Search found 336 matches
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 4:03 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: speaker recommendation
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13779
Re: speaker recommendation
I'll add my standard $0.02 here for speaker reccomendations: go listen in person first! seriously. Leave your checkbook/Credit Card/Cash at home. Grab your 1-2 of your favorite CDs and go visit a high end audio store. Listen to your music on their $50,000 system. Can you tell a difference from your ...
- Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:00 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
- Replies: 1664
- Views: 1654271
Re: SPCR Folds Team Blog
Hrm... -advmethods on the gpu client? I gotta try that and see what happens. Hopefully it wont cook my 285, but if it does, thats an excuse to upgrade.cordis wrote:Hey, so I got a couple 460s, here's my impressions. First off, be sure to run these with -advmethods! That really boosts your ppd.
- Mon Nov 29, 2010 1:31 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: 4 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 Points ! ! ! !
- Replies: 37
- Views: 58958
Re: 4 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 Points ! ! ! !
Thanks!
Nice to have a stable system. I left it running 24/7 while I was away for a week on thanksgiving break.
Nice to have a stable system. I left it running 24/7 while I was away for a week on thanksgiving break.
- Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:50 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: 3,000,000+ points
- Replies: 43
- Views: 67598
Re: ???
I wish.cordis wrote:You have an 8 core opteron? Great!
No is an dual socket Opteron 285 board - 4 cores. (see my sig) It cranked out a few WUs this weekend but the weather is heating up again so I shut it off before work this morning.
- Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:55 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: 3,000,000+ points
- Replies: 43
- Views: 67598
- Thu Sep 09, 2010 12:00 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Please vote if you click on this
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4148
I recently got a new PC and jumped on the SSD bandwagon. Intel X25 80GB and a WD cavair black 2TB. About 2months after I got the PC, the WD drive started dropping offline for no visible reason. all diagnostics I ran came back with no errors, so I RMA'd it and its been fine so far. Now contrast that ...
- Thu Sep 09, 2010 11:43 am
- Forum: Notebook Systems
- Topic: Conductive material to put under laptop?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7645
- Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:23 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: 2,000,000 point club
- Replies: 65
- Views: 101607
ok im setup with a passkey now. And I found the issue with the smp client - it was set to run at 'idle' priority instead of low -- thats now fixed. I also fired up my older Opteron box and set it running. According to the Hfm monitor its getting just over 3kppd. Nothing to sniff at there. So both sm...
- Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:22 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: 2,000,000 point club
- Replies: 65
- Views: 101607
well I changed my folding bat file to use -advmethods. there was no visible increase in the time between percentage points, but the EOC site shows a record 8500 points for yesterday. Im gonna have to try the "-smp 11" option - this should give the GPU core and other processes enough cpu cycles so th...
- Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:38 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: 2,000,000 point club
- Replies: 65
- Views: 101607
25k ppd with my setup? ... yeah something is definately wrong. I was on vacation all last week, and I just left the SMP running. I turned off the gpu core because I didnt want the excess heat when I wasnt around to monitor things. Looking at my history in EOC, I was getting a consistant 1k all of la...
- Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:08 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Whistle/beep until I close all programs?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2526
So the whine is definately comming from the PC case? or is it your monitor? it could also be the Graphics card causing interference thats comming out your speakers. One thing you can try is to turn off your monitor while things are whining. if the whine goes away, then chances are good its your moni...
- Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:02 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: 2,000,000 point club
- Replies: 65
- Views: 101607
- Mon May 17, 2010 1:47 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: 2,000,000 point club
- Replies: 65
- Views: 101607
- Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:31 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New system -- input needed
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3274
the xigmatec is almost my default option -- ive used it on several friends PCs with good results. So that one is a good canidate. I can also just start with the stock 980x fan and see what its like. The only issue thre is if the backplates arent compatible between heatsinks. I'll fiddle with the fan...
- Wed Apr 14, 2010 2:45 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
- Replies: 1664
- Views: 1654271
odd results there Kansas... GL in finding a stable place to live & fold. My folding has been down over the past few weeks as ive only been running GPU folding, and hosting a game server that runs 24/7 on my PC - so im reserving the cpu cycles for that.. thus no SMP folding. however that will change ...
- Wed Apr 14, 2010 2:39 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: PSU- Can a power supply fail in sections but work in others?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3580
The PSU question was more: 'Is this possible?" before saying it's good and going to the board and cpu tests. It's unnerving to stumble about blind and with no sense of touch (no monitor or keyboard). Yes its possible. Has this problem been going on a while?(possible slowly dying PSU) Or did it sudd...
- Wed Apr 14, 2010 1:58 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New system -- input needed
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3274
New system -- input needed
After 5 years my desktop is going to get upgraded. I already have the following: GPU (GTX 285, 2GB) Case: supermicro full tower (both are in my sig) Monitor: 2x Samsung 970p Keyboard+Mouse I'm looking to buy the following: Motherboard: Asus P6X58D Premium CPU: i7 980x @ 3.0 or 3.33GHz RAM: 6x Kingst...
- Wed Apr 14, 2010 1:31 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: PSU- Can a power supply fail in sections but work in others?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3580
do you have another PSU you can try in your system? not sure if how probably it is for a PSU to fail in one spot but not another. However - this sounds like the PUS has been slowly dying over a long peroid of time, and in the process taking out other bits and pieces of your system. If that is the ca...
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 2:06 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: passive/silent GTX260/280?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12737
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 12:31 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Intel 980x stock tower heatsink and gummy compound
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6464
- Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:08 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Can I use HP LaserJet 3100 with Windows 7 64-bit (XPMode ?)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7840
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:53 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Need help troubleshooting intermittent crashes!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4555
Usualy intermittent problems point to power or PSU issues. Does he have a surge protector on the PC? if so - how old. if not go get one Immediately. after 2-3 years surge protectors start to loose their effectiveness, so they should be replaced. The other part with power issues is they will slowly f...
- Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:24 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love
- Replies: 142
- Views: 193041
Seems addblocking is a definate 2edged sword here. I started blocking ads due to another site I frequent (www.tomshardware.com). The flash adds were slowing down page load times and causing my browser to hog memory and cpu cycles, bringing my PC to a crawl. Since I normally surf from work - bringing...
- Thu Mar 04, 2010 2:18 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Help with new 920 system that needs to be silent!
- Replies: 48
- Views: 17356
One other thing to consider here is building this PC for the future. What is overkill *now* wont be in a year or 2, and eventually it will be just plain slow. 5 years ago my dual socket system was major overkill for things. but nowdays, after upgrading to 2x dual core Opteron CPUs it can keep up jus...
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:04 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Scythe Setsugen GPU Cooler
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15972
- Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:54 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: machine ID
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5387
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:21 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: New to SPCR, help appreciated, quiet PC for HOT environment
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12562
It sounds like the "triple channel RAM" aspect of the i7-920 doesn't get me around the 3.5GB of useable RAM if I go with a 32-bit version of Windows7. So, if I go with 32-bit, I could save a few $$$ by getting 4GB of RAM instead of 6GB. I'm leaning toward the 64-bit, I just have to do a little more...
- Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:43 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Quiet dual quad core xeon box questions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3280
This sounds like your running into the problem of using server-room hardware in an office. server room stuff can afford to be loud and nobody cares - just close the door. As to your questions - the cooling noise depends entirely on your choice of heatsink + fan. The board you listed appears to use s...
- Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:10 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: New to SPCR, help appreciated, quiet PC for HOT environment
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12562
I'll add my $0.02 in here as well. as for the hardware reccomendationss -- if your buying more than 3.5GB of ram, you will need a 64bit OS to take advantage of that. Since you listed 6GB of ram.. a 64bit OS is a must unless you want 2.5gb to goto waste. On the whole 64 vs 32bit thing. I jumped onto ...
- Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:44 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Small, quiet, low-power disk array/small server?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2151