TPU's F@H Team

Jstn7477 · Dec 1, 2009

Hey guys,

Well, the relationship between me and my new BFG 9800 GT Eco turned out to be a one night stand. It was an impulse buy at a local store, and I was retarded and I got ripped off, so it received its original BIOS, got packed back up into the box, and back it goes tomorrow to the god forsaken blue and yellow themed national chain of unsavory pricing. I'm now buying Shevanel's $80 regular BFG 9800 GT 1GB, which has the same hardware ID as my PNY so they should match (no SLi on the 790FX of course) for half the price of the card I bought today. Biggest $160 mistake. Ever. :eek:

Instead of having just a 9800 GT Eco, I can now have a regular 9800 GT, pay my $53 power bill overage, and pay the guy back in my Engineering class for a project we are splitting funds on. :rockout:

[Ion] · Dec 1, 2009

p_o_s_pc said:
so mine is fine then I think i will put some new TIM on it when i get some MX-2 that should help alittle

BTW look at how cool the battle axe runs compared to the stock

Yep, I wouldn't worry. I haven't had any issues running @ 80C for a week now. I now have space for a massive GPU cooler, so I plan on getting a Battle Axe or Accelero S1 Rev2 reasonably soon. Hopefully then it'll be even quieter :eek:

hertz9753 · Dec 1, 2009

Jstn7477 said:
Hey guys,

Well, the relationship between me and my new BFG 9800 GT Eco turned out to be a one night stand. It was an impulse buy at a local store, and I was retarded and I got ripped off, so it received its original BIOS, got packed back up into the box, and back it goes tomorrow to the god forsaken blue and yellow themed national chain of unsavory pricing. I'm now buying Shevanel's $80 regular BFG 9800 GT 1GB, which has the same hardware ID as my PNY so they should match (no SLi on the 790FX of course) for half the price of the card I bought today. Biggest $160 mistake. Ever.

Instead of having just a 9800 GT Eco, I can now have a regular 9800 GT, pay my $53 power bill overage, and pay the guy back in my Engineering class for a project we are splitting funds on.

Newegg had a 9800gt Eco on sale for $80.00 today. Maybe that's telling us something about those cards.

[Ion] · Dec 1, 2009

Excellent work everyone! :toast:

We have eliminated the Canucks as a threat:

Steve-007UK · Dec 1, 2009

Nice wish i had a diffrent pc tho so i diden't have to keep stoping the program when playing a few games. oh well it all helps

Beertintedgoggles · Dec 1, 2009

hertz9753 said:
Newegg had a 9800gt Eco on sale for $80.00 today. Maybe that's telling us something about those cards.

I've got a Zotac ECO 9800GT in a server folding 24/7 at 550/1620/900 (core/shader/mem). I only bought the eco verison since it's short enough to fit in the space, the regular verisons are all too long. Now if I can only find out if the empty 6-pin section on the board still feeds the voltage regulators I might be able to squeeze a faster oc on this by soldering some +12V lines to the pads on the card.

Velvet Wafer · Dec 1, 2009

Beertintedgoggles said:
I've got a Zotac ECO 9800GT in a server folding 24/7 at 550/1620/900 (core/shader/mem). I only bought the eco verison since it's short enough to fit in the space, the regular verisons are all too long. Now if I can only find out if the empty 6-pin section on the board still feeds the voltage regulators I might be able to squeeze a faster oc on this by soldering some +12V lines to the pads on the card.

and the card got a molex again :laugh:

p_o_s_pc · Dec 1, 2009

i added another 8800gt today...

btw to the person who sent me the BFG 8800GT OC i will have your MO in the mail ASAP :toast:

BUCK NASTY · Dec 1, 2009

[Ion] said:
Excellent work everyone!
We have eliminated the Canucks as a threat:
http://img.techpowerup.org/091201/tpu_fah.png

I have been plagued by bad OS installs on my main rig for about a week. Upgraded to Win7-64, only to downgrade to Win7-32 and finally went back to XP for the utter folding simplicity(cue: angels singing) it possesses. 3 or more GPU's folding on Win7 is a bitch and too high maintenance for me. Had to re-install XP several times, due to corruption and all looks good now.

p_o_s_pc said:
i added another 8800gt today...

btw to the person who sent me the BFG 8800GT OC i will have your MO in the mail ASAP

YHPM...(unrelated to the MO

)

thebluebumblebee · Dec 2, 2009

BUCK NASTY said:
I will be selling off 1 or 2 rigs soon. You guys will have first shot before anyone else. Rigs will consist of the following:

MSI K9A2 Platinum Mobo
AMD Dual Core CPU/Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 64
1 GB DDR2 800mhz
4 X 9600GSO/8800GS(option A) OR 4 x 8800GTS 512(option B)
80gb IDE HDD with XP and all clients/apps preloaded.
Antec EA500D 80+PSU(option A) OR Rosewill Extreme 850w 80+ Bronze(option B)
Various Mid ATX Case(no case for 4x8800GTS)

9600GSO rig is good for 17K PPD
8800GTS rig will do 26.5K PPD

I would like to sell complete turn-key with all clients set-up, but I will part out if necessary. Is anyone interested?

What time frame? Kinda hard to think about it right now?

johnspack · Dec 2, 2009

I'd like to keep my badge, I may ask from time to time in the next 3 months if someone could barf up 1 or 2k points to me to keep me alive. I'll try to do it with my 9800, but I'm rather protective of it right now.... I'm going to try to rma my 280 back as well. Wish me luck.

[Ion] · Dec 2, 2009

p_o_s_pc said:
i added another 8800gt today...

btw to the person who sent me the BFG 8800GT OC i will have your MO in the mail ASAP

Awesome! How many 8800GTs is that now?

BTW, I'm :mad:

with Stanford and my 8800GT right now, I've gotten 2 of the 1888 pt WUs so far today. Not fair :banghead:

p_o_s_pc · Dec 2, 2009

[Ion] said:
Awesome! How many 8800GTs is that now?

BTW, I'm with Stanford and my 8800GT right now, I've gotten 2 of the 1888 pt WUs so far today. Not fair

all of my cards got hit with 1888pt WUs today but i came home to find 2 of the GT's EUE on the 1888pt WU I forgot to disable SLI again and had the same problem.Disabled SLI and its fine :wtf:

I have 3 8800GT's+1 8800GTS of my own and Velvet has 2 8800GT's folding for me so thats 5 8800GT's + 2 9500GT's(thanks velvet)

I hope i can get pie with that. If not its time to find a way to make money to replace the GT's with gtx260's (dealing or prostration are 2 possibles.) btw i'm not going to have the money to spend on anymore hardware for awhile as the gf is ticked at me because i didn't buy her anything for our "anniversary" so i got to buy her something nice to makeup for it.

btw my 24hr avg is already up higher then it has been and today i already have more points then my old 24hr avg. :laugh:

NastyHabits · Dec 2, 2009

animal007uk said:
Nice wish i had a diffrent pc tho so i diden't have to keep stoping the program when playing a few games. oh well it all helps

Unless it's a REALLY OLD game, I think we all have to quit folding to play a game. I've been able to plays some not so old games and keep on crunching.

I've had a boatload of 1888's lately Even blue-screened my number two rig for the first time ever. (Lost it too, after working on it for 5 hours. :banghead:

)

hertz9753 · Dec 2, 2009

BUCK NASTY said:
I have been plagued by bad OS installs on my main rig for about a week. Upgraded to Win7-64, only to downgrade to Win7-32 and finally went back to XP for the utter folding simplicity(cue: angels singing) it possesses. 3 or more GPU's folding on Win7 is a bitch and too high maintenance for me. Had to re-install XP several times, due to corruption and all looks good now.

That sounds like my weekend. I have XP, Vista and Win7. I went with Vista bacause that was the first OS that I got to install and run without going nuts. Did you see the black activation screen? I saw it at least five times.

BUCK NASTY · Dec 2, 2009

OK, what brave soul is going to start folding with an i7 for the BigWU advantage??? HWC has several guy's getting 50k+ results every other day and I am tired of watching them continuing to challenge us in the daily points race. We must do something now!!!!

NastyHabits · Dec 2, 2009

BUCK NASTY said:
OK, what brave soul is going to start folding with an i7 for the BigWU advantage??? HWC has several guy's getting 50k+ results every other day and I am tired of watching them continuing to challenge us in the daily points race. We must do something now!!!!

Alas, not me. I'm stuck in Socket 775 land for the immediate future. :ohwell:

p_o_s_pc · Dec 2, 2009

NastyHabits said:
Alas, not me. I'm stuck in Socket 775 land for the immediate future.

I'm stuck in the s775 and AM2 socket for awhile so i can't...I know there is alot of people here that have i7s crunching maybe someone with more then 1 rig crunching could switch there i7 over to folding for awhile.. if someone sends me a i7+mobo+ram I will be more then happy to fold on it but till then i can't

Easy Rhino · Dec 2, 2009

yea no upgrading to i7 for me for probably 6-12 months.

niko084 · Dec 2, 2009

Easy Rhino said:
yea no upgrading to i7 for me for probably 6-12 months.

+1... It's just not really in the budget especially being I just bought a new car and I know it's going to suck some money out of me in the nearing future....

I'll see if I can't muster it up though maybe over the next few months, going to pickup some other work for some more money.

Easy Rhino · Dec 3, 2009

niko084 said:
+1... It's just not really in the budget especially being I just bought a new car and I know it's going to suck some money out of me in the nearing future....

I'll see if I can't muster it up though maybe over the next few months, going to pickup some other work for some more money.

yea im with you. seeing as i wont see any day to day improvements with i7 over my q9650 i just cant justify upgrading simply for folding.

the good news is i got a great cooler for the 8800gts and it is now doing 6400 ppd! so my ppd with the ps3 and the other two rigs should increase by about 3000 when all is said and done.

BUCK NASTY · Dec 3, 2009

niko084 said:
+1... It's just not really in the budget especially being I just bought a new car and I know it's going to suck some money out of me in the nearing future....

I'll see if I can't muster it up though maybe over the next few months, going to pickup some other work for some more money.

Your doing it all wrong! Beater used car = new computer parts. Where is a new car going to take you that a high end rig can't???????? :laugh:

niko084 · Dec 3, 2009

BUCK NASTY said:
Your doing it all wrong! Beater used car = new computer parts. Where is a new car going to take you that a high end rig can't????????

It's a BMW... And around here that's a REAL eye grabber.. It will take me a lot of places :cool:

Aw, ya the new rig is in the works, I'm just in the middle of a bunch of stuff right now.
I about have my new folding/cruncher rig together.

Got the case, hard drive, dvd, 4gb ram, q6600 and hsf, and a mainboard with 3 slots!
Might fetch up a few 9800s and shove em in there, grab a power supply.

Jstn7477 · Dec 3, 2009

Good news,

I took the 9800 GT Eco back and got a refund yesterday, and today I bought shevanel's BFG 9800 GT OC 65nm A2 for $80. Seems to OC better than my PNY 55nm B1. Got up to 675/1700/950 at 1.05v, and I can softmod it to 1.1v but the card is running really hot with the SSC. My PNY B1 only gets up to 650/1600/950 before it craps out (once again, I am using 25MHz increments for stability purposes). Looks like the 65nm is a better overclocker than both 55s I had. Dunno if the chip is better or the board.

p_o_s_pc · Dec 3, 2009

my 65nm chips are great clockers. I think the 55nm chip could clock better if it could get more power(if it had a 6pin) and i'm sure the parts aren't as good as they don't have to deal with as much voltage/watts

System Name	Awesomesauce 4.3 \| Laptop (MSI GE72VR 6RF Apache Pro-023)
Processor	Intel Core i7-5820K 4.16GHz 1.28v/3GHz 1.05v uncore \| Intel Core i7-6700HQ @ 3.1GHz
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X99-UD5 WiFi LGA2011-v3\| Stock
Cooling	Corsair H100i v2 w/ 2x EK Vardar F4-120ER + various 120/140mm case fans \| Stock
Memory	G.Skill RJ-4 16GB DDR4-2666 CL15 quad channel \| 12GB DDR4-2133
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX 1080 Ti Hybrid SC2 11GB @ 2012/5151 boost \| NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB +200/+500 + Intel 530
Storage	Samsung 840 EVO 500GB + Seagate 3TB 7200RPM + others \| Kingston 256GB M.2 SATA + 1TB 7200RPM
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Case	Fractal Design Define XL R2 \| MSI
Audio Device(s)	Creative Sound Blaster Z \| Realtek with quad stereo speakers and subwoofer
Power Supply	Corsair HX850i Platinum \| 19.5v 180w Delta brick
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64 \| Windows 10 Home x64

System Name	Niedersachsen / Ribe / Minsk
Processor	i3 3240 / i7-3520M / 4x Opteron 6376 @ 2.86GHz
Motherboard	BIOSTAR H61M / HP Q77 / Supermicro H8QG7
Cooling	Stock / Stock / 4x 1U G34
Memory	1x8GB / 2x4GB / 4x4GB
Video Card(s)	GTX260 / Intel HD 4000 / nVidia GT310
Storage	80GB Intel SSD / 256GB Intel SSD / 2x 60GB SSD (RAID1)
Display(s)	Dell 3007 + HP 2245w / 12.1" 1366x768 / None
Case	Antec NSK3480 / HP / Supermicro 1U
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Enermax 500W / HP 130W / Supermicro Gold 1400W
Keyboard	IBM Model M
Software	Windows 7 (Niedersachsen/Ribe) / Linux Mint 17.2 (Minsk)

System Name	Fuzzy Bunny
Processor	Intel i7 3770K
Motherboard	ASRock Z77 Extreme4
Cooling	Arctic Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2
Memory	16GB Mushkin 2133
Video Card(s)	NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti-Kraken G10
Storage	Western Digital Caviar Black WD7501AALS 750GB
Display(s)	ASUS 24"
Case	Antec 300
Audio Device(s)	Stock
Power Supply	CoolerMaster Gold 1000 Watt
Software	Windows 7 64

System Name	Niedersachsen / Ribe / Minsk
Processor	i3 3240 / i7-3520M / 4x Opteron 6376 @ 2.86GHz
Motherboard	BIOSTAR H61M / HP Q77 / Supermicro H8QG7
Cooling	Stock / Stock / 4x 1U G34
Memory	1x8GB / 2x4GB / 4x4GB
Video Card(s)	GTX260 / Intel HD 4000 / nVidia GT310
Storage	80GB Intel SSD / 256GB Intel SSD / 2x 60GB SSD (RAID1)
Display(s)	Dell 3007 + HP 2245w / 12.1" 1366x768 / None
Case	Antec NSK3480 / HP / Supermicro 1U
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Enermax 500W / HP 130W / Supermicro Gold 1400W
Keyboard	IBM Model M
Software	Windows 7 (Niedersachsen/Ribe) / Linux Mint 17.2 (Minsk)

System Name	PC-Chips
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5700x3D
Motherboard	Asus ROG Strix B550-F Gaming.
Cooling	Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE.
Memory	Patriot Viper 32gig dual channel 3600mhz
Video Card(s)	PowerColor HellHound RX 7900 GRE OC
Storage	2 Samsung 860 EVO's 500gig / 2TB crucial P3-NVME / WD-BLUE SN550 1TB M.2 / SP A55 512gig / 8TB HDD
Display(s)	TCL 50-inch 4k TV freesync HDR
Case	Modded NZXT H510
Audio Device(s)	Realtek S1220A - Yamaha A-S501 AMP - Wharfedale diamond 9.1 speakers - Wharfedale SW150 sub
Power Supply	EVGA SuperNOVA G6 750W 80+ Gold
Mouse	Some cheap wireless thing
Keyboard	Razer Cynosa lite
VR HMD	Oculus Quest 2 128gig version
Software	Windows 11 pro 64bit

TPU's F@H Team

Jstn7477

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

hertz9753

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

Steve-007UK

Beertintedgoggles

Velvet Wafer

p_o_s_pc

F@H&WCG addict

BUCK NASTY

4P Enthusiust

thebluebumblebee

johnspack

Here For Good!

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

p_o_s_pc

F@H&WCG addict

NastyHabits

hertz9753

BUCK NASTY

4P Enthusiust

NastyHabits

p_o_s_pc

F@H&WCG addict

Easy Rhino

Linux Advocate

niko084

Easy Rhino

Linux Advocate

BUCK NASTY

4P Enthusiust

niko084

Jstn7477

p_o_s_pc

F@H&WCG addict

Processor	2500K @ 4.5GHz 1.28V
Motherboard	ASUS P8P67 Deluxe
Cooling	Corsair A70
Memory	8GB (2x4GB) Corsair Vengeance 1600 9-9-9-24 1T
Video Card(s)	eVGA GTX 470
Storage	Crucial m4 128GB + Seagate RAID 1 (1TB x 2)
Display(s)	Dell 22" 1680x1050 nothing special
Case	Antec 300
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	PC Power & Cooling 750W
Software	Windows 7 64bit Pro

System Name	Nexus PC
Processor	Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3, 3600 MHz
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H97-HD3
Cooling	Thermalright Macho V2
Memory	24GB DDR3, 1400MHZ CL8
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Radeon R9 290
Storage	Samsung EVO 960 250gb, EVO 850 250gb, Vertex 3 128gb. 2 TB of Rotational.
Display(s)	1xAsus MX299, 2x Asus MX239, Oculus Rift CV1
Case	Sunflower Tower
Audio Device(s)	C-Media CMI8738/C3DX
Power Supply	Corsair TX850
Mouse	Cyborg R.A.T. 7
Software	Win7 64Bit Ultimate

System Name	el'lappy\|Cruncher \| Cruncher 2
Processor	intel C2D T6400 \| i7 3770k @4.2ghz \| AII X2 220 @3.4ghz
Motherboard	some Acer \| Asus P8Z77-V Pro \|Gigabyter GA-M61p-S3
Cooling	dual 80mm cooling fan \| WC'ing ) \|cheapo
Memory	2x2gb ddr3 \| 2x2gb Ripjaws 1600 \|4x512mb D9s
Video Card(s)	onboard \| 60 1GB(hd7770 ) \|8800GTS
Storage	Momuntus xt 320gb \|Kingston Hyper X 120gb SATA III\|500gb WD
Display(s)	17in \| 42" 1080P HD 3D TV
Case	lappy case \| CM HAF XB \|none yet
Audio Device(s)	onboard \| onboard \| onboard
Power Supply	Dell brick w/ acer end end \| Antec EW 650w \|Antec SP 350w(upg.soon)
Software	Windows 7 Ult. 64bit---->------->

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Processor	AMD RYZEN 5600X
Motherboard	MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI
Cooling	CORSAIR H115i
Memory	16gb DDR4 @ 1200MHZ
Video Card(s)	GIGABYTE RTX 4080 SUPER
Storage	SAMSUNG M.2 1TB
Display(s)	ASUS 24" IPS
Case	Coolermaster Centurion 590
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA SUPERNOVA 1000
Software	Windows 10 64

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Motherboard	MSI Z77A-GD55/GA-P67A-UD4-B3
Cooling	Phanteks PH-TC14CS/H80
Memory	Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) LP /4GB Kingston DDR3 1600
Video Card(s)	Asus GTX 660 Ti/MSI HD7770
Storage	Crucial MX100 256GB/120GB Samsung 830 & Seagate 2TB(died)
Display(s)	Asus 24' LED/Samsung SyncMaster B1940
Case	P100/Antec P280 It's huge!
Audio Device(s)	on board
Power Supply	SeaSonic SS-660XP2/Seasonic SS-760XP2
Software	Win 7 Home Premiun 64 Bit

System Name	System2 Blacknet , System1 Blacknet2
Processor	System2 Threadripper 1920x, System1 2699 v3
Motherboard	System2 Asrock Fatality x399 Professional Gaming, System1 Asus X99-A
Cooling	System2 Noctua NH-U14 TR4-SP3 Dual 140mm fans, System1 AIO
Memory	System2 64GBS DDR4 3000, System1 32gbs DDR4 2400
Video Card(s)	System2 GTX 980Ti System1 GTX 970
Storage	System2 4x SSDs + NVme= 2.250TB 2xStorage Drives=8TB System1 3x SSDs=2TB
Display(s)	1x27" 1440 display 1x 24" 1080 display
Case	System2 Some Nzxt case with soundproofing...
Audio Device(s)	Asus Xonar U7 MKII
Power Supply	System2 EVGA 750 Watt, System1 XFX XTR 750 Watt
Mouse	Logitech G900 Chaos Spectrum
Keyboard	Ducky
Software	Archlinux, Manjaro, Win11 Ent 24h2
Benchmark Scores	It's linux baby!

System Name	Rex
Processor	Ryzen 2600
Motherboard	GigaByte B450M DS3H
Cooling	Wraith
Memory	16 GB Corsair Vengence 3000
Video Card(s)	Evga GTX 1660 SC
Storage	XPG M.2, Samsung 860 SSD, WD Black 1 TB
Display(s)	ASUS VG248
Case	Corsair mATX cube. (Alas they don't make it anymore)
Power Supply	Corsair HX 600 Watt
Mouse	Microsoft
Keyboard	Logitech
Software	Windows 10 64 ibit

System Name	Desktop
Processor	i5 13600KF
Motherboard	AsRock B760M Steel Legend Wifi
Cooling	Noctua NH-U9S
Memory	4x 16 Gb Gskill S5 DDR5 @6000
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte Gaming OC 6750 XT 12GB
Storage	WD_BLACK 4TB SN850x
Display(s)	Gigabye M32U
Case	Corsair Carbide 400C
Audio Device(s)	On Board
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova 650 P2
Mouse	MX Master 3s
Keyboard	Logitech G915 Wireless Clicky
Software	The Matrix

System Name	Back to Blue
Processor	i9 14900k
Motherboard	Asrock Z790 Nova
Cooling	Corsair H150i Elite
Memory	64GB Corsair Dominator DDR5-6400 @ 6600
Video Card(s)	EVGA RTX 3090 Ultra FTW3
Storage	4TB WD 850x NVME, 4TB WD Black, 10TB Seagate Barracuda Pro
Display(s)	1x Samsung Odyssey G7 Neo and 1x Dell u2518d
Case	Lian Li o11 DXL w/custom vented front panel
Audio Device(s)	Focusrite Saffire PRO 14 -> DBX DriveRack PA+ -> Mackie MR8 and MR10 / Senn PX38X -> SB AE-5 Plus
Power Supply	Corsair RM1000i
Mouse	Logitech G502x
Keyboard	Corsair K95 Platinum
Software	Windows 11 x64 Pro
Benchmark Scores	31k multicore Cinebench - CPU limited 125w