC chipset one waiting to go in) Firewire Card: Not sure of chipset...but it seems to work D-Link Network Card My old Voodoo 3 2000 PCI has now retired, still in perfect working order though! Get Firefox! Join CDFreaks

18-11-2007	#1062 (permalink)
Arachne Senior Moderator & Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Keeping my media stash safe. Posts: 23,491	Re: Folding@Home It was an FSP one, so reasonably good quality, although not on a par with the likes of Seasonic et al. I've decided to heck with the warranty, I'll try and pick up another decent PSU on Monday if I can. I miss my Pentium D ....though I hope the PSU hasn't taken anything with it! Personally I always thought 350W was a little on the low side, and leaving it on every other night going full-tilt folding probably didn't help. Hehe running the client at school? Naughty boy __________________ Current drives: Pioneer DVR-115D (1.06) + Optiarc AD-5170S (1.12) + Litey LH-20A1H (LL0D) + Samsung SH-S182D (SB06 RPC1) x2 + Litey SHM-165P6S (MS0R) + LG E10N (JE07) + BenQ DW1650 (BCDC) x2 + Litey SHW-1635S (YV6P) x2 + BenQ DW1640@164B (BEFB) + LG 4167B (DL13 TDB) + Samsung SH-S162L (TS08) + NEC ND-4551A (1.Z2) + LG GCE-8520B (1.00) + LiteOn SOHR-5239S (2S0B) Retired: LiteOn LDW-851@SOHW-832 + LiteOn SOHW-1693S + LG 4163B My Review PCs How to delete your upper and lower filters : How to check/enable DMA by Womble Click here to join cdfreaks.com and be part of our friendly community! The CDFreaks Distributed Computing Teams need YOU! Join the Team(s) and help save some lives! Read more here

18-11-2007	#1063 (permalink)
Chriso CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Liverpool, England Posts: 2,061	Re: Folding@Home I'm using an Enermax Liberty Modular PSU at the moment (in my sig) and for the 3 weeks or so that I've had it it's been good...but that says nothing except that it wasn't DOA. I guess folding does stress the components, but 350w probably was pushing the boundaries of what is a good idea. On the whole school thing I don't see it as being wrong at all. Essentially I'm logged on to a PC to run some software of whatever kind. This extra piece of software doesn't interfere with anything and I'm not installing it as a service so it's not like I'm doing anything terribly wrong. __________________ Videos of me playing piano, would be nice to have feedback from you all! [23:49] <Chriso> !seen Boobies [23:49] <JuPiLeR> I found 430 matches to your query; please refine it to see any output. OS: openSUSE 10.3 and Windows XP SP2 PSU: Enermax Liberty 400w - Modular Mobo: Jetway V266B CPU: AMD AthlonXP 2000+ RAM: 256MB Crucial PC2100 + 512MB Corsair Value Select PC2100 HDD: 120GB Maxtor ATA133 8MB Cache + 320GB Western Digital "RAID Edition" ATA100 8MB Cache Gfx Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 passive cooled Sound Card: SB Live 1024 DVD-ROM Drive: Asus E-616 CD-RW: LiteON 52246S DVD-RW: NEC ND2510A in external Firewire enclosure (Prolific chipset) USB2 Card: ALI chipset (got an NEC chipset one waiting to go in) Firewire Card: Not sure of chipset...but it seems to work D-Link Network Card My old Voodoo 3 2000 PCI has now retired, still in perfect working order though! Get Firefox! Join CDFreaks

18-11-2007	#1065 (permalink)
Chriso CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Liverpool, England Posts: 2,061	Re: Folding@Home Hehe, I got mine from...ebuyer I think, not DOA but I guess it's purely random. I'd love to have the client running as a service on that many machines...potentially 200+ machines folding for me every day for 5-7 hours. That would be absolute bliss...shame they disabled installation as a service. __________________ Videos of me playing piano, would be nice to have feedback from you all! [23:49] <Chriso> !seen Boobies [23:49] <JuPiLeR> I found 430 matches to your query; please refine it to see any output. OS: openSUSE 10.3 and Windows XP SP2 PSU: Enermax Liberty 400w - Modular Mobo: Jetway V266B CPU: AMD AthlonXP 2000+ RAM: 256MB Crucial PC2100 + 512MB Corsair Value Select PC2100 HDD: 120GB Maxtor ATA133 8MB Cache + 320GB Western Digital "RAID Edition" ATA100 8MB Cache Gfx Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 passive cooled Sound Card: SB Live 1024 DVD-ROM Drive: Asus E-616 CD-RW: LiteON 52246S DVD-RW: NEC ND2510A in external Firewire enclosure (Prolific chipset) USB2 Card: ALI chipset (got an NEC chipset one waiting to go in) Firewire Card: Not sure of chipset...but it seems to work D-Link Network Card My old Voodoo 3 2000 PCI has now retired, still in perfect working order though! Get Firefox! Join CDFreaks

18-12-2007	#1066 (permalink)
Chriso CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Liverpool, England Posts: 2,061	Re: Folding@Home Woot! My shed PC just turned in its first work unit, just waiting for my dad's to do the same now. Seems that even adding quite low powered PCs to the job makes a difference. __________________ Videos of me playing piano, would be nice to have feedback from you all! [23:49] <Chriso> !seen Boobies [23:49] <JuPiLeR> I found 430 matches to your query; please refine it to see any output. OS: openSUSE 10.3 and Windows XP SP2 PSU: Enermax Liberty 400w - Modular Mobo: Jetway V266B CPU: AMD AthlonXP 2000+ RAM: 256MB Crucial PC2100 + 512MB Corsair Value Select PC2100 HDD: 120GB Maxtor ATA133 8MB Cache + 320GB Western Digital "RAID Edition" ATA100 8MB Cache Gfx Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 passive cooled Sound Card: SB Live 1024 DVD-ROM Drive: Asus E-616 CD-RW: LiteON 52246S DVD-RW: NEC ND2510A in external Firewire enclosure (Prolific chipset) USB2 Card: ALI chipset (got an NEC chipset one waiting to go in) Firewire Card: Not sure of chipset...but it seems to work D-Link Network Card My old Voodoo 3 2000 PCI has now retired, still in perfect working order though! Get Firefox! Join CDFreaks

18-12-2007	#1069 (permalink)
Chriso CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Liverpool, England Posts: 2,061	Re: Folding@Home Well I'll be getting a nice lappy for university so I'll be able to fold fairly competitively whenever it's plugged in (obviously I wouldn't want to drain the battery). For now I'm just installing it wherever and whenever I can (with permission of course, but people seem easy to convince when they hear of it and even surprised that such a potentially good thing doesn't have a wider audience). __________________ Videos of me playing piano, would be nice to have feedback from you all! [23:49] <Chriso> !seen Boobies [23:49] <JuPiLeR> I found 430 matches to your query; please refine it to see any output. OS: openSUSE 10.3 and Windows XP SP2 PSU: Enermax Liberty 400w - Modular Mobo: Jetway V266B CPU: AMD AthlonXP 2000+ RAM: 256MB Crucial PC2100 + 512MB Corsair Value Select PC2100 HDD: 120GB Maxtor ATA133 8MB Cache + 320GB Western Digital "RAID Edition" ATA100 8MB Cache Gfx Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 passive cooled Sound Card: SB Live 1024 DVD-ROM Drive: Asus E-616 CD-RW: LiteON 52246S DVD-RW: NEC ND2510A in external Firewire enclosure (Prolific chipset) USB2 Card: ALI chipset (got an NEC chipset one waiting to go in) Firewire Card: Not sure of chipset...but it seems to work D-Link Network Card My old Voodoo 3 2000 PCI has now retired, still in perfect working order though! Get Firefox! Join CDFreaks

21-12-2007	#1073 (permalink)
jhtalisman CD Freaks Die Hard Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Where it used to be country :( Posts: 1,912