Quote Originally Posted by INFRNL View Post
1. As for the day job comment, is that a day job, or like mine...an ALL day job

2. as for the uncore/nb freq. statement: how true is it that it makes a difference? I do not know if something has changed this weekend while screwing around with my rigs. obviously my ppd has fallen dramatically
but I just noticed that my nb freq on main rig is @3800 while one of my other rigs is @2880. I do not see much of a difference in production.

I thought the one that is @2880 was producing a little better, but I think for the most part its maintaining pretty good production
1. Sometimes it's a day and night job. Speaking of that, I have some serious catching up to do....

2. The results are in the above post. It seems to me that QPI makes a pretty good difference. The Uncore/NB difference is there, but not as pronounced.

I figure if we know this, we all can tweak for it and get the most out of our rigs. I would suggest none of us go "ape crazy" to push these, just be aware that they should not be ignored.

Quote Originally Posted by Jaco View Post
What's wrong with MSI ?
I prefer Gigabyte myself , but never had issues with MSI boards .
Remember the MSI K8N Neo2 (socket939) ? that was a great board.

Usually MSI boards are pretty good performers imo.
I have had very good luck with the MSI P45 Neos I still run on the kents farm. Those work fine.

However, with these i7 boards, for some reason I find them confusing in the mechanics of the bios. For instance, to change CPU vcore, you have to push the +/- buttons on the numpad, not next to the backspace key. No where in bios or the book do they tell you this. Page up/Page down also works. I have a tiny laptop keyboard on the racks and that took me a bit to figure out. I had to ask the question at the WSI forum to figure it out. Talk about feeling like a noob...

Another example. The X58 Platinum SLI comes with OC switches on the board. It overwrites your bios on boot. The intention is for auto overclock. It comes set for 133 bclk. No where in the manual does it say how to turn the damn thing off so you can bios OC. I found that by trial and error. Very irritating.

The "one button OC" feature on the 860's P55-CD53 mobo didn't work worth a dang. It just kept rebooting when I tried. Bios OC shows that the system is very capable of OCing, just that the board couldn't come up with any combinations it liked on its' own. It's not a feature I really care about, but I feel sorry for the noobs that would like it to work....They paid for the feature.

I think they just have some kinks to work out. Right now, from what I'm seeing from others, for the same money, the Gigabytes seem better.

Remember, this is just my opinion, based on ownership, right now.

Quote Originally Posted by emuexport View Post
Well thanks to Bobs dedication and stickling for procedures I was able to duplicate it perfectly! (unlike putting my machines on another account! )

Anyways both my i7 860 and 920 now have the same WUs and are now crunching these . I made a few changes to Bobs procedure though see bold below (I never could follow the rules! )
Your tweaks look good. I realized after I blew all the WUs out of the 920 (or "target" rig) that I could have just moved them out for a day and put them back. That's a good improvement to the original write up.

I disconnected the net cable just to be REAL sure my test WUs didn't escape on me... I had the horrible picture of them escaping from the 920 rig, getting out in the wild and possibly bringing the server down, or destroying the planet..... I've since had the chance to see how "Net Act Supend" works and will likely do that in the future.

Regards,
Bob