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- Sat Feb 07, 2009 4:57 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: processor upgrade
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2677
- Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:58 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: processor upgrade
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2677
processor upgrade
Not so much a silent question but more a general query regarding CPUs - Been out of the tinkering game for some time and have become much more of a user than a tweaker :-) I'm running a sempron 3200 just now with XP Pro. I was thinking of upgrading to an Athlon X2 64 but was wondering, will my exist...
- Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:21 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
- Replies: 1664
- Views: 1658593
- Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:04 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
- Replies: 1664
- Views: 1658593
- Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:15 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
- Replies: 1664
- Views: 1658593
looks like iganu might have something to do with that...
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... =&u=267697
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... =&u=267697
- Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:09 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
- Replies: 1664
- Views: 1658593
Check out the stats! http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... s=&t=31574
- Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:11 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Heh...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6165
Go Yber!xan_user wrote:look like this folder is really helping!
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... =&u=328865
thanks 'yber'!
- Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:39 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Heh...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6165
Heh...
Okay, so it'll take us over three years to catch them but at last we've got a conquest on the board lol! Bet Overclockers Club are quaking in their boots!
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... s=&t=31574
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... s=&t=31574
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:38 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
- Replies: 1664
- Views: 1658593
Pixel_pimp, Is the "Octomac" dual quad cores? What is your clock rate? I was just wondering if it is dual Q6600's why you could not go way over 4000PPD. The verdict is in - 3464 points yesterday I have noticed, that although most applications were fine, Dreamweaver did not seem happy about running ...
- Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:40 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
- Replies: 1664
- Views: 1658593
Pixel_pimp, Is the "Octomac" dual quad cores? What is your clock rate? I was just wondering if it is dual Q6600's why you could not go way over 4000PPD. It's 2 Quad Xeons at 2.8Ghz according to System Profiler I'm more than prepared to consider the possibility that it's not configured optimally. I'...
- Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:36 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
- Replies: 1664
- Views: 1658593
After reading discussions on here about cost per point, I'm going to stop leaving the sempron running all day but have got a second instance of FAH running on the MacPro so I guess I should still see an upturn in production. Will probably reinstate the home machine once it's upgraded to multicore an...
- Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:05 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
- Replies: 1664
- Views: 1658593
- Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:21 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
- Replies: 1664
- Views: 1658593
- Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:24 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: 100,000 Point Club
- Replies: 202
- Views: 347845
- Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:12 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
- Replies: 1664
- Views: 1658593
Current folders from me: 1 x Octomac (2 x 2.8Ghz quad core Macpro) folding during the day plus a wee while at night during scheduled backup. 1 x Sempron 3200 folding morning to midnight Then there are some unknown machines in a lab somewhere that my friend has got folding under my ID no idea what th...
- Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:19 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Shutting up a Dual G4
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2832
Hmm - looks like Apple, in their wisdom, have used a wacky PSU design. Which costs £145 to replace with no assurance of less noise :shock: This is bad news as it looks like that's the prime noise source as it has two 40mm fans in it which would tie up with the high pitched tinny sound it's making. ...
- Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:21 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Shutting up a Dual G4
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2832
Shutting up a Dual G4
I've just started working in an office with many very noisy machines. Some I probably won't be allowed to get my hands on (an x-serve, the UPS systems etc) but there are a couple that I at least have a chance of shutting the hell up - principally a Dual G4 that makes a really intrusive ringy noise. ...
- Sun Jun 10, 2007 2:21 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Folding machine
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10009
Does an onboard GPU use up electricity just by virtue of it's presence on the board? If the machine could be set up remotely from some other machine through a kind of virtual display (I've seen a friend do this with his Macs but don't have experience of it myself) could there be an energy saving in ...
- Sat Jun 09, 2007 2:23 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Folding machine
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10009
Folding machine
If you were to build a machine with the express purpose of folding in the home environment - ie can't take up a lot of space and should be efficient enough not to put your bills through the roof - how would you go about it? Is there a 'sweet spot' for balancing crunching power against electricity us...
- Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:16 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
- Replies: 1664
- Views: 1658593
- Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:08 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Thinking of Getting a Mac Pro
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14925
If your application(s) work under both, mac and win, I'd prefer mac and OS X, especially for graphic design. Can you explain why? Nobody has ever given me a credible difference why a Mac is better suited to design work than a PC - the key software components are the same on both. I can understand t...
- Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:18 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
- Replies: 1664
- Views: 1658593
- Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:37 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Planning a boost
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3314
Hmmm - I'm not seeing any fanless options for the 1900 series so far. I'd rather have low to moderate performance and no fan to be honest. I don't really play games so I don't need top end performance there either - just feel that a boost over the onboard GFX plus the option to work through a few ex...
- Sun Jun 03, 2007 3:47 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: The Decomatic Model 12b
- Replies: 63
- Views: 38446
Odd that people automatically assume that the wooden computer is also the slowest. (Low-tech case=Low-tech computer???) On that logic, this must be the second slowest - it's got an 8-track on it LOL! http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/IntelCoreProcessorChallenge/1958173 Plus this one reminds me of an ...
- Sun Jun 03, 2007 3:30 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Planning a boost
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3314
- Sun Jun 03, 2007 3:28 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Planning a boost
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3314
Planning a boost
My current specs are listed in my sig so I won't relist. I'm looking ahead to getting back into the workplace shortly and this has made me think about possible upgrades to get me running a bit nippier. I use the machine for graphic design work including web development and feel it could be both bett...
- Sun Jun 03, 2007 4:46 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
- Replies: 1664
- Views: 1658593
Soon as my college course is over and I'm earning once again, I'll be upping my spec to an Athlon64 X2 and popping in a new GFX card so I'll be punting out a few extra WUs from then on (quietly, of course!). My friend has the client running in his labs under my ID as well - not sure what he's got it...
- Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:31 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Looking for a small speed bump
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2932
- Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:55 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Looking for a small speed bump
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2932
Looking for a small speed bump
As per my sig, I'm currently using onboard GFX (GF 6150) and, while it does the job, I wouldn't mind a small increase in GFX power (actually, I even struggle to play DVDs smoothly just now). I'm pretty much lost as to what chips come where in the pecking order and which ATI compares with which NVidi...
- Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:50 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: What are you listening to right now?
- Replies: 4309
- Views: 2622884