@jimwah, coincidence maybe?
@scoop, long time no see ;) Funny, I was just wondering about you the other day while perusing the XS F@H Stats. I noticed your PPD :rolleyes:.
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@jimwah, coincidence maybe?
@scoop, long time no see ;) Funny, I was just wondering about you the other day while perusing the XS F@H Stats. I noticed your PPD :rolleyes:.
I recruited somebody to fold for us - texnofobix (I think is the username) should be showing up here at some point once he completes his first WU :D
Nice work Sparky, hopefully he can make up for the e6300@3.2 that keep firing out EUE's about 50% of the way into each WU here http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/jandz/furious.gif
**brilliant smily gif pinched from TPR :D**
Well unfortunately we lost the race, but thanks to the others it was a lot closer in the end :)
I noticed those horrid 212x projects are coming through again... :mad:
I had those 212x projects on all of my computers not running the SMP client for the past 4 days or so. :(
I have had them exclusivly for weeks on end on my conroe - can't remember the last time i got anything else :/
I am wondering if i should drop the bigwu option just to see something else
joined for the race and thought i'd leave half a core on it! (though i might have a fiddle and put it on one core or something, we'll have to see!
RwD
Glad to have you stick around :toast:
Yep :DQuote:
Originally Posted by SparkyJJO
Yesterday I added my FreeBSD box to the mix. Its only a 666mhz celeron though.
Hey every bit helps :DQuote:
Originally Posted by texnofobix
My C2D system has been down this week, so I havent accomplished much yet for this team. However I have mad some changes which I hop will help me start moving up the ladder a little faster.
Im still new to this folding stuff; last night I set up to run 2 instances on both machines and changed verbosity to 9. so I dont know if it works any faster but I have 4 instances running now; however 1 instance is running for the AMD team because they are the ones that got me started, but I want to support this team more because I get more useful help from you here at XS.
I have a couple of old machines that I may be able to use but I dont know if they would be worth a crap; they are just old 500-550 mhz AMD/Intel systems.
1 last thing I forgot about; I have a His X1950XT coming early next week which should help my folding quite a bit(I'm hoping)
INFRNL
Hello to RwD, texnofobix & INFRNL :wave:
@INFRNL, whether or not it's worth running an older machine, depends really - if you have the space & don't mind using the power (especially if you don't pay for it :p: ) then you might as well get it on... and that x1950xt will fold nicely too :up:
My latest acquisition - Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester :)
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...O/IMG_9041.jpg
Got it for free because it was a victim of "CPU-ripped-from-socket" due to the heatsink sticking to it and numerous pins were bent and 3 broken off. Check this out though...
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...O/IMG_9062.jpg
Circled are the 3 broken pins except they are replaced! And, the CPU works :D I just bought a mobo from Lithan for it. I have a stick of RAM here I need to test, I'm hoping it works otherwise I'll need to come up with some RAM as well. But hopefully fairly soon it will be crunching for XS. Actually I may put it over on WCG for awhile to help those guys out some for the help they gave us in our race.
i just added my dad's desktop to the mix too.
:eek: cracking job on the pins there Sparky, how did you get them back on so nicely? And what board did you get for it? Good call on the WCG front :up:
I took a piece of thin copper wire that was the same diameter as the pins - actually a strand from a power cord - bent an L shape in it and trimmed it. The original pins are like miniature nails, with a head and the pin. I removed the head of the broken pin so there was just a solder point left, then soldered the wire on using the L shape to give more surface area to solder to. Then I trimmed the wire to the right length. Took a lot of time and several breaks. I made a bracket thingy - for lack of a better word :p: - that held my needlenose pliers in place with the wire since I needed 3 hands. Really crude looking but it works.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimwah
Lithan had an asus A8NE board for sale here that I just paid for, and will be on its way on Tuesday. It isn't a fancy board, but I've used one before in a build for someone and it has a few overclocking options ;) I'll most likely try and OC the winchester a little, it seemed to handle about 2.4GHz without too much trouble. I have my opteron's stock 4 heatpipe cooler I'm going to use to cool it.
my bad *delete this please*
G'day fellow folders!
Bin' layin' low lately... but all cores back up and running full steam (well mostly), but I'm not going all out any more, it's become too disruptive.
Anyway, I've been running full steam for a few days and was wondering why my PPD hadn't picked up. FahMon has been misbehaving so I couldn't check the status of things... well anyway, I got it back up and running, reinstalling with v2.15. Now I see why!!! All cores were running 212x's. Damn they're bad WU's! (btw, does anyone know how to recover past benchmarks from FahMon? Everytime this has happened I lose all history!!!)
Well, lo and behold, one core on Main crapped out and it picked up a 1495 instead.
Just look at the difference below.
BAD WU:
GOOD WU:Code:Project : 2125
Core : Gromacs
Frames : 100
Credit : 392
-- Main2 --
Min. Time / Frame : 27mn 30s - 205.27 ppd
Avg. Time / Frame : 27mn 30s - 205.27 ppd
That is an unbelievable difference!Code:Project : 1495
Core : Gromacs
Frames : 100
Credit : 364
-- Main2 --
Min. Time / Frame : 5mn 18s - 988.98 ppd
Avg. Time / Frame : 5mn 22s - 976.70 ppd
On another note, I'll be hitting 100,000pts soon. :D
ps. @Jimwah, I finally picked up a replacement HSF for HTPC. I took your advice, mainly because I could pick one up nearby, and bought an Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro. Instead of just replacing the HSF, I spent the weekend performing the first stage of mods I had in store for the cheap little case:
- Cut out fan holes
- Install top blow hole
- Cut out intake for front fan (previously non-existent apart from the tiniest slot on the bottom)
- Insulate with Noise Reduction pads
- Cable management
- A little black paint for the interior
Result, 15-20c drop in CPU temp. Surprising drop in noise levels. And, this is with all fans on lowest possible speed except CPU which I left connected to the CPU header on the MB (currently not controlled, but maxed).
I have pics of all mods which I'll be putting into a worklog and posting sometime in the future.
Cheers
GAM out.
Yup the 212x are officially the worst units I can remember, even those little tiny projects (99x?) were better than these.
Good to hear the cooler is working well for you, you can't beat it for the price really - and the minimum of hassle required to install it :) I've got one on my 805 here and another on my e6300. Post a link to the project once it's up too :up: I'm working on a little project of my own here, I've bought a plug-in power meter, and have been measuring the wattage each of my machines draws when it's running a load, & estimating what it costs to run each month. The plan is to thin out the machines & replace them with a few high spec boxes instead, reduce power bill, but still increase the folding power :D
Will do.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimwah
Hey, I like the sound of this power meter. I've always wanted to know exactly what sort of power a device(s) is drawing. I'm assuming this meter plugs into the wall socket and measures the power being drawn by devices connected to it? Post a link if you one.
Cheers
That's exactly the kind of thing, this is the one I've got here. I've not measured all my machines yet, but so far the Dual Xeon is the worst offender, in total it looks as if I may be drawing almost a kilowatt in my computer room at the moment; and that's after I've turned off my 805 & an A64 too :eek: :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by GAM
Wow. I wouldn't be surprised if my office is drawing current like that. I'd be scared to check :para:
I like the device. I'll keep an eye out for something similar here. ;)
I'm not sure how much my stuff is pulling, but I played it safe. All the outlets in my dorm room are on the same 20A circuit, which is used by the fridge, microwave, and the computers. Well I added another computer and upgraded one of the others so I ran an extension cord from the only outlet on another circuit (bathroom outlet near the sink :p:) to run a couple of the systems from.
I didn't want to have to ask my RA to get my circuit breaker turned back on ;)
Hard disk's failing in my main folder, the e6300 :( It's up again for now, but for how long I don't know. My list of jobs in the computer room grows ever larger...
My machines are all hanging off one outlet, with a 6-way surge protector plugged into one socket & an 8-way plugged in the other (with another 4 way coming from that!) - nothing's tripped so far (luckily).
i just joined you guys :)
my cpu has too much spare time