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

[WFO]

Fired up 3 more i7s a bit ago...

Does fast memory or more than 4GB decrease frame times much on big/adv WUs. I was thinking about this kit for my everyday rig.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145326

And swapping 12GB of DDR 3 1600 to the I-7 920.

The price of that kit goes a long way towards an I-7 950 and another P6T though.

[road-runner]

Does fast memory or more than 4GB decrease frame times much on big/adv WUs. I was thinking about this kit for my everyday rig.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145326

And swapping 12GB of DDR 3 1600 to the I-7 920.

The price of that kit goes a long way towards an I-7 950 and another P6T though.

I have no idea to tell you the truth, my main rig has 3x2gb and windows 7, the one named classified has my 3x2gb of Corsair GT 2000 in it but also has a higher clocked cpu water cooled and linux, all rigs are linux except my main rig.

Some are only running dual channel a 1gb stick and a 2gb stick. I had bought some 3x1gb kits and 3x2gb kits same brand same clocks DDR 1600, after looking at how much RAM bigadv used in linux I decided to mix them in dual channel for 3gb total to avoid buying more RAM.

There all cooled different different coolers and different clock speed, it is what it is, I wasnt worried to much about max clocks, I just turn on another one if I want more PPD...



I have these mixed

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231224

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231225

Also using these in a couple rigs... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145225

[WFO]

Thanks RR. That makes the I-7 950 look much better. Here is the current WU on my 920 @3.8 with 4GB DDR3 1600. The gpu client isn't running here.



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[road-runner]

Thanks RR. That makes the I-7 950 look much better. Here is the current WU on my 920 @3.8 with 4GB DDR3 1600. The gpu client isn't running here.



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I noticed the 2684 gets less ppd than the 2685 or 86 also...

[WFO]

I noticed the 2684 gets less ppd than the 2685 or 86 also...

That's not good news. This is a 2685. All my SMPs are running in Win 7 x64.

[coo-coo-clocker]

Does fast memory or more than 4GB decrease frame times much on big/adv WUs.

Check out this thread

A report has been made that a fast CPU with slow RAM can be overall slower then a slow CPU with fast RAM. This may be due to the fact that the FahCore_a3 uses more RAM to process the bigadv WU then the standard WU.

[WFO]

Check out this thread

Thanks for posting that coo-coo! I haven't been following the thread although I read the first post when it first came out. Most seem to reporting about a 1 GB and a half memory usage so far.

I was actually thinking about building a 2 proc 16 core AMD rig. I was drooling at the prospect until I read that a 24-core AMD rig was getting smoked by a 980x @4.2Ghz. That may change but since Intel still rules F@H, I picked up an I-7 950 and an X-58 Sabercat board for a 3rd I-7 build.

[vohu manah]

Back to the original topic, I'm from WCG!

[coo-coo-clocker]

touche'!!

I say check out CATAWALKS, cuz he's pouring it on!
And there are a lot of folks getting run over!

[570091D]

I was actually thinking about building a 2 proc 16 core AMD rig. I was drooling at the prospect until I read that a 24-core AMD rig was getting smoked by a 980x @4.2Ghz. That may change but since Intel still rules F@H, I picked up an I-7 950 and an X-58 Sabercat board for a 3rd I-7 build.

ROFL

i just built the same thing for my latest rig, 950 + sabertooth + corsair 1600mhz


but because it's the only running computer in the house, it has other duties, so my production is looooow...

[catawalks]

yay! Running a 980x @ 4.2ghz with a gtx580 and 2 E5620's with a gtx480. Good times.

[Sparky]

You're gonna smash me pretty good here in the next month or two.

[catawalks]

:-) If I can keep it up. I woke up this morning to find that one of my machines had paused all clients because for some reason itunes.exe is on the games list in FAH GPU Tracker. Argh, that's about 8 hours or more of idle time.

[Kingcarcas]

I just saw MArvin the MArtian is banned, anyone have a clue why?

[Sparky]

I just saw MArvin the MArtian is banned, anyone have a clue why?

Happened a long time ago. He seemed a decent guy in general but he had some attitude/temper issues and blew up on people one too many times I'm guessing, I didn't see where or what it was that got him banned.

There are a few others on the forums that got banned that I'm not sure why either. Something, somewhere happened, but what it was I have no clue

[Sparky]

Sadly I'm being forced to shut down my 4870, for the summer at least. The heat output and electric usage for such a relatively small output isn't worth it right now. It bites twice, as I have to pay to run it, then pay to run AC. Come winter, if I still have this card and haven't upgraded by then, I'll kick it back on when I actually want heat.

[p2501]

That's not good to hear but it's better shutting it down than having you melt down due to heat. :-)

[Sparky]

Well, I wouldn't melt, it would just do a double whammy to the electric bill. I used to have everything in the basement, so that worked out well, but my new place this year has no basement.
I kicked the GTX260 back online this morning.

[p2501]

Doesn't the 260 produce more anyway? I don't remember it's production...

[Sparky]

Yes, about 2.5x as much. That's why I'll be running it instead of the 4870, since I have to pick just one.

[ctgilles]

Moar folding!

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...php?s=&t=36362

[Anemic]

Pretty kewl folding farm

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/fol...l#xtor=RSS-181

[Kingcarcas]

Hey guys, what do i have to delete to refresh the client? I stopped crunching on the GPU for a few weeks and when i fired it back up i get the "unstable yada yada" crash.

[Swiftdeathz]

Delete all the corexx.exe files or try installing it fresh by deleting the entire folder and re-downloading the client of your choice.

[Sparky]

I'm back.....

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...hp?s=&u=187109