Top 10 boards.ie folding producers.

Solitaire

Closer to <8k even for an i5 quad at 4GHz, surely? Plus IIRC its even less for AMD chips as they have the same processing power as a Core2, Core-i are more efficient per clock cycle! So logically it would be more like <7k PPD for a Phenom quad @4GHz...

zodac

Nah... I'm going by old quad CPUs. A Q8200 and Q9550 @ 4Ghz got 9-10k PPD (this was before the P6701s though). And the AMD X4s were pretty much the same, at anywhere between 8-10k PPD.

Solitaire

Alas, times have moved on. By that same token my stock i5-760 should be getting ~8k PPD (slower but more powerful per clock). Instead it gets just under 6k PPD and my 3.33GHz C2D half that on average thanks to P67s

zodac

Solitaire wrote: »

Alas, times have moved on. By that same token my stock i5-760 should be getting ~8k PPD (slower but more powerful per clock). Instead it gets just under 6k PPD and my 3.33GHz C2D half that on average thanks to P67s

Not quite; like I said, the PPD values don't apply to P6701s. But get a P6020-P6024, or even one of the P605xs, and then they're still the same as before).

BabyEater

Have just received my X4 630 it is only an Athlon II and is at 2800MHz stock.

I have just done a bit of overclocking on it and have it at 3640MHz(stock volts).

I am running a 6701 WU as usual and it is working at just over 13mins a frame, this should be good for a bit over 5000 points per day.

Will have to do more overclocking and tinkering as it has more to give.

Solitaire

You should be close to 6k PPD with that as it is Nice one

zodac

Nice; we're on the up.

Solitaire

WHAT THE-

I DON'T EVEN-

zodac

That's what you get for slacking.

Solitaire

I'm just aghast at hothie's score! :eek::D:P

zodac

Aye... a Fermi and a couple of -bigadv will do that.

Gonna miss him here when he heads back to OCN; it's making us real competitive.

Komplett-Tech: Ryan

I'm going to try and convince the boss here to allow me to install a client on all the office pc's here. They are nothing special, but it should be a few thousand PPD's. I wonder, is there a iphone or ipad add yet?

Spear

Any idea on how long it would take a new client to reach a steady output level and give a good idea of it's production?

zodac

Komplett-Tech: Ryan wrote: »

I'm going to try and convince the boss here to allow me to install a client on all the office pc's here. They are nothing special, but it should be a few thousand PPD's. I wonder, is there a iphone or ipad add yet?

Awesome. What kind of CPUs do you guys have?

And no, no app for Folding on an iPhone/iPad... unless you were looking for a monitor or something?

Spear wrote: »

Any idea on how long it would take a new client to reach a steady output level and give a good idea of it's production?

3%... nVidia GPUs will be <5 mins, ATi GPUs will be ~15mins, dual cores will be up to 2 hours, quads will be up to an hour, and -bigadv client will be around 90mins to 2 hours.

Spear

I've a good lead on the rest of the country in BOINC credits, so I'll give it a few days of Folding and see how it goes. Installing Fermi clients is already needlessly fiddly though.

zodac

If you've only got one Fermi in a system, the systray client is a simple set it and leave it program. Just install it, enter your info, then let it run.

If you've got more than one GPU in a system though, and don't want to bother with the clients yourself, you can use this client manager:
http://www.overclock.net/overclock-net-folding-home-team/739408-fah-gpu-tracker-v2.html

Spear

zodac wrote: »

If you've only got one Fermi in a system, the systray client is a simple set it and leave it program. Just install it, enter your info, then let it run.

If you've got more than one GPU in a system though, and don't want to bother with the clients yourself, you can use this client manager:
http://www.overclock.net/overclock-net-folding-home-team/739408-fah-gpu-tracker-v2.html

I moved over the already started work/queue.dats from the pre-existing clients and it's running with those happily. It's predicting about 28k PPD from the GPU's and I'm still waiting to see how much it gets from the CPU.

challengemaster

Komplett-Tech: Ryan wrote: »

I'm going to try and convince the boss here to allow me to install a client on all the office pc's here. They are nothing special, but it should be a few thousand PPD's. I wonder, is there a iphone or ipad add yet?

iPhone/iPad would be useless unless it was for monitoring, their processors would take forever to complete a WU, and aside from that, the battery drain would be insane.... as if iPhone battery time isn't bad enough!

Just set HFM/etc to upload a web page every now and again... then save that as a bookmark on the phone

zodac

Spear wrote: »

I moved over the already started work/queue.dats from the pre-existing clients and it's running with those happily. It's predicting about 28k PPD from the GPU's and I'm still waiting to see how much it gets from the CPU.

What CPU have you got, and at what speed?

challengemaster wrote: »

Just set HFM/etc to upload a web page every now and again... then save that as a bookmark on the phone

Yup... got a guide for that:
http://www.overclock.net/folding-home-guides-tutorials/698416-windows-7-remote-monitoring-fahmon-hfm.html#post8876207

Spear

zodac wrote: »

What CPU have you got, and at what speed?

Core i7 965 at stock speed of 3.2GHz.

zodac

You should be anywhere from 15-20k PPD, depending on the WU.

Unless you're doing -bigadv?

cian1500ww

Run it with -bigadv if you plan on running it for over 20 hours a day.

Spear

cian1500ww wrote: »

Run it with -bigadv if you plan on running it for over 20 hours a day.

I'm running it with -bigadv, since it'll be on 24 hours, bar the odd bit of Kings Bounty.

But what does -bigadv do?

zodac

As long as it's not a P2684, should be 30k+.

Spear

I used 6 or the CPU's 8 (virtual) cores, so 80% usage is giving me 19.9K PPD, so I've a grand total of 47.6K+ overall which seems okay.

zodac

Lol, "ok". I've got ~6k right now.

zodac

That's a nice picture.

Komplett-Tech: Ryan

zodac wrote: »

Awesome. What kind of CPUs do you guys have?

Just a load of 2X's but 11 of them running at once should be nice. I doub't he'd let me throw up a load of clients on our cluster. Infact i doubt he'd let me do any of this to be honest as our IT department are pretty strict. But ive got 2 I7's which are heavilly overclocked at home, an X6 and a new sandybridge cpu arriving tomorrow. Also have a set of 5870's and 6950's that can be used. Did they ever release a good client for ATI cards, and do they support crossfire?

zodac

Not yet I'm afraid. We're getting close though; PG announced they were aiming for a beta release in Q1. From what I hear from some of the beta testers, the core for ATi is working fine, it's just the client that's got some issues that need sorting out.

RangeR

I've installed the basic CPU client on 2 or 3 more computers. I wouldn't expect much but it will bump us up by a bit over time.

C.D.

Komplett-Tech: Ryan wrote: »

Just a load of 2X's but 11 of them running at once should be nice. I doub't he'd let me throw up a load of clients on our cluster. Infact i doubt he'd let me do any of this to be honest as our IT department are pretty strict. But ive got 2 I7's which are heavilly overclocked at home, an X6 and a new sandybridge cpu arriving tomorrow. Also have a set of 5870's and 6950's that can be used. Did they ever release a good client for ATI cards, and do they support crossfire?

That's a serious amount of kit at home. Maybe I should throw the towel in over here and join Komplett!

zodac

RangeR wrote: »

I've installed the basic CPU client on 2 or 3 more computers. I wouldn't expect much but it will bump us up by a bit over time.

No complaints about a few extra hundred PPD.

C.D. wrote: »

That's a serious amount of kit at home. Maybe I should throw the towel in over here and join Komplett!

Wait, I thought they were joining us. :eek:

*prepares a box of cookies for Komplett*

hoth17

I'm glad to see rockal back up on top. Also, we have a lot of red up there, nice job everyone!

sorry for the invasion Z. :P

zodac

My Q6600 hasn't been Folding all week, otherwise there'd be another red up there.

hoth17

I noticed you weren't one of them... :mad:


but you will be forgiven as long as it is up and running by the fold-a-thon.

edit: my 970 is only getting me 30k right now at 4.2. I need to get some fine tuning done on that client before tomorrow.

zodac

hoth17 wrote: »

but you will be forgiven as long as it is up and running by the fold-a-thon.

I'mma do my best; if nothign else, at least the GTS 250 is up.

hoth17 wrote: »

edit: my 970 is only getting me 30k right now at 4.2. I need to get some fine tuning done on that client before tomorrow.

Yeah, no -bigadv for a while either. :pac:

hoth17

I know, its been almost a week since I have dropped one.
And, now that I am up and running, I get a massive p2684.

zodac

Better than SMP at least.

hoth17

you're right, I should be complaining. So, whats up with the q6600? I take it your having no trouble with your current clock speeds, surely its not unstable at those massive speeds you run it at.

//not making fun of, I respect that, and only that, Dell

zodac

hoth17 wrote: »

you're right, I should be complaining. So, whats up with the q6600? I take it your having no trouble with your current clock speeds, surely its not unstable at those massive speeds you run it at.

//not making fun of, I respect that, and only that, Dell

Been running something else the last few days, and no enough cycles for the SMP client. Unless I don't mind losing bonus points.

I should be done this time tomorrow, and hopefully that'll leave me enough time to get a WU done by Friday. Maybe even two if I avoid the 67xx's and all goes well.

hoth17

You do something other than folding?!

What has become of the world...

zodac

hoth17 wrote: »

You do something other than folding?!

What has become of the world...

Only on rare occassions; normally no-one notices my poor PPD getting worse though.

Komplett-Tech: Ryan wrote: »

Just a load of 2X's but 11 of them running at once should be nice. I doub't he'd let me throw up a load of clients on our cluster. Infact i doubt he'd let me do any of this to be honest as our IT department are pretty strict. But ive got 2 I7's which are heavilly overclocked at home, an X6 and a new sandybridge cpu arriving tomorrow. Also have a set of 5870's and 6950's that can be used. Did they ever release a good client for ATI cards, and do they support crossfire?

I'm guessing things didn't go quite to plan?

Solitaire

dwighet

zodac wrote: »

That's a nice picture.

Any chance we could get an update?;)

hoth17

Here you are:

dwighet

hoth17 wrote: »

Here you are:

Im in the top 10...cool....Thats what i was aiming for...
I shouldnt have been playing metro last night for 4 hrs but i couldnt help myself..

zodac

Here's the link:
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=39432

challengemaster

Lol, the difference a fermi makes!

Month | points | WU's
01.11 29,480 21
12.10 29,756 66

BabyEater

Had to do an update as we have lost a lot of folding power since last one and also I am second for once.

zodac

Yeah, where has everyone gone?

Why the hell have I only 143PPD? My PS3 has been on all week! :eek: Something is amiss here....

What do you think... Foldathon as soon as possible?