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Folding kit
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Whats the best kit to get folding with in terms of boards, CPUs and GPUs. eg, SR2 with dual X5650s at 4GHz, or GTX580s. Just thinking I could have a look to do a little folding as I have access to a hell of a lot of kit here. Thanks
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what 'kit' have you got
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Silverstone Strider 1000W 100% custom Braid - Xonar STX - TJ-07 modded Full Custom CPU, RAM + GPU Water Cooling - Logitech G9x - Corsair K60 - Dell 3007WFPHC M-Audio DX8A Deluxe Stereo Monitors - SBX10 Sub |
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Was that a warranty I just broke?
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Combine your best processing power with your most powerful NVidia GPUs and you have your best folding machine. If you have "everything", then dual or quad xeon of the latest generation available to you, with as many GTX 680 or 580 as possible (or better still, GTX 690, 590 or similar)
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Set up one machine dedicated to running SMP units - Linux on as many fast cores as you can get. If you have access to 4-socket opteron serverboards go for it. Leave it running 24/7 to get 'quick return bonus' points.
Have another machine dedicated to GPU units - four double GPU cards. You don't need a highly spec'd CPU for doing this, if you experiment you can still squeeze some points from ordinary Windows WU. You needn't run 24/7 since there is no QRB on GPU units *yet* and almost all GPUs capable of running Folding@Home can complete a WU in a matter of hours. This sort of machine will be using close to 1kW, so make sure the person paying the electricity bills has given permission.
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you could send some 'kit' my way and i will fold with it
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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=5&subcat=1695 And a pair: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=6&subcat=1823 Very good rig, good for 200k PPD probably with good memory. Also low power draw. What I would build if I could afford it. Out of curiosity, what do you do with OC? |
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I'll report back once I've got things running.
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Make sure you use the bigadv flag. Just use the V7 client, very easy to setup. And watch the temps!
Also, get a passkey (just Google fah passkey) and if you are folding on a new username for the first time, just do 10 normal units then add the bigadv flag. You don't get bonus points till you have done 10 units. Last edited by TaRkA DaHl; 20th Feb 2013 at 21:17. |
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Was that a warranty I just broke?
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and of course... don't forget to offer to stress test any high end system before they ship
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We have the tests set up for that already so unfortunately thats a no go.. nothing to stop RMA gpus being tested in that way though..
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