This guy replaces caps on mobos and apparently does other repairs. Credit for link goes to Ralf Hutter. May be worth the $50 plus one way shipping to salvage an otherwise good board unless a new one is too close in price to make it worthwhile. M I'm pretty sure I can send it back to Asus. Apparentl...

my limited observations have led me to beleive tinkers are less likely to crap out on me than gromacs =). After having to endure haysdb telling everyone over and over to run Prime95 and memtest to check out stability, I finally did so out of desperation when I was having big stability problems. It ...

Ok, here's what should happen -- First, some variable definitions: PPD(x) = Points per day for folder x as averaged over the last 7 days. PPW(x) = Points per week for folder x as averaged over the last 6 weeks. PPM(x) = Points per month for folder x as averaged over the last 12 months. PPDmax = maxi...

bcassell, interesting that you have not gotten any DGromacs. I will say though, they HAD been restricted to SSE2 clients until quite recently, which SHOULD HAVE included your A64, but it's possible that they were only released initially to P4's. I did not pick up any DGromacs on any of my Athlon sy...

Bill, you gotta stop the experiment and put the -advmethods back on! AGREED! The A64 is being wasted doing Tinkers. David Sorry I got into this conversation kinda late, but here's my observations: I have an A64 3000+. Now, my results are somewhat skewed because I have a faulty motherboard (soon to ...

Has anyone got an idea if these babies can hold the weight of my 120 mm aluminium fans? They weigh roughly 250 gramms each, I'd guess. If you're talking about the evercool aluminum fans then I can tell you (from experience) yes, but not well. I've been using them to mount my 120mm aluminum evercool...

Barton here as well.

Edit: Oh, just a survey.

Bryan

Another thing to think about is that there just might not be enough SSE2 capable machines to handle all the double gromacs work units. I'm not sure what the schedules are for any given protein, but maybe they would like to be able to just hand out a bunch of double gromacs to everyone for a few days...

Err, how do I enable SSE2? I only get "Extra SSE boost OK" using the -forceasm flag on my P4 2.53GHz. Am I missing something here? :? SSE2 is simply a version of SSE that has support for more types than just single-precision floating point. Think of SSE2 as a super-set of SSE. Regular gromacs only ...

dasman -- I assume those p4's are the ones you're talking about in this thread ? If you add in the odd-p4-out (the one producing half as many PPW) to the PPW of all the other non-double-gromac machines I think you'll find that it totals to what fah logstats is showing in the summary. I'm not sure wh...

Well, I think it's interesting that the one machine is showing exactly half of the PPW of the other machines. Maybe it's just coincidence, or maybe it means something =). Lets see, these are the things I would probably check: 1) Check the frame times both as reported by fah logstats and in the logfi...

I'm seeing the same problem -- here's something interesting though. The total PPW being reported in the overview section is the sum of all the PPW of clients I have NOT running the double gromacs core. That doesn't quite read right, let me make it clear. I have 3 clients. Local1 -- Gromacs, 463.91 P...

Maybe for some reason the one running the gui client is not using SSE2? If you check the logfile you should see the following line:

Extra SSE2 boost OK.

That's my only guess, there's no way running as a gui client should make that much of a difference.

Bryan

First mpteach : I want to run a mobile barton 2600 @ 220 x 10.5 (2.32Ghz) Obviously mobos have fsb limits. Is there any limit on the fsb of a cpu? For isntance, if a mobo could handle high fsb speeds, could someone run a XP2600 @ 1155 x2 ? As far as I know, you could run a cpu at 2200x1 or 220x10 or...

Would you clarify what you mean? FSB is most certainly a characteristic of a cpu. Well, I didn't make the original statement, but I'll try to clear things up. FSB isn't technically a charateristic of a cpu. A cpu has a rated speed, and possibly a fixed multiplier. IF a cpu has a fixed multiplier, t...

bcassell is on the verge of being GREEN with a 281 PPD average. It take a 300 PPD average to be GREEN . Are you keeping those clients running all the time? Are you using the -advmethods and -forcesse flags? Just 19 more PPD, you are so close! Heh, I was green... for a few days last week =). Yes, I'...

Well, if you take your average points per day for the last 3 days and extrapolate that to points per week, it comes out to be about 3000 PPW. You put up some huge points your last couple days, so maybe it was just that you had a lot of slower machines working on big work units? Anyway, you lept ahea...

Whoa.... ok, so you should be kicking my ass =P. Ummm, only optimization I did was to turn on -forcesse on my A64 3000+. That made a HUGE difference. Do those XP's have SSE? If so, definitely turn on -forcesse. Other than that, I have no idea why your production would be low... maybe you'll turn in ...

Hey Bryan, That's terrible luck with the motherboard, I was enjoying our race! :( Well, I don't think I'll fall too far behind. What really sucks though is that both the p3's were over half way through 160 pointers, and they both seemed to crap out. I'm not really sure what happened. All I know is ...

bcassell has definitely found some new production. One more day and he should be GREEN [/color]. bcassell and Equiquay is looking like an interesting race. Well, I might have to concede this portion of the race =P. It turns out my dual p3 system is not quite stable at 933mhz (they're stock 800's, b...

No money to burn...spent hundreds on fans so far and prolly $1000 on my WC setup still not silent... I thought It made a substantial difference running at low timmings. Glad you dropped in and set things straight. Well, though I try to sound like I know exactly what I'm talking about, the honest tr...

Alright here's what I'm thinking so far: All prices are at newegg.com unless specified. Memory- Mushkin 184 Pin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200 "222 Special" $285 Thoughts? changes? Well, I'm kind of a silence newbie, so I'll leave those comments up to others, but as for performance... unless you have mon...

bcassell has had two strong days in a row - 418 and 344. Is this a new trend? We'll see =). It's actually a combination of two things: 1) I finally have all my machines up and running folding. It was kind of a slow process to get them all going at full steam. 2) When I'm not working (the weekends) ...

Oops--yeah, by "it," I meant -forceSSE. My guess would be that the difference wouldn't be as great on AthlonXP's, #1 because they are 32-bit, and #2 because they only have SSE implemented, while the Athlon64's have both SSE and SSE2. Not trying to give you a hard time here, but I thought I'd clear ...

Ok, time for more mysterious behavior! My p4 2.8 is now about half-way done with two of these. I've only been at my computer for the last hour and a half or so, but with very infrequent observations, this is what I've noticed: - When I first sat down it was jumping back and forth between 0% and 100%...

So Athlon64 people should NOT use it? I don't know how to answer this with a yes or no, because I don't know what you mean by "it" =P. I'll just make this really clear: Adding the -forcesse option to my Athlon64 nearly tripled the speed at which it was folding. People seem to have similar experienc...

I am curious--why would anyone want to do --forceSSE in the first place? Isn't 3DNow! supposed to be better? Look here: http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=11274&start=60 and check out my experiences. On those big 160 pointers, I got almost a threefold increase in speed by going from 3...

Just thought I'd add that I'm seeing the same behavior -- I have a hyperthreaded p4 running two instances, both running this new core, and my cpu usage is spiking up and down very rapidly between 100% and 0%. Even, with this behavior, though, if EMIII has the right point values for these, then I'm g...

And I just realized that this computer sitting next to me at work, which I always thought was a Thunderbird 1ghz, is actualy a thunderbird 1.4ghz!!! The FSB was just set wrong!!!! Oh man, you guys are all in trouble now that I've got this thing going at 1.4ghz

Bryan

Holy Skittles Batman! This is sweet! I just enabled -forcesse.... my frame times went from about an hour per frame, to 22 minutes, 28 seconds for the last frame... You're probably looking at a decrease in frame time of 25% to 35% You forgot to multiply by two there =) (~64% decrease in frame times, ...