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The carpet is poo. Thats why we can sling so much. folding as JRitt with MaximumPC

Tigerbiten, Have you considered instaed of running windows and 2 linux O/S's on one machine you could just run 1 linux OS with 2 instances of SMP (from different folders). You lose the overhead of windows and 1 linux O/S. Its faster to boot and is a lower memory hog. You can start the SMP with...

While this is strictly legal this contest is designed (as are all of them) to get and keep the interest in folding. We should not (in the name of science) halt or store partly done WU's to jumpstart the score for the sake of a contest.

The amount of heat generated by a computer is directly related to it power consumed. Each watt consumed is equal to 3.3BTU, So a quad using 175W is producing (175W x 3.3) 577BTU of extra heat into the room. A standard room (144sqft) with 3 computers running can be cooled easly with a 7500BTU...

2 GO builds here and they are at 3.4 and 3.5ghz, rock solid 24x7 folding@95% CPU usage

The better question is what MB did you put it in. B3's will go 3.2+ on an P35 board (GA-P35-DS3L) but I found a lot of P965 chips that will not O/C well with a quad

I'm running HR-01's with slow 120mm fans (900rpm), 3.5ghz, 1.37v and all of the cores stay below 52deg C on all 3 quads.

I agree. If you plan on needing more sata than the 4 provided than move up to the P35-DS3R. That will get you 8 sata's of which you can raid 6 of them

I have three quads all right next to each other with ultra 120's cooling them. All are clocked at 3.4 ghz and stay at 48deg with silverstone fans. They are in a basement office (very quiet) running F@H and I can barely hear any fans running.

You could do a pad mod to raise the FSB to 333 (from 266) and get a 3.0ghz machine (up from 2.4).

Get a dryer vent and mount a 120mm fan to it and duct that heat out the window

I have a similar folding machine and it draws 135W (it does have a harddrive and an x300 video card though so mine should be highr than yours by ~10w). A 250W supply will be fine

I currently have 3 965P-DS3's with quads and I glued this 40mm fan on the NB. Its quiet and does the job.

Mine are 48c-50c at 95% load on all cores

Wouldn't that be a rule of finger?

I have the above MB and it easly gets to 3.5ghz with DDR2-800 ram and a good cooler and a slight bump in voltage. (I did put a fan on the NB cause it was a bit hot)

If you want to passivly cool a Q6600 and you have a rear 120mm fan try this cooler

No. It often mis-quoted as the stepping but it really the rev.

It works fine. I have it on XP Pro ,XP home and Vista Home Premium 32 bit

I second that

That processor has a 7x multiplier. With DDR2-800 ram and the FSB at 400 you would get 2.8ghz out of it. To go higher you would need faster RAM and I don't know the limits of the FSB on that board.

If you are going to overclock the quad and add an aftermarket cooler newegg sells an OEM q6600 for ~$250

If you are going to overclock the quad and add an aftermarket cooler newegg sells an OEM q6600 for ~$250

If you are going to overclock the quad and add an aftermarket cooler newegg sells an OEM q6600 for ~$250

VMware server is totaly free (not a 60day trial. You need to run VMware when you run 2 smp clients (one in each O/S) so that you can assign 2 cores to each client.

The CPU prob saved itself. I would do a poor mans check on the flatness of the CPU and the heatsink. Use a credit cards edge to check the flatness. If it looks flat clean everything off and reinstall it.

You can also look at e box it came in

2800+ PPD

And then there is the O/C capabilities of the C2D

I think Maverick pretty much summed it up. I use this Ram with good results with this MB with any of the better Zalman, Thermalright ect..... coolers. will get you easly to 3.0+ghz. If you want to try for extreem 3.4ghz -3.6ghz use the Ultra120 extreem. To get even higher you would need to...

Get a stock 4heatpipe AMD cooler they work very good and are quiet. another chioce would be this Zalman

Just get one of the better coolers for it and overclock away

use the VMware server. Its FREE just register for a serial number. http://www.vmware.com/products/server/

That is one really efficient processor/ motherboard combo. I have not done the measurements/calculations for my 3.5ghz quad yet but I don't think it would beat that combo for efficiency

short answer YES. You will get about 1100PPD more using VMware and Linux times 2 with that quad

You are probably reaching the limits on either the ram or the FSB. Quads pump a lot of bandwidth through the FSB and at some point the fsb will just choke on it. My GA P965 rev1 mother boards would post at 3.6ghz but would not run stable in windows above 3.0-3.1ghz

Most of the guys running Linux through VMware are using a quad care. For a dual core the difference between the windows SMP client and running VMware and Linux is minimal. I would just run the windows SMP.

Do not get sucked into the Dell world. there is no overclocking from there

For that Budget you can get a Q6600 ($280) p35 MB ($99) 2x 1gig ram ($50) Thermalright HR-01 heatsink ($50) 120mm fan ($15) With these parts you can O/C to 3.4ghz+

I upgraded from X2's and now get 4x the the simulations ran