Best rig for folding with less power
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yassarikhan786
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Tim!!!
lol, a few too many seem to be making that mistake. They all tend to say it was a typo when called out on it
PapaSmurf6768
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lol, a few too many seem to be making that mistake. They all tend to say it was a typo when called out on it
Hey, the I is right next to the O
Josh Weston
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It does confuse me why 3/5 vowels are found next to eachother 
yassarikhan786
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Had a sneak peek in another folding forum.
They were talking quad cpu,12-16core opterons and 400-500k ppd was a little low for his setup.
Sandy-E xeons are good,but true 12-16 core opterons is a killer in a quad setup.
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lol, a few too many seem to be making that mistake. They all tend to say it was a typo when called out on it
lol :lol:
Had a sneak peek in another folding forum.
They were talking quad cpu,12-16core opterons and 400-500k ppd was a little low for his setup.
Sandy-E xeons are good,but true 12-16 core opterons is a killer in a quad setup.
Really? I hadnt read a ton but I got the impression 12 core Magny-Cours, was crushing 16 core Interlagos. The whole integer unit thing. Basically 64 core Interlagos vs 48 core Magny-Cours in a 4P, is 32 vs 48 integer units. It's a lot cheaper then the Intel route for sure, and that Supermicro board that allows the clockgen to be manipulated from Linux, would be fun to play with.
Did a proper read this time.
Yeah,best for folding opterons is the older 61xx series 12core.
62xx isnt recommended,as you said integer units on the new 62xx isnt as good,even if its the 16cores.
Could be fun to do a 4p build on the supermicro board :dribble:
It would be fun. You could probably get into some used stuff for $2500USD for 4 6168 Opteron CPU's and the Supermicro board. If I was loaded I'd already have it! Even if I was loaded folding would be about the only use for it. x264 video encoding doesn't scale that well with threads, unless you are using multiple encoding jobs, and in that case you'd need a quite the disk subsystem to be running multiple jobs. That leaves what? bruteforce password cracking? I have an 3770K in the main rig, a 2600K in the bedroom, a Q6600 in the HTPC, and a Phenom X6 in the server and thats 18 cores that sit idle most of the time, what the fook am I going to do with 48cores? :lol:
Honestly I think the most fun would be overclocking it, setting up some quality heatsinks looks to be some tinkering. Be fun to make a water loop for it too.
EDIT: Wow you are sitting at 853,007 points today and the day is not even over yet. Very nice.
Honestly I think the most fun would be overclocking it, setting up some quality heatsinks looks to be some tinkering. Be fun to make a water loop for it too.
EDIT: Wow you are sitting at 853,007 points today and the day is not even over yet. Very nice.
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