F@H maintenance thread...
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I have been told my E5450 (x2) are waiting for me at my parents.... so now they are waiting on me to get there is whack them into the system.
For those wondering the E5450s are the Xeon version of the Q9650, the downside being overclocking is very limited or not there at all. The upside is the system will have two of these bad boys crunching the same work unit
For those wondering the E5450s are the Xeon version of the Q9650, the downside being overclocking is very limited or not there at all. The upside is the system will have two of these bad boys crunching the same work unit
Josh Weston
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What kind of PPD should you be expecting with those chips?
20k PP +
Because the PPD from work units is all over the place so it's hard to guess.
My i7 2600k @ 4.4ghz does between 22k and 27k PPD on the average work units that are showing up at the moment and I expect the E5450s working together to be able to crunch around the same workload as the i7, maybe a little less. Thats just my estimate working from my old E5345s, their clock speed and the fact that the 45mn chips had an architecture tweak over the 65mn chips & their extra cache.
Just thought I'd say. I have paid £100 for the pair (of E5450), Q9650s look to be going for over £100 each on ebay.
Because the PPD from work units is all over the place so it's hard to guess.
My i7 2600k @ 4.4ghz does between 22k and 27k PPD on the average work units that are showing up at the moment and I expect the E5450s working together to be able to crunch around the same workload as the i7, maybe a little less. Thats just my estimate working from my old E5345s, their clock speed and the fact that the 45mn chips had an architecture tweak over the 65mn chips & their extra cache.
Just thought I'd say. I have paid £100 for the pair (of E5450), Q9650s look to be going for over £100 each on ebay.
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Hi All,
Not really a maintenance thread, just letting you know that I had to stop using my 5x folding machines, the power draw was just getting ridiculous. Fortunately I've managed to "borrow" a couple of server machines which are running dual hex cores hyperthreaded. So i'm on the bigadv work units now.
Not a pain in the ass getting FAH running on ubuntu server at all much!!! but it certainly gives more consistent PPD than ubuntu desktop even with the kraken.
Cheers
Lee
Not really a maintenance thread, just letting you know that I had to stop using my 5x folding machines, the power draw was just getting ridiculous. Fortunately I've managed to "borrow" a couple of server machines which are running dual hex cores hyperthreaded. So i'm on the bigadv work units now.
Not a pain in the ass getting FAH running on ubuntu server at all much!!! but it certainly gives more consistent PPD than ubuntu desktop even with the kraken.
Cheers
Lee
yassarikhan786
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Wow, Lee, You're pulling some really nice numbers.
A hour out of the FAH loop as i am selling (test showing) some hardware which is a freaking wonder for me 
EDIT LOL figures , i am still waiting for this guy
I'll give him another half hour then i am swapping my hardware back !!
Last EDIT , i finally sold some of my old hardware , its a wonder !!
GPU's (main rig) back at Folding.....
EDIT LOL figures , i am still waiting for this guy
I'll give him another half hour then i am swapping my hardware back !!
Last EDIT , i finally sold some of my old hardware , its a wonder !!
GPU's (main rig) back at Folding.....
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I have both E5450s in the rig and folding away at 3.4ghz (up from 3ghz). I had a straight out crash when I pushed for 3.6ghz and a blue screen after half an hour of folding near 3.5ghz. So I am leaving it 3.4 for now which seems rock solid stable.
Jury is out on PPD at the moment, I had a initial estimate of 20k when running at 3ghz but, didn't really let it settle for long enough for a proper conclusion (am running a older V7 client on this dirty Vista instal) and since the blue screen a good few hours ago the PPD is settling down, at 29.5k PPD at the moment and it has been slowly dropping from 35k for the past 3 hours... So I guess around 26k for the current WU at the current clock speed.
Edit: Progress on the XW6400/XW6600 hybred.
So, the rig froze again, this time while running at 3.4ghz, took a fair few hours though. Its currently running stock to make sure it wasn't something else causing the freeze.
So far, not much progress... but it's getting there. I drilled some holes in the DVD:RW case so that the drive can sit back a little further in the case and I have one of the case drive bay blanks atatched to the front to hid the drive from view, for no other reason than the case is black and the drive is not. That has been fairly successful.
Less successful is my quest to add more wires to the PSU as the standard PSU is rather lacking in that department even though it has a high wattage. Some may remember I did this previously to my XW6400 PSU. This time the donor PSU is also lacking in wires. An old 300w random thing that came out of a cheap case. It has a 24 pin mobo connector and one 'P4' 4 pin wire but no PCI-E connector. I wasn't really expecting one (just like last time) but there is only one single molex string thats really long enough and it has some random SATA connectors on there too.
So I have stripped that PSU, grabbed the wires and screws and binned the rest, not sure how I will move forward on this one. I might take some wires off the mobo connector if they are long enough. I might have to combine some wires (solder and cover in heat shrink). I might just take the molex connectors and use some wire (that I will have to find) to make what I need... Either way it's going to be a pain but I need the extra wires added for the 460 GTX otherwise the wires are stretched and all over the place looking like a mess, and we can't have that now, can we.
Last but not least, I need to sort out an IDE connector for the DVD drives. If I had enough spare cash I'd just throw in an SATA drive and be done with it, but I'd rather use what I already have. The XW6400 came with an IDE DVD drive and I added my old IDE NEC DVD:RW (just as it was when running the XW6400 mobo).... My dad taking claim of the SATA DVD:RW that came with the bare bones XW6600 we got. The IDE cable wouldn't be a problem if HP in their infinite wisdom hadn't moved the IDE port from the side of the board to the very bottom. I have a standard flat wire that should be long enough but will restrict airflow directly into the CPU heatsinks, I have a round wire which I don't think is long enough to reach both drives.
While I was doing all the faffing the computer was folding and is doing so now as I take a break from all the fiddling and shouting at the dog to get off of everything. Hopefully the rig will be all done by close of day tomorrow (or today UK time) unless I need to do some computery bits shopping... which I really don't want to have to do!
Jury is out on PPD at the moment, I had a initial estimate of 20k when running at 3ghz but, didn't really let it settle for long enough for a proper conclusion (am running a older V7 client on this dirty Vista instal) and since the blue screen a good few hours ago the PPD is settling down, at 29.5k PPD at the moment and it has been slowly dropping from 35k for the past 3 hours... So I guess around 26k for the current WU at the current clock speed.
Edit: Progress on the XW6400/XW6600 hybred.
So, the rig froze again, this time while running at 3.4ghz, took a fair few hours though. Its currently running stock to make sure it wasn't something else causing the freeze.
So far, not much progress... but it's getting there. I drilled some holes in the DVD:RW case so that the drive can sit back a little further in the case and I have one of the case drive bay blanks atatched to the front to hid the drive from view, for no other reason than the case is black and the drive is not. That has been fairly successful.
Less successful is my quest to add more wires to the PSU as the standard PSU is rather lacking in that department even though it has a high wattage. Some may remember I did this previously to my XW6400 PSU. This time the donor PSU is also lacking in wires. An old 300w random thing that came out of a cheap case. It has a 24 pin mobo connector and one 'P4' 4 pin wire but no PCI-E connector. I wasn't really expecting one (just like last time) but there is only one single molex string thats really long enough and it has some random SATA connectors on there too.
So I have stripped that PSU, grabbed the wires and screws and binned the rest, not sure how I will move forward on this one. I might take some wires off the mobo connector if they are long enough. I might have to combine some wires (solder and cover in heat shrink). I might just take the molex connectors and use some wire (that I will have to find) to make what I need... Either way it's going to be a pain but I need the extra wires added for the 460 GTX otherwise the wires are stretched and all over the place looking like a mess, and we can't have that now, can we.
Last but not least, I need to sort out an IDE connector for the DVD drives. If I had enough spare cash I'd just throw in an SATA drive and be done with it, but I'd rather use what I already have. The XW6400 came with an IDE DVD drive and I added my old IDE NEC DVD:RW (just as it was when running the XW6400 mobo).... My dad taking claim of the SATA DVD:RW that came with the bare bones XW6600 we got. The IDE cable wouldn't be a problem if HP in their infinite wisdom hadn't moved the IDE port from the side of the board to the very bottom. I have a standard flat wire that should be long enough but will restrict airflow directly into the CPU heatsinks, I have a round wire which I don't think is long enough to reach both drives.
While I was doing all the faffing the computer was folding and is doing so now as I take a break from all the fiddling and shouting at the dog to get off of everything. Hopefully the rig will be all done by close of day tomorrow (or today UK time) unless I need to do some computery bits shopping... which I really don't want to have to do!
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Hi All,
I'm going to have to drop one of my rigs, shouldn't be for long but the inconsistency of ubuntu desktop is doing my head in on the bigadv WU's so I need to drop server on it and I should end up with a consistent 24hr AVG rather than the wild variations I have been getting.
Cheers
Lee
I'm going to have to drop one of my rigs, shouldn't be for long but the inconsistency of ubuntu desktop is doing my head in on the bigadv WU's so I need to drop server on it and I should end up with a consistent 24hr AVG rather than the wild variations I have been getting.
Cheers
Lee
Need a half hour , testing a rig.. so i need one of my GTX460's........
EDIT and a need to install a fresh W7 OS........
Already got 3xxxPPD extra by removing one GPU (GTX460)....
ook that GTX460 stays in that rig
EDIT2 LOL i only have one desk in my room (in regards to my moving) and it still is a BIG fat mess :mellow:
/goes further gatering PPD's
EDIT and a need to install a fresh W7 OS........
Already got 3xxxPPD extra by removing one GPU (GTX460)....
ook that GTX460 stays in that rig
EDIT2 LOL i only have one desk in my room (in regards to my moving) and it still is a BIG fat mess :mellow:
/goes further gatering PPD's
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Hi i am back 
i am going to install this(link pic below) in my new silent case, as i have a third rig for one of my GTX460's or GTX670,
and its going to change again to a Z68 board , but that's for later when i am finally moved..
:wacko:
http://s9.postimage.org/esi6hzby7/desk_folding.jpg
Happy Folding..!
i am going to install this(link pic below) in my new silent case, as i have a third rig for one of my GTX460's or GTX670,
and its going to change again to a Z68 board , but that's for later when i am finally moved..
:wacko:http://s9.postimage.org/esi6hzby7/desk_folding.jpg
Happy Folding..!
I am going to swap my GTX670 over to my Acer (predator) board (Z68),
has a G620 CPU a tad better then that P4 HT thingy
EDIT i can let it Fold (G620) 1000PPD madness !
i can swap without losing to much PPD, with the 8057p on some rigs :notworthy:
Plus i can always add a second GTX670 later (2x PCI-e Slot rather then 1)
Greetings Ray and Happy Folding..!
has a G620 CPU a tad better then that P4 HT thingy
EDIT i can let it Fold (G620) 1000PPD madness !
i can swap without losing to much PPD, with the 8057p on some rigs :notworthy:
Plus i can always add a second GTX670 later (2x PCI-e Slot rather then 1)
Greetings Ray and Happy Folding..!
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yassarikhan786
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Finally had time to clean my graphics card yesterday and boy did it make a difference. I can finally resume GPU folding now
Just started it up again, with 2x 8057p
Lucky!
Finally had time to clean my graphics card yesterday and boy did it make a difference. I can finally resume GPU folding now
Welcome back
It looks lime my luck is running out. My main rig is only on for a temporary amout of time each day do to its current location.
Also on the theme of bad luck, I got back from Manchester to find my Asus 560 Ti is dead. I didn't even leave it folding. The rig was left on to fold SMP only as I knew I would be away for a few weeks.
While I was there I discoverd my PPD had droppped and assumed someone had turned it off. More likely is the card died (while sitting idle no less) which caused the shut down.
So I'm now down on my fastest GPU, which was the main one I used for folding in my main rig, and have no funds to replace it now (after the kids has a good christmas and birthdays) and not for ages now.
I hope ASUS will do an RMA on it but I think its a long shot to be honest, its over a year and a half old.
Total bummer.
Also on the theme of bad luck, I got back from Manchester to find my Asus 560 Ti is dead. I didn't even leave it folding. The rig was left on to fold SMP only as I knew I would be away for a few weeks.
While I was there I discoverd my PPD had droppped and assumed someone had turned it off. More likely is the card died (while sitting idle no less) which caused the shut down.
So I'm now down on my fastest GPU, which was the main one I used for folding in my main rig, and have no funds to replace it now (after the kids has a good christmas and birthdays) and not for ages now.
I hope ASUS will do an RMA on it but I think its a long shot to be honest, its over a year and a half old.
Total bummer.
