PPD Question

I'm thinking ~40-45k on -bigadv. Hard to say though, I'm just guessing comparing it to -bigadv running on 14 cores from a xeon. i7 970 is a better/cheaper choice though, and why stock?
 
Getting a 980X and running it at stock speeds is completely pointless. In general the 980X is completely pointless if you aren't cooling with something like liquid nitrogen. Just grab a 970 instead.
 
I'm thinking ~40-45k on -bigadv. Hard to say though, I'm just guessing comparing it to -bigadv running on 14 cores from a xeon. i7 970 is a better/cheaper choice though, and why stock?

Because I'm actually looking at the Xeon E5645 and overclocking it to 3.2-3.4. I want the Xeon specifically because it has lower power consumption (80w versus 130w of a 970/980)...and right now that's pretty important for me.

Plus, it gives me the option to go SR-2 and dual Xeons down the road, which I plan to do but just not yet.
 
Because I'm actually looking at the Xeon E5645 and overclocking it to 3.2-3.4. I want the Xeon specifically because it has lower power consumption (80w versus 130w of a 970/980)...and right now that's pretty important for me.

Plus, it gives me the option to go SR-2 and dual Xeons down the road, which I plan to do but just not yet.

Ah I see. I don't know how they clock, wonder if they can hit 4.0GHz? Looks to be the same price as a 970 too. If you plan on getting an SR-2 later, then what you are doing looks like a great idea to me.
 
Ah I see. I don't know how they clock, wonder if they can hit 4.0GHz? Looks to be the same price as a 970 too. If you plan on getting an SR-2 later, then what you are doing looks like a great idea to me.

From what I've read the SR-2 usually hits a wall around 200 BLCK and it seems it's really dependent on the chip's multiplier...an E5645 has an 18x multi I believe so that would come out to 3600 mhz. I'm being conservative and expecting 3.2-3.4ghz o/c which puts me right around a stock 970 or 980. I have seen some of the higher end Xeons reach 3.8-4ghz but those of course are more power hungry by default (and more expensive) which defeats the purpose of this build.
 
From what I've read the SR-2 usually hits a wall around 200 BLCK and it seems it's really dependent on the chip's multiplier...an E5645 has an 18x multi I believe so that would come out to 3600 mhz. I'm being conservative and expecting 3.2-3.4ghz o/c which puts me right around a stock 970 or 980. I have seen some of the higher end Xeons reach 3.8-4ghz but those of course are more power hungry by default (and more expensive) which defeats the purpose of this build.

I think I was wrong, the e5645 has x19 multi with turbo enabled, so 3.4-3.6+ might be easier to achieve than I thought. I just wish I could afford 2 of them and an SR-2 right now.
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I'm not sure yet. I'm hoping it will work in my Asrock X58 board...Asrock lists other Xeon 5600 series CPUs as being supported but the 5645 isn't listed. If it doesn't, I'll need to get an SR-2 sooner rather than later. If it does work, I'll stick the rig in a corner at 3.4ghz or so and let it fold bigadv units for a few months. I'll eventually go dual Xeon with an SR-2 either way.
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The main thing for me is to maximize ppd per watt, even if it means a higher initial investment. Living in Florida means 80-90 degree temps most of the year and relying on AC, so I want as little heat output as possible
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I'm not sure yet. I'm hoping it will work in my Asrock X58 board...Asrock lists other Xeon 5600 series CPUs as being supported but the 5645 isn't listed. If it doesn't, I'll need to get an SR-2 sooner rather than later. If it does work, I'll stick the rig in a corner at 3.4ghz or so and let it fold bigadv units for a few months. I'll eventually go dual Xeon with an SR-2 either way.
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The main thing for me is to maximize ppd per watt, even if it means a higher initial investment. Living in Florida means 80-90 degree temps most of the year and relying on AC, so I want as little heat output as possible
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Would like to know if you have any succes with the xeon installed on asrock mobo,i have the x58 extreme6 and could use some extra folding-grunt
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