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lazl0: Judging from your PPD profile, it looks like you've added an i7 920/930/950 to the farm?

It's amazing nowadays how a single system based on a i7 950 with 3 GTS250's could generate between 45,000PPD-65,000PPD depending on the WU mix. Techreport team folders (including myself) are generally running some very old hardware.

- JP

JPinTO wrote:

It's amazing nowadays how a single system based on a i7 950 with 3 GTS250's could generate between 45,000PPD-65,000PPD depending on the WU mix. Techreport team folders (including myself) are generally running some very old hardware.

Yeah, tell me about it... I've retired all of my Athlon XPs, but I still have a couple of old Socket 754 systems in the mix. At least with the upgrade of one of my systems to a Phenom II X4 I'm producing about 12K PPD total. I've actually got two other Socket AM2+ systems which can theoretically be upgraded to Phenom II CPUs... may do that at some point. I imagine an X6 would result in some sizable early-turn-in bonus points.

Yeah, I noticed he was suddenly overtaking me a lot sooner than he had been, and I'll be in 6th place when I overtake TheJuggernaut for only a few days before I fall back again.

just brew it! wrote:

Yeah, tell me about it... I've retired all of my Athlon XPs, but I still have a couple of old Socket 754 systems in the mix. At least with the upgrade of one of my systems to a Phenom II X4 I'm producing about 12K PPD total. I've actually got two other Socket AM2+ systems which can theoretically be upgraded to Phenom II CPUs... may do that at some point. I imagine an X6 would result in some sizable early-turn-in bonus points.

Toss in an GTS450 for $130 and you'll double the X4 PC's PPD output. A pair of them would give you 25000PPD for less than then upgrade price of an X6.



- JP

JPinTO wrote:

just brew it! wrote:

Yeah, tell me about it... I've retired all of my Athlon XPs, but I still have a couple of old Socket 754 systems in the mix. At least with the upgrade of one of my systems to a Phenom II X4 I'm producing about 12K PPD total. I've actually got two other Socket AM2+ systems which can theoretically be upgraded to Phenom II CPUs... may do that at some point. I imagine an X6 would result in some sizable early-turn-in bonus points.

Toss in an GTS450 for $130 and you'll double the X4 PC's PPD output. A pair of them would give you 25000PPD for less than then upgrade price of an X6.

Actually, you can get an X6 for under $200 now.

And the X4 is running Linux, so running the GPU client is problematic.

JPinTO wrote:

lazl0: Judging from your PPD profile, it looks like you've added an i7 920/930/950 to the farm?

Thanks JPinTO, unfortunately this increase will be short lived b/c I'm just burning in a new server. I'm happy to contribute to TR's folding anyway that I can. No i7 here, the server has two 6-Core 8435 Opterons with 64GB of RAM, would love to do some Bigadv on it however its not running Windows & we all know the status of the Bigadv linux client... and unfortunately Wine cannot be installed on this server, its a policy issue.

just brew it! wrote:

JPinTO wrote:

Toss in an GTS450 for $130 and you'll double the X4 PC's PPD output. A pair of them would give you 25000PPD for less than then upgrade price of an X6.

Actually, you can get an X6 for under $200 now.

And the X4 is running Linux, so running the GPU client is problematic.

I'm running the GPU client via Wine on Ubuntu LTS 9.04 (the latest version for which there were wrappers last I checked), thanks to some links I got from the foldingforum, and I forget where else. Seems to me someone on this forum gave me some suggestions, maybe it was farmpuma, but my mind's a bit scattered at the moment.