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jeffry55 wrote:If you have a CD drive or a thumb drive lying around, using NotFreds folding ISO would be the cheapest and quickest way to get up and folding. Your Brisbane is a dualcore CPU, right? It could run the SMP client.
Flying Fox wrote:jeffry55 wrote:If you have a CD drive or a thumb drive lying around, using NotFreds folding ISO would be the cheapest and quickest way to get up and folding. Your Brisbane is a dualcore CPU, right? It could run the SMP client.
He was talking about folding using the IGP, not the CPU. Notfred's stuff don't do GPU folding just yet.
jeffry55 wrote:Flying Fox wrote:jeffry55 wrote:If you have a CD drive or a thumb drive lying around, using NotFreds folding ISO would be the cheapest and quickest way to get up and folding. Your Brisbane is a dualcore CPU, right? It could run the SMP client.
He was talking about folding using the IGP, not the CPU. Notfred's stuff don't do GPU folding just yet.
I was thinking that IGP would be pretty unproductive. That's why I suggested SMP.
Ragnar Dan wrote:I'm still undecided on what mobo to get. I'm leaning toward AMD/ATi, though, since I'm all nVidia already and it seems like there's more likelihood of something useful that I don't know about being discovered on their hardware. As for open box, I've found not having a backplane cover and other useful things like SATA cables or molex-to-something-I-need adapters is something I'd rather avoid.
jeffry55 wrote:Ragnar Dan wrote:I'm still undecided on what mobo to get. I'm leaning toward AMD/ATi, though, since I'm all nVidia already and it seems like there's more likelihood of something useful that I don't know about being discovered on their hardware. As for open box, I've found not having a backplane cover and other useful things like SATA cables or molex-to-something-I-need adapters is something I'd rather avoid.
All of the Open box NVidia cards I purchased recently (6 or 7) from NewEgg came with all the goodies. I now have significantly more than a standard "Butt Load" of video card adapters.
If you buy open box and don't get all the goodies, let me know what you want and I will send it to you.
Gerbil Jedidiah wrote:Not if it is doing like 50ppd and are guaranteed to miss deadlines. I have a few WU on my 3450 that misses deadlines, and I can see the IGP being worse.I have an ATI3450 that was getting 300 or 400 PPD IIRC. The SMP client on the dual-core will do better, especially if you run Linux... But hey, why not get the IGP folding too?
Flying Fox wrote:Gerbil Jedidiah wrote:Not if it is doing like 50ppd and are guaranteed to miss deadlines. I have a few WU on my 3450 that misses deadlines, and I can see the IGP being worse.I have an ATI3450 that was getting 300 or 400 PPD IIRC. The SMP client on the dual-core will do better, especially if you run Linux... But hey, why not get the IGP folding too?
Ragnar Dan wrote:So... what's a good deal for a very reliable mobo, hopefully with no chipset fan?
Ragnar Dan wrote:Yeah, I expect that's true.
It's too bad nobody knows the GPU's specs in the nVidia IGP 8200 series (farmpuma's remarks are probably accurate, though I'm pessimistic about them having more than 16 or so "processors"). I just discovered that my wanted Gigabyte ATi/AMD board is out of stock, too. D'oh.
That, and I can't recall where I read about the number of platters the WD Black Edition 750GB drives have. Even WD's site doesn't show that info. in the limited specs. they list (found via Newegg link).
I should buy the drive and another free shipping item I want which will hopefully work with Linux (a wireless NIC) right now, but I like to order things all at once. Even though it doesn't cost me any more to do it separately due to Newegg's screwy shipping charge methods.
Ragnar Dan wrote:If you want to, but I'm doubtful about the production. You'll probably have several errors at first, as the foldingforum posts I read indicated.
Thanks, though. If you can do it and see what it's reporting for PPD, it would at least be interesting.
Edit: That'll teach me to ninja edit my spacing...
Gerbil Jedidiah wrote:OK, it is working. It's just very slow. Perhaps I should not have said yes to the big WUs.
Ragnar Dan wrote:Gerbil Jedidiah wrote:OK, it is working. It's just very slow. Perhaps I should not have said yes to the big WUs.
When I first read that I started thinking, "Hey, maybe I can quit getting those 511 point dogs on my GPUs."
But then I remembered the WUs are only so big (current 511 point one is 99147 bytes), so they're probably all classified as small. The 384 pointer before that was 70803 bytes. (And looking back in the FAHlog, a 353 pointer was under 50000 bytes.)
ars wrote:There appears to be some confusion on this point, as several websites have reported that the 8300's mGPU has 16 streaming processors. I took this question direclty to NVIDIA's technical staff, and received confirmation that this is not the case; the AMD-based 8300 mGPU has eight streaming processors, a 500MHz core clock, and a 1.5GHz shader clock.
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Ragnar Dan wrote:Just to update the thread, I ended up ordering the Gigabyte IGP board mentioned earlier in the thread. And I also added the 750GB drive though I'm not sure how much I'll trust it. I'll remove the PATA drives and copy their contents to the new one, and consider some backup options.
Then again, there are other options for the new box, too. I'll figure it out after I put it together and see how it performs.