new folding rig

[dabaerman]

yes, another folding rig up and running as one dies. seems like I can't get ahead!
my wifes' 939 dualie died lat night as I was in the final stages of setting up F@H on the new one.
looks like she gets the 2.4 AM2 that I planned on replacing with a 5000+ Black Edition. I don't think I'll miss it. just bad timing is all.

newness:
AMD AM2 5000+ Black Edition
Gigabite GA-MA69G-S3H HDMI ATX
2X1Gig G-Skill 5-5-5-5-15
Seagate 80Gig SATAII
MSI NX6600-TD256E PCI-E 256MB
Thermaltake TR2-430W PSU
Koolance 602 Watercooled (cpu only)


Ron

[Favu]

Top stuff!

[Samuknow]

Sweet...Fold On...

[dabaerman]

thanks. that 5000+ is a pushover to oc. with multiplier increased to 16x200 and no other changes so far,
it is very fast. did I mention it's cool too. 26c and 15c cooler than one of the 939's @ 2.6 and it gets
80 to 100 ppd more.

Ron

[dabaerman]

must add that it oc's to 3.3 and does everything but Fold at that speed. so it runs at 3.1, 25c and Folding a
pair of Double Gromacs.

Ron

[Samuknow]

What kind of times at that speed?

[dabaerman]

times are 25:30 per step and that is at 2.8. I found it tossing out wu's at 3.1 also. have to mess about
with the oc when I have some spare time never enough time ti play

now at 3.0 and time is 25.08. so a small gain of 22 seconds per step.


Ron

[dabaerman]

another 5000+ Black Edition and 'board on the way!! might find a 'board for the 939 yet. hate to waste a cpu.

Ron

[ccperf721p]

Sweet. I only need a couple more pieces to finish an AM2 rig to replace an aging athlon xp rig. Went with a low power be2300 so it won't be a giant producer but it will sure better than my T-bred.

[dabaerman]

Originally Posted by ccperf721p

Sweet. I only need a couple more pieces to finish an AM2 rig to replace an aging athlon xp rig. Went with a low power be2300 so it won't be a giant producer but it will sure better than my T-bred.

I may have to ask you for some advice about Linux. I am lazy but willing.

Ron

[ccperf721p]

No problem, whenever you are ready.

[ThunderRd]

Originally Posted by dabaerman

I may have to ask you for some advice about Linux. I am lazy but willing.

Ron

Linux is such a piece of cake I am absolutely amazed that I have gone so long without it. Example: my 3 rigs running Linux haven't gone down since I've been away, and that's about a month already. And I haven't found anything that I can do in 'Doze that I can't so in Linux. Except for gaming, but I have a dual-boot machine to handle that.

I think ccperf would agree. There's a learning curve and some mental adjustments, but after that it's smooth sailing.

[dabaerman]

agree with that. had Ubuntu FF running on a single core rig. when I went to putting
the duelies together, I got a lot impatient with the process of getting 2 clients running.
then the SMP thing and I did'nt/don't have the time to work things out.
then there is the receiving server issue. I know they must be getting hammered. it's
frustrating to fold for 3 days/343 points and have to idle for 11 hours because the
connection can't be made. this is the one thing that could cause me to quit FAH.
I planned on Stanford to stop before me!

Ron

[ccperf721p]

There have been a few times I thought about not folding, mainly due to the unreliability of the clients and the servers. Sometimes I just wonder, if the software is that unreliable how can the results be any better? I just keep at it figuring it can't be doing any harm. The linux clients run fine for me.

I'll agree there is a learning curve with linux, but after a couple of weeks you start to get the hang of it and things get quite easy.

I hope to be testing an Alpha version of a linux distro project I have been working on this weekend. Should be to beta by June with a livecd release just to get some feedback on it's look and feel. It's slow going with my schedule these days..

[dabaerman]

with the way things are changing, as it relates to Folding, with discless comes another challenge.
I know you can 'teach an old dog new tricks'. it just takes longer.

Ron