Ya know... this has inspired me to go back to my server and work with it some more. I think its time to see what kind of underclock I can get on it, and then undervolt even more. Its an AMD 1700 (I think) running a 1.4ghz and 1.61vcore. Certainly doesn't need that amount of speed, its only averaged ...

I would do a 24hour run with Prime95 when you think you've reached as low as seems stable. When I was dropping the voltage on my AMD 1700 I went WAY down and worked my way up. It was fairly obvious when the voltage was way too low, wouldn't POST or get into Windows. Another step or two up and I coul...

Looks like I've chosen a bad time to put everything on pause again. With four to six cpus folding away in my bedroom, the heat is just too damn much. Even with the window open and a fan going 24/7 (which kills the purpose of having silent computers if I have to listen to the fan). Sorry folks, but m...

Oh yeah... too bad my dually is still too loud to leave on overnight. Need to get that PSU fan down to 5v instead of 12v.

Time to say goodnight to 2000ppw. <sigh>

I'm at 4700ppw right now with five AMDs cranking away. My new 1800 dually has 2050ppw just by itself. The 2.0ghz overclocked system is seeing 1250ppw. And how, you might ask? The wonderfully oversized and bonus scored large work units. The ones I've watched are about 4mb in size, and F@H takes about...

Heck, I can do better than that with my wallmount setup. What's missing in the picture is the CD drive that sits on the window sill above when needed.

Wallmount system

OK, I'm back for now, but will probably power down again. My room was 95F when I got home tonight. Just a WEE bit on the warm side. Granted, I forgot to turn on the window fan when I left this morning, but still... we'll see.

OK, so I've been outta touch for awhile. Is -advmethods still the best for AMD systems? Seem to remember that my AMDs liked the updated Tinkers. Is -advmethods dishing out Tinkers now? Should I be looking at the large work packets for my systems?

Just trying to re-optimize here.

About the best comments I can say in rebuttal to the 'debunking of Dvorak' is that it is by far more comfortable to type, and I haven't lost any of the speed that I had with Qwerty. The Dvorak layout seems to have more 'flow' across the keyboard than what the Qwerty does. Anytime I have to use a Qwe...

Welp... just fired up my systems at home. See what the heat gets to be this week. Also set up v5.02 client on them as well, see if that makes any difference.

I'll be doing better as the weather cools off, and as I finish building my AMD dually. What are you putting into it? Tyan mobo, don't remember the model right now. 1800MP processors, 512mb memory, 80gb Cuda IV, 128mb Nvidia ti4200 And it will expand as time/money allow. Starting out with some basic...

OK... I'm back on the charts a little bit. Fired up my backup server, the wee little HP eVectra with a P3-566. It doesn't really put out any more heat if its folding or not.

Give me another month for things to cool down, then I'll have 5 AMDs going.

I'm grey!!!


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Oh...

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Mm hmm...


OK.

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So that's NOT a good thing. Oh...


Oh well.

I'll be doing better as the weather cools off, and as I finish building my AMD dually. Lessee... that'll put me at 5 AMDs going, 1600, 1700, 1700 @ 2ghz, and dual 1800s. Oh, and the piddly little P3-566. But, not til it cools off. Though I bet my roommates are appreciating the lower electric bill.

IBrowsing other people's output it seems most everyone is on the decline or at best flat. Flat. yeah, that's me. Went from 5-8k per week to just about zilch. Been too hot at home to keep the computers on 24/7, not thinking about having them fold too. And the folks at work asked me to remove FAH fro...

Grab the new version 5 client. Isn't it supposed to have a Service install option? Then you wouldn't need the EMIII to start it.

Hmmm... looks like this has been forgotten about. We're over 9 million now.

Maybe I'm missing a basic idea of watercooling here... but I would have thought that you'd take the cool input water into the CPU block first, then graphics/nb. Basically reversing the order that you have the waterblocks set in Scenario 1 and 2. But, if I'm completely wrong here... well, wouldn't be...

I would rather have an extremely comfortable and very durable keyboard and have it be a bit noisy than to have a silent keyboard that might wear out soon and is also the standard flat layout. But then, I use the Kinesis Contoured keyboard, and am a bit fanatical about it. http://www.kinesis-ergo.com...

loving the cleanness man, i just cant do it myself for some reason I can understand that. Thing is, now I can't NOT clean up the wiring in a system. Maybe not to that level, but even if its just peeking into a friend's old Compaq or something, I'll move the cables and wiring around a bit to better ...

Mmmm.... that's handy.

Zyzzyx , you have my sympathy, it's only 07:25 here and already 18ºC....... :o .. :wink: Hrmph... at least I'm on the coast, most that we usually see during the day is ~27C. Inland (where I work during the week) its usually over 30C, often over 35C, and has even been over 40C a few times this summ...

Well, my Folding is down. No longer running the client at work. And yeah, summer has hit me at home, no Folding happening here until it cools down a bit. Its bad enough just leaving three computers running, not gonna think about having four systems Folding. And here I am looking at building up a dua...

"This break-in will occur during the normal use of the computer as long as the computer is turned off from time to time and the interface is allowed to cool to room temperature. "

Hmm... so much for a 'curing time' when using it on 24/7 server systems. Oh well, temps aren't bad.

Measuring the 5v or the 12v is easy with a multimeter, just right on the 4 connector molex plugs. But where would you physically check the 3.3v line? My cheap-arse PSU on one of my systems is also reporting at 2.93v, but I haven't had any problem with it.

Way to duct the psu! But why didn't the psu temps improve? I'd expect it to get cooler, since the cpu air isn't getting in. They did improve, but not much. And not nearly as much as I expected. I would expect a good, efficient PSU like the Seasonic to run much cooler than this Sparkle. Cabling is n...

Been messing about with this secondary system since I got it up and going recently. Its a 2100 running stable (72 hours of Prime95 stable) at 2.0ghz. With the CPU fan at 7v, it tops out at 60C under load. I had been looking at where the stock Evercase PSU (Sparkle!) did have its intake, right above ...

I've had my home systems going off and on recently because of the heat issues (which won't be gone for another month or so). But I just got another system up and going here. Got a 2100 running stable at 2.0ghz, currently flying through a Tinker at 1100ppw. ;) It damn well better be stable with Foldi...

How much time would be "enough" to get into Dvorak? Hard to say, since I've been touch-typing now for ... urm ... *thinks* ... probably something close to 20 years now, and that'd hardly fair to compare Dvorak to, even if I were to start training it today :). I started this thread when I swapped to...

I'd say the Zalman Reserator is the perfect watercooling for lazy folks. Side benefit that its silent.