The ***OFFICIAL*** F@H Harassment and discussion thread!!!

[DAK1640]

Both of you are out-gunning everyone...Well done...

[Kondik]

Someone me please ...

1st - I forgot start SMP and GPU client today
2nd - I like it

[Marvin_The_Martian]

No more Whisky for you today, not untill I see that PPD added today shoot up

That better

Speaking of which, where is our Stats Master He's late lately with the updates

[WFO]

Woot! Top 5! See ya Twiggy. I'd tease Thunderduck too but I know I can't keep this up indefinitely.

[sniperbob]

My folding is on hold for a couple of days, Just got the new Call of Duty, and having to sort things out with my College's IT dept. It's a long story, but basically has something to do with the schools packeteer server and filter software that isn't allowing the game to connect to the username/stats server, meaning that i CANT PLAY THE GAME AT ALL... So while i figure out my network woes, f@h takes a small back seat, maybe i'll pop a dvd in the overhead to keep em occupied back there for the trip...

[WFO]

Das what I'm talkin' about! This is what the last upgrades were for. Everyone else must be having a bad day.

[road-runner]

Das what I'm talkin' about! This is what the last upgrades were for. Everyone else must be having a bad day.

Everyone else is bogged down with 5748s...

Congrats on getting up in the ranks...

[Sparky]

#12 producer in the world???

Amazing. Great job dude!

[WFO]

Everyone else is bogged down with 5748s...

Congrats on getting up in the ranks...

#12 producer in the world???

Amazing. Great job dude!

LOL! Thanks guys. This is probably a fluke one off screenie and that's why I had to snap it. I finished last week in 16th for total points in the week. I'm somewhere around the same for 24hr average. This is just a points for the day/ week (1 day) shot. I got lucky.

Edit: My average hit for the 5748s seems to be in the 7-9K range throughout the day.

[road-runner]

Well the i7s and x58 boards are available now on newegg so everyone rush over there so they can jack the prices up..

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Congratz WFO

and I won't say I told you so..

[catawalks]

lol, I just added up the parts, looks like it'll be about $760 for the cheapest i7 setup (mobo, ram, cpu).

ughn

[coo-coo-clocker]

Oh come on WFO, you're gonna sit around and allow this "anonymous" guy to beat you?

[DAK1640]

WFO is da man...He's our Hero....

[MikeB12]

nice WFO! you would be 11 if Pande lab didn't have all those anonymous cheats! PENALTY TO PANDE!


also, did you notice the chart above flip flopped 10 and 11.. rofl...

[OldChap]

So, Here's an Idea for a comp or raffle or.........

The winner gets the whole team (or at least everyone who takes part in comp) to fold for him for a day???

Thoughts anyone??

[MaK2000]

WFO has enough weapons. He doesn't need my help!!!

[Marvin_The_Martian]

lol, I just added up the parts, looks like it'll be about $760 for the cheapest i7 setup (mobo, ram, cpu).

ughn

i7 is a big improvement but it isn't enough to justify the price ppd wise atm. Don't have the numbers from my head but I think in the cpu field q6600 is still the best there is $$$/ppd

So, Here's an Idea for a comp or raffle or.........

The winner gets the whole team (or at least everyone who takes part in comp) to fold for him for a day???

Thoughts anyone??

WFO has enough weapons. He doesn't need my help!!!

Yeah that's a single user competition, the whole idea is to form subteams which are more or less abit balanced and have the inner competition push people to do as much as they can both with their own hw and with reqruiting fresh meat for the grinder that is f@h

Though I wouldn't mind adding my points to WFO for a day, just don't think he needs them

And besides, I wouldn't even be sure he would enjoy it either, when you reach a rank on your own doesn't it satisfy you more then having people help you get there by donating their points

[MaK2000]

i7 is a big improvement but it isn't enough to justify the price ppd wise atm. Don't have the numbers from my head but I think in the cpu field q6600 is still the best there is $$$/ppd

What about the Q8200? Does the L2 Cache hurt it that much?

[WFO]

i7 is a big improvement but it isn't enough to justify the price ppd wise atm. Don't have the numbers from my head but I think in the cpu field q6600 is still the best there is $$$/ppd :

I think that will change quickly. During this race I got several "Normal SMPs" that finished in 20 hours or less on 2 cores of a Q9450 and Q6600. I also had several that completely bogged the machines down and took 2 days to complete. We seem to be nearing the point the SMPs will take 4 cores or better to put up decent points.

[catawalks]

Well, looks like I'll be adjusting my xmas list again, and perhaps build an i7 rig. I've been getting some extra work from my old job and I think I can swing the ~$800 necessary for the parts. Only thing I don't know is what I'll do with my current parts.....to sell or build another f@h rig?

[Marvin_The_Martian]

What about the Q8200? Does the L2 Cache hurt it that much?

7.5 multi vs 9 multi is one aspect, the low cache also hurts but yorkfield is abit quicker there afaik then kentsfield so it makes up for it abit but not enough. F@h is pretty cache sensitive/memory sensitive depending on the particular work unit.

I think that will change quickly. During this race I got several "Normal SMPs" that finished in 20 hours or less on 2 cores of a Q9450 and Q6600. I also had several that completely bogged the machines down and took 2 days to complete. We seem to be nearing the point the SMPs will take 4 cores or better to put up decent points.

My linux smp in vm running a 5101 is doing bad with points, still got allot of days before deadline left though. Problem is I can't give a linux client 4 cores, or well I could if I ran a native linux os and a vm with windows for my apps lol... don't think that will happen soon

Well, looks like I'll be adjusting my xmas list again, and perhaps build an i7 rig. I've been getting some extra work from my old job and I think I can swing the ~$800 necessary for the parts. Only thing I don't know is what I'll do with my current parts.....to sell or build another f@h rig?

See what most efective $$$/ppd wise, I would guess assembling what you got might yield lower ppd but you won't get that much $$$ for it if you sell it anyway so if you sell it you would still need to add allot of cash to get to the point where it can make you buy new folding hw

[DrJay]

7.5 multi vs 9 multi is one aspect, the low cache also hurts but yorkfield is abit quicker there afaik then kentsfield so it makes up for it abit but not enough. F@h is pretty cache sensitive/memory sensitive depending on the particular work unit.

Around 5400ppd on most 1920 point projects @ 2.9Ghz, very lax ddr2 timings and one SMP client on native linux.
Today, had a p2673 worth 3840 points was getting around 11 minutes per frame.
Another thing to consider other than the size of the cache is the fact that it is 8 way set associative, not 12 way like the 3mb'ers or 16 way like the full 6mb. It would also be good to have a motherboard that will do 470+ FSB with a quad.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Around 5400ppd on most 1920 point projects @ 2.9Ghz, very lax ddr2 timings and one SMP client on native linux.
Today, had a p2673 worth 3840 points was getting around 11 minutes per frame.
Another thing to consider other than the size of the cache is the fact that it is 8 way set associative, not 12 way like the 3mb'ers or 16 way like the full 6mb. It would also be good to have a motherboard that will do 470+ FSB with a quad.

That's certainly more then I thought, and checking my local etailer a q8200 is the same price as a q6600. Think I misjudged the cache dependancy there, I haven't seen allot of numbers ( as not many people here run them afaik atleast I don't see them posting numbers hehe and my memory is really bad ) but I do know the variance in work units and the cache/memory dependancy which go along with them.

Could be linux itself though, I get >5K on a q6600 and two vm's running notfred. I whish I could run the linux client on the full four cores without having to use a native linux install but there isn't a way afaik. And I feel I'm to much of a n00b to run linux and then have my usual tools in a windows vm... though I am considering it ( been doing so for awhile even ).

[DrJay]

I forgot to mention another thing.....the fsb multiplier is actually 7x. It's the q9300 that is 7.5x. Seems like this cpu really needs a P45 board for high fsb.