TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[PP Mguire]

Yea id def be putting an Athlon X4 in another AM3 board and fold with that too.

I used to be a hardcore F@H folder about a year and a half ago. But due to arguments with my family that eventually caused me to move out i had to quit folding. It was nice having my window open in 20 degree weather (F) all because my AthlonX2 cranked the heat out.

 

[hat]

Well I just moved to 3125MHz from 3000MHz on my Kuma so my points should creep up a tiny bit faster.

 

[hat]

Wow this thing is miserable... back down to 3000MHz... It can do 3 hours of linpack and play bf2 for ~2 hours, but it just BSOD'd on me after ~10 minutes of BF2. Yet other people can have it stable at 3.2GHz at the same voltage.

What the dick man.

 

[p_o_s_pc]

looks like if you want higher points its time to upgrade the Athlon II x4 620 is cheap and performs decent maybe look into that.(but they don't overclock vary good just like the old Athlons they max out around 3.3-3.4ghz)

also what voltage did you try?

BTW the other people could have been using ACC on there AMD chipset. you have Nvidia chipset so that isn't possible and could be holding you back

 

[hat]

1.30v for 3GHz linpack stable. 1.35v for 3125MHz linpack stable for 3 hours, then bf2 stable for 2 hours, then BSOD after ~10-15 minutes.

I don't want to upgrade as 3GHz is fine for what I do. The only fruit an upgrade would bear is more points in WCG.

 

[p_o_s_pc]

1.30v for 3GHz linpack stable. 1.35v for 3125MHz linpack stable for 3 hours, then bf2 stable for 2 hours, then BSOD after ~10-15 minutes.

I don't want to upgrade as 3GHz is fine for what I do. The only fruit an upgrade would bear is more points in WCG.

thats the only reason i am going to upgrade

 

[PP Mguire]

looks like if you want higher points its time to upgrade the Athlon II x4 620 is cheap and performs decent maybe look into that.(but they don't overclock vary good just like the old Athlons they max out around 3.3-3.4ghz)

also what voltage did you try?

BTW the other people could have been using ACC on there AMD chipset. you have Nvidia chipset so that isn't possible and could be holding you back

Nvidia has its own ACC.

 

[[Ion]]

thats the only reason i am going to upgrade

Sounds like a good enough reason to upgrade to me

Nvidia has its own ACC.

NCC, I believe it is called

 

[hat]

Not on my unleet board.

 

[PP Mguire]

My pos Asus 750a had it and i was crap for an unlocked 940

 

[DaMulta]

It's almost funny that my dell 2.4Ghz machine has been working 24/7 for months and I'm bottom place lol.....I wonder what this AMD 620 is going to do. It's also been busting out some work......

 

[[Ion]]

Velvet, you're on my top 10 conquest list

 

[p_o_s_pc]

I am working on a deal that will leave me with 1 less rig. So that means less WCG power for about a month but i will have more folding power

 

[Velvet Wafer]

p_o_s_pc 31.72days

[Ion] 285.15days

awww dammit

do it pos, folding isnt for me

 

[p_o_s_pc]

p_o_s_pc 31.72days

[Ion] 285.15days

awww dammit

do it pos, folding isnt for me

i'm just waiting for the other guy to get back to me with the final answer... but when i get the rig to replace it i will be back with more cpu power

btw the way it looks i'm nipping at your heals

 

[Velvet Wafer]

i have lost all my random crunchers (windows destroyed,open flames rising from a pci slot,dont ask me how he did it), currently using the 955 24h, an 3.2ghz X2 12 hours daily, a 2.9ghz toledo X2 24h, and an a normal atom 24 h. all at 100

 

[p_o_s_pc]

i have lost all my random crunchers (windows destroyed,open flames rising from a pci slot,dont ask me how he did it), currently using the 955 24h, an 3.2ghz X2 12 hours daily, a 2.9ghz toledo X2 24h, and an a normal atom 24 h. all at 100

that could be how your numbers are lower but still not bad. I'm only crunching on the 3 x2s and the 2 P4s.The rooms the rigs are in was just getting way too hot for me. maybe when it starts to snow(lower temps) i can stand to crunch full force again.

 

[Velvet Wafer]

the rads eliminated the heat problem so far. also my ambients are below 20 degrees. here in north germany, its cold und stormy 200 days a year.semi-countryside. we share similar weather with london

 

[p_o_s_pc]

the rads eliminated the heat problem so far. also my ambients are below 20 degrees. here in north germany, its cold und stormy 200 days a year.semi-countryside. we share similar weather with london

i'm not having overheating of computer parts just overheating of me

 

[[Ion]]

I am working on a deal that will leave me with 1 less rig. So that means less WCG power for about a month but i will have more folding power

Maybe I will be able to overtake you again

 

[Velvet Wafer]

i'm not having overheating of computer parts just overheating of me

i meant that^^. radiators will lower your room temp, believe me .

 

[p_o_s_pc]

Maybe I will be able to overtake you again

maybe is right. But i think 2 x2s and 2 p4s can hold you off. But even if you do i will get you back when i get the quad(s)

i meant that^^. radiators will lower your room temp, believe me .

hows that possible if thats true i'm going out tonight and stea...err i mean getting some radiators

 

[Velvet Wafer]

maybe is right. But i think 2 x2s and 2 p4s can hold you off. But even if you do i will get you back when i get the quad(s)


hows that possible if thats true i'm going out tonight and stea...err i mean getting some radiators

no big thinking: big rads (and small) will hold your water cooooool so the proc is cool e.g. has a lower leakage, which means better undervolting and lower watts used. they also dissipate the heat much faster than an air cooler, so no "oven-effect" gets to use (look at the maximum temp,you air shouldnt be much warmer. this will also benefit leakage +watts. i have no other solution to this... could be that the ambients suddenly dropped to a useable level

 

[p_o_s_pc]

no big thinking: big rads (and small) will hold your water cooooool so the proc is cool e.g. has a lower leakage, which means better undervolting and lower watts used. they also dissipate the heat much faster than an air cooler, so no "oven-effect" gets to use (look at the maximum temp,you air shouldnt be much warmer. this will also benefit leakage +watts. i have no other solution to this... could be that the ambients suddenly dropped to a useable level

so your saying no not possible...I see it like this about the same watts of heat are getting dumped into the air no matter using air or water.you know as well as i do that if i had water i wouldn't be undervolting any i would be giving it more voltage and more speed and in turn would just make the room even hotter

 

[Velvet Wafer]

i believe the ring of devil is as following: voltage=leakage=heat=more voltage=leakage=heat
to simplify it: try it for yourself, if you dont believe it ;-) my 3.2ghz x2 cruncher (g2 stepping) with a stock cooler raised even the temps in the other rig, as it stand beside them. the 2.9ghz 939, which should be much hotter, runs unrecognizable cool. with water ;-). when your rad is cool, the air, traveling out of it, is also cool.sounds logical,eh?because water temperature is not equal to cooling capability. at a certain point, the temperature bottlenecks at the design of the block (with big rads). the water in the 939 loop for example, and the water in the 240 rad, never exceed 30 degrees much.tho the core temperatures are much worser,as normal.
do you understand? air as a medium is more prone to be as warm as the core temperature, than water, due to water taking much higher amounts of energy, before warming. air coolers also tend to suck their own air, or to circulate used,warmed air, if not configured perfectly
i dont know if you can understand that, but i hope it i dont know if my english is good enough for such a complicated task