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Para_Franck · Mar 22, 2015

Let's say I wanted to build an opteron based, probably dual CPU setup (at least 12 cores total), from which generation of Opteron should I look in?

krusha03 · Mar 22, 2015

Para_Franck said:
Let's say I wanted to build an opteron based, probably dual CPU setup (at least 12 cores total), from which generation of Opteron should I look in?

Any reason why you want an opteron specifically. I see the Westemere intel xeons E/L/X56xxx being rather popular and cheap on the 2nd hand market. Example

6 core 12 thread
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SLBV3-INTEL...782?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d2f74b646 95W
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SLBV6-INTEL...717?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e8b353075 95W
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-...151?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cf07be8e7 60W

4 core 8 thread
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-...802?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item25a27b78d2 80W

And a dual 1366 board
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Dell-Po...322?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5b0486fcba

Norton · Mar 22, 2015

Para_Franck said:
Let's say I wanted to build an opteron based, probably dual CPU setup (at least 12 cores total), from which generation of Opteron should I look in?

Socket G34 61xx or 63xx are your best bet (62xx chips are Bulldozer and not as effective)

krusha03 said:
Any reason why you want an opteron specifically. I see the Westemere intel xeons E/L/X56xxx being rather popular and cheap on the 2nd hand market. Example

6 core 12 thread
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SLBV3-INTEL...782?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d2f74b646 95W
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SLBV6-INTEL...717?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e8b353075 95W
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-...151?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cf07be8e7 60W

4 core 8 thread
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-...802?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item25a27b78d2 80W

And a dual 1366 board
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Dell-Poweredge-R410-Dual-Xeon-LGA1366-Motherboard-System-Board-3GTGH-N051F-/390917979322?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5b0486fcba

Dual 1366 are at pretty good prices now but keep an eye out for 4P systems that are being retired by folders in favor of GTX 970/980's

*Note- please move these discussions over to the Team thread:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-wcg-boinc-team.85784/
This thread along with the Milestones and Pie threads are getting off topic

Thanks!

Heaven7 · Mar 22, 2015

Norton said:
*Note- please move these discussions over to the Team thread:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-wcg-boinc-team.85784/
This thread along with the Milestones and Pie threads are getting off topic
Thanks!

Thanks for the heads-up, Captain. Guess I'm to blame too for going off topic in those threads... :oops:

If so, I didn't mean to. I'll follow the rules from now on, thanks for the link.

Para_Franck · Mar 22, 2015

krusha03 said:
Any reason why you want an opteron specifically. I see the Westemere intel xeons E/L/X56xxx being rather popular and cheap on the 2nd hand market. Example

I went away from AMD products with my last build. I guess it`'s a nostalgia thing.

Norton · Mar 22, 2015

Heaven7 said:
Thanks for the heads-up, Captain. Guess I'm to blame too for going off topic in those threads... If so, I didn't mean to. I'll follow the rules from now on, thanks for the link.

No worries/no blame- just trying to get all of this great discussion over to the best thread for it

@Para_Franck

There's not just nostalga, performance also. Here's my 4P running 4x Opteron 6168 12 core chips

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=host&proj=bwcg&hostid=3193884

Runs at stock using around 500w at the wall through a gold rated psu

manofthem · Mar 22, 2015

Norton said:
There's not just nostalga, performance also. Here's my 4P running 4x Opteron 6168 12 core chips
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=host&proj=bwcg&hostid=3193884

That is beautiful! Any chance of some power usage on that bad boy?

Norton said:
Runs at stock using around 500w at the wall through a gold rated psu

Thanks for adding that in. That's pretty impressive! :respect:

Heaven7 · Mar 22, 2015

Nice!

Power usage is probably to be neglected/accepted for that kind of crunching force... :rockout:

krusha03 · Mar 22, 2015

manofthem said:
That is beautiful! Any chance of some power usage on that bad boy?

+1

Heaven7 said:
Nice! Power usage is probably to be neglected/accepted for that kind of crunching force...

Actually i am really interested in points/watt and points/$ figures

The thing is G34 CPUs / Boards are rare and expensive here

Norton · Mar 24, 2015

OK Team I have an offer and a request....

Offer- If anyone is in need of some nice fans I have some left over from the ones donated by @sneekypeet

Send me a PM if you need a couple. They will be free ofc

Request- Looking to borrow a working s1366 chip for a week or two to test an EVGA X58 mATX board. The original cpu was fried in it but the board may still work. If the board works it will be donated to a Team member or included in a future giveaway rig.

*note- The chip just needs to work, nothing fancy, testing the board might kill the chip- will address directly with the donator if that happens.

BarbaricSoul · Mar 24, 2015

Norton said:
OK Team I have an offer and a request....

Offer- If anyone is in need of some nice fans I have some left over from the ones donated by @sneekypeet Send me a PM if you need a couple. They will be free ofc

Request- Looking to borrow a working s1366 chip for a week or two to test an EVGA X58 mATX board. The original cpu was fried in it but the board may still work. If the board works it will be donated to a Team member or included in a future giveaway rig.

*note- The chip just needs to work, nothing fancy, testing the board might kill the chip- will address directly with the donator if that happens.

I have a 960 you can borrow/have, as far as I know it works. Haven't actually tried it, someone bought the board from me that it was suppose go in.

t_ski · Mar 24, 2015

Norton said:
OK Team I have an offer and a request....

Offer- If anyone is in need of some nice fans I have some left over from the ones donated by @sneekypeet Send me a PM if you need a couple. They will be free ofc

Request- Looking to borrow a working s1366 chip for a week or two to test an EVGA X58 mATX board. The original cpu was fried in it but the board may still work. If the board works it will be donated to a Team member or included in a future giveaway rig.

*note- The chip just needs to work, nothing fancy, testing the board might kill the chip- will address directly with the donator if that happens.

I have an E5506 (maybe it's an E5504) that use can have.

Norton · Mar 26, 2015

UPDATE!

Thanks to @BarbaricSoul for sending me a chip

and

We seem to have hit the bottom of the fan assortment from @sneekypeet. Will be sending out packages to folks in a few days :cool:

If I come across any more goodies I will post another announcement in this thread

sneekypeet · Mar 26, 2015

Norton said:
We seem to have hit the bottom of the fan assortment

Wow that was fast, you were not kidding around when you said they would all find good use! Glad to hear it!

stinger608 · Mar 26, 2015

Norton said:
Thanks to @BarbaricSoul for sending me a chip

Did that EVGA x58 micro post? Or have you tried it yet?

Norton · Mar 26, 2015

stinger608 said:
Did that EVGA x58 micro post? Or have you tried it yet?

Have to get the chip and some time to test it once I have it- hopefully this can be done next week at some point

peche · Mar 26, 2015

@Norton captain .. let me say that i really had a good time with the last challenge, also i would like to ask about if there is another coming soon?

Regards,

stinger608 · Mar 26, 2015

Norton said:
Have to get the chip and some time to test it once I have it- hopefully this can be done next week at some point

Ah, I miss read the statement thinking you already had the chip in hand. Sorry for the confusion.

Norton · Mar 26, 2015

peche said:
@Norton captain .. let me say that i really had a good time with the last challenge, also i would like to ask about if there is another coming soon?

Regards,

We will do one again in May around Mother's Day... keep a watch for an announcement in the Team thread OR in my sig

and for the planning thread to start up sometime in April.

peche · Mar 26, 2015

Norton said:
We will do one again in May around Mother's Day... keep a watch for an announcement in the Team thread OR in my sig and for the planning thread to start up sometime in April.

excellent... im here waiting ...
lets say f*ck you cancer again !!

peche · Mar 26, 2015

does any have have spected this?

Regards

T-Bob · Mar 26, 2015

peche said:
does any have have spected this?

View attachment 63677

Regards

It looks like you have an unstable overclock

peche · Mar 26, 2015

T-Bob said:
It looks like you have an unstable overclock

no overclock on this rig... also no overclockon my machines at moment!

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Mar 26, 2015

peche said:
does any have have spected this?

View attachment 63677

Regards

If it keeps happening then you have stability issues somewhere. One every great now and then is ok, if it is happening often you need to start checking hardware. WCG the true hardware stability checker.

T-Bob · Mar 26, 2015

Yeah, What @ThE_MaD_ShOt said.

Ok no OC. Can you give us the specs on this system? Also what's your cpu temps?

System Name	Franck-PC
Processor	i7-4770K @ 4.2Ghz
Motherboard	Asus Maximus VI Hero
Cooling	Be quiet! DARK ROCK PRO 2 Silent
Memory	2x8GB Kingston HyperX Beast 2400 DDR3
Video Card(s)	MSI Gaming-X RX480 8gig
Storage	SanDisk EXTREME II 480GB SSD + WD 2TB HDD
Case	Fractal design Arc MIDI R2
Power Supply	Corsair HX620W Modular

System Name	Desktop / Laptop
Processor	AMD Ryzen R7 5600x / Intel i5-4200U
Motherboard	ASUS TUF B550-Plus / Lenovo MB
Cooling	Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280 / Stock
Memory	Corsair Vengeance 2x16GB DDR 3800 / 8GB DDR3-1600MHz
Video Card(s)	AMD Radeon 6900XT / Intel HD 4400
Storage	2.5TB SSDs + 4TB HDD / Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB
Display(s)	34" LG Ultrawide / 12.5 " 1080p IPS Touchscreen
Case	Fractal Design R6 / Lenovo X240
Audio Device(s)	Onboard / Onboard
Power Supply	Enermax REVOLUTION87+ 1000W / Lenovo 40W
Mouse	Razer Basilisk X
Keyboard	Dell Business Multimedia Keyboard
Software	Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
Benchmark Scores	Chicken Invaders 5 @125+ FPS

System Name	Main PC- Gamer- Main Cruncher/Folder and too many crunching/folding rigs
Processor	Ryzen 5900X- Ryzen 5950X- Ryzen 3950X and etc...
Motherboard	Asrock X570 Extreme4- MSI X570S Tomahawk MAX WiFi- MSI B450M Bazooka Max and etc...
Cooling	Noctua NH-U14S (dual fan)- EK 360 AIO with push/pull fans- Corsair H115i RGB Pro XT and etc...
Memory	2x16GB GSkill FlareX 3200/c14- 4x8GB Corsair Vengeance 3600/c16- 2x16GB Team 3600/c18 and etc..
Video Card(s)	MSI Gaming RX 6800- Asus RTX 3070 TUF OC- MSI Ventus GTX 1660Ti and etc...
Storage	Main PC (1TB WD SN850- 2TB PNY CS 3040- 2TB Seagate Firecuda) and etc...
Display(s)	Main PC (2x24" Dell UltraSharp U2414H)
Case	Phanteks P600s- Seasonic Q704- Fractal Meshify C and etc...
Audio Device(s)	Logitech Z625 THX 2.1 speakers
Power Supply	EVGA 750 G3- SeaSonic DGC 750- EVGA P2 850 and etc...
Mouse	G300s
Keyboard	Corsair K65
VR HMD	N/A
Software	Windows 10 Pro or Ubuntu
Benchmark Scores	Why sit on the Bench when you can get in the game and Crunch!!!

System Name	Franck-PC
Processor	i7-4770K @ 4.2Ghz
Motherboard	Asus Maximus VI Hero
Cooling	Be quiet! DARK ROCK PRO 2 Silent
Memory	2x8GB Kingston HyperX Beast 2400 DDR3
Video Card(s)	MSI Gaming-X RX480 8gig
Storage	SanDisk EXTREME II 480GB SSD + WD 2TB HDD
Case	Fractal design Arc MIDI R2
Power Supply	Corsair HX620W Modular

System Name	Main PC- Gamer- Main Cruncher/Folder and too many crunching/folding rigs
Processor	Ryzen 5900X- Ryzen 5950X- Ryzen 3950X and etc...
Motherboard	Asrock X570 Extreme4- MSI X570S Tomahawk MAX WiFi- MSI B450M Bazooka Max and etc...
Cooling	Noctua NH-U14S (dual fan)- EK 360 AIO with push/pull fans- Corsair H115i RGB Pro XT and etc...
Memory	2x16GB GSkill FlareX 3200/c14- 4x8GB Corsair Vengeance 3600/c16- 2x16GB Team 3600/c18 and etc..
Video Card(s)	MSI Gaming RX 6800- Asus RTX 3070 TUF OC- MSI Ventus GTX 1660Ti and etc...
Storage	Main PC (1TB WD SN850- 2TB PNY CS 3040- 2TB Seagate Firecuda) and etc...
Display(s)	Main PC (2x24" Dell UltraSharp U2414H)
Case	Phanteks P600s- Seasonic Q704- Fractal Meshify C and etc...
Audio Device(s)	Logitech Z625 THX 2.1 speakers
Power Supply	EVGA 750 G3- SeaSonic DGC 750- EVGA P2 850 and etc...
Mouse	G300s
Keyboard	Corsair K65
VR HMD	N/A
Software	Windows 10 Pro or Ubuntu
Benchmark Scores	Why sit on the Bench when you can get in the game and Crunch!!!

Processor	3900X @ 4.0
Motherboard	Asus ROG Strix X570-E
Cooling	DeepCool Castle 360EX
Memory	G Skill Trident Z Neo 32GB 3600
Video Card(s)	RX 5700 XT Pulse
Storage	Sabrent Rocket Q 1TB
Display(s)	LG 34UC88
Case	Thermaltake P3
Power Supply	Super Flower Leadex III 750w
Mouse	Logitech G900
Keyboard	G Skill KM570 MX Silver
Software	Windows 10 Pro

System Name	Barb's Domain
Processor	i9 10850k 5.1GHz all cores
Motherboard	MSI MPG Z490 GAMING EDGE WIFI
Cooling	Deep Cool Assassin III
Memory	2*16gig Corsair LPX DDR4 3200
Video Card(s)	RTX 4080 FE
Storage	500gb Samsung 980 Pro M2 SSD, 500GB WD Blue SATA SSD, 2TB Seagate Hybrid SSHD
Display(s)	Dell - S3222DGM 32" 2k Curved/ASUS VP28UQG 28" 4K (ran at 2k), Sanyo 75" 4k TV
Case	SilverStone Fortress FT04
Audio Device(s)	Bose Companion II speakers, Corsair - HS70 PRO headphones
Power Supply	Corsair RM850x (2021)
Mouse	Logitech G502
Keyboard	Logitech Orion Spectrum G910
VR HMD	Oculus Quest 2
Software	Windows 11 Pro 64 bit
Benchmark Scores	https://www.3dmark.com/spy/34962882

System Name	My i7 Beast
Processor	Intel Core i7 6800K
Motherboard	Asus X99-A II
Cooling	Nickel-plated EK Supremacy EVO, D5 with XSPC Bayres & BIX Quad Radiator
Memory	4 x 8GB EVGA SuperSC DDR4-3200
Video Card(s)	EVGA 1080 SuperClocked
Storage	Samsung 950 Pro 256GB m.2 SSD + 480GB Sandisk storage SSD
Display(s)	Three Asus 24" VW246H LCD's
Case	Silverstone TJ07
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Corsair AX1200
Keyboard	Corsair K95
Software	Windows 10 x64 Pro

System Name	EVA-01
Processor	Intel i7 13700K
Motherboard	Asus ROG Maximus Z690 HERO EVA Edition
Cooling	ASUS ROG Ryujin III 360 with Noctua Industrial Fans
Memory	PAtriot Viper Elite RGB 96GB @ 6000MHz.
Video Card(s)	Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3090 24GB OC EVA Edition
Storage	Addlink S95 M.2 PCIe GEN 4x4 2TB
Display(s)	Asus ROG SWIFT OLED PG42UQ
Case	Thermaltake Core P3 TG
Audio Device(s)	Realtek on board > Sony Receiver > Cerwin Vegas
Power Supply	be quiet DARK POWER PRO 12 1500W
Mouse	ROG STRIX Impact Electro Punk
Keyboard	ROG STRIX Scope TKL Electro Punk
Software	Windows 11

System Name	Dean Machine/2020 Ryzenfall
Processor	Intel 4790K/AMD Ryzen 5800X
Motherboard	MSI 1150 Gaming mATX/Asus ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming Wifi
Cooling	Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED/SilverStone AH240 AIO
Memory	16 gigs Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer/32 gigs G.Skill TridentZ NEO DDR4
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte 1660 Super/EVGA GTX 1080 FTW Hybrid Gaming
Storage	Crucial SSD 256 and 2TB spinner/Dual Samsung 980 Pro M2 NVME 4.0
Display(s)	Overlord 27" 2560 x 1440
Case	Corsair Air 540
Audio Device(s)	On board
Power Supply	Seasonic modular 850 watt Platinum/EVGA T2-850 Titanium
Software	Windows 10 Pro/Windows 10 Pro

System Name	Athenna
Processor	intel i7 3770 Dellided
Motherboard	GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 Rev. 1.1
Cooling	Thermaltake Water 3.0 Pro + Tt Riing12 x2 / Tt ThunderBlade / Gelid Slim 120UV fans
Memory	16GB DRR3 Kingoston with Custom Tt spreaders + HyperX Fan
Video Card(s)	GeForce GTX 980 4GB Nvidia Sample
Storage	Crucial M4 SSD 64GB's / Seagate Barracuda 2TB / Seagate Barracuda 320GB's
Display(s)	22" LG FLATRON 1920 x 1280p
Case	Thermaltake Commander G42 Window
Audio Device(s)	On-board Dolby 5.1+ Kingston HyperX Cloud 1
Power Supply	Themaltake TR2 700W 80plus bronce & APC Pro backup 1000Va
Mouse	Tt eSports Level 10M Rev 1.0 Diamond Black & Tt Conkor "L" mouse pad
Keyboard	Tt eSports KNUCKER
Software	windows 10x64Pro
Benchmark Scores	well I've fried a 775' P4 12 years ago, that counts?

System Name	Daily Driver / Mobile Gamer
Processor	R7-2700x / R7-3700x
Motherboard	ASRock Taichi x470 / ASRock x370 Gaming ITX
Cooling	EK monoblock - dual 360 rads / NH-U9S
Memory	G.Skill 16GB 3466c14 / Crucial 32GB 3733c16
Video Card(s)	TITAN / GTX 1070ti
Storage	WD BLACK 500GB SSD / 1TB M.2, 1TB 850 EVO
Display(s)	LG 27EA83R / TeamViewer
Case	Dimastech Easy V3 / DA-2
Audio Device(s)	HT E-Claro -> Yamaha Receiver - Polk CS1, 2x Polk OWM3 or DT-990 Pro
Power Supply	SeaSonic X-850 / SSR-650SGX
Mouse	Mionix NAOS 7000
Keyboard	Drevo GRAMR tkl
Software	Linux & Win10 Pro

System Name	Agent Texas / Selene / Eve
Processor	Ryzen7 5800x / Fx 8350 / Fx 8350
Motherboard	Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite Ax V2 / Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 r4.0 / Msi 970a Krait
Cooling	Msi Mag Core liquid / H100i / Cryo-pc Cooler
Memory	2 x32 GB Gskil Ripjaws v series / 4x 8gb G.Skill Snipers / 2x 8gb G.Skill Ripjaws
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte Rx 6800xt / Msi RX580 / Gigabyte R9 290x
Storage	1tb M.2, 2tb wd / 500 gb ssd, 2x 2tb Wd Blacks/ 500 gb ssd, 1tb WD Black
Display(s)	Dell Ultra Sharp 2408 WFp / Hp w2207 / Sanyo tv
Case	Corsair 780t White / Raidmax Vampire / NZXT Phantom 240
Audio Device(s)	Onboard Hd Audio / Onboard Hd Audio / Onboard Hd Audio
Power Supply	Corsair Rm 850 watt / Corsair TX 850 watt / Corsair TX 750 watt
Mouse	Logitech G502 Hero / Logitech G500s / Logitech wireless
Keyboard	Corsair Strafe / Corsair k50 / Logitech wireless
Software	Win 11 pro / Win 11 pro / Win 11 pro
Benchmark Scores	What are benchmarks anyway?

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