I've been out for a while. Had a GTX280 die and haven't had a decent GPU to fold with until now. Hopefully my contribution will be helpful :) Any suggestions for a guy out a while? System: CPU: i5 2500k @ 4.2-4.8GHz GPU: GTX570 945/1890/4500 HDDs: various SSDs and a mechanical Clients: 1x SMP (as se...

I'd keep the EK 2.2

Also, the EK reservoir attachment is great for adding a little mass/ quieting the pump. Have you tried placing the pump on Petra's gel-stuff or a similar product? I find that pump functionally inaudible at full speed- and I'm using some pretty sensitive mics in my recording!

I plan to switch to water cooling for my CPU and video card. So the noise produced by my new pump will replace that from the fans on the CPU and the video card, and I'm hoping for less noise. I'm looking at Danger Den DD-CPX1. Does any one here has experience with this pump? I'm wondering how quiet...

I've had experience with these pumps: DDC 1 in Swiftech bay res DDC 1 out of bayres DDC 3.2 DDC 3.2 with acetal top (MCP355) DDC 3.1 with acetal top (MCP350) D5 vario (MCP655) D5 (no vario) EK DCP2.2 (Jingway DP-400?) Out of the box the D5 is clearly the loudest, which is NOT helped by the speed con...

Here:

Cooler Master ATCS 840. Use a softmounted 120 mm on the stock external PCI slot exhaust, or a Noiseblocker Multiframe. The external box is cheap plastic, but if the fan you use is sufficiently vibration-proof it shouldn't be an issue.

It's good -- good internal self damping, with better sound blocking properties than the typical steel or aluminum case, maybe because it's always considerably thicker. The thickness probably plays a big part -- too thin and it might be resonant. Awesome. I think I'll go for it, then. frosted plexi ...

I'm gearing up to craft a custom water cooled case, and am down to a few material choices. The easiest material to work with will be plexiglass, but I'm concerned about possible negative vibration properties. Does anyone have experience with the acoustic properties of plexi?

I think that there's a simple solution to these "quibbles": modularity . If Antec made it possible to swap parts and customise the case, it would attract a wider spectrum of computer users. 1. Top panel removable - if only they moved from rivets to screws the top panel would be easily swappable. A ...

what is this 'Notfred' appliance you speak of? Folding Virtual Appliance User-friendly Instructions for Installing the Folding Virtual Appliance the SMP client under windows is lacking. That's the reason for this crazy situation where running multiple instances of the Linux SMP client in virtual ma...

Windows has never used 4 cores efficiently with programs like SMP, that's why people run 2 SMPs on a quad core and pick up an addition 1000-1800 PPD. It's ridiculous. The alternative to this doubling up is to run Ubuntu 64 bit. I'm curious how well the 4 threads work on a 3 core with Windows. It sh...

Odd. My 1x smp reads 100% in Vx64.

Of course we've been having SERIOUS issues with our ISP, so no one's seing the points

haysdb wrote:18,713 points posted yesterday. That more than I did in the last 6 months with my old computer. In hindsight it wasn't worth the electricity I was using.

setup? clients?

Congratulations -- it does take perseverance! I got it working (again) on my Windows machine at work, recently. It is dead easy to install on a Mac, and while Linux is also pretty complicated (involving special commands, a Hex editor, etc. to get the Core downloaded and installed...), it does work ...

100% on all cores! YES!

w00t!
Huzzah!

...we'll see if I get any point boost

xev wrote:Very nice. What versions are u running

3x Gromacs CPU, 1x GPU2, all with the "-advmethods" switch.

Good news? Two of my CPU cores didn't drop their little 905 point packages today

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... =&u=339517

Yeah baby!

Using the "-advmethods" switch behind your GPU shortcut can get you 1680 point WUs. I'm cruising at 9300 PPD on the GPU alone right now (plus 3x 603 PPD Gromacs CPU). Is this on your GTX280? Hot stuff. Yep. Hit nearly 12k with this the other day before a power outage. We got home after a week out t...

"C:\Your GPU Folding Folder Location" -advmethods

This is what it should look like in the "Target" line of your shortcut properties.

Example:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Folding@home\Folding@home-gpu\[email protected]" -gpu 0 -advmethods

Using the "-advmethods" switch behind your GPU shortcut can get you 1680 point WUs. I'm cruising at 9300 PPD on the GPU alone right now (plus 3x 603 PPD Gromacs CPU).

I THINK it's up and running OK now. We'll be gone for a week, which means I'll find out when we get home. If we don't have any serious power/ ISP outages (common 'round here), it should be a monster week. edit: NM. I'm getting the dreaded Guarded Run errors. Both GPUs work fine by themselves but act...

How's that going warriorpoet? Had my dummy plug bumped. Took me a while to figure out what was going on. Have to get new resistors. Unfortunately Vista won't allow folding downloads when another account is in use, so the more the kids use the PC, the fewer the points. It seems we've all had an odd ...

aristide1 wrote:?? Both cards on the same motherboard ??

Yes

I will be running 2x single-thread CPU clients (-advmethods switch), 1x GPU2 client on he GTX 280 and 1x GPU2 client on the 8800GTS 512.

This should be good for some decent scores. Hopefully it'll slow our freefall a bit.

Hm. Looks good! I'd love to get SMP installed, but it's still being a butt so I can't really compare upload times with you. Given the speed of our ISP, I doubt you'd want to see it anyway ;) If I can finagle some time, I MIGHT be able to do a comparison on my quad Saturday. Of course, that would als...

I think it is more of a Silent vs Performance. More Performance = More Power = More Heat which usually means a louder cooling solution. People chose the 4850e 45w because it is very easy to cool silently. You don't see many going out and buying a i7 965 for a quiet PC. What I aim for is the best pe...

5m!!!!



Way to go!

aristide1 wrote:http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=8343

Most commonly heard phrase, "Seems warm in here."

I'd love to see more of those...


...passively cooled in the SPCR office basement