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Mutantsteak wrote:

Hmm, I'm not sure If I want to do this or not

E6550 @ 2.60 (I'm having problems increasing the voltage to OC it higher)
650i Ultra
RAIDMAX 600W PSU
Patriot Extreme Performance 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
HIS ATi Radeon 4870 1GB

I bet I could get alot out of my 4870 but I'm a bit concerned because right now I am runnig on stock cooling idling around 49C and a load around 64C. I really don't want to burn it out by running it loaded for too long

Fah runs like 10-20C cooler than real 3D load. It doesn't utilize everything on the core, like the memory. It's not unusual to be able to reach 50MHz higher clocks for fah than for gaming.

Mutantsteak wrote:

Hmm, I'm not sure If I want to do this or not

E6550 @ 2.60 (I'm having problems increasing the voltage to OC it higher)
650i Ultra
RAIDMAX 600W PSU
Patriot Extreme Performance 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
HIS ATi Radeon 4870 1GB

I bet I could get alot out of my 4870 but I'm a bit concerned because right now I am runnig on stock cooling idling around 49C and a load around 64C. I really don't want to burn it out by running it loaded for too long

64C is nothing. If it gets to 90C you might want to optimize cooling.

Sir Schmoopy wrote:

max wrote:

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You have too much money.

and you don't have any

me > you

max wrote:

Sir Schmoopy wrote:

max wrote:

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You have too much money.

and you don't have any

me > you

I'll give you that one, I suppose.

ebug9 wrote:

max wrote:

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10 000PPD with the i7. Jebus that's a lot.

i only get 200 or so with my athlon 3800

Last edited by JoshP (2008-12-19 08:21:03)

I'm going away for a week but I'll leave my PC folding.  The SMP client will most definitely crash at some point, but hopefully the GPU will rack up some real points.

Guys, i think something's up with my folding

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/mai … num=137764

max wrote:

JoshP wrote:

Guys, i think something's up with my folding

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/mai … num=137764

are you failing to meet the deadlines or getting EUE or Unstable_Machine errors? You have loads and loads of WUs but only a few points

The deadlines seem to be Between late Jan and March

I am pausing it when i'm playing bf2, and i'm not getting any errors.

Also before it seemed to be stuck at 0/1500 (or whatever number it was out of, but always 0 out of it) when i hovered over the tray icon, but that seemed to fix it. Have set the checkpoint interval to 3 mins, should i also avoid restarting if i can? (Sometimes i BSOD or freeze completely )

max wrote:

Anything unusual in the logfile? Post a copy and I'll take a look at it

fahlog.txt   (9k)
http://pastebin.com/m16298f20

fahlog-prev.txt  (117k)
http://pastebin.com/m14b03143

and theres a third one, fahlog2.txt which is blank.

3 logs doesn't sound normal to me

Last edited by JoshP (2008-12-21 15:51:42)

DeathUnlimited wrote:

That's a lot of EUE's there. Do you have unstable overclocks?

that

Yay, finally pushing well into 100kppd+ terrain

JoshP wrote:

DeathUnlimited wrote:

That's a lot of EUE's there. Do you have unstable overclocks?

I did until i gave up OCing for the time being and set it back to clock speeds

There's your answer

The Arctic Cooling Freezer64Pro is always a good buy. Even the Alpine64 will get the job done. Otherwise Scythe also make great coolers. Zalman is good but IMO overpriced.

Make sure to get a Heatsink that fits socket 939 and that you have some thermal paste. Arctic Cooling heatsinks come with good thermal paste pre-applied. Having some extra thermal paste is always useful in case you need to do a remount.

I don't know what case you have, so I can't really recommend anything. Got any holes that don't have a fan mounted yet? Measure it and add an according one. You can also cut a 120mm hole into your case if you know how. Make sure to get rid of any dirt in your PC and that you have decent cable management for clean airflow

JoshP wrote:

max wrote:

The Arctic Cooling Freezer64Pro is always a good buy. Even the Alpine64 will get the job done. Otherwise Scythe also make great coolers. Zalman is good but IMO overpriced.

Make sure to get a Heatsink that fits socket 939 and that you have some thermal paste. Arctic Cooling heatsinks come with good thermal paste pre-applied. Having some extra thermal paste is always useful in case you need to do a remount.

I don't know what case you have, so I can't really recommend anything. Got any holes that don't have a fan mounted yet? Measure it and add an according one. You can also cut a 120mm hole into your case if you know how. Make sure to get rid of any dirt in your PC and that you have decent cable management for clean airflow

Ty max,

Regarding CPU coolers, these 2 are in my price range:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150982   Alpine 64 GT      £6.13
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150270   Alpine 64 PWM   £7.84

However, i might be able to borrow a bit more money off my parents (lol) and get this:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131148  Freezer-64-LP Dual Cooling Low Profile Processor Cooler   £14.54, is that worthe the extra money?

Regarding case fans - I don't have any at the moment (it was a crap PC when i bought it 2 years ago )
I measured all the holes, here's a labelled picture, as i'm a bit confused as to which measurement refers to the size of the fan and if you should measure from the center or the edge of the hole

http://i39.tinypic.com/15fn0pl.jpg

Obviously if i can take a 120mm fan, i should get one yeah?

+1 for your help

120mm of course.

Each of my case fans cost at least twice as much as those CPU coolers